teacher to nurse transition

mmc51264, BSN, MSN, RN · Nov 21, 2014

I teacher before I was a nurse. I found it a fairly easy transition and I love nursing much better than teaching. I think being a teacher helps you recognize learning strengths in your pts. My biggest thing is that I am in a RN-BSN online program and I want ot grade everyone's discussion board posts LOL

The thing that I like about nursing is that that Ideal with adults. I take a certain amount of crap and I still have families to deal with, but I don't have 10-12 year olds telling me to f-off everyday. Teaching has gotten so far away from what it used to be. The same might be said about nursing but I not around then. I started teaching fairly late (early 40s) and nursing late 40s (not given tenure as a non-tenured Masters teacher-no union here).

Nursing is easier to leave work at work. I don't have to take anything home to grade. I trust that nurses following me are capable and I gladly give over the care to my patients without worry. It was harder as a teacher.

englishgeek · Nov 22, 2014

I love that if you've got a little snot of a patient, you see that annoying face a few days instead of ALL YEAR! Haha. Seriously, though. I loved teaching and I also love nursing. What I like about nursing is the lack of planning/grading. You come in then you're done that night...with hospital, at least.

Whispera, MSN, RN · Nov 22, 2014

I was a teacher before I was a nurse. Discipline problems are so much less in nursing! I've never had to give a patient a time out! Well, I should take that back because I was a psych nurse, but that's not what we're talking about anyway. You don't have as much homework when you're a nurse, as when you were a teacher. You get paid more as a nurse. You get longer vacations as a teacher.

I think there's lots of teaching in nursing, and I became a teaching nurse after awhile. Maybe you'll do the same.