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Thank you guys for your response and feedback! Nursing has really just always been something that interested me, but I don't think it's becasue of the pay or anything like that. I really want to do something with my life that involves bringing some type of people help into peoples' lives and I cannot imagine myself working a desk job that has no excitement or variety. I love that with nursing there is always going to be something new to do each day and I'll be constantly learning. I do have some experience shadowing a nurse at a pediatrics clinic when I was a senior in high school for a required internship to graduate, but I never thought to count that as patient experience. During this internship, I saw a little glimpse into what a peds nurse does and since then nursing has just never gotten on out of my mind. I think my biggest probelm is that I am such a over-thinking and worrier, which causes me to constantly question and doubt myself about the life/career choices that I'm making. I know that I am smart enough to be a nurse and I do have the compassion to work with people, but I think I just need a confidence boost. Also, I'm gonna look into more opportunities to shadow nurses just to get the real jiff of what it takes. Thank you again for the response :)

Hey everyone! So, I have been reading this wonderful forum for the last few months since I plan on applying to Nursing school for Fall 2019 and I just needed a little more insight. Nursing has always been something that I felt like I wanted to do, so I pursued it when I first started college in 2014, right after high school. However, I was still very immature and did not take college that serious, which caused me to switch to psychology since I felt it was much easier to get a degree in. But I ended up getting married and moving across the US, which caused me to change schools and to change my major to Healthcare Administration, which I still have a whole year of till I can get my first Bachelors. But I know that Healthcare Administration is not something that I can see myself doing as a career and nursing just popped back into my mind a few months ago (and I can't seem to get it out), so I have decided to stop doing my BA in Healthcare Administration and to finish my pre-reqs (which I have done majority of in my first two years of college and only need to come complete A&P1), and to apply for Nursing school. But I still have a lot of questions that need some answers... 1. Can I be shy and not very much of a confident person to be a good nurse? 2. Does the anxiety of having a person's life in your hands ever go away or at least lessen? 3. Is it ok to go into nursing without any direct patient care experience? (I have some non-clinical healthcare experience, such as currently working in medical records or volunteering to help in the admin of hospitals) 4. Does nursing school teach you everything? Or will there be times that I'll have to fend for myself? (I am so afraid of just being thrown into a situation that I have no die what to do in) 5. Has anyone ever completely changed their college major/degree right before graduating due to wanting to do nursing instead? (I just feel like I have wasted so much money and time, but I also know that my current major is not something that I want to do with the rest of my life) P.S. Sorry for such a long post. I'm a bad rambler :)