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!
Sorry. One bad apple is affecting my overall mood today. But it's okay, i won't let her get to me any longer.
Okay, listen. I know you are 16, but just chill out a bit. You've gotten a lot of answers and advice here, right?
Where I was going with the work thing was if you've been in a work situation and you know there are some people you don't get along with, but you have to, or there are customers you don't like, but you have to be polite?
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!
And this is exactly why I just love having teenagers on the floor. They're so rational and open-minded. No reductive thinking and over-emotional nonsense at all.
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!
Nope. Nope, nope, nope. la chica had some good stuff to say. Maybe you 2 don't like each other's delivery, but you are calling yourself more mature while giving her raspberries...I mean, come ON.
Having to be home schooled with no friends what so ever to express your self with. Crappy emotionally abusive parents, not being able to go outside and make friends because our neighborhood sucks, being stuck inside the house with people that are supposed to encourage you but instead put you down, having to be your only friend because you know no one else would be, talking to yourself because you have no one else to talk to. Dealing with OCD and intrusive thoughts but not being able to do anything about them because your parents wouldn't take you to get help. All i have is my dream and the ability to stay positive and look forward to the future. All i have is myself. I've never dated any one in high school, had many friends, and i cannot make them now. So i am looking forward to college because i am hoping it'll allow me the time to do all of the things that i missed out on during high school. All of the things a normal teenager should experience. That is why i believe my life would start to get better after high school. Because then i'd be able to meet new people, make friends, and find people who actually care for me. I don't even know how to put what i'm feeling right now into words so i'm sorry if there's a few grammar mistakes up there some where.
The only sense of freedom and escape i have at the moment is lucid dreaming. That's the only time i feel genuinely good. My life isn't perfect, and never did i ever think i was better then anyone else. I want to be a nurse because i want to help people who aren't able to help themselves. I used to be like that for awhile. Until i started being positive about everything. It's the only thing i had left. My life wasn't getting any better with nothing but negativity, so i decided to change that. So here i am. On this site trying to learn as much as i can so i can actually be a good nurse one day and be of use to people. But so far, i haven't made much progress.
I don't think any of you know what it's like to feel so trapped.. having no one to express yourself with, no friends, no family who actually supports you, only having yourself. I have to deal with this s*** for two more years and i am trying to better myself along the way. I don't need any road blocks.
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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!
la_chica_suerte85, BSN, RN
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You really need to get out there and interact with others if someone on the internet can get under your skin that much.