help please!!

joseash · Nov 14, 2008

When you do clinicals in nursing school, you will be exposed to different areas of nursing and then maybe you will find out which most appeals to you. If surgery is most interesting to you, then maybe working as an OR nurse would be your niche. You have to go to medical school to actually DO the surgery but as a nurse you would be in the operating room assisting.

I'm not sure where you live but in my area, some of the hospitals offer a "Shadow a Nurse" day and even a Nursing Discovery Camp in the summer for high school students to learn more about a career in nursing.

You can also check out these sites:

http://mshs.beanurseathca.com/

http://www.discovernursing.com/

Study hard and keep your grades up! That's the first step.

caliotter3 · Nov 14, 2008

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CHATSDALE · Nov 14, 2008

WELCCOME

when you get in high school take a lot of science and math this will give you a good foundation in learning how to think and will serve yo well when you get in college

Tweety, BSN, RN · Nov 14, 2008

You can become an OR nurse. First you have to become a Registered Nurse. So for now concentrate on becoming a nurse. Take chemistry, biology, and algerbra.

If you want to perform surgeries, that's what a doctor does and you should go to medical school.

Good luck. Feel free to ask any questions you have.

classicdame, MSN, EdD · Nov 14, 2008

Nurses work with surgeons, but surgeons "do" the surgery. Math and science are the two best areas to study at present. Your school counselor should be able to give you information about local colleges/universities. You might call the Human Resources of area hospitals or nursing homes to see if they have volunteers and, if not, at what age would you be considered as an employee. Working part-time in a facility will teach you a lot while you go to school. Good luck!

doc.smith · Nov 14, 2008

You can also start volunteering in the hospital. If you like children, you can volunteer at Children's hospital. Also you can join Sea Cadet. They have nice programs to what you want to do when you graduate from high school.

Dolce, RN · Nov 15, 2008

There are junior volunteer programs at most hospitals. This is a great opportunity for you to see how the hospital works and you will have fun while you are at it!

NeoNurseTX, RN · Nov 15, 2008

Surgeons actually do the surgeries..that requires med school.

There are surgical techs that hand equipment to the surgeon and scrub in for surgeries, do the instrument count, set up for the surgery. I think this is a 2 year program? I'm not positive.

RNs are usually what they call circulating nurses. They chart, coordinate, don't scrub in...and there are RN first assistants.. and I'm in NICU so maybe someone that has a better idea of OR roles will come along and help!

The best thing you can do for now is keep your grades up, see if you can volunteer at a hospital, and keep on learnin'!

Flightline, BSN, RN · Nov 15, 2008

If you are 14 and good in math and science and have a love of human anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology, and if you seem interested in disecting dead things. I highly recommend that you do everything you can to do as well in high school as you can so you can get good scholarships to college and then work your butt off to do as well as you can in a pre-med major, and then go to med school and do really well in there, and then do a general surgical residency. That is, you should be a surgeon, an MD.

If you have an old-sould deep-seated need to care for people who cannot care for themselves, and that's your primary motivation, you should do well in highschool, then go into a 4-year nursing program, and then become a registered nurse.

You have to be honest with yourself. At this stage of the game, you don't have to worry about where the jobs are or how the economy is doing, if you are good at what you do and committed to it, you will find what you want. You will be able to write your own ticket. You may also want to consider the military in whatever route you choose, but you must be honest with yourself: Do you want to care for people, like feeding them, bathing them, taking them to the toilet, giving them pills, and stuff like that? Or are you an academic type who loves science and math and not really a social type, meaning you might do best pursuing the kind of intensive study for a long time as is required by surgeons?

What winds your clock?

Either way, you will have to have a strong work ethic. Either way, there won't be much partying in your life. There won't be a lot of going out with friends. Either way, you will have to work in high school, work in college, work in med school, and work during your residency. These are the kind of people who become successful. They find fun in their work.

Good luck.:nuke:

dopaminequeenRN · Nov 17, 2008

Flightline is right about all of the above. My best advice is to concentrate on the present for now--make the grades, get good scholarships, etc. Five years from now, you may have no desire to be in the medical field, but that's OK because if you get a good education, many doors will open up to you. As a nursing student, I was lucky enough to observe several surgeries. The OR was awesome but there were negatives....It's cold and you are on your feet for several hours depending on the type of surgery. Check into shadowing someone in the OR. You may not be able to do that at age 14, but it never hurts to ask!

TX_TeleRN · Nov 17, 2008

Check with your local hospitals. Some of them have programs geared towards volunteers by high school students interested in health care. Also, ask around to see if you know of any doctors or surgeons who is willing to let you shadow them for a day or a procedure.