Could I handle nursing school?

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Well, let me give a little background information on me.

I'm a 23 year old autistic. However, I'm an aspie...

Anyway, I have spent years fixing my problems.......

1.) Was really skinny. Now, I am a 180 pound bodybuilder

2.) I was unable to hold employement. I have worked in a hospital for a couple years as a transporter

3.) I am able to mask my aspergers so well to the point where no one see's it.

Anyway, I decided that I want a more complex job within a hospital. So, I am considering going back to school for Nursing.

Sadly, I have this hunch that I really won't make it very far in the program due to how my brain is just genetically wired. Although, I have worked in a hospital for a few years now and met a lot of people who were socially off......

Took a watered down anatomy class and it was VERY hard for me. I just can't see myself getting far in Nursing. So, I considered doing something else like x-ray tech.

Any advice? I think I would like helping patients get on the path to feeling better

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Nursing is hard but with your experience in hospital, you'll have better views on nursing compared with others.

Of course, anatomy is not easy. It's hard for everyone. But it's only one piece of nursing. Nursing is more than just that. With your experience as a "patient" yourself and your experience in hospital, you'll be surprised by how much you know better than others. Don't get bogged down.

Actually, the way an instructor conveys the lecture also affects how easy or hard the subject is. I took an Anatomy course and I just didn't understand a thing. I was about to drop Nursing but then I was introduced to another Anatomy instructor and he was so good that I'm now in my last year at nursing school.

Fairly speaking, better regret trying than regret not trying at all.

Best of luck.

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Nursing is hard but with your experience in hospital, you'll have better views on nursing compared with others.

Of course, anatomy is not easy. It's hard for everyone. But it's only one piece of nursing. Nursing is more than just that. With your experience as a "patient" yourself and your experience in hospital, you'll be surprised by how much you know better than others. Don't get bogged down.

Actually, the way an instructor conveys the lecture also affects how easy or hard the subject is. I took an Anatomy course and I just didn't understand a thing. I was about to drop Nursing but then I was introduced to another Anatomy instructor and he was so good that I'm now in my last year at nursing school.

Fairly speaking, better regret trying than regret not trying at all.

Best of luck.

Which is fine.

I just don't know if I could handle it. At 23....I want to make sure

There are certian things that used to REALLY stress me out even as a transporter. Like, sometimes you get patients who just LOVE to throw insults at you to try and get you to mentally break down. You have to just stand there and do nothing. Also, you get into a lot of socially awkward scenerios that are hard to handle

I would come home crying trying to get myself together....Eventually I just got used to it.

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No. Don't get used to being insulted. You're more worthy than that.

Don't even get bogged down by your condition. You are more than just that.

Try this: "I'm here to take care of you. And, I ask for your respect." I saw many nurses, nursing students did it. And, it worked. Sometimes, all you need to do is to confront people.

There's no need to let others insult you especially those who do you wrong including the patients.

Also, just want to let you know that you don't really know what you are really fit for until you actually do it. Same thing goes for nursing. If you have a why for life, you can accept any how for it, Nietszche said so. Also, even if you have only a mere small belief in it with no strong rational reasons, you'll still make it. Hold on to your belief.

How about this: list all the good points for nursing and compared that to the weak points you have and nursing is. If you base your beliefs against nursing solely on how people are treating or will treat you as a nurse/ nursing student, then, you are not giving yourself enough credits. Also, remember that you can treat people the way they treat you, too. Accept the worst consequences that entail standing up for yourself.

Everything is hard. It's persistence that makes it simple.

Good luck.

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Specializes in LTC Family Practice.

Nursing and any of the medical professions are hard. However, there are some that once through school don't have the patient contact like nursing. You are still young, so spend sometime looking around at different jobs. My personal two faves other than nursing is Medical Technologist, schooling is really tough but it's science stuff that I love, and there is very little to no patient contact, Physical Therapy is another area where you are dealing with patients but they are in the "recovery" phase and are there to get better or be the best they can be.

Good luck to you, you've overcome much.

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If you could get used to that, you might be able to get used to nursing school too. There is a lot to get used to. Lord knows I've gone home and cried, or cried at home before slogging off to clinicals. I don't think I'm autistic, but I have severe social phobia, I mean severe, and so far I'm getting through it. It's not easy and I could probably do better if I would just loosen up and let go of these weird social habits I have.

Unfortunately, there's no way to "make sure" you can handle it. You just can't know until you try. There is never a guarantee about anything, unfortunately. I wish there were!

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Nursing and any of the medical professions are hard. However, there are some that once through school don't have the patient contact like nursing. You are still young, so spend sometime looking around at different jobs. My personal two faves other than nursing is Medical Technologist, schooling is really tough but it's science stuff that I love, and there is very little to no patient contact, Physical Therapy is another area where you are dealing with patients but they are in the "recovery" phase and are there to get better or be the best they can be.

Good luck to you, you've overcome much.

Unfourtantly, I don't have the luxory of "exploring." I'm a guy having a "below average job" i at my age s pretty much the ONLY thing holding be back from dating. Like, plenty of women interested in me(Im a bodybuilder with a sweet personaility), but just can't date me due to my job. Like a lot are turned off by it....even in this economy!

Nursing seems like a job I would enjoy with a moderate ammount of respect.

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Specializes in LTC Family Practice.

By exploring I meant, talk to people in the lab and physical therapy, do some research on the 'net reading about each profession.

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By exploring I meant, talk to people in the lab and physical therapy, do some research on the 'net reading about each profession.

That seems like a good option.

I like working in hospitals and want a moderate ammount of repsect

x-ray tech just seems kind of lame

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Ok Let me ask you this despite the long list of things you mentioned about yourself, are you are hardworker, will you show up to work on time and dedicate yourself to nursing? If you answered yes to these questions then you need to sign yourself up for nursing school. When you graduate I hope to work with a you someday, then someone who just wants to act too cute to do the job. Don't worry about being autistic, that can be helped, now being a psycho who doesn't want to change, can't be, (I have worked with a few psycho nurses in the past, can you tell?). You need more confidence, fix what you need to and go for it. Just do it. Try it. Don't discredit yourself before giving yourself every opportunity to succeed.

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I would suggest that you get your nurse aide certification. You'll learn some valuable hands on nursing skills (how to take vitals, blood sugars, how to perform hygiene care for patients, how to reposition them, etc) and if you can get a job in a hospital, you'll be in the trenches working directly, constantly with the nurses. You'll really see what they do, what situations they are in, and then you can evaluate the work and decide if it is something you can and want to do.

As to your job holding you back from dating; I don't buy that. Sorry, but it's not your job that's holding you back. I have too many friends who are aides, techs, secretaries, janitors, and the like who have fulfilling relationships and marriages. Either it is your personality, or that you are dating the wrong sorts of girls, or both. And you are a baby at 23. You do have time, time to find the right girl, time to find the right career, you have all sorts of time. If you make the wrong decision regarding your life path now, you even have time to go back and do something else, in your late 20s, your 30s, even your 40s or beyond (as many on this site can attest).

Take a deep breath, calm yourself, and check out your options. Again, I suggest a nurse aide course to give you a really good idea of the type of work you would be doing.

Good luck.

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Ok Let me ask you this despite the long list of things you mentioned about yourself, are you are hardworker, will you show up to work on time and dedicate yourself to nursing? If you answered yes to these questions then you need to sign yourself up for nursing school. When you graduate I hope to work with a you someday, then someone who just wants to act too cute to do the job. Don't worry about being autistic, that can be helped, now being a psycho who doesn't want to change, can't be, (I have worked with a few psycho nurses in the past, can you tell?). You need more confidence, fix what you need to and go for it. Just do it. Try it. Don't discredit yourself before giving yourself every opportunity to succeed.

definatly a hard worker.....took me NEARLY a decade to get into bodybuilder shape.....and i worked my ******* (pardon my language)ass off each year too.......one of the hardest workers at work!!!!

Definatly will to change and take self critism

I guess as long as I am posting on a Nursing forum, how many young women pursue nursing simply to marry a doctor/pharmasist. At my hospital, it seems like quite a bit.

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