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If you feel you are better suited to something else, pursue that instead! Also think about WHY you want to go into nursing. If nursing honestly doesn't appeal to you, don't go into it just for the money or the job security. It's happened before and it can happen again. Don't go into it to please other people. YOU will be the one getting up at 5 am, holding your pee for hours, paying back your student loans, etc.
If that's your line of thinking, imho you're more likely to be successful if you channel all the time, effort, money, and energy you would have spent getting a nursing degree and direct it toward what you really want. Nursing is a full-time job and then some, and they expect to be your 1 priority.
I majored in violin performance in undergrad. After graduating I started teaching private students and playing local professional gigs - I was not rich obviously, but I was supporting myself independently and making it work. My family, otoh, thought I was a failure and a disappointment because I didn't have a career. When the recession hit in , several of my students had to cut back or stop lessons because they couldn't afford as much, and I had two performance contracts cancelled because the organizations weren't getting their money either.
I panicked and decided they were right and I had to go back to school for something "secure" and "professional". According to everyone, healthcare was the only sure thing left. My intuition was saying "don't do it", and logically there was never anything to suggest that I would make a decent nurse I'm not a nurturing person, I'm crap at science, I don't like working with sick people or old people, and I hated working as a CNA.
When I received an acceptance letter my first thought was "I could just shred the letter and tell everyone I was rejected". When I started struggling with severe depression in nursing school, it scared me - I've always been a happy, generally positive person.
If that's not a red flag that you're on the wrong path, I don't know what is. I've been working for a year, and I finally have to admit this isn't for me and I need to make a change. So right now I'm working PRN and actively working on getting back into teaching and performing violin.
I have so much regret about the time and money I spent doing something I never wanted to do- I can never get those 5 years back, and I will probably be on income-based student loan repayment until I'm 50, and going back to working for myself is scary because unlike nursing, there is no guaranteed weekly paycheck. But I also feel SO relieved.
I'm starting to feel like myself again. I just found this forum, and I've read several posts where people are either questioning if it's right for them, or regretting their decision and asking for advice on how to get out. Sorry for the excessively lengthy post, but I wish that even one person would have taken me aside while I was preparing to go to nursing school and said "you don't want to do this and you're not good at it; why are you doing this?
And the scary thing is that I've met other people at work whose stories are much the same. The guy shadowing me who looked bored out of his mind all day and came alive when he talked about how he wanted to start a car detailing business and planned on using his nursing income to do that. Wouldn't it make more sense to get a small business loan NOW and focus all your energy on that, than to spend four years doing something you don't care about and then try to divide your energy between nursing and starting your business?
The student who wanted to be a massage therapist but felt pressured by her family into getting a BSN and then an MSN because only a master's degree was prestigious enough for them.
If you recognize yourself in any of this, think really hard about whether nursing is right for you. Edited Dec 19, by ceccia. TU RN. Has 8 years experience. Dec 19, Good on you for following your true passion!
I'm definitely part of the crowd who entered the nursing profession by default. I knew I was gonna go to college, I had always excelled at math and science, but I didn't want to be stranded with a pre-medicine or biology degree and no admittance to medical school if my grades tanked at some point whatever let it be said that I did not tell a lie! Anyway fast forward to right now, I'm a graduate nurse 6 months I to my first job and posts like yours are more and more relevant to me as the "first year nursing blues" hit me hard..
I ask "is this right for me? Now you say something?! To hear my employers tell it, I am excelling in my role. My charting is complete, my patients all say nice things about me, I've escalated patients going downhill, oh and they are all tending to survive my shifts so that's a plus I got ACLS, my 6 month review was great, and am now part of a committee on my floor.
Don't mean to sound like I'm too big for my breeches, nursing so far has been nothing but humbling to my ego so far. Hence why I find myself on a thread entitled "nursing isn't for everyone. Currently I'm planning on going back for a single class this semester and hopefully another class and lab for the semester after that to complete some pre-requisite for advanced education. I always like to keep a backup plan - life is ever dynamic, complacency and expectation are pathways to unhappiness.
I'm gonna stick it out and give it a year or a year and a half, see where I'm at, try to switch to a different specialty if I hate it, see where that takes me, then maybe consider something else if I'm still coming up empty in this career path.
And you have to be caring and compassionate in the face of occasional maltreatment, disrespect, and outright rudeness. The taxing hours worked, the being on your feet constantly, all these things add up to being sore and tired almost all of the time.
Nurses also do a huge amount of heavy lifting and often develop back problems. It will be difficult to figure out where to draw the line in your off hours.
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