kelmc0824

I appreciate your responses so much! My original goal was to go straight to get my Masters after graduating with my BSN. Obviously that hasn't happened yet and a big part of it is due to a beautiful 9 month old daughter who kinda brought those plans to a halt when God surprisingly blessed us with her right after I graduated as an RN. :) I will take more time researching specialties and sincerely appreciate ya'lls advice. I know I want to further my nursing career in some way, I just needed some reassurance that others have felt the same way and have been satisfied with the choice of NP. Thanks!!

Hello everyone, I hope I am posting this in the right forum. I have been an RN, BSN for a little over a year now. Started out in L&D, which was too overwhelming for me and now work part-time in the women's health and pediatrics unit. The reason I became a nurse in the first place was to become a nurse practitioner and that has always been my goal. I'd like to pursue a FNP with a strong focus in women's health such as what is offered at Frontier. But now that I have been nursing a little while, I have many doubts as to whether nursing is really what I want to do. Well, bedside nursing more specifically. And it's not really my job, I love the new mothers and kiddos..I just don't like the night shift and being away from my family and all the drama of working at a hospital. But I don't want to spend the time and money going to NP school if I'm going to hate it when I finish. Sometimes I think I should just use my BSN to find some other type of nursing career and leave it at that. I'm genuinely at a cross-roads with how to proceed and really hope some of you experienced NPs can help me out with my decision. What made you decide to become a NP? Do you love your job as a NP? Was it worth it to you to continue from being an RN and go on to be a NP? Is the burn out as high for NPs as RNs? Would you do it over again? I'm sure you get similar questions like this all the time but I sincerely appreciate all responses.