What's harder, nursing school or the education program to be a teacher?

[Infofreak411]

This is for any of those former teacher outlet there that have since become nurses!

I currently have a degree in secondary education and after a long time of pondering, would really would like to pursue my dream of become long a nurse.

The only thing is I keep holding myself back because everyone says how next to impossible hard the schooling is and the high failure rate. It is very discouraging!

But then I think back to my program to become a certified teacher and that was no walk through the park either! The workload was insane. You had to maintain a B average in every class and if you get below a B in just one class you would fail the whole program. In the end only about 60 percent of people passed and became teachers.

So I keep thinking we'll if I made it through teaching school maybe I can make it through nursing school.

Any former teachers out there want to chime in please!

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

Former teacher with secondary education degree.

Nursing school was MUCH more difficult. Just my experience. On the other hand, I have found nursing to be a much more fulfilling career.

[madame_morphine]

I started out in education. Decided I couldn't deal with 30 screaming kids and got into nursing instead. Nursing was much harder. In education, it was a more general, well rounded knowledge. In nursing, it's every body system, how it functions, what happens when it doesn't function, and how to fix it. Nursing is much more in depth. I wouldn't say it's hard, per se, but it's time consuming and you have to know what you're doing. The grading scales are strict, and as much as I complained about it, if I'm in the hospital I don't want my nurse drawing up my Ativan in an insulin needle or failing the same class 5 times, etc. Not saying that to be rude, but I've seen nurses who just have no idea what they are doing. It's a hard career. It will stress you out beyond what you ever imagined some days. It will take its toll on your body, too. It is also a very rewarding career. When you go home at the end of the day, you know you did something for somebody.

[applewhitern, BSN, RN]

My best friend went to college to be a teacher at the same time I was in school to be a nurse. I couldn't believe her microbiology and Anatomy/Physiology classes had no labs! And she could make a poor grade and pass! And she didn't even have to take any kind of test after graduation in order to teach. State exams weren't required during that time because there were complaints of the tests not being fair to minorities. (One would think that labs would be important for an educator, someone who will be teaching students.