Want to ask any nurses if it is a job to consider?

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Looking what to do when I finish college.I am good at biology and chemistry and hope to pass in both but am not sure if this would be a waste in nursing Is it a good job to have

On reading this (should have looked at preview better) I realise that its sound rude to nurses this wasn't my intension.I meant would these subjects be useful.I apologize to any nurse who thinks I was being condescending

Thanks USDR didn;t mean to use the word waste but can't edit it once it's submited.It is just depending on my grades I am not sure were my leanings are but it does look kinda interesting but the pay is so poor

Answer 4 don;understand no nursing course

Answer 1

Lily,

All RNs need to have an understanding of the natural sciences (biology, chemistry, etc) in order to understand the patients and the medications and treatments used. So these courses are not a waste for nurses they are invaluable. However, they are just a groundwork. There is a great deal more information which needs to be learned to complete nursing school and pass the NCLEX, and that only makes you basically competent. RNs take many hours of continuing education every year, after graduation, in order to improve their skills and keep current with new treatments and technology. Additionally, many go on for advanced degrees, allowing them to perform in areas outside the traditional roles seen at the hospital.

As for the people who say they were burned out by the floors and the work,, in general, they would have been burned out by any occupation that required them to do any activity besides sit for 8 hours. I have been in nursing for over 30 years and have yet to find a reason to burn out.

However, I have frequently found a reason to use those skills and knowledges in which I had excelled in college (such as anatomy, biology and chemistry). Since graduation from college I have worked on a psychiatric unit, in several operating rooms, managed an ambulatory surgery center, was on a trauma team and worked as a flight nurse, taught anatomy and physiology to nursing and medical students, taught wilderness and tropical disease studies to nurses and doctors, ran a surgical technology program, worked as a family nurse practitioner, worked as a nurse practitioner with spine patients, worked as a nurse practitioner with chronic pain patients, worked with chronic headache patients and performed research.

I have never wasted any knowlege I gained along the way, but then again, I never let myself stop learning,

Answer 2

Go the way of technology. Computer Sciences are an ever evolving future. Nursing is ok, been there done that, but you're on your feet a lot on concrete floors, shiftwork, rotating shifts and so on. I liked it but it didn't like me, burned me out too early. As much as I like the Healthcare/nursing end of it, I don't advise anyone into it. You have so many other options. Explore.

Answer 3

For nursing to be a good job you need to enoy doing it. When making the decision between teaching and nursing, i was told "to succeed in nursing you need to have a passion for it, if you don't you won't last more than a couple of years in the field"... for me, nursing was the right decision. I love it.