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!
Hopefully one day all of this stuff will pay off. I'll meet some really nice people, a nice girl, and start to actually enjoy my life. I'm not a bad person. I want to adopt kids one day. I'm just sick of being attacked every where i go. It sucks being attacked on the only sense of communication you have. The internet.
Don't for one second think that nobody has it as bad as you.
How dare you?
You are not unique in having pain.
Best of luck to you.
Again. I never said i was unique in anything. I only explained why i am the way i am. You can take it any way you want to take it. I'm exhausted and sick of trying now.
The most frustrating thing in life is being so angry or hurt, you cannot even put how your feeling into words. Like i feel as though i can't express myself the way i actually want to. I often find myself searching for the right words to say as i'm replying to all of you.
The most frustrating thing in life is being so angry or hurt, you cannot even put how your feeling into words. Like i feel as though i can't express myself the way i actually want to. I often find myself searching for the right words to say as i'm replying to all of you.
Just read. We are nurses from all over, students, retired. Stop exhausting yourself fighting on the internet and just read.
Lucid- take a deep breath & calm down! It is not necessary for you to explain yourself to anyone- here or anywhere else.
Take a step back & try to imagine if we were trying to tell you how wonderful it was to be a 16 y/o home schooled person? (Unless of course they had been & enjoyed it) I don't have any idea what it's like in your shoes...but I have a lot of experience going through nursing school & being a nurse, as do most that post here.
No one- well except for that soul poison guy- wants to destroy your dreams! It's just that it appears you have some Hollywood version of nursing in your head and people were trying to give you a little reality. Did you like the way everyone said their piece? Apparently not, but hey, that's what the real world- and especially the internet, is like.
In my time in the medical field, ( CNA, EMT, LPN, RN) I've been cursed at, spit on, hit, kicked & had lots of bodily fluids on me. But I've also held scared patients hands, comforted families, cried happy tears and been the recipient of much gratitude. It's those times that keeps us going through the bad days- AND THERE WILL BE VERY BAD DAYS!!!
Your enthusiasm is refreshing even if it does seem a little naive. You just need a thicker skin but you have plenty of time to get it. Just hang in there & don't take everything as a personal attack.
LucidDreamer
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Hopefully one day all of this stuff will pay off. I'll meet some really nice people, a nice girl, and start to actually enjoy my life. I'm not a bad person. I want to adopt kids one day. I'm just sick of being attacked every where i go. It sucks being attacked on the only sense of communication you have. The internet.