Good luck to everyone!

[Livestrong51085]

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I recently decided to go into nursing instead of medicine (I want to do ICU or ER), and I just wanted to wish you all luck that are still pursuing med school.

I must say that I will not miss logging onto this message board 5 times a day and stressing over all of the crazy stuff I have to do in order to even apply to school (just looking at some of these thread titles after having not been on the board in over a month brings back bad memories and makes my head hurt, lol).

Though that wasn't my motivation for switching, I must honestly admit that I sure am glad I'm not going to have to go through it! But to those of you who are (will), just wanted to send positive vibes your way and wish you all the best of luck!

Stay Strong!

 

[JenniferRU]

Thank you 🙂 what made you decide to turn to nursing if i may ask?

 

[Livestrong51085]

Thank you 🙂 what made you decide to turn to nursing if i may ask?

Jennifer,

I decided to go into nursing instead because I wanted to have close personal interactions with my patients as their primary caretaker. As you know, nurses are the ones mostly interacting with the patients (not that doctors don't, but nurses do more), and they still get to have a lot of clinical experience (especially in the ER or ICU), which will satisfy that part for me.

That's the main reason, but secondly, I like that I will have a ton of options in nursing if the ICU or ER isn't for me. Every field of medicine needs nurses, so I have an abundance of opportunities if something doesn't work out. As a physician, once you do your residency, you are stuck with that (unless you want to re-do your residency).

Thirdly, I've always been interested in Anesthesia (I was going to go into Anesthesia as a physician), and so if I decide to pursue that down the line, I can always become a CRNA.

Lastly, since I already have a bachelor's in another field, I can partake in an accelerated bachelor's nursing program (I'm doing the 11-month intensive one at Drexel), as opposed to not matriculating in med school until 2012 and spending the following 8 yrs studying and being in much, much more debt. This isn't my main reason, but it certainly doesn't hurt. It will be nice to be able to "start my life", so to speak, within the next year.

Anyway, not trying to talk anyone out of med-school whatsoever, these are just my personal reasons.