Just a question for my fellow pre-nursing students... IF you get into nursing school, what do you see yourself doing in the future? Will you stay an LPN or RN and if so what will you specialize in? Anyone planning to do an RN-BSN or LPN-RN program? Anyone going to grad school? If so, what for? Sorry, I know it's a lot of questions.:chuckle Just curious as to what everyone else's plans are. Honestly, I don't think I will know what area I want to work in until I get out of NS. I am getting an ASN to be an RN and I know that I will most definitely get my RN-BSN. Some days I think that I will want to go to grad school and be a pediatric nurse practitioner because I :redbeathe kids. But other days I don't know if my heart can take working with seriously ill or dying kids. Other days I think I will want to be a CRNA. However, lately I've been thinking that I might want to be an RN... forever. Like I said, I will definitely get my BSN. But I was just wondering if that is anyone else's plan. Everyone that I know that wants to be a nurse wants to eventually go to grad school so they can still have the same type of job but make more money. I'm not really concerned with that. I mean, I know nurses don't make the most money in the world, but they make a difference, and that's what matters to me. I can definitely see myself doing bedside nursing forever. Am I the only one? I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to go to grad school and advance your career in that way, but I don't know if I want to. Especially lately I've been thinking I just want to stay an RN. But what about the rest of you? Any ideas of what you want to do? Anyone else just want to be a nurse like me?
I plan to get my MSN. As I've found in my life, things don't always go the way we plan. I will take it one step at a time. I don't know what I'll specialize in.
I want to get the ADN and then right on to the BSN. Afterwards I would like to go for the NP. I think that I will like the clinic hours and ability to work regular hours.
I want to get my ADN, then my BSN, then MSN... and possibly be a CNM. We'll see.
About dealing with dying kids. The nurses I dealt with while my child was sick and later in hospice were invaluable to me. I don't know how I would have gotten by without them. Know that if you choose that route, there are many parents and children who would benefit from a caring, competent nurse.
I always say that I got by because if someone was going to walk my child to heaven it was going to be me, but without a support system to help me take care of my child along the way, I know they helped me, help her, in all the best ways.
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I plan to get my MSN. As I've found in my life, things don't always go the way we plan. I will take it one step at a time. I don't know what I'll specialize in.