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I am starting prereqs for accelerated BSN. My beautiful and brilliant wife will be starting med school in the fall. Does anyone have any experience with this situation? I personally feel like nursing is a cool way to support her through much of med s...

[color=darkslategray]dear kbok, i was wondering if you could explain more about how you worked it in residency. the basic point of our scheme is to have someone who is not going crazy to cook, keep house, and deal with kids in residency. i am not so ...

Thanks very much, that is encouraging to hear.

i cannot believe i am the first one to ever try this idea. the truth is that i would never have even thought of nursing, except that the wife volunteers in the hospital and she had great stories about the cool er nurses and the patient care there. h...

Thanks for the vote of confidence. It is nice, but thats because I like my wife, not because she is going to MD.

well right now we are of very similar socioeconomic background. But she wants to go into doctoring. We have been married a while already. So technically, no.

actually i do not see it as a dichotomy so much as the problem of healthcare right now, and the challenge that is driving me to switch to nursing.

I am finishing up a Master's and considering a move to BSN programs. I have gotten good advice on this forum telling me I need to learn more about what nurses do and I am working on talking to lots of them and shadowing/volunteering. Some people also...

I am considering doing an accelerated BSN with several degrees in humanities and other related fields. If it is not too much trouble, I would like to meet people who have gone down similar paths, especially with MAs and other advanced degrees. I woul...

Do you not like the font? I am confused as to the issue.

As someone finishing their MA in philosophy I would totally encourage you to take those classes if you can. Digressing from the MA--BSN question at hand, I have no question that my pursuit of this discipline has added immeasurably to every aspect of ...

Thank you. I agree that tonality is really important and something to really work on. Thanks for the continual insights. I think in the past few days I have gotten a lot of reassurance about this path, and am beginning to see myself going down it.

I apologize profusely for what may have been a poor choice of words. What I meant was that in any profession I would consider, I want to be stimulated and challenged. Many of the commenters have given examples that this is the case in nursing. (In te...

Thanks for the reply. I understand that it is not the same thing. I could stay where I am and do what I am doing if I wanted to keep doing that. However, I am considering not doing that. This does not mean asking nursing to do something that it does ...

I meant that my long term satisfaction would be dependent on being able to utilize my critical thinking and creative impulses. And I want to make sure that whatever I consider doing allows latitude for that. Thus, I was happy to hear that there are m...

Thanks for these great examples. I am really worried about ratcheting down the level of intellectual life I am used to, and could see this causing more problems than anything else. So it is really useful to see what is out there.

Thanks for the informative and warm response. I was wondering if you could tell me what you mean by this last part?

I do not want to be impertinent or ungrateful to those people who are sharing. Rather I am observing that these experiences are just not really connecting for me. I think the motivation thing is one aspect, and I think I have reasons to want to do it...

So from this thread I get playing with dolls or mom was a nurse. I do not think that either apply to me, unless the doll memory is repressed deep deep down in my psyche. Does anyone have ideas about what I can do to find out more about if this is for...

Hello. I am in the middle of an MA in philosophy and always thought I would move on to PhD. Seeing the poor state of the job market, the constant posturing among my peers and the low odds of actually reshaping the discussion in my field, I began to c...

Thanks to everyone for their insights. There is a lot to think about on this thread. I really appreciated the idea that I think this is what I really look forward to in the profession. I also will take to heart the ideas about shadowing and volu...

Thanks for all the advice. What seems most daunting to me is that here in NY you might need to wait even to take prereqs. I wonder also if APN has a major differential from BSN in terms of intellectual stimulation. The difference in salary might matt...

That seems like a lot of school for someone who has been in school for seven years already! Maybe I should just consider BSN and not MSN. Certainly a lot to think about. Thanks very much.

Thanks for all your advice. How did you know you were interested though? Like now I have vague notions of helping patients, doing something more real, less abstract, helping other nurses and doctors as satisfying ends. But how do I move from these so...

I think I would want to enter with the MSN because I would prefer to end up in some APN type of thing. Thanks for the advice