Nursing right for me?

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Well im a highschool student at this point attending my senior year this September and i have been interested in this field of work for some time. Can anyone tell me what its like and what i can do to became a nurse... also which types of nurses are in high demand in southern california.

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can anyone shed some love on this topic? plz?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, educator.

Welcome to Allnurses! Glad to see someone in high school thinking about their future. Right now, if you read the boards, nothing is really in high demand anywhere. By the time you finish school, though, it will probably have changed. As far as what type of nursing? When you go to school, you'll do clinicals and you'll find something that you like there. Follow that, and you'll be happy. You may have to start in an area that you don't care for, but you can always work toward your goal! Good luck, study hard in math and sciences. Let us know how your senior year goes.

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ty for the advises i really appreciate it

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Specializes in Public health nursing.

I strongly recommend the Clinical Care Extender (CCE) Internship Program offered in a couple SoCal hospitals. The program allows pre-health students obtain direct patient care experience and provides a good idea of how working in a hospital setting is like.

http://copehealthsolutions.org/hwt/cce.html

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As somebody suggested, if you can do the internship program where pre health students are exposed to direct patient care experience, then do that, as that would be your best way of finding you if direct patient care is for you; if you can't do that, then volunteer at a hospital on a medical surgical nursing floor and pay attention as to what nurses do.

I had a cousin that thought of being a nurse and then through her high school, she was able to do some type of program that let her be a nursing assistant; after a month of that experience, she got to see what nurses did, and as she said, 'no way in hell i'm going to be a nurse.' Before that though, all she thought about was being a nurse.

So please get yourself in a hospital and look and watch what nurses do, and see if you can handle that. Better to do that, then go thru college and then find out in the middle of your nursing clinicals that nursing is not for you; in my nursing program we actually had about 5 people that dropped out because they didn't like it. Kind of wasted 1 year to find that out.

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Specializes in Acute Care Cardiac, Education, Prof Practice.
As somebody suggested, if you can do the internship program where pre health students are exposed to direct patient care experience, then do that, as that would be your best way of finding you if direct patient care is for you; if you can't do that, then volunteer at a hospital on a medical surgical nursing floor and pay attention as to what nurses do.

I had a cousin that thought of being a nurse and then through her high school, she was able to do some type of program that let her be a nursing assistant; after a month of that experience, she got to see what nurses did, and as she said, 'no way in hell i'm going to be a nurse.' Before that though, all she thought about was being a nurse.

So please get yourself in a hospital and look and watch what nurses do, and see if you can handle that. Better to do that, then go thru college and then find out in the middle of your nursing clinicals that nursing is not for you; in my nursing program we actually had about 5 people that dropped out because they didn't like it. Kind of wasted 1 year to find that out.

Wow she had that much of a culture shock? Wonder what her expectations were.

Tait

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