I Want To Cchange Careers To Nursing Nut I Dont Know What To Do?

The title of your post is "I want to Change Careers to Nursing nut"Was that a Freudian slip? There are so many careers out there except nursing. All the stories you hear of "nurses eating their young..." are true. If you were to be an RN Psyc evaluator, that wouldn't be too bad.

Nurse have a whole lotta responsibility, with little autonomy. It is you keeping the patient from death, not the doctor. He's at home eating dinner or sleeping. YOU MUST recognize there is something wrong with the patient, then intervene with what you can do within your scope of practice - if you have PRN orders, use them. Do a compete assessment on the patient including VS, and have labs availabe from earlier in the day to review with the doctor when you call him.

It's backbreaking work with little thanks. Administration won't remember the last six times you came in on your day off to help them out, but BOY does the once time you say "no" stick to you like tar!

Look, if this is what you REALLY want, then go for it. When the others start slamming me, you can assume they are newbies. Any seasoned nurse knows where I am coming from.

God Bless You

I currently live in NJ and I graduated with a bachelors degree in psych about 2 years ago. My GPA was not good. It is 2.6 because I had a lot of issues going on when I began college but i am fine now. I want to become a nurse so bad but I dont know how to go about it. I am sure my gpa is too low to get into any second degree nursing programs so i am thinking about going for lpn then do an lpn to rn program. What do you think?