I was just curious as to what other careers you thought about prior to nursing school, and what it was that made you decide nursing instead of that job?
Where you a second career person who switched? Or were you somebody who switched their majors? Someone who contemplated between nursing and another job? Or someone who always knew they wanted to be a nurse?
I myself highly considered being a special education teacher. I loved that environment and really found working with kids with disabilities to be highly rewarding. I found myself always wondering about the physiology of their problems though, and had always had an interest in science/how the body works. Really, though, for me, I saw that until a person was medically stable...nothing else mattered. No rehabilitative goals, no educational goals, nothing can be addressed until a person is medically stable so I wanted to be part of the team that helps get a person medically better, so that.... a person can focus on.....their lives.
Also, another big reason for deciding about nursing versus teaching, is that I wanted to be done with my job once I came home. I wanted to give it my all at work, and then come home and be able to have a personal life and focus on my family, friends, and other things. I feel like with teaching....a lot of times, atleast with the good teachers, teaching becomes the majority of their lives. I don't want a job that became my life...I wanted a job that would work with my life.
So, I decided that I wanted to become a nurse and work with kids with disabilities!
