Hello everyone, i am a 16 year old male interested in Nursing. I am currently doing my high schooling online, which allows me plenty free time to research careers and what not that i may be interested in doing after high school. I was interested in Neurosurgery for quite a bit, but felt as though i was more into it for the money and not the job itself. Plus, have you SEEN how much debt medical school students end up in? No thanks LOL. I would like to go to college for Nursing because i feel the job will suit me better. More time spent with patients, flexible schedule, the benefits of travel nursing, as well as good pay. I would much rather spend 2-4 years in college learning to do a job i'll enjoy and still get paid well, then go to school for 14 years, doing a job i only got into for the money, as well as ending up in tons of student debt. Also i have a question. How flexible is the nursing schedule exactly? Is it true that you can work three 12 hour shifts a week or are you always on call? I love the idea of over time as well. If i felt the need to work more, that option is always there for me. Also Nurses have more flexible specialties and what not. Do you love your job? What is your work schedule like? If you could go back in time and become a doctor, would you?
I don't want to become a Nurse and be treated differently and feel like I'm at the bottom of the barrel and what not because I'm not an MD or something lol.
I am also interested in perhaps shadowing a nurse during the summer, so i can get more of a feel of what goes on and what not. I feel like it'll really benefit me.
Please do your best to expose my young mind to the career of Nursing as much as possible, It will really help me with deciding my career after these two years of high school are up, although I'm still pretty set on nursing.
Thank you for your time (:
P.S. i know i still have plenty of time to decide my career but i see no harm in researching what career i want to do after high school, and learning as much about it as i can now, then in two years. I like to know what i want to do right off the bat, instead of winging things. Plus, since i'm doing high school online, i have plenty of time to conduct research. I would just like to hear from the Nurses themselves. Thank you, i hope to be a Nurse one day!
Hahahahaha! And I was going to recommend Echo Heron.
Just looked this up and I'm disappointed. I thought I was going to be the first Nora Roberts of former-RN inspired fiction, historical fiction and other genres.
Just looked this up and I'm disappointed. I thought I was going to be the first Nora Roberts of former-RN inspired fiction, historical fiction and other genres.
No, it's actually good stuff. One of the books deals with a lot of 9/11 stories from the nurses at St. Vincent's, which is now closed.
I worked with some St. Vinnie's RNs. They are tough cookies, in the best possible way!
I don't understand why people force themselves to continue with a career they really wont/don't enjoy haha. It simply mesmerizes me. People assume that just because nursing isn't for them, it must not be for any one else. People assume that just because they are a "genius" and nursing school was hard for them, it won't be any easier for another "genius" that comes along. I don't get why Nursing is receiving so much negativity and yet people still do it. What is with that? I would like to know. Very interested to see these replies.
Because part of becoming an adult is learning that, even when your plan is completely air tight, your world can easily fall apart at any moment and sometimes you're going to be miserable. You rebuild it and it falls apart again. You keep going. You aren't miserable 100% of the time but sometimes, for one reason or another, you get kicked in the butt pretty hard and sometimes that rough patch seems like it will never end.
That's reality, that is the way life works.
Nursing puts you right in the middle of people having their world dashed to bits on a regular basis. Add to that you have your own world falling apart for one reason or another. It's all perspective. You can still maintain a positive attitude about it all but it doesn't mean you won't deeply hurt from time to time. Eventually all the pain causes a briny outer shell to shield you from the pain. It's called being salty. It happens and it's a way of self-preservation.
Yeah, yeah we get it. You're 16 and home schooled and super awesome at everything already with your could-be-a-neurosurgeon-brains and have your whole life ahead of you to be more awesome at nursing than all of us combined.
Here:
I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse 1st Edition
It's a huge dose of reality, much like what we're trying to fill you in on. I read this before I started nursing school and it was a major eye opener and prepared me for the serious emotional and mental sacrifices I was going to have to make (and still am making and still will make) to even approach success in the career. Some of it is negative so prepare yourself. Also, there's no glamour bits.
No where did i say i was better than anyone, i'm obviously not if i'm coming to you for help. If your getting jealous of a teenager, then you have more serious problems to deal with LOL.
Stop coming at me with your crap. Just because i explained my life situation does NOT mean i think i'm better than any one else. If you want to believe that, go right ahead. I've been holding back from cursing for so long, i just do not know how else to put my anger into words at the moment.
I was intrigued by the 9/11 one. I'll have to check it out. Also, I can still be the Nora Roberts of such and such and the other thing. Yay!
So that's what you are? Salty. Hmph, that explains it. I feel bad for all the people you have to pretend to be nice to in your every day life. They deserve better. I intend to give them just that. If you think i appear to be thinking i'm better than you, then maybe i am. I'm certainly starting to feel like the better, more mature person here. Goes to show how any type of person can become a nurse Makes me feel alot better, thanks!
No where did i say i was better than anyone, i'm obviously not if i'm coming to you for help. If your getting jealous of a teenager, then you have more serious problems to deal with LOL.
Stop coming at me with your crap. Just because i explained my life situation does NOT mean i think i'm better than any one else. If you want to believe that, go right ahead. I've been holding back from cursing for so long, i just do not know how else to put my anger into words at the moment.
It does sound like a good book, though.
Don't curse. It's against TOS.
You did come here for opinions. You may not like all of them.
Have you ever worked part time , like in a deli or anything? Babysitting? Snow shoveling?
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I feel bad for all the people you have to pretend to be nice to in your every day life. They deserve better. I intend to give them just that. If you think i appear to be thinking i'm better than you, then maybe i am. I'm certainly starting to feel like the better, more mature person here. Goes to show how any type of person can become a nurse 
Makes me feel alot better, thanks!
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Hahahahaha! And I was going to recommend Echo Heron.