Help - trying to decide if I really want to be a nurse

I finished an M.P.H. in may of this year and I have had my heart set on nursing for awhile. I have applied to several accelerated BSN programs, but after reading some of the horror stories on here, I'm just not sure.

I am interested in community/public health nursing. I absolutly love public health and I am really good at it, but I have really wanted to have a more sceintific background to go with my current background. Plus, it would be really nice to have better job security (since public health folks mostly work on grants that end after awhile) and the flexibility to live almost anywhere. I would love to work for the CDC, NIH, or WHO, but I would also like to work as a lobbyist, a beltway bandit, or in clinical settings with women and children.

I ahve read that working in labor and delivery is really hard to get into becuase everyone wants to do it. Does it make any difference if you have a BSN, and two other advanced degrees, and from places like Johns Hopkins? Is pediatrics and/or OBGYN as hard to get into?

Also, I have public health experience, but not much clinical experience. I am starting as a volunteer in a hospital and in my current positions teen health clinic, do you think volunteering will give me what I need to make a good decision?

I finished an M.P.H. in may of this year and I have had my heart set on nursing for awhile. I have applied to several accelerated BSN programs, but after reading some of the horror stories on here, I'm just not sure.

I am interested in community/public health nursing. I absolutly love public health and I am really good at it, but I have really wanted to have a more sceintific background to go with my current background. Plus, it would be really nice to have better job security (since public health folks mostly work on grants that end after awhile) and the flexibility to live almost anywhere. I would love to work for the CDC, NIH, or WHO, but I would also like to work as a lobbyist, a beltway bandit, or in clinical settings with women and children.

I ahve read that working in labor and delivery is really hard to get into becuase everyone wants to do it. Does it make any difference if you have a BSN, and two other advanced degrees, and from places like Johns Hopkins? Is pediatrics and/or OBGYN as hard to get into?

Also, I have public health experience, but not much clinical experience. I am starting as a volunteer in a hospital and in my current positions teen health clinic, do you think volunteering will give me what I need to make a good decision?