Did a life experience start you into nursing??

[jlore]

Hello,

I have been lurking on here for about a week because I have been kicking around the idea of nursing.

My daughter was born at 24 weeks gestation and spent 4 very LONG months in the NICU. As you can imagine my husband and I were "forced" into the nursing career. Now that things have settled down (she is 2 and doing well) it is time for me to get some $ rolling in. I would LOVE to be able to help the kids that I have seen and see at therapy visits. Which makes me wonder if being a therapist is something to look into. I have read to start as a CNA and test the waters. How does one get started??

I wonder if anyone has had a similar experience? If so, are you glad you chose nursing??

Thankyou for listening!

Jayme

[Faeriewand, ASN, RN]

Aquamarine what a beautiful story I hope one day to read about it in a book written by you :)

[1studentnurse]

My mother always wanted me to be a nurse. She died when I was 13, I went to high school and was afraid of math. Because of that, I didn't take chemistry.

I still got into a good school and did two bachelors degrees in five years, one requiring calculus, and worked in sales, marketing, financial services and used my foreign language and computer skills to make a living for 14 years.

I had my son and decided that I needed to do something else. My father-in-law was a retired MD and two of my husband's siblings are MDs. He has several first cousins who are nurses. The psych nurse was the one who told me to do it, along with her sister-in-law, the OR nurse. I finished my prereqs while working, applied, and got back into the university where I did my first bachelors for my third one.

I finished this May almost 15 years to the day from my last college graduation. I felt even better this time. I have no fears of finding a job (I already had one on graduation day) and I know I can do this in one way or another for the rest of my life, since I now have the initials RN after my name.

I am so excited! I pinch myself some days when I think about the big circle I went in for fifteen years. I guess some things are just meant to be, whether you go directly there or not.