Anonymous wrote:I'm an RN. DC is an RN. Nursing is a vocation. Not a job. If your child is looking for a job- look elsewhere.
Flexibility in types of work and areas of work are good.
I'm proud of being a nurse. And proud of my DC for being a damn good nurse.

This is such nonsense. Nursing is a job. You have to have the skills and personality to do well at it, iike any other job.

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Anonymous wrote:Excellent career path. My sister is a CRNA and can work whatever days she wants (usually about 2-3 weeks a month), has the ability to make lots of overtime and makes about $250k a year in a lcol area.

Robotic anesthesia will reduce that lucrative niche don’t count on same money in future.

What’s robotic anesthesia? Would that impact an anesthetiologist?

Automated anethesia https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/132/2/219/108799/Robots-Will-Perform-Anesthesia-in-the-Near-Future I think most automatic medicine (including anesthesia) is more likely to replace higher paid MDs than nurses. Unless you have the surgeon monitoring the anethesia, someone still has to do it and a nurse making half as much as a doctor seems more likely to keep their job.

Maybe, but sht flows down so if doctor pay drops, nurse pay would drop.

Anonymous wrote:A nurse lives in Potomac in a huge mansion and super rich from nursing. It can be lucrative.

She owns an urgent care chain

She’s a rich business owner, nurse is immaterial

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"

I wouldn't discourage her. Do you know anybody she could talk to about the realities? Not the long hours and stuff everyone could be aware of now, but the nitty gritty.

A nurse lives in Potomac in a huge mansion and super rich from nursing. It can be lucrative.

She owns an urgent care chain

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Anonymous wrote:Excellent career path. My sister is a CRNA and can work whatever days she wants (usually about 2-3 weeks a month), has the ability to make lots of overtime and makes about $250k a year in a lcol area.

Robotic anesthesia will reduce that lucrative niche don’t count on same money in future.

What’s robotic anesthesia? Would that impact an anesthetiologist?

Automated anethesia https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/132/2/219/108799/Robots-Will-Perform-Anesthesia-in-the-Near-Future I think most automatic medicine (including anesthesia) is more likely to replace higher paid MDs than nurses. Unless you have the surgeon monitoring the anethesia, someone still has to do it and a nurse making half as much as a doctor seems more likely to keep their job.

Anonymous wrote:Push her to be an optometrist, doctor, even a PA or dentist. Being a nurse is a pink collar underpaid job and it’s where people go who need stability but don’t have options (like teaching) or just that vocation mindset that has been brainwave into them.

You make it sound like getting into medical or dental school is easy

How is the pay for nurses these days??

Responses are all over the map here.

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Anonymous wrote:Excellent career path. My sister is a CRNA and can work whatever days she wants (usually about 2-3 weeks a month), has the ability to make lots of overtime and makes about $250k a year in a lcol area.

Robotic anesthesia will reduce that lucrative niche don’t count on same money in future.

What’s robotic anesthesia? Would that impact an anesthetiologist?

Nurse here. Great career with lots of opportunity for growth. Flexible schedule when you have kids that doesn't set you back career-wise and you get to make a difference every.single.day.

I think the knowledge you obtain in nursing school helps you with your own health, and with many issues that come up with family members as they age. I think it’s worth it to go to nursing school, even if you don’t practice, for the medical knowledge.

I like it.

Push her to be an optometrist, doctor, even a PA or dentist. Being a nurse is a pink collar underpaid job and it’s where people go who need stability but don’t have options (like teaching) or just that vocation mindset that has been brainwave into them.