Don't go into nursing school if_____

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Fill in the blank with any advice you can give students who have just been accepted into a program or who are thinking about embarking on the journey of nursing school.

Here's mine:

DON'T GO INTO NURSING SCHOOL IF you haven't done your own research about the realities of the profession. Good, bad, truth, and common myths & misconceptions.

Yall's turn!

Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.
....if you think you have a "right" to smoke pot, chug ETOH, or regularly engage in "recreational" drugs.

I actually think pot should be legal but that is a different topic for a different thread.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.
Don't go into nursing school I you don't know how to prayer. Believe me, you will learn how to pray and cry out to God in the process of nursing school.

Disagree. Atheists can and do make great nurses and religion and work should be kept separate anyways....

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... if you are dead certain sure you will be an (x, y, or z) kind of nurse; you have no idea what kind of nurse you will be. Even though you think you do. Really.

This. I circulate between the idea of about 5 or 6 different specialities per day. I also realize that it's probably 99% likely I will end up in none of those. Lol

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Oncology.

This is a great topic, very useful to someone like me, starting nursing as second career in a couple weeks.

So far so good, looks like I can still go into nursing:) Although I do still dream of changing the world...

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Specializes in Pediatrics.
Don't go into nursing school I you don't know how to prayer. Believe me, you will learn how to pray and cry out to God in the process of nursing school.

I entered and departed nursing school with my agnosticism intact. But I definitely agree that everyone needs some kind of emotional/mental support! I bawled like a baby in my mother's arms a few times!

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Don't go to nursing school if you think that there's a nursing shortage.

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Specializes in Pedi.
Don't go into nursing school I you don't know how to prayer. Believe me, you will learn how to pray and cry out to God in the process of nursing school.

Neither praying nor belief in God are requirements to be a nurse. There are plenty of atheist/agnostic nurses out there. I entered nursing school as someone who had been raised Catholic going to church every Sunday for 18 years. I graduated completely Agnostic. If anything, being a nurse has made me believe LESS in the existence of a higher power.

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Specializes in Trauma, Orthopedics.
Don't go into nursing school I you don't know how to prayer. Believe me you will learn how to pray and cry out to God in the process of nursing school.[/quote']

.....no. Just .... no.

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......if you cannot let everything/anything roll off your back without bothering you!!!!

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Don't go to nursing school if you are easily intimidated (Take an HONEST look at your own personality!).

...if you don't have a sense of humour. Every day (as a nurse) you will be greeted with the absurdity of the species. Sometimes, you can only laugh.

...if you're looking for a less stressful occupation. Unless your present occupation involves people using you for target practice.

... if you're lousy at science.

... if you're not prepared to go to bed at midnight just to get up at 0400 to go to clinicals.

...if you are not prepared to read (and know) 20 chapters a week.

...if you have a rough time dealing with stress.

As others have said, don't expect to change the world. It's a lot bigger than you and generally, it doesn't care.

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Don't go to nursing school if you think that there's a nursing shortage.

WE HAVE A WINNER!:up:

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...if you think you can spend more time partying and working than studying

...if you don't have the ability to be compassionate

...if you think its an easy high paying career

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