I’ve known at least one person (and possibly more, it’s hard to remember...) who went for a MD after years as a nurse, a couple who went on to nurse-practitioner or PA, and one or two who have shuffled between RN and EMT-P positions as pay and adventure dictate. If you spend some years as a nurse and decide later that you want more schooling, you’ll be experienced regarding the options available and probably in a more financially stable position. If you continue to yearn for academia, there are a both teaching and research avenues out there in the nursing and nurse-practitioner fields.
The versatility was a big plus for nursing when I was choosing my major… That being said, if the people cited in our textbooks are any indication of what nursing research is like, I don’t want to go there. I don’t like qualitative research in general–either it sets off my “social sciences bullshit” detector or I just can’t make any sense of it at all–and I like “nursing paradigms and conceptual models” even less. Give me a nice hard science problem to work on and I’ll be happy...
I’ve known at least one person (and possibly more, it’s hard to remember...) who went for a MD after years as a nurse, a couple who went on to nurse-practitioner or PA, and one or two who have shuffled between RN and EMT-P positions as pay and adventure dictate. If you spend some years as a nurse and decide later that you want more schooling, you’ll be experienced regarding the options available and probably in a more financially stable position. If you continue to yearn for academia, there are a both teaching and research avenues out there in the nursing and nurse-practitioner fields.
The versatility was a big plus for nursing when I was choosing my major… That being said, if the people cited in our textbooks are any indication of what nursing research is like, I don’t want to go there. I don’t like qualitative research in general–either it sets off my “social sciences bullshit” detector or I just can’t make any sense of it at all–and I like “nursing paradigms and conceptual models” even less. Give me a nice hard science problem to work on and I’ll be happy...