Can Nursing be a Co-major??

Back2Nursing09 · Oct 12, 2009

"Why did you double major??Whats the point of majoring in Bio if you want to be a Nurse?You must love science! lol"
I do absolutely love science. I got into nursing because of my personal experiences being a patient. One of them was when I was in ICU for a week and in the first couple days when I couldn't get up to go to the bathroom on my own, no one would answer my call light. My linens and gown weren't changed for almost a week, I had no bed bath. I smelled sooo bad. The nurses were flat out mean. At one point my IV was infiltrated and it really hurt and the nurse wouldn't listen to me or look at it. My mom who is a nurse, flew in from Illinois and when she saw how I was being treated, I finally got new linens and a bed bath. Since then I have been diagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis, endometriosis and polycystic ovaries and getting ANYONE to take my pain seriously has caused me to suffer from great depression to the point where I did not want to live anymore. I love providing patient care because even though my job as a patient care tech is stressful, I DO NOT take it out on the patients. I manage my time so that if a patient needs a moment to talk to me, I make myself available. I hate the way I see other PCTs and nurses treat the patients. There needs to be more compassionate health care workers out there, and I decided to be one of them. I'm majoring in Biology and plan to get my Phd in it to do medical research. My ultimate goal is to teach nursing. I originally spent 3 years at NIU to major in Spanish and teach it, so I'm completely a teacher at heart as well. I too have had many bad experiences along with many others here with nursing instructors and I believe I owe it to the next generation to teach what I know. I did take many biology classes before nursing school, and for now I will only take 1 bio related class at a time until I'm finished with the nursing program.
Oh, I also want to add that I'm continually in disbelief at how little my fellow nursing students at my school know of A & P. I have taken 3 A & P classes and Human Biology is absolutely fundamental in truly understanding what we as nurses will be doing. When my IV was infiltrated that meant that the medication that my physician ordered for me was not getting into my venous system and therefore not doing its job. Keep in mind, I was in ICU, very sick and NEEDED that med. When my IV was finally fixed it was kind of like "oops, oh well" That is just so wrong.

Wow.Im sorry you had to go through that.But you know what they say,"what doesn't destroy you,make you stronger."Thank you for sharing that.You are the type of people that we need in the Nursing field...actually the health field PERIOD.Im glad that you are using that experience in a positive way.Good luck with everything :-)

NeecyBSN_RN · Oct 12, 2009

I have completed the requirements for my BS in Health Administration and am in the first semester of my BSN program. I will also minor in Military Sciences as a result of being in ROTC. I will graduate with two bachelor's degrees and a minor. It is more than possible to be a double major. I just completed pre-reqs that would work for both majors.

diane227, LPN, RN · Oct 13, 2009

I know a lot of nurses who had a double major.