Survey: How old were you when you entered the nursing profession?

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I decided what I wanted to be when I was 30.... Started in nursing at the age of 34..... My missed spent youth was spent being a wife and mother..... We had a child with a disability and she was my focus of my future to go into a profession to help others as we have been helped over the years.... Haven't doubted my self ( much) over the years.... I love what I do....

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Specializes in correctional, psych, ICU, CCU, ER.

Started nursing school at the tender age of 17, graduated at 20. Wouldn't trade it for the world--well, unless I won the lottery.

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I was 18 3/4 years old. I graduated high school in May of 1983 and started my nursing in January of 1984. I graduated nursing in February of 1985.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I was another one of those late bloomers. Didn't figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up until I'd BEEN grown up for a lot of years. I was 38 when I graduated, am almost 44 now, and I'm glad I waited until relatively late in life to do this. Life experience is a bonus in this profession. It did make school unnecessarily difficult---the instructors all thought I knew more than I actually did because I was so much older than most of the class---but I've never regretted waiting so long to become a nurse. The most flattering thing anyone can say to me is, "You must have been a nurse for a long time," when I've only got a little over 5 years' nursing experience under my belt so far.

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Started out as a CNA @ 15 and a EMT-Basic at 16 and then nursing school at 22 then EMT-Cardiac Tech 25 and loving it till today.

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I was 28.

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I was 18 when I started as an LPN in 1972. Obtained my AAS in nursing in 1979. Things sure were different then!!

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Graduated at 49 from an ADN program. Lots of over 40 folks in the Nursing classes at this school. Heard of one woman who graduated about 10 years before me who was 62!! She was still working, doing private duty. If you want to do it, do it!!

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At 39, I graduated LPN schooling. Will finish ASN at 41, and BSN, whenever I decide to go back.... :)

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Specializes in Med-surg; OB/Well baby; pulmonology; RTS.

I was 20 yrs old when I graduated with my ADN.:p

I started working a couple of months after and never looked back!

I turned 21 4 months after graduation, then got married 2 months later!!!

:blushkiss

It made an INTERESTING year!!!:eek: :rotfl:

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Started out as Nurse Aide in 1975 and became RN in 1983. So 27 or 19 years - depending on where you are on that thread about should they call themselves nurses.

I was in the Future Nurses' Club during HS, also. On yearbook picture day we all had to wear these stupid white, paper hats.That was embarrassing.

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Sorry- How OLD. 21 or 29. Again, depends on where you are on the above mentioned thread.

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