Aariah

Thanks to the people that actually answered my question. I am sorry for the others I may have offended. I am not a child and feel like I am being judged as one. I am surprised that my question offended so many people. For those of you that take offense to the statement "nurses eat their young" several of you were just a prime example of that. Instead of ignoring the question you felt the need to educate me in how I was wrong. Well I wasn't wrong... "going all the way" for me would be Med school. Sorry that I assumed others might have thought about med school at some point. My mother is a medical assistant and she considered med school at one point, should I go educate her? I never assumed nursing was a lower form of anything. I apprciate the job nurses do and I understand that in most ways they work harder than doctors.

i don't think becoming a nurse is a waste of time, at this point i have only begun doing research on what med school is all about and what life as a doctor would be like. as far as being old at 30 goes, sorry to offend, in my life time i have watched all my grandparents and great aunts and uncles die before the age of 60 so, for me given my family history at 30 my life could be more than half over. it's a complex, i know. i hear it everyday. thanks for sharing some of your experiences

For me becoming a doctor would be going all the way in the medical field. I didn't mean to offend anyone. I was just asking if anyone got their RN and then decided they might want to go to med school. Nurses are greatly important and I would be happy spending the rest of my life being one, but I stood by watching my Grandma die as a child feeling helpless, and I don't want to be helpless in my career because my job title doesn't allow me to do certian things. I'm not really looking for a list of all the amazing things nurses do or what makes them great, you would be preaching to the chior.

in aug i will be starting the nursing program at my local college and will be graduating in 2012 ( long time) with my rn. recently i have started to consider entering med school in 2014 at the ripe old age of 30. i was wondering if anyone has considered this and what your reasons may have been for not doing it, other than financial. or is anyone doing something similar and could share their experience. also since most of you work in a hospital setting, what can you tell me about the doctors you work with? most of my experiences with doctors have not been good. that's one of my reasons for wanting to go all the way. i think if more nurses became doctors we might have happier hospitals. thanks for any help you might have. jennifer

i finally decided what i was going to be when i grow up at the ripe old age of 26. i have always wanted to be a nurse but decided that it would eat my life and all my free time. i finally sat down and did some research and realized that it is actually not nearly as bad as i thought it would be. so the other day i went to the library and got a prep book for the net, a little too early i'm sure, but i was excited. i did some of the test and found that my knowledge from h.s. bio is seriously lacking. i am enrolled in college now and even though the book has a review section with all kinds of information i am wondering if i would benefit from taking the college bio course? also i decided that i wanted to be a nurse too late and all the cna classes are full for the fall semester, so i will have to take normal classes... any thing you guys might recommend taking, something you wish you had taken? also do you guys think a bsn is worth it? sorry it's so long, i am getting a late start at this and have been going a million ways at once to prepare for my cna class and now i can't take it so i am kinda stalled. thanks soo much!