Nursing Career Help!

[melissaufgator]

To all nurses,

I am currently a nursing major and I want to pursue a minor. Is this a risky thing to do? The minor that I am deeply interested in is called "International Development and Humanitarian Assistance." I want to be an international nurse-more of a missionary minus the religious ties. Will time allow me to take on this minor. It is 15 credits. Thank You!

-Melissa

[llg, PhD, RN]

Why would it be risky? As long as you don't take on more work than you can handle (which would be true whether you minored in something specific or not), I don't see that any risk would be involved.

If doing the minor means that you would have to invest too much time to do a good job on your nursing courses -- then that would be stupid. You would be sabataging your success in your primary career. Do a little homework on the program requirements and find out the workload. If it's too much for you handle, then consider slowing down your education a little. Either slow down your nursing progress and graduate with both the nursing major and the minor together -- or complete the nursing degree first and get a job while you take the last class or two of the minor.

It all comes down to how much time/effort it will require -- and whether you have the ability to invest that much time and effort. No one here can tell you that.

But personally, I like the idea of the minor. And if that's the kind of work you want to do, then it sounds like it would be worth investigating and may be worth spending an extra semester for.