How did you decide on Nursing?

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I recently got accepted to a BSN program with a 3.94 GPA. I'm actually a sophomore, and I took these pre-reqs since September. Once I got my acceptance letter, I wasn't so happy about it. I mean I was proud of myself for getting in, but everyone tells me how miserable they are in Nursing school and I don't feel excited about being in the program at all because of how stressful the schooling will be, and being threatened to get kicked out every semester if I don't do it right. It just looks uncertain when only 50% of the people enrolled in the program will graduate and it scares me. I also don't think I will make a great Nurse on top of it :/. I'm good at school and science (which motivated me to pursue Nursing as a career), but the job itself I have recently discovered I don't think I will excel at and I feel guilty for pushing myself this long. It's mainly due to my stress. When I stress, I can't think straight: I'll forget things, and I just know that this won't work when trying to take care of a patient. Any advice? The good thing is these pre-reqs are not just geared for Nursing majors, but also other allied health fields (medical imaging, health science, etc) which I have taken into consideration.

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You've started three topics and they're all about how you don't want to be a nurse. It doesn't look like the last two threads you started helped you much, so my advice would be to talk to someone who actually knows you.

Strangers on the internet aren't the best people to ask when it comes to making huge life decisions.

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Specializes in PACU.

You have listed a lot of reasons why not and none for why you should go into nursing. My reasons (or anybody else's) for going into nursing shouldn't influence you. Only you can make this decision for yourself...

I'd tell you to go make a pro/com list, but seems like you have the con's flushed out pretty well already. Do you have anything on the pro side?

If not, I'd find something where my pro's at least evened out or outweighed my cons.

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Specializes in Hospice / Psych / RNAC.

I decided on nursing by a flipped a coin with my best friend...we were both 4. GPAs. It was tails lawyer, heads RN...we both wish now we had gone the other way (grass is always greener). You can enjoy what classes you are taking now. Having a nursing degree doesn't hurt. In my nursing school we had a class where 1/4 of the students were there as a second degree & career choice. Our oldest student was 56 and average age was 34. The youngest one got kicked out d/t drugs which made our youngest student 24.

Medical imaging will always be there. Specialize in being a songographer. It's also more of an independent position, depending on where you work. I've always been a little bit jealous when I go for an ultra-sound and the tech is clearly by themselves and quite comfortable in their domain. Good luck to you

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Specializes in Hospice / Psych / RNAC.

BTW...if you're gong to a school that has a 50% drop out rate; you need to go to another school. That's ridiculous. Everyone in my class passed. I don't know about passing boards but myself and 6 others I know passed on the first try...research your schools! School is what you make it. I loved the learning and everything connected to it. You must love what you're doing. Life is too short.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Moved to general student forum

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ICU.

A 50% pass rate for NCLEX is extremely poor and I'd highly suggest looking into other nursing programs. With your GPA, I'm sure you could find better. With regards to your questions about nursing being for you, it sounds like you're having cold feet. To some degree that's normal, but you should probably talk to people that know you best. From the perspective of a stranger on the internet, it sounds like you may have low self-confidence but I could be wrong, maybe you're right and it's simply not for you. You'll really never know until you're in a clinical setting in nursing school.

Not every nursing school is full of instructors on power trips nor will it evaporate all of your free time, just so you know. Perhaps I'm the exception, but I'm having the time of my life right now at a school with a 90%+ NCLEX passing rate. It's possible. It's tough and you'll go home in tears sometimes simply because nursing takes an emotional toll on us all but the very next day you could be cloud nine because you finally got an A on a test and you helped save someone's life. In my opinion, it's worth taking the risk and finding out the hard way.

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