become a nurse

I’m sort of afraid of nursing school. Everyone builds it up to be so hard. But everyone acted like it was impossible to get in when I know now that it really isn’t so very hard. I have to stop letting other people make me feel like I’m not smart enough or good enough to do these things. I am smart. I am hard working. I can do this. I really want to help people. I can get through nursing school.

I watched an autopsy in class the other day. There was really no problem with it, so I’m pretty sure that I will never have a problem with the “gross” aspect of being a nurse. What I am worried about is the atmosphere. I keep hearing all these things about people being jerks to nurses. I don’t mind that in some amount from patients or their families. It can be understood that they are under stress and pretty upset if they have a reason to be in the hospital. Either they are in pain, worried about themselves or worried about the person they love. I totally get that, I don’t think it will bother me. What I don’t want is BS disrespect from doctors because they think they are so much smarter than me because they spent Daddy’s money going to college while I worked my ass off all the way through school, trying to make it on a part-time 9 dollar an hour job while the government tells me that bringing home less than a thousand dollars a month is enough to eat, pay bills, recieve medical attention, and go to school. We all know I can barely eat or pay bills and I don’t want to have to eat shit from some snooty, silver-spoon asshole who drove a car worth more than everything I own all through college. I got my 1st car just this year. I’m 26. I scrimped and saved and payed 800 dollars for it. It works, but it is horribly ghetto. But it gets me to work and class. So I guess I’m just afraid of being looked down on or treated like crap for becoming “just a nurse.” I plan to go way further, I just wanted to have some financial stability first. I want to work with diseases or fertility. I know I’ll be able to deal with the attitudes…it’s only temporary until I’m able to move on from there and tell those people to screw off because nobodies shit smells like roses.

I should be done with my prerequisites for the nursing program by Christmas, my Associate in Arts in the Spring, and be able to enter nursing school in the Fall. The tricky part will be to try and do all of this and work at the same time. Or somehow figure out how my boyfriend and I can both go to school at the same time and live off of Financial Aid and his part time salary. Good luck to us! I think I can make a small list for this goal.

1) Figure out the financial stuff.
2) Apply at the beginning of the Summer semester.
3) Do all of the paperwork necessary.
4) Study super hard and do really well in classes and clinicals.
5) Study for certification test.
6) Find a good job.