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[quote=Anonymous]Should definitely talk with people in a variety of nursing roles. There are many different paths and the life of a hospital ICU nurse is quite different from a surgical nurse at a 9-5 outpatient surgery center or a nurse who works for an insurance company doing case reviews or a nurse who works at a school or a nurse who has advanced into hospital/health system administration.

My sister is a nurse who started in ICUs. Did travel nursing for a while to figure out where she wanted to live. Worked PT for a few years when she had babies. Then spent time managing a nursing unit, got a masters in critical care, taught in a nursing program, ran training at a hospital, got a doctorate, managed patient care research and implementation for a regional hospital system, and is now VP of Nursing for a hospital system.

She was an excellent student and got a lot of crap from people that she wanted to "just" be a nurse not a doctor. But she'd volunteered at a hospital throughout HS, understood the different roles, and was clear that nursing was the path she wanted. FWIW BSN programs are super competitive and not generally for "average students"[/quote]

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