help please!!

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Hello! I am 14, and I am interested in a career in nursing, surgeon, scrub nurse etc. Can anybody give me advice on what a good job in this field is? I am decent in math, and love science. And I want to be able to do surgeries.

Please Help Me Out !

THANKS.:bowingpur

Tyra

Specializes in Cardiac, ER.

If you want to actually DO the surgery, you must be a physician. You need to keep your overall grades up through high school, then attend a four year college as a "pre med" student, studying biology, chemistry, math etc. Then you go to medical school, and then you have specialized training in surgery. You might try one of the doctors web sites for more detailed info. Best of Luck to you, it's great that you are thinking ahead!

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Specializes in Medsurg, Homecare, Infusion, Psych/Detox.

My advice to you dear child is to go to medical school and become a surgeon. Period.

An OR or surgical technician assists with the surgery by handing instruments etc to the surgeon. But set your sights higher than that. Then there are the circulating nurse and the scrub nurse, both RNs. But the surgeon is the person of interest. Also there might be an assistant surgeon or surgeons depending on the complexity of the surgery. The anesthesiologist only attend to the patient as far as sedation and maintaining respirations, BP etc. He/she is usually an MD or an RN with advanced training.

But if your dream is to work in the OR, dream big and study hard for the M-CAT when the time comes. Good luck!!! good.png

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thanks a bunch for all the help !!!

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