anothercareer

My Computer contract here in Warsaw Poland ended at the first of the year - my company is keeping me here until the end of March thinking that they can find me another international contract. They are paying me so i am staying until the end of March to see what can happen. It does not feel like i will be able to stay in this profession. When i get back to the states, i want to go to the local hospitals and talk to the HR department, head of Nursing, and some of the nurses that i have seen get awards in 2010. I also want to see if i can shadow some nurses in the departments that i think i would like to work in - both day and night shifts for at least two shifts each shift. I think that will give me some better ideas what i am getting into. I also want to talk to the local community college that offers a AA RN degree program. I need to learn just what percent of their grads are gettng jobs and where, is there a waiting list to get into the RN program. I still have a lot of research to do before i make any decisions. If i do decide to become a nurse -What i think would be best is to get hired as an CNA and work for the hospital that i would like to be an RN in. This would give me a better idea of what nursing is all about and i would learn the basics, and prove myself as a reliable employee. It would only get me into the hospital and would not guarantee me anything but i would be able to network and get a better idea of what the profession is all about. Being a CNA would not make me enough money to live on till i retire, but with my savings and the CNA money i could live for longer.

I am a guy who is currently really interested in becoming a Male Nurse as a second career - and would like to know what is the average retirement age of Male Nurese - I would think that it would be a little longer than that of Female nurses - but would really like to know what people in the nursing profession is seeing. I would be 54 when i enter college again and would have to take about a year of prerequisite courses before i could enter the 2 year RN Nursing program - that would put me around 57, or maybe 58 when i get out of the RN Nursing program. I am really interested in becoming a nurse for many reasons - but i have to justify the time and money spent with the number of years i could work. I like to work, and i think that i would like to until my late 60's or even until around 72. I need to know if it is going to be possible for me to work as a nurse at my age and as i get older - I am really interested in the Med/Surg, ICU, CCU departments. I think that these would be areas that i could contribute and challenged. Right now i am i great health - no problems. I am a United States citizen who is slim, walks over two miles a day, and have been working in the computer contracting profession for 12 years, working in the States, Canada and Europe. I would really like to get some experience at a hospital when i first get out of collage with my RN degree, but then travel around and be able to work in some of the more prestige's hospitals in the United States. Do you know if their is some sort of age limit that hospitals have for traveling nurses -