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[prettygirl146]

So I've had an epiphany of sorts...I applied to BCTC in Lexington...In just 2 years for about $7000 I can get my Associate's Degree in Nursing and became an RN...It just seems smarter to do that than spend $24,000 to go to UK to be a teacher that makes about $10,000 less a year than an RN...Plus, after becoming an RN, I am more likely to find a job

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[la_lee469]

I'm going to preface this by saying I have no idea how much exposure you have to the healthcare field, and i am also not saying that you aren't capable of/ shouldn't be a nurse. However, you may want to call UK hospital and ask to shadow before you commit to nursing. Spend a day on a floor unit and on an intensive care or ccu unit. There are just a lot of things that you have to deal with that they don't tell you about when talking to you about school. Yes you get to help peope, and there's job security, and the pay's decent, but you have to REALlY love what you do. Hospitals smell terrible (eventually though our nose adjusts and you start to not smell it any more), the hours are long (at UL we can only work 12 hour shifts), people will punch you, kick you, spit on you, cuss you out, threaten you (my first week at UL a family member threatened to come in and shoot everyone working on the unit. security and hospital administration continued to let her visit her family member even after this incident.) Not to mention all the diseases you come into contact with, the doctors who are complete assholes who make up about 40% of the physicians' staff, and the fact that you can't get emotionally attached. That's one of the first things they will tell you in nursing school. If you get attached to a patient it affects their quality of care. You can't give them the care that they need if they're coding and you're crying. And no matter how hard you try, there's always those couple of patients that you'll get attached to anyway, and then they'll die of have a stroke, or code and be in a vegetative state. I happen to love my job, but nursing is never something that I would tell ANYONE to go into lightly without really seeing first hand what it's like.

[prettygirl146]

Thank you very much, Laura, for your opinion/insight...That's really why I'm glad that you have to be a CNA to get into a Nursing program first...That way I can get a better idea for only $600 instead of wasting all of my money when I end up not wanting to do it...

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