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Thank you so much for your post! It's great to hear you were able to successfully transition from literature to nursing and it seems it was a great decision for you. I think all the advice you gave me is really helpful, important and I very much appreciate it. I do think I like science, and have tried to incorporate it in creative ways into my literature classes, although I do it more in a "history of science" fashion than in practice per se, but I find it fascinating and can't wait to learn more. Of course, all this will be more tangible once I start my pre-reqs and get to see how I do in chemistry and anatomy (yikes!). As for volunteering, you're absolutely right: I just started doing it at a hospital, it's not been too long but I have felt I've learned a lot from it and also found it very enjoyable. I have not really worked that close to nurses though, and after you mentioned it, I'm going to try to see if that would be a possibility because it would be great to have as much information as possible about what I would be getting myself into if I do undergo this career change. Thanks so much for sharing your experience. I'm so glad I joined this site, hearing from all of you has been really valuable and important to me. Best of luck with your applications! :)

Thank you all for your posts! It's great to get such encouraging responses! Recently I've gone through some moments where I've doubted if it will be possible to undertake such a drastic career change and reading your stories is certainly very inspiring to think that it can be done successfully. I'm already looking at the possibility of taking some of the pre-requisite courses during the summer at the community college in my county: so excited! Thanks again and best of luck with all your wonderful career projects :)

Hi! So I've been considering the possibility of going back to school to become a nurse midwife. However, my first career was in the humanities (I did my BA, MA and PhD in Literature) now I'm a teacher and would love to go into nursing! I've been looking up programs, and it seems to me that since I never took any of the sciences pre-requisites it will take as long to go through them and then enroll in an accelerated BSN program as it would to just go through the whole 4 years of a traditional BSN program. Is it too crazy to think about doing it all over again? Will it be more expensive to go this route? Any advice you might have would be much appreciated!