i believe, nursing is the most "in demand" course now a days.... what do you think of doctors going into nursing?
2006-06-21 21:52:48 · 21 answers · asked by doc2be 2 in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
From your moniker, I'm guessing that you are premed and getting a little worried about the options. Assuming you've had the basic coursework, A&P, biology, chemisty, biochemistry, etc, you can get into either one. Nursing is definitely easier to get into than medical school. You can be out and earning money in about 2 years, though it you decide to wander on into being a practicioner, a nurse first assistant (to a surgeon), or another specialty, then you are going to earn a bit more (ok, sometimes a huge bit more).
If you decide to be a doctor and are lucky enough to get in, then you'll take about 3 years to go through school, then you have residency, and probably a little extra training. Oh, yes. and tuition bills out the wazoo.
Doctors tend to earn more, but have less stress than nurses. They have a different level of responsibility.
Nurses have to go under the guidance of a doctor. A nurse practitioner can write a prescription, but the doctor has to review it or sign off on it. Nurses need to work to orders. Doctors write the orders.
Doctors are one of two medical positions which are permitted to prescribe drugs without getting authorization. Nurses are not.
Follow your heart, and your luck. Some people in nursing absolutely love it. Others hate it or grow to hate it. . Some doctors love what they do, others don't.
2006-07-03 16:12:53 · answer #1 · answered by drslowpoke 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmm... that would be very strange indeed, a doctor can make more than 20 times as much as a nurse, has greater freedom and responsibility and has more opportunities... e.g. become a surgeon, research etc. Both careers are very much in demand.
Also it takes more than 10 years to become a doctor.. it would be an enormous waste of training and money!
If a doctor becomes a nurse is because he or she cannot get State registration and has no other option.
2006-07-03 05:41:38 · answer #2 · answered by MrSandman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know of any doctors who have changed careers to become nurses. My two sons have about a dozen doctors between them, counting pediatricians and specialists. That brings me into contact with many doctors, nurses, physician's assistants, and nurse practitioners, along with medical technicians, LVNs, CNAs, and other related personnel.
I would choose nursing. As it is, I've become so well educated in the medical needs of my sons that I have been mistaken for a R.N. by the on-staff doctors in the Emergency Room. Of course I'm only qualified to take care of my own children, and I don't even have a fraction of the training that R.N.s do. For example, when it comes to putting an I.V. in, I have to leave the room. The sight of somebody sticking a needle into my baby makes me freak out. I would assume that the training one gets in the course of getting a nursing license helps you overcome that kind of sensitivity. I believe I'd want to be a pediatric nurse. It's a hard and messy job, but it would be so wonderful to be the person who can help poor, hurt, frightened little kids feel better.
I have great respect for doctors, but I really love nurses. So many of them have done so much for my sons, teaching me how to be a good caregiver and to watch for the signs that help me head off illness and injury for my kids. Nurses rock!
2006-06-22 20:14:49 · answer #3 · answered by Scribe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why would a doctor go into nursing? those are two very different professions, and once someone has gone through the training of being a doctor, they are over-qualified to be a nurse.
there are different stressors and rewards to each profession.
I'm a nurse and i'm glad because I get to know patients very well, I don't have to work so many hours, and I have more freedom to have a personal/social life. of course, i don't make that much money, but you win some, you lose some.
2006-06-21 22:36:38 · answer #4 · answered by phoenixNOLA 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
being a nurse is in demand nowadays to take care of the oldies and the disabled. Doctors do think of going into nursing because nurses' salaries are higher that the doctors.
2006-07-05 00:36:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Why would they take a step down. I know that nurses work very hard, but doctors make a lot more money.
2006-06-21 21:56:18 · answer #6 · answered by Marilyn Monroe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would b a doctor and do a nurse
2006-06-21 21:55:58 · answer #7 · answered by Leon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DANG!
When I saw this question, I couldn't believe it. Are you just a...toying with us? I mean, I'm assuming you've got a little common sense, don't cha? Listen here...if YOU were already a doctor making the bucks...now, think about it...do you honestly think you would quit your career and become an overworked, bustin'-your-butt-for-way-less-pay NURSE???!!!!!! I'm not knocking the nursing career either...I'm saying...IF YOU WERE ALREADY A DOCTOR MAKING THE BUCKS...
2006-07-05 12:12:09 · answer #8 · answered by alicejohngib 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You could be a nurse practicioner. There are a few programs that are 3-4 years and they even allow you to write prescriptions, see patients etc ( a doc must sign off on everything you do) check it out :)
2006-06-30 14:45:34 · answer #9 · answered by eddie9551 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not a doctor or a nurse.
2006-07-01 18:41:36 · answer #10 · answered by cafe_blue_note 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋