Can I be a nurse if I hate science?!

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I want a career where I can work in a hospital and help people. I thought of being a doctor, but I volunteered in a hospital and loved the nurses job more. I took all the requirements in highschool to potentially fulfill a nursing program, and hated every minute of it. I don't mind the material, it's just no matter how hard I study, I get low grades (65%). I took a different path in college, but I'm still thinking of what I'm missing in nursing. I recently looked at the courses students take in nursing programs, and was uninterested as soon as I seen Microbiology, chemistry..etc. What I'm asking is if the difficulty level of science is the same in nursing school? Should I switch from my program to an lpn program and work my way up to an RN? What do I do?!

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I don't know. That would sort of like being an accountant that doesn't like math. Nursing IS a science.

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You hate science? You will fit right in as a nurse. Do I agree with that? No. I would like to see nursing become closer with science. But the nursing profession wants to stay as far away from true science as possible. My coworkers always say how much they hate science and school...yet they are in FNP programs.

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If you like the hospital setting, how about social work.

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