Anyone else with second thoughts?

Coriander, BSN, RN · Sep 11, 2009

First, congrats on your acceptance!

Secondly, I think about this often as well, but it will be another 2-3 years before I'm done with the program, and I have hope that things will have changed by then and new grads will find it somewhat easier to find work.

If this is your dream, go for it! :)

greeniebean · Sep 11, 2009

I also have second thoughts. I work at a nursing home and EVERY nurse that works there, besides 1 is constantly telling me to change my major, and that if they had it to do over they would never go into nursing. And these are good, compassionate nurses. They say it's to stressful, and that it's very difficult to find jobs in other specialties. Most of these nurses have 2+ years of expirience and recently tried to find other jobs (our facitily is cutting hours) and none were successful.

I think my worries stem from stories like theirs. I don't want to be miserable and potentially jobless. But this is all i've ever wanted to do, and I've put 2 years of my life into this already. And I finally get to start nursing school this January. I'm fairly happy at this point, and who can say what could happen in the next two years. We all might be swimming in job offers upon graduating (fingers crossed). Good Luck and congrats!

queenmalka · Sep 12, 2009

I've been in that position for at least six months. I decided I wanted to be a nurse when I started college a few years ago, and the longer I've been working on my pre-reqs, the more I've questioned this career path. I feel that I would be a good nurse, but I don't know I'm willing to do the work required to become one. I'm also an accomplished dancer, and my biggest passion at this point in my life is dancing (even though I know I would train myself to balance both school and dance if that were the case). This is the reason I didn't apply during the most recent application period, even though I've finally finished my pre-reqs. I'm very close with my mother, and she advised me to apply in the spring for the Fall 2010 semester. I realize that it may take me awhile to get in, and I know that if nursing is TRULY not for me, I can choose to give my seat up to someone who really wants to be there. You might as well try it out. What's the worse that could happen? You find something else to do. No need to plan everything all out right now. Life will unfold and you'll go where your passion lies.

Hyper_toph_emia · Sep 12, 2009

The bad job market is not only in the nursing profession. It's everywhere. People in all sorts of careers are having trouble finding jobs. In this economy, the job market in general is poor. So in my opinion I would not abandon nursing for the job market alone. If it's something you would enjoy doing then stick with it. Once the economy makes a turn around I'm sure nursing jobs will start to open up again. (we can all hope atleast). :plsebeg:

TeaOlive · Sep 12, 2009

Evaluate YOUR passions, YOUR goals and stay away from negative people. Don't listen to anyone that comes at you with a negative comment. None of us knows what the future holds for any profession. I say look inside yourself and decide what your passion is...if its with nursing...go for it. If its not move on. But which ever you do, do it because its what YOU want not because someone tells you to change your major. After all its your life. Good luck in all your endeavors!!

SingDanceRunLife · Sep 19, 2009

Yup...only because I doubt that I can get a C in anatomy&physiology because my professor expects us to learn it on our own, and I can't see myself having the motivation to retake it if I fail.

KimberlyRN89, BSN, RN · Sep 19, 2009

I am starting to rethink nursing because I'm sort of discouraged with the posts I read on here from new grads, and also the waiting lists that nursing schools around here have I really like healthcare though,so now I'm looking into other programs I am interested in, like maybe getting into a rad.tech program.