I am in a delimma at the moment. Since the 10th grade of high school, I have been prepping to be a nurse. Now I am a sophomore in college and I am almost done with my prerequisites and every prequisite I completed is an A! . So I am doing pretty good, I am halfway done with microbio and at the moment I have an A average. The only science course I have not completed is physiology. Everything is going swell until I finish my first volunteering shift. I get there, the nurses do not want to talk to me, they are too busy running around and stressed. I shadowed one nurse's procedure for 15 minutes. The nurse gave this boy around 10 or 11 years old an IV, it was so painful for me too watch. Once I leave the hospital after my shift is done, I am on the verge of crying. I have been doing everything so right and then I find out that nursing might not be right for me. For one I noticed I get stressed very easily and I also do not know if I could do a procedure on a person that is crying because I am very likely to cry myself, I feel as though I do have the compassion that is needed for nursing.
Since this revolution, I have been looking for new careers. I have always been stuck between nursing and social work, so I looked up careers in sociology like clinical social worker and case manager. These careers do revolve around patient care and treatments so I was very interested though I heard some bad reviews about both careers. I just want a job that has a less stressful environment and revolves around health care. I took Anatomy last semster and even though I might not be cut out for nursing I love how our bodies function and react so yes definitely health care!
Just please let me know my pros and cons, I know social workers do not make a lot of money but if I am in an area that has a higher income I should make more. Also let me know of other health care professions with not as much direct care and I mean those needles.
