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Hello, I hope everyone's doing good! So im currently in my last year of school and hoping to do nursing in college next September and im wondering what the best options for work experience are? I just want to expose myself to as much as I can! ive done work experience in a nursing home and loved it but I didn't do much hands on stuff as I was only a volunteer. I got to observe some nurses and assistant nurses and just chat to the residents and play games with them so I'm not sure this is good enough experience? an obvious option is to volunteer in a hospital but I have to wait until I'm 18 so I won't be able to do that until January (2018) and the website says that my duties would be to show patients around the hospital to where they need to go and just to make them feel a bit better. i enjoyed chatting to the nursing residents and comforting them so I think I'd enjoy it. this is very rambly and long but my question is are these good volunteer jobs to give me an idea of nursing? if not has anyone got recommendations/what you did for experience before embarking on your nursing career? thanks in advance!

Thank you for your comment! So you don't think I should pursue nursing?

hi anyone reading, hope you're having a nice day! my problem is that I'd like to be a nurse only I don't know if I'm made out for it? my mother always thought I'd be a good nurse (probably cause when I was a child I'd take care of my siblings when they were sick or hurt etc) until I started getting freaked out over blood! I can handle blood like cuts and nose bleeds but I don't like when it's gushing out fast and heavy like in the movies so I don't know if that's a problem?? other than that she thinks I'd be good at looking after people and that I'd be patient with people. would I get over my little blood issue or would it be a problem? also, I'm not sure if I could do the cleaning up faeces and vomit cause of the smells. would I get over this or is it a problem too? I love the idea of having a job where I get to help people and I even considered becoming a psychotherapist but I realised I don't want a job where I'm kinda in a chair all day, I want to be more hands on and meet new people all the time so nursing seemed better ? I also love hospitals if that helps haha academically, i love biology! I do biology in school and I've been getting As and Bs in the tests so far (hopefully I can keep it up!!) I also enjoy maths, home economics and English. I'm doing 7 subjects and my results vary quite a lot from As and Bs in science and maths to Cs and Ds in languages..do I need to be super smart for nursing? btw I'm Irish so sorry if the school stuff doesn't go with American grades and things! I think I can get the points for Irish colleges but I'm not super brainy so I hope that's not an issue