Holly SHIT. Lol well I had to put in 3 of those puppies last night. Honestly the assumption that nurses have to always be super nice and happy regarding socializing with patients DOES wear on you. I just started on my own after doing a post-grad preceptorship and let me tell you if you listened to every patient and families' wishes you would never even have time for a break. Really I don't have time for this shit. A lot of patients think they're at a hotel and you're a maid. I don't know about the US but in Canada a lot of floors don't have PSW's help with bathing and all of that. And they sure can't do vitals here so we have to do everything from A to Z.

Anyhow. Specialties sound appealing but it's more school work. By the time you get to speciality areas like Cardiac ICU or OR or ER or even straight ICU, unless you were lucky enough to get there straight out of school or get the education as part of orientation you probably spent another year studying and upgrading courses.

Quite frankly by that time, if you have strong Ti, you're probably as smart as a doctor except you still do grunt work and take a pay cut. Might as well be a doctor.

The biomedical engineering always interested me, it's just I'm worried that would pan out to be another case of 'you don't get a decent job until you get a masters' like any science major seems to be.

Actually found myself a mad Intuitive nurse friend during orientation and were seriously debating leaving this shit for the promised land. AKA something better. We always go out for coffee and have intellectual rants... seriously she's great. I was seriously thinking I was the only one in nursing that was an intuitive.

The one nice thing about nursing is the income stability.

Crazy question but ever think someone could die of boredom and be curious about everything all at once?