Help!Should I go to nursing?

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Hi, Everyone,

I am a new member. For sure, this is my first post.

I just got the accept letter from a community college near my home. And I was told there were more than 1000 students applied for the 120 seats. I know I am lucky.

BUT I don't know if I should go or not. Here is something about my family.

1, I have a one-year-old son who need to be taken care.

2, My hubby makes around $125k per year. So I don't need to worry too much about the income. But I still want to make more.

3, Right now, it really hard to image myself to clean up messes or work under stress.

4, I also got some other offers,like master program in Accounting, master program in pharmacy economics. But I think it's easier for nurses to land a job and take care of family.

Would do you think of my consideration? I really really need your suggestion.

Thank you so much!

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There's one thing you haven't addressed: do you want to be a nurse? Don't do it if you're just looking for a way to make money. Nursing is something that, if you have no interest in it, you will not do it well, and peoples' lives depend on how well we do our jobs.

If you really want it, then go for it.

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Another possibility for anyone considering nursing is to volunteer at a local hospital on a pt. unit. This may give you an idea if you can even stand to be around sick people & situations that aren't pretty. I'm not a nurse, I'm 'justavolunteer' (on a patient unit). I've even had situations occur that have upset me sometimes, so it may be good to find out this beforehand. Good luck!

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HI, Tazzi, thanks for your advice.

These days I was always thinking about this question. If I want to be a nurse or not.

I just went to hospital once when I delivered my son. I was impressed by the care from thoses nurses at that time. Yeah, I want to be a nurse like them. But I heard too many horrible stories about this career. So I don't know if I should or not.

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Then you need to either volunteer or become a CNA so you can observe nurses and what they do outside of one patient's room.

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Hi, Everyone,

I am a new member. For sure, this is my first post.

I just got the accept letter from a community college near my home. And I was told there were more than 1000 students applied for the 120 seats. I know I am lucky.

BUT I don't know if I should go or not. Here is something about my family.

1, I have a one-year-old son who need to be taken care.

2, My hubby makes around $125k per year. So I don't need to worry too much about the income. But I still want to make more.

3, Right now, it really hard to image myself to clean up messes or work under stress.

4, I also got some other offers,like master program in Accounting, master program in pharmacy economics. But I think it's easier for nurses to land a job and take care of family.

Would do you think of my consideration? I really really need your suggestion.

Thank you so much!

Their are so many people who really want to be in your position. The program is grueling. It seems a shame for someone to be so half hearted to take a spot from someone who wants to be a nurse desperately. Also with such a young shild if you arent really serious then why not let someone else have the opportunity?

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HI, Tazzi, thanks for your advice.

These days I was always thinking about this question. If I want to be a nurse or not.

I just went to hospital once when I delivered my son. I was impressed by the care from thoses nurses at that time. Yeah, I want to be a nurse like them. But I heard too many horrible stories about this career. So I don't know if I should or not.

You will hear many horror stories regarding any career! You have to follow your heart. Do what you feel is best for you. If I were you, I would gladly accept the offer to go to nursing school. As you see, you are one of the few who have been chosen. Hopefully, if nursing isn't for you, you will find that out before you finish school.

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You will hear many horror stories regarding any career! You have to follow your heart. Do what you feel is best for you. If I were you, I would gladly accept the offer to go to nursing school. As you see, you are one of the few who have been chosen. Hopefully, if nursing isn't for you, you will find that out before you finish school.

I would hope she would find out in time so another who knows he/she wants to be a nurse is given a spot.

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3, Right now, it really hard to image myself to clean up messes or work under stress.

Without commenting on the rest of the original post, this one line tells me that you really, REALLY ought to reconsider. If it's hard to imagine yourself cleaning up messes, I can tell you that not only is it part of what you'll do, it's a big part of what you'll do. Nurses do not sit at the desk with clipboards, talking on the phone and handing out pills. This is one dirty, scrungy job alot of the time, and there frequently isn't "someone else" do handle what can be downright disgusting messes.

The second part of that same line, about working under stress....if you have a hard time imagining that, too, I would beg you to reconsider your choice. You will be under incredible stress while IN nursing school, for starters. Some of the most highly-motivated, type A personalities will be there with you, and the pressure to succeed in the typical nursing program is intense. These are not general education classes where if you miss a day or two, it's not a big deal. Every lecture is a big deal. Every clinical is a big deal; some programs will boot you out if you've missed two. The pressure of skills evaluations in the clinical setting, too, is intense. I already had an Associates from the exact same school that I later returned to for nursing, and the first Associates was a simple cakewalk compared to the nursing one. No stress comparison at all.

And then, of course, is the stress of actual employment, something I thought I knew about, but couldn't have, not until I actually faced it myself. Stress is my middle name, now.

Tazzi's suggestion to actually work as an aide on a floor first will clue you in, it's a good suggestion.

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I initially started to respond to the same comment, RNs, but then I decided to be more generic. You did a better job than I would have.

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As the above post has stated, I really think you have to reconsider. I do not feel your heart is in nursing. Maybe I am wrong, but that is what I am getting from reading your statements. Like my instructor said last semester, first reason to become a nurse must be about caring for people, not just to find employment.

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If I was feeling unsure, I would give up my place at Nursing school, enjoy the babyhood of my young son, and sign up for a nursing assistant course. A per diem nursing assistant job is not a huge investment, and you will see the behind the scenes work of nursing. Nursing looks good on paper, but many people do not know really what we do.

Nursing school isn't going anywhere if you decide to go in the future.

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