Aspiring Nurses: Why not Med School??

Nursing Students Pre-Nursing

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Many of the courses required for Nursing Schools and Medical Schools are the same, as many of you are aware. What made you choose the Nursing route over the MD? They are both challenging and require lots of commitment, but MD gets more prestige. So why Nursing? Enlighten me! :idea:

what i hate

what i really REALLY hate

is all the bad mouthing on both sides

my pre-med boards talk about nurses like we'll be your boss someday, and nurses talk about doctors like we all think we're gods.

we have to work together. we have a common goal, we both want to help our patients in whatever way we can. why are we so resentful of eachother?

:(

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Specializes in Neuro.
the course of study is longer than my remaining life span.

lol! amen to that!!! that is the main reason that i am not doing med school. age!! i made a promise to my dying grandmother that i would become a nurse, and though med school would be nice, i am destined to become a nurse. i too like being able to care for the person and not the disease, and although we have some great doctors at our hospital, the nurses are the ones who get more hands on with them.

but, the age thingy, that really is what has done it!!! :lol2:

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For me I want to be a CNM. i will end up getting out of school at 24 or 25, with very little in loans(if any) to become an OB I wouldn't be out of school till I was at least 26 and that doenst include my residency and might end up having to take out money. Also i wnat to have a family some what young (24/25 for my first child) and that would be soooo hard in med school

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That was such a nice comment to someone who is on this site for the very first time. Way to go, canoehead. Remind me to run if I see you coming my way. I don't think that I would want a nurse seeing me with an attitude like yours.

:yeahthat:

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Muurman,

I apologize for the rude and VERY insensitive comment made by a premium member. Please know that most everyone on this site is NOT like this. Most of us are very kind and helpful to everyone, and are welcoming to first timers.

:yeahthat:

and

:welcome:

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I took that comment to be a cute and effective use of humor. Just look at Canoehead's signature line. She uses humor. Funny! I would imagine that it could get tiresome to be questioned repeatedly over the years, "Why didn't you go to med school?"

That wasn't funny, nor was it "cute". And questions such as "I live in [state/country] and I want to move to [state/country], how/where/why...etc.", as well as a multitude of other questions are often asked here (repeatedly). No one tells them to "buzz off."

It could also hurt nurses' feelings to be asked "Why not med school?"

The LVN/ADN/BSN wars are in perpetual motion here on AllNurses, as well as other nursing forums. If you are a nurse, and you get your feelings hurt by a simple (and honest) question, then you are in the wrong business.

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Specializes in Peds, PICU, Home health, Dialysis.
what i hate

what i really REALLY hate

is all the bad mouthing on both sides

my pre-med boards talk about nurses like we'll be your boss someday, and nurses talk about doctors like we all think we're gods.

we have to work together. we have a common goal, we both want to help our patients in whatever way we can. why are we so resentful of eachother?

:(

I don't think many postings on here have been "resentful". I am sure there are many nurses who have bad encounters with physicians and vice-versa, but for the most part nurses and physicans have a wonderful relationship (from what I've seen anyways).

And just a quick tip -- physicians typically don't "boss" (manage) nurses. The nurses work for the hospital, not the physician.

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Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.

For the most part - actual nurses seem to have more negative feelings about the question. Perhaps because they have actual experience.

On the other hand, it's mostly students who think the question is just fine and react strongly to any criticism.

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For the most part - actual nurses seem to have more negative feelings about the question. Perhaps because they have actual experience.

On the other hand, it's mostly students who think the question is just fine and react strongly to any criticism.

You are correct. I'll have to get back to you when I am an "actual" nurse...

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I don't think many postings on here have been "resentful". I am sure there are many nurses who have bad encounters with physicians and vice-versa, but for the most part nurses and physicans have a wonderful relationship (from what I've seen anyways).

And just a quick tip -- physicians typically don't "boss" (manage) nurses. The nurses work for the hospital, not the physician.

...there have been more than a few. Admittedly, people are more likely to post when they have something to vent about, making it rather unlikely that a nurse will come here just BRIMMING OVER with a story of how great Dr. X was to him/her today, unless they had a rocky past.

Every hospital i've worked in has had issues with this. Most of the time we all settle into a routine and accept eachother, and it works out quite well. But every time a new doctor (usually) comes on board, they assume the nurses will be resentful and so they put off a bad vibe and completely kill the harmony for at least a few weeks. The dynamic changes anywhere whenever a new element is added, but it's exceptionally noticeable in a setting like this.

Additionally, a lot of physicians have a hard time remembering that the nurses do NOT, in fact, work for them. my future colleagues are, to a degree, a big bunch of egomaniacs. But a lot of nurses judge doctors unfairly because of a few bad apples.

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Specializes in Cardiac.

I apologize for the rude and VERY insensitive comment made by a premium member. Please know that most everyone on this site is NOT like this. Most of us are very kind and helpful to everyone, and are welcoming to first timers. As far as his/her comment, that may true in their case, but not others.

58 comments and only 2 from the OP.....Hmmmm ..... could this person be a :troll: ???? (another rude comment from a premium member)

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Tele, DOU.
58 comments and only 2 from the OP.....Hmmmm ..... could this person be a :troll: ???? (another rude comment from a premium member)

I don't know Cardiac.

We'll just have to wait and see. It does appear that the OP has only posted twice on allnurses; however, when my life is quite busy, I don't get back to the internet very often :twocents:. Sometimes, I am one of those "lurkers" who is just too tired to log in.

Whatever has happened to our OP, let us all wish him/her the very best with all they do. Okay? :cheers:

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