Hi, my name is Ryan. I had some questions about mainly two professions. Respiratory therapy and Nursing. I have my associate degree (AGS) with a emphasis in nursing at a community college here in Oregon. I received this back in 2012 and I ended up moving to California for a bit to go to a bible college for 2 years. That experience was a blast! After finishing there, I decided to pursue my original career in nursing, but I am now having a few worries about this as my career. I am totally undecided, but I do know I want to work in the medical field. I know a lot of people dissect each sentence on these forums and answers little issues but if you could look at my overall questions without judgement, that would be appreciated. I would love to here the truth though without general statements about the careers! Okay, so basically my worries are... I don't know about nursing because of the c diff, BM, cleaning poop. I know everyone says to get over it, But I have been in multiple settings with family members in the hospital and I DO NOT like that smell, and I can not imagine cleaning. From you opinion do you think that because of that, nursing is not going to be the career for me? From my understanding most, jobs want 1-2years of acute care. It seems that you are going to get cleaning poop in most hospital jobs right? I seem to have a bit of anxiety at times when I have had job in the past and I hear nursing is stressful, for the most part. I know I didn't mention RRT much, but that is kind of the two careers I am looking into right now. Any advice or warnings would be appreciated! Oh and btw it's January 2016 and applications for programs are over the next few months from now till around may (the latest) here on the west coast (Texas, Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona)
