How many of us are under 25?

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Hi, I was just wondering how many people were under the age of 25. I guess it would be nice to know that others my age are going through this. Just write in and tell everyone a little about yourself like when you graduate, start, family, etc.

Okay, I will start. My name is Teresa and I am in an associates degree program. I graduate next May and I am very interested in L&d or postpardum. I am 19 years old (20 when I graduate) and I am getting married in December. Okay, good luck to everybody!!

Teresa

Specializes in ER, Burns and Plastics.

My name is Eric. I'm 21 now and will be 23 when I graduate. I'm at UNB in Canada. Currently in a serious relationship with a great fellow student. Most of my classmates are between 19 (fresh out of high school) and about 45, though the majority are on the younger side.

Hey ladies (and possibly some gentlemen?): I am currently 23:p and I have been an RN for almost two years now. So, if you do the math, I was 21 when I graduated with a BSN in nursing. It is difficult being taken serious by people, staff, patients, whoever. I have taken care of someone all day long, and told them I was their nurse as soon as I walked in the door, and then at the end of twelve hours listen to them tell their family that I'm a STUDENT.

I am taking classes to complete my master's degree at OSU, I am going to specialize in the Family Nurse Practitioner program and eventually obtain my PhD and teach new nurses. The most important thing for us young nurses, and nurses to be, is that age is just a number, and good nursing skills do not always come with age. Don't let people tell you that being a good nurse is impossible if you're young. I've seen some people that have been nurses for CENTURIES:D who couldn't treat someone appropriately if the just had a cold :)

Keep workin' --Ames

Hey, ,all you youthful nursie chappies!

I'm in that limbo that strikes after teenagerhood and before grownupness...poor choice of words but you all know what I mean. From early childhood I had two career options - the first was to be a professional Euphonium player in the UK, and the second was to be a nurse. Being the ultimate procrastinator and underachiever, I didn't practice enough to get good enough to play professionally, and ended up taking 2 years out from studies to work in a nursing home and get my head together.

It was there I discovered I was good at something else - making people smile and feel better about themselves. (I also make a dammn fine pot of tea). After lots of serious consideration, I decided to combine my talents with my morbid fascination with human biology and disease and went back to uni. In 2000 I completed a Bachelor of Nursing and emerged as an RN with a Workplace Health and Safety Officer qualification to boot. I then did what all serious career-minded grads do. I left the country.

I met Jim in a tiny mining town on a prac placement and followed him (and my heart) from Australia to the UK. I've been here a year now and have been qualified for the same length of time. I work agency full-time but do most of my shifts on a neursurgical ITU/HDU. I'm quite passionate about it and although I know next to nothing, I'd love to learn more and specialise.

I'm always the youngest at the agency meetings and parties. People tend to look out for me, which is sweet. It can get a little stifling when people assume that youth = stupid/incompetent and insist on showing me the 'right way' to do things. Generally, I like it. There's plenty of time for me to get older and wiser and bitter and twisted. I'll enjoy my youth and my nursing while I can :D

Fran

Hi everyone!!

I'm 23 and from Minnesota, married with no kids. I'm very new to the profession and will be starting my CNA classes next week! I'm not to sure how far I will go in Nursing, but hope to specialize...very interested in Neonatal, Oncology and S.A.N.E nursing...trying to stay open at this point! :) Itss good to see other people going through the same things I am and I hope to get to know you all some more!

Addy

I am 24, will be 25 in May. I am definatly in the minority in my class. I attend a community college, where I am in the LPN program. There are only two students younger than me, one is 20 and one is 22! Yikes! Everyone else is 25 up to 56 years old. Thats OK though. I work with the elderly, I work for a private home health care agency, and work anywhere from 40-60 hours a week. No kids, but I do have 2 beautiful neices and one devilishly handsome nephew! [Thus my name!] Not married either. I'm looking for a man who will suppport my decisions and not try to hold me back because of his own insecurities! [Just ended a bad relationship.]

Good Luck to all you students out there!

I'm 19 and about to enter into my first year in the nursing program and hopefully fininsh with a BSN or MSN....

...haven't really decided. I'm just glad to have gotten in to a great nursing school :)

oh, and this forum is a really great idea for future and present nurses!

julie

Hello All :)

My name is Covie and I am a 22 yr old single female with no kids or pets :) I will be beginning a BSN progrom May 13, 2002 (I AM A NERVOUS RECK :eek:)

I am 6 credits away from receiving my BA in Gerontology. Once I earn my BSN I plan on attending graduate school to earn a Masters (either MSN or MPH) and eventually a Ph.D in Public Health (with an emphasis on Disease Research or Epidemiology)

In my spare time I love to read, write poetry, dance, make arts & crafts, perform community service, study the bible, shop, & surf the net.

~Unequaledbeauty~

Hi everyone.

I'm Shana... I am 23 y/o. I am in an ADN program in MA. I start my first clinical nursing class in the fall. This will be my second associates degree, in 2000 I received an AA in general studies while I was taking all the prereqs for the nursing program. I am so excited to start to learn actual nursing *stuff. I am fairly new here and it's nice to see there are other people in the same boat :)

Hey everyone...I'm new to the board, just registered! I'm 19 and just completing my freshman year in a BSN program. Just thought I'd introduce myself. I'd love to talk to other nursing students my age in different schools to share experiences. Hope everyone is well!

Sarah

Hi! I'm new here as well and am anxious to get to know more of you, esp around my age. I'm 22 and will be starting nursing school in the fall.

hi i am 23 will be 24 in june just graduated 4-27-2002 from an ADN program. I currently work in a nursing home but I will start my new job as a grad nurse on an oncology med floor. I have no children but I have a boyfriend (hopefully my husband in 1-2 more years)!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Hey all,

I am a pre nursing student who is hoping to make it into an ADN program in the fall. (keeping my fingers crossed) I am 23 and hope to go on to get my BSN and then my masters as a CRNA. it is such a long journey so I am taking it one step at a time and absorbing as much info as I possibly can. I have a boyfriend who is very supportive of me and hopefully will be my husband by the end of the year..good luck everyone...

i love this message board....

i trully feel like we are all in this together,

seri

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