Would you become an RN again if you had the choice?

Nursing Students ADN/BSN

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I'll be applying to ABSN (or ELMSN) programs this upcoming year.

I have been getting increasingly frustrated over becoming a nurse which is starting to worry me. The main thing I keep hearing is that nurses are mean and not nice to each other. I've heard this from many different people and I'm getting worried. I don't want to either 1. become one of those people or 2. be treated poorly by my co-workers

My question is, would you still become an RN if you had the choice to do it again? Why or why not?

Would you recommend getting your MSN and NP license? Why or why not?

Thank you! I really hope that the people I am hearing these things from are wrong!

Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

yes...yes...yes...

If I hadn't become disabled, I would have become a psych NP. I have a BSN and a MSN and just wanted more kinds of psych experience before I applied. The nurses and techs I worked with were a terrific bunch!

Sometimes the frailties of life just get in the way.:cry:

Yes! It has been very stressful at times, and there have been moments when I wondered what I was thinking to become a nurse, but then it is also the most rewarding job I've ever had. For example, the day I was walking my dog in the neighborhood when a car screeched tires, almost hit a curb, and a well dressed lady jumped out of her Cadillac, yelling my name and running towards me in the street. She hugged me three times, thanked me profusely for being her husband's nurse before he died and told me that things I had said to her gave her the strength to go on after her husband died. I don't care for management's lack of appreciation for how hard we nurses work, but in my mind I don't work for them, they just pay me to work for my patients and their families. Yes, there are some catty, mean nurses out there, but in my facility so far I have found they are fewer than the team oriented nurses that are willing to help each other out. My floor seems to have a "we're all in this together" attitude. This is my second career, my big regret is that it wasn't my first and only.

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