do you have a previous degree?

Your point is extremely salient. The BA/BS degree has unofficially become the new high school diploma, and the graduate degree has come to symbolize what a baccalaureate degree once meant in society.

Unless of course your in a very vocational specific field like nursing where a bachelors is enough and an advanced degree is only necessary if you want to practice advanced skills

Wow you are so well rounded! Lol, so what made you decide to get into nursing from teaching and decide to leave that profession? Which career from your experience would you say is more stress full and draining?

I was a teacher in NC-they didn't keep any non-tenured Masters teachers. Nursing seemed a good fit after working for a vet and being pre-vet. Teaching was more stressful and draining.

I was a teacher in NC-they didn't keep any non-tenured Masters teachers. Nursing seemed a good fit after working for a vet and being pre-vet. Teaching was more stressful and draining.

What in your opinion was more stressful about teaching than nursing?

Hospitality management for me. I worked in hotels for 10 years before I became a nurse.

Oh wow, very interesting. And in what aspect do you find nursing harder and/or more stressful than teaching? I've heard many former teacher say the opposite that they found nursing less stressful because their work doesn't come home with them.

And what are the types of things wrong with all the nursing program? what goes on that doesn't exist in other programs and makes them so difficult? Is it more so the work or the way its structured?

It's true that most teachers still do a lot at home since the 1 prep period per day isn't enough to check all the papers/tests and record the grades, call the parents, do the lesson plans, create the bulletin boards, plan the field trips, the list goes on and on.

Nursing school work is hard and that's ok. Look around on here for the many posts from students and RN's sharing their stories and you'll find some common themes that if you look on other industry-specific forums do not exist. There are a lot of reasons why I think some of it occurs but this site isn't a good venue to discuss it for the same reasons that they go on in nursing schools. If you look around here for even a short period, you'll understand why AN isn't a good venue for that kind of discussion.