ShouldIBeNurse

I'm a mid-life career changer from engineering. And I have ADHD. For the past few years, I've been bouncing around in various degree programs in another health care field and then back to something related to the job field I'd been doing previously....

I wasn't planning on being a CNA as a long term profession, only as a stepping stone to becoming an RN. I'm giving nursing school a lot of thought.

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I can say there are plenty of other degree programs. where there is a 7 year limitation to courses. Really pissed me off when I went back to school after 15 years because I wanted to refresh my skills, and had to retake (at $4000 a class) things that...

I've been bouncing around partly because I didn't take a good look at the programs before starting on most of the programs I've been in. Either not looking at the program, or not looking at how well they would prepare me for a profession or both. So...

That also didn't come out quite right but can't edit it, and not sure what refinement would make it right. I'm trying to make comparisons between two professions when you don't know exactly what I mean and I don't know exactly what you guys mean. So ...

I did not think nursing was easy. I did not think nursing school was easy. I was trying to figure out if it was something I could do if I took good care of myself mentally and tried to achieve some balance. And I've been the friend of a nurse workin...

I've thought about working as a CNA, but it's a matter of finding a CNA school at the right time that they still have openings for the next class. And I'm wary about going into a for-profit nursing or CNA school. Documenting what I've done, making n...

I'm trying to find some sort of job where I a) get to use mostly logical/scientific/non-subjective skills b) get to interact with human beings a good bit of the time, not always in a combative way and c) feel like I'm making a positive contribution t...