Too much??

[Mandy0728]

I start my BSN program in a few weeks, and I've been thinking a lot about how badly I want to be a critical care nurse after graduation, or at least in the future. My last semester of NS consists of parent-child nursing, gerontology, a competency course, and community health nursing. It totals 15 credits. We have nursing electives at our school and really want to add critical care nursing (4 credits plus 90 clinical hours) to this schedule. Does it seem possible? I really feel like it'll help me, but I just don't want to overload my brain, especially that close to graduation. I should add that I do have a 7 year old (shared custody so I have him half the week & every other weekend) plus I don't work. Advice?

[maddiem]

Since you haven't even started nursing school yet, I would maybe wait to make that decision when you get closer to it. You will experience a variety of clinical settings during your time in nursing school so you're mind may change. I had a friend who was dead-set on being a L&D nurse before she did her L&D rotation and she ended up hating it...lol. Not saying that you won't like intensive care but it just goes to show that people change their minds after experiencing something. Just take it as it comes and cross that bridge when you get to it :)

[PurpleLover]

Nursing elective, this is my first time hearing of it! It sounds so cool.

[Mandy0728]

Since you haven't even started nursing school yet I would maybe wait to make that decision when you get closer to it. You will experience a variety of clinical settings during your time in nursing school so you're mind may change. I had a friend who was dead-set on being a L&D nurse before she did her L&D rotation and she ended up hating it...lol. Not saying that you won't like intensive care but it just goes to show that people change their minds after experiencing something. Just take it as it comes and cross that bridge when you get to it :)[/quote']

I agree, thanks for the advice. That's very true, my mind could potentially change within the next 2 years. There's other electives too. Most of them we can't take until our last semester because they all require the first 3 semester nursing classes as pre-reqs.