Nursing vs Podiatry

[podnur]

Hi guys

I really need your advise

I've been accepted to both accelerated nursing and podiatry schools, but I can't make a decision on wether I should go to nursing or podiatry. I have shadowed both professions hence I understand that both of the fields have pros and cons.

Pros and Cons of Podiatry:

+ Being a doctor

+ doing surgeries

+ perspective of openning own practices

- 4 years of school + 3 years of residensy

- being at the same salary range as NP and CRna

Pros and Cons of Nursing

+ 15 month for BSN + 2 years for NP

+ Variety of jobs

+ Easier to find a job

- Not being able to help without doctors' supervision

- hard and "dirty"(please no offence)

Please help me

Maybe I am missing something and you can point some other cons and pros for the fields

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

I would suggest you read around this board at all the new grads who can't find jobs if you think it's easy to find a job in nursing.

I'm also not sure what you mean by this: "Not being able to help without doctors' supervision." I am not, nor have I ever been, "supervised by doctors" in my role as an RN.

[BostonFNP, APRN]

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