Cloudydayz

Hi everyone! If anyone here was a teacher ( I taught 2nd grade) and switched to nursing, I am dying to know the differences between the two careers that you have noticed. Obviously they are completely different professions but I want to know that I am going towards the right path by gathering more information. I am a compassionate and nurturing person by nature and feel I could utilize this part of myself more in a nursing role. As a teacher I felt I had to be very mean, stern and a disciplinarian to get the students to work and know the boundaries. I am also a one on one type of person, although I like "performing" for the students in my classes I often times get tired of being "on" every second of the day. If I could teach patients or their families I would be more comfortable in that role. I am no stranger to stress and having incrediable high expectations of myself and my work. Also, I felt VERY isolated as a teacher...meaning I would go to work, spend the entire day with the kids and then come home and grade/lesson plan for several more hours. I would kill to have a few mins. to chat with another adult at work without the impending doom that I have to pick my kids up from specials and get all the materials ready to teach. Also, it would be a dream if my time off was actually mine...what a concept! So if you taught before and now are a nurse please tell you your expereince and how it is better or worse! I would appreciate it.

Hi everyone! I have my M.A. in elementary education and taught for a few years in a public elementary school. I knew I had a heart for kids, have a compassionate personality and so I went into teaching. The moment I started student teaching before I even became a teacher I had doubts. But I kept at it and after 3 years I have decided to change careers. I was so depressed that teaching did not work out for me and I wracked my brain to decide what I wanted to do and after a lot of prayer and research, I have decided on nursing. I don't know why I didn't go this route before! Actually I do, I didn't feel I was smart enough to go into the medical field because math and science took much more effort for me to learn rather than the more social sciences. So here I am. My plan is to get CNA certified and start working to gain expereince while going to school. I am planning to apply for an Accel. BSN at a local University. I need to take like 6 prerequites and I am planning on taking them at the local community college here. However, since both my B.A. and M.A. are more in the social sciences/ele ed. I am finding that I am having to take all of these classes to even qualify to take the prerequites that I need for the AccBSN. For ex: I need to take Microbiology but to take that the community college is saying I need a full year in chemistry and a full year in biology before I can even take this class. I didn't take that in both my B.A. or my M.A. So I guess I am just wanting to know if this is normal? I feel like by the time I take all the classes that qualify me to even take the 6 prerequites that 2+ years will go by!