Nursing Students General Students
Published Aug 28, 2008
purplefreak3000
14 Posts
how did you decide to go into nursing?
what inspired you so to go into it?
do you regret your choice of becoming a nurse?
i love kids, prayed about it and since now that i've figured out that teaching them isn't my thing (atleast 5 days/wk, 7hrs/day, with 20+ students in classroom). i want to be able to care for them and comfort them and such (blood doesn't turn me amazingly). i wont enter a nursing program untill 2009/2010 but inways i'm excited.
any ideas on how to prepare for nursing school?
i thought i could enter pt program here at jeffstate, but didn't make good enough grades though. (i'm a mostly b average student).
so i'm gonna transfer after i take my basics here and go on to uab and get a bachelors instead.
thanks for any and all advice given :loveya:
dustbowldiva
6 Posts
After working 3 yrs in an alternative HS setting, I too realized I was not cut out for the classroom setting. I enjoyed the students personally, but felt like I was suffocating in the school environment. Since I have always been fascinated by all things medical, I decided to go back to school and get an ADN. I'm in my first semester now and it is awesome!! I love thinking critically and the hands-on nature of things. I'd say follow your instincts and go for it!
picurn10
409 Posts
I actually "knew" when I was about 8. We were doing a unit on the Civil War in school and I read a biography on Clara Barton, and that was it! I just knew that nursing would be something I'd be great at and love. I spent all of elementary, jr. high, and HS focused on nursing, reading everything I could about the profession even reading nclex books When I finished my two years of pre-req's in college, I had a bit of a freak out, not sure I'd really love nursing, so I switched and got my degree in psychology with the plan to get my PhD. in child psych.
Well, several years, a child, and divorce later I found myself looking for career options that wouldn't take me away from my son from 9-5, that would pay well, and wouldn't take me forever to complete a degree for: nursing was it!
Now that I've actually starting nursing school I just feel like I'm where I was meant to be all along My classes are requiring a lot so far, but every morning I'm so excited I wake up before the alarm and I'm just ready to learn I know it's not going to feel this way all of the time, but having studied a subject I like but wasn't passionate about, there is a HUGE difference. I can't wait to be a nurse :heartbeat