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<p>I'll be honest. I'm scared to death just being inside a hospital, regardless if there's a competent doctor with me or not. Competent always helps though.</p>
<p>I know how hectic nursing is trust me, but I like neo-natal or CCU positions where your patients don't speak and are fun to care for. I like babies and I think I could manage being a full time nurse. But my mom works at a nursing and trust me the residents are but my mom likes them anyway so what I'm trying to say is I can be a nurse and be fine with my life but my parents aren't. What should I do?</p>
<p>Tamarind, are you nigerian? Okay, firstly, do not listen to your mom's "medicine!!! money!!!" it is not the only way to make money and its not garunteed and you can make MORE money being something else with less time!!</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure you can major in nursing and then apply to med school. If you wanna be fiendish just say nursing is your 'fallback' in case you don't get into med school, even though it's your goal all along to be a nurse.</p>
<p>Nurse in the house... If you want to be a nurse for the right reasons then I say go for it. The money is awesome and you can make tons of it. There are so many options. Travel, see the country, Flight nursing, administration, etc. For a male it is even better because we love it when the men are in the house. We can learn a few lessons from them. They are team players and have helped the field of nursing as a whole. Undergraduate study at any of the state schools, save yourself money because employers don't care where you went, they just want you... Since we are heading for a shortage of nurses, the ball is really in your court. You have better negotiating power for salaries and perks. At the end of the day, you have to be the one that is happy with what you are doing. Best of luck.
BTW, in my 30 yrs of experience, I hav never met a nurse who went back to school to be a doctor, if anything they went back to school to become a lawyer.</p>
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I'm pretty sure you can major in nursing and then apply to med school. If you wanna be fiendish just say nursing is your 'fallback' in case you don't get into med school, even though it's your goal all along to be a nurse.
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I'd just like to reiterate that this is generally a bad idea. If anyone is curious, please check out the Pre-Med forum.</p>
<p>I don't feel like it. I'd prefer if you just summarized it for me.</p>
<p>Nursing is a lot of work. If your reasons for entering the medical field are monetary, you'll likely be disappointed. Both my parents are doctors, and it takes a long while to reap any return on your 120-work-week residencies and the cost of school.</p>
<p>GoldShadow, please tell us why its a bad idea.</p>
<p>Besides nursing and med school, u haven't thought about other career choices ?
I know what gold is saying. Nursing major is a vocational degree which is generally frowned by med schools. They wouldn't mind even if u major in English but vocational majors are not preferred.
Anyways pre-med isn't even a major. You just take certain pre-reqs to meet the med school requirements. And those classes are already in many science majors. My advice is just choose a science major or take those pre-recs classes with a BA degree and then through the 4 years, see how ur goal plans evolve. It doesn't kill ya to take 1 year of bio, 2 year chem, 1 year English, and 1 year of calc. Just a couple of classes to add to ur major.</p>
<p>You also can consider being an EMT later part too. And u don't hv to get a nursing degree to be a nurse I think. I don't remember exactly but a friend's sis took this RN exam or sth during her senior year in college but she was a premed and a bio major. She is going back to med school in a few years, and I heard she is working **** to save money for med school. That is life.</p>
<p>Thank you very much SkyGirl. I just have one more question, what are the reqs for taking the NCLEX-RN?</p>
<p>GoldShadow?</p>
<p>sorry - could you tell me why some people are interested in pharmacy. i never knew why. (not being ignorant or anything - it's an honest question)</p>
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If you're asking about requirements for the NCLEX-RN, unfortunately I can't help you. I'm not very familiar with nursing requirements.</p>