Potential new nurse

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Hello everyone, I am brand new and I am a college grad with a previous liberal arts degree and am interested in getting into nursing as I have discovered a big interested in healthcare and patient care.

I've received mixed reviews from others. Some have encouraged me and others have said to run from the field as fast as I can saying I'm better off to do an allied healthcare field such as radiographer, respiratory or speech language pathology because they don't have as much abuse.

I just wanted to get your insights since you are all in the profession and would know best

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

SLP-there may be a glut of those. I have a friend that is having a hard time finding a job-it is wide open form either a clinical or working for a school system.

Resp- gotta love snot (shudder) and resp distress is scary to me.

Radiology-I would do it now after having kids. Nuclear medicine is another field-MRI tech

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

All of the allied health fields are fine. I have kids who are studying OT and RT at the moment. But for me, nursing offered the most variety and opportunity.

Is it difficult? Yes. Is it sometimes maddening? Yes. are nurses sometimes treated poorly by both their employers AND their patients? Yes.

I would still choose nursing.

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