Do any of you think about going to med school?

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anyone?

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Specializes in NICU, telemetry.

My plan my entire life was to go to med school. It changed my senior year of high school. I'm going to NP school now, but if I had a do-over, I would've stuck with my original plan. I opted for NP instead. I'll be 30 when I graduate NP school. I felt it was more reasonable to continue in nursing, rather than start all over again.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

No, if I had wanted to be an MD, I would have gone to med school. I wanted to be a nurse so I went to nursing school.

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I was not scholastic as a young adult and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. And to this day, I'm easily content and not at all ambitious. It's a small miracle that I managed to go to community college while in my 30's. Medical school was never a desire for me ...which is just as well, because it was never a serious option for me, either.

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I'm 24 and have been thinking about it. I think I'm leaning more toward CRNA school, though.

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I had considered it, ( & was encouraged to do so), when I was younger..

..but the more time I spent with medical trainees, the less attractive it seemed..

If you think 'nurses eat their own' - for sure, medicine is even worse..

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.
I'm 24 and have been thinking about it. I think I'm leaning more toward CRNA school, though.

You can't go wrong with either!

I have no desire to go to med school but I would love to get the heck out of bedside nursing at some point. Too little pay for too much crap.

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Do you regret that you chose to be a nurse?

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Not anymore. I don't want to spend the next 10 years of my life in school and end up neck deep in debt as a new doctor in my mid-50s. Too much life to be lived! :-)

If I had a do-over, yes, I would have gone to med school. I think more like a doctor than a nurse.

No, I do not regret becoming a nurse. It is a great career! I haven't always felt that way. I've had some pretty miserable nursing jobs. But I like where I'm at now. It just took a little work to get there.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.
Do you regret that you chose to be a nurse?

No.

There is still grad school.

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As a former athlete, I had contemplated on applying for a doctorate program in PT, but my path led elsewhere. I have no regrets with nursing.

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I certainly have thought about it, but I am glad I chose nursing.

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