Why did you choose to become a Nurse?

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I am an aspiring nurse and I am looking to become a Nurse because the profession seems to really fit me unlike the others. I originally planned on becoming a surgeon, but couldn't stand the fact of going to school for 14 years and ending up in half a million in debt. Also, I'm pretty sure i wanted to become a surgeon only for the money. So here i am, saving myself from 14 years of misery and deciding i want to be a Nurse. Nursing seems like a job i would genuinely enjoy doing on a daily basis. Surgery on the other hand, not so much. Nursing will allow me to have hands on care with my patients, work in different departments, and give me enough freedom to where i would feel my career isn't "Taking over my life" so to speak. So, why did you become a nurse?

Not a nurse yet, but my choice to become a nurse just kind of happened. I was originally against it, because I wasn't sure how I'd do around bodily fluids. In a desperation to get a job after moving from Texas to Indiana, I got a job working as a DSP working with the special needs population doing residential and community rehabilitation. A lot of my duties were similar to that of a CNA or a HHA, but with a broader scope that involved time in the community. I got comfortable with passing medication, taking daily vitals, giving showers, and assisting with personal care in general. Kind of gave me a taste of working in the medical community, so I continued with it for a few years before getting burnt out due to poverty level wages and the insane hours. I wouldn't have minded the insane hours if the pay were better, plus I had met my current significant other and he had children which changed my lifestyle COMPLETELY. I suddenly needed more and I was good at what I did and my boyfriend suggested nursing. His aunt who is a nurse told me I should be a nurse. So here I am... working on getting into nursing school. I kind of unintentionally fell in love with the medical industry. I now work as a PCT in a clinic and I work around FNPs all the time and it just furthers my ambition.

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This is a serious fallacy. You live and breathe nursing in nursing school -- it becomes indelibly etched into who you are as a person. It takes over your life. The job aspect of it shouldn't but when you really embrace nursing, a nurse is who you are. You can't help yourself after a certain point. There are many threads on here (one very recently) about how pervasive nursing is when you're off the clock and many memes making light of that fact as well.

You have a lot of sheltered thinking about things.

Others would beg to differ. They are able to keep there work life at work, and there personal life aside. All you seem to do is go through all my posts, and point out my flaws when i am CLEARLY trying to learn more. Very immature.

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Others would beg to differ. They are able to keep there work life at work, and there personal life aside. All you seem to do is go through all my posts, and point out my flaws when i am CLEARLY trying to learn more. Very immature.

Well, your posts are riddled with fallacies (also, you come off as terribly obnoxious from your high horse since you, a person with neurosurgeon-level talent, are going into nursing so you can "have a life"). You wanted guidance so there you go. And having nursing be a part of who you are does not mean you are unable to separate your work life from your home life. Again, another fallacy based on stereotypical, sheltered thinking.

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

I was studying music in college. Like Kitiger I was in several ensembles. My only jobs in high school were being a church organist (I was actually on staff at a church that wasn't my own--I wasn't just some kid who played in her own church) and freelancing for weddings and funerals. I'm an operatic soprano and hadn't 100% made up my mind between singing professionally and getting a PhD in musicology and teaching music history, but I'd been admitted for vocal.

A year and a half into college, most of the joy had been sucked out of it for me. I couldn't pursue a career in music knowing that competition is so fierce, and not even having the passion I once did.

Meanwhile I'd taken a CNA class my senior year of high school. It was offered as an elective where an RN taught us and other area schools remotely. It was free as it was through public school, and I liked the idea of having a regular job during my breaks from college which did NOT pay minimum wage or involve hot oil and a scratchy uniform.

I went to work that first summer after graduating and just picked up shifts when I was home from school. I loved it!! Absolutely loved it. So when I was needing a change, I decided to go the nursing route.

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Specializes in Med-Tele; ED; ICU.

I'm a refugee from the world of high-tech where you're only as good as your last patent, your specialized skill, your energy level, your under-budget/ahead-of-schedule project, your attained cost-savings, and\or the next contract.

I went into nursing to have a secure, stable, and well-paying job.

My only regret is that I didn't do it 20 years sooner than I did.

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