Tpowers7

Yeah I'm currently volunteering in the trauma resuscitation unit at shock trauma and it's been such a great experience so far. I know I want to ultimately get my nursing license but I'm just not sure if I want to become a paramedic first

I too am sort of in the same boat! Minus the whole family ordeal. I would look into the CNA program that the Red Cross offers. It costs around 1200 total, but you will be finished the classroom portion in 3 weeks or so and the clinical is only a week after that. You will be CNA certified and this means you can work as a patient care tech in a hospital (a job a lot of pre nursing students take to gain some healthcare experience) or you can work as a hospice aid or in a nursing home if that is your thing. Hope this helps

Hi all, I am a 20 year old community college student and I am currently volunteering at Shock Trauma (TRU specifically) and taking my basic prerequisites for either local nursing programs or paramedic programs. My ultimate goal is to work at trauma as an RN, but lately I just feel like I've been spinning wheels and wasting my time stuck in school (this is my third year at community college) when I really just want to start my career and get the ball rolling.I am currently taking an EMT course at my community college and I have begun to consider becoming a paramedic first. Once I finish my EMT, I will be eligible to apply to the TRU as a Patient Care Tech, which is somewhere I would love to work and gain experience while I go to school. My community college has just started a new paramedic program that is one night a week, with clinicals on "the occasional Saturday" as my EMT instructor put it. He said this program is designed for working students, which seems like it would be a good fit if I could land this tech job. EMS has always been something that has interested me, and I feel like being a paramedic would not only be an awesome job, but while working as a paramedic for a few years I could gain very valuable knowledge and experience that I could use later down the road as an RN. My thread is directed towards anyone who is currently an RN who started out as a paramedic, or any paramedics out there really. What was the process like going from paramedic to RN school? Was it difficult going to school while working the crazy hours that paramedics do? And for those current paramedics who thought about nursing, do you regret not going to nursing school? Keep in mind my ultimate goal is to get my BSN, so I would do a paramedic-ADN bridge, and then a RN-BSN bridge possibly. Thank you to anyone in advance for taking the time to answer my questions and provide input and I look forward to hearing from you guys!