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re: Is becoming an RN worth it?
Posted on 4/28/17 at 6:21 am to Gcockboi
Posted on 4/28/17 at 6:21 am to Gcockboi
Crna here. I'm a guy. Did ICU for 8 years. AMA. most here are incorrect and are screwing with you. Also get your BSN. Otherwise you will regret it later.
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Posted on 4/28/17 at 6:25 am to Gcockboi
Yes, definitely worth it.
Always in demand anywhere in the world.
Get some experience, then do travel nursing while you are young and single. We've discussed it on here before but it's easy to bring home $2500 week. My friend is nursing in Abu Dhabi for 13 weeks at $8500 per week.
It's a thankless job for the most part, but worth it financially and for stability in a volatile market.
Always in demand anywhere in the world.
Get some experience, then do travel nursing while you are young and single. We've discussed it on here before but it's easy to bring home $2500 week. My friend is nursing in Abu Dhabi for 13 weeks at $8500 per week.
It's a thankless job for the most part, but worth it financially and for stability in a volatile market.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 6:25 am to Gcockboi
My wife has 1 year left of nursing school. She won't be making a ton of money, but it will be more than she's ever made before. I can't wait.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 7:24 am to Gcockboi
Expect 2 solid years of work. Studying near every night. A 2 year cram to prepare you to take the NCLEX. That's all it will be. You'll then need another 6 months of work before you feel like you won't kill anybody. 
Money is what you want it to be. You'll have to get the hell out of Louisiana though. Keep in mind it's not a job JUST to make money. You will wind up bitter and an a-hole if that's all it is. I won't go so far as to say a "calling". That's cheesy. When you are elbow deep in a 300 lb renal patient with a GI bleed wiping arse and you go home after 8 hours and the smell is STILL in your nose hair? You may question whether your hourly wage was worth it.
Kind of like a cop hearing gunshots or a fireman standing in front of a burning warehouse thinking, "I didn't really sign up for this. "
Easy cops on here. I'm not REALLY comparing getting shot at to getting shite on you forearm, but I hope my point translates to the OP.
Money is what you want it to be. You'll have to get the hell out of Louisiana though. Keep in mind it's not a job JUST to make money. You will wind up bitter and an a-hole if that's all it is. I won't go so far as to say a "calling". That's cheesy. When you are elbow deep in a 300 lb renal patient with a GI bleed wiping arse and you go home after 8 hours and the smell is STILL in your nose hair? You may question whether your hourly wage was worth it.
Kind of like a cop hearing gunshots or a fireman standing in front of a burning warehouse thinking, "I didn't really sign up for this. "
Easy cops on here. I'm not REALLY comparing getting shot at to getting shite on you forearm, but I hope my point translates to the OP.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 7:34 am to Gcockboi
The work you will have to do to get your associates degree will be a drop in the bucket compared to the work you will do when you are on the job. If the only reason you want to be a nurse is for the money, forget it. Definitely not the job for you!
Posted on 4/28/17 at 8:02 am to Gcockboi
My wife has been an RN for 19 years. She got her bachelors, so I'm not sure if that has any effect on her pay, but she makes $43/hr base pay. She only works three days a week and loves her job.
But when she was in school she said it was a bitch.
But when she was in school she said it was a bitch.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 8:14 am to Gcockboi
Go for it.
Easy to get a job, can work anywhere, job opportunities within to advance your career are wildly available, make good money, stable career.
Nothing wrong with that
Easy to get a job, can work anywhere, job opportunities within to advance your career are wildly available, make good money, stable career.
Nothing wrong with that
Posted on 4/28/17 at 8:49 am to Gcockboi
You need to stay far away from any job that has random drug screens and access to controlled substances.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 9:18 am to Gcockboi
Is this the final stage of your descent into Betahood? 
Posted on 4/28/17 at 9:21 am to Gcockboi
Def get your RN license. Many LVNs are being phased out. Now most hospitals want RNs and BSNs here in houston anyway. I have a friend that does night shift at a county hospital and makes about $49 an hour. She does pretty well for herself.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 9:45 am to Gcockboi
Keep this in mind. You will be putting up with a-hole patients, their families and doctors, work evenings, nights, weekends and holidays.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 10:15 am to Gcockboi
Lol have fun with that scarlet letter
Posted on 4/28/17 at 10:19 am to Gcockboi
It is not a breeze at all and you have to pass math and science courses. If you make it, you will always have a job opportunity somewhere
Posted on 4/28/17 at 11:08 am to Gcockboi
It's always funny when a thread starts about being an RN because most people have no idea what they are talking about.
If you're planning to just start a program to become an RN you have to go BSN. Just go ahead and get it over with. It will give you a lot more opportunities and will not limit you on how you can advance your career in the future.
There are a ton of different nursing jobs with a ton of different work schedules. Most people only give information that they second hand know of someone who is a floor nurse who works 3 twelves, every other weekend, the occasional OT shift a week, and complains all the time about how hard they work or how underappreciated they are which is really annoying. I'm an RN and I work 4 10's a week and no weekends or holidays. Some jobs are almost exclusively direct patient care and some are very little to none. If you want an adrenaline filled work environment you can find that, if you want a more relaxed work environment, you can find that as well.
In school they will train you to be an RN and use floor nursing to do it. Your clinical rotations will all be on units and you may get a glimpse of other areas like the operating room, pacu, ect. but floor nursing will be the focus and that is what you will know when you get done with school.
Likely your first job will be on the floor. You may really like it, and that's great, but you may hate it and that's okay too. This is where people get stuck in a job they complain about all the time because they either don't know other types of jobs exist because you don't really learn about them in school, or they are too scared to leave the area they are in even though they hate it. You need to get that magical one year of experience and then if you don't like what you are doing change it. Most hospitals have a problem with RN's leaving after they get that one year of experience because you will likely be offered more money at another job than any raise you would get at your current job, people learn more about what they do and don't like about nursing in their first job, and sometimes it's just a bad place to work.
I don't know who it was in this thread that said RN's are making $20 but that is completely wrong. I started as a new grad at a little less that $30 an hour and in my experience my pay increased pretty rapidly in my first two years.
I would suggest that if you are single, don't mind moving around a little bit, and want to go ahead and pay off any student loans you may have, look into travel nursing. You could do it for a year or two, make over $50 an hour and get non taxable stipends, and probably erase any kind of debt you may have if this is your first college degree. Just like with other nursing job there are a ton of different travel nursing jobs with different benefits.
If you're planning to just start a program to become an RN you have to go BSN. Just go ahead and get it over with. It will give you a lot more opportunities and will not limit you on how you can advance your career in the future.
There are a ton of different nursing jobs with a ton of different work schedules. Most people only give information that they second hand know of someone who is a floor nurse who works 3 twelves, every other weekend, the occasional OT shift a week, and complains all the time about how hard they work or how underappreciated they are which is really annoying. I'm an RN and I work 4 10's a week and no weekends or holidays. Some jobs are almost exclusively direct patient care and some are very little to none. If you want an adrenaline filled work environment you can find that, if you want a more relaxed work environment, you can find that as well.
In school they will train you to be an RN and use floor nursing to do it. Your clinical rotations will all be on units and you may get a glimpse of other areas like the operating room, pacu, ect. but floor nursing will be the focus and that is what you will know when you get done with school.
Likely your first job will be on the floor. You may really like it, and that's great, but you may hate it and that's okay too. This is where people get stuck in a job they complain about all the time because they either don't know other types of jobs exist because you don't really learn about them in school, or they are too scared to leave the area they are in even though they hate it. You need to get that magical one year of experience and then if you don't like what you are doing change it. Most hospitals have a problem with RN's leaving after they get that one year of experience because you will likely be offered more money at another job than any raise you would get at your current job, people learn more about what they do and don't like about nursing in their first job, and sometimes it's just a bad place to work.
I don't know who it was in this thread that said RN's are making $20 but that is completely wrong. I started as a new grad at a little less that $30 an hour and in my experience my pay increased pretty rapidly in my first two years.
I would suggest that if you are single, don't mind moving around a little bit, and want to go ahead and pay off any student loans you may have, look into travel nursing. You could do it for a year or two, make over $50 an hour and get non taxable stipends, and probably erase any kind of debt you may have if this is your first college degree. Just like with other nursing job there are a ton of different travel nursing jobs with different benefits.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 11:26 am to Gcockboi
You're not a RN with an associates degree. You'll be MA or a LPN. They make minimum wage basically and working in practices taking vitals, calling in PA's, and charting.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 1:52 pm to Gcockboi
If you want a lot of money you're going to have to leave the state of Louisiana. The opportunities are endless once you get some experience under your belt.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 1:58 pm to Gcockboi
I think it's a smart move unless your passion is elsewhere. Don't do it if you think it'll be an easy way to a paycheck. I have 1 year left in nursing school and it's pretty intense. My wife just finished her last final for her LSU nursing degree yesterday. She had a job offer in place 3 months ago and will be starting at $29 and hour and $34 on weekends.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 2:29 pm to Gcockboi
According to my fiancée who went back to school to be a perfusionist:
"It's a shite job"
"It's a shite job"
Posted on 4/28/17 at 3:44 pm to Gcockboi
You cannot become a nurse anesthetist without the RN...
Posted on 4/28/17 at 9:15 pm to Gcockboi
quote:
Is becoming an RN worth it?
Long story short, yes it is. Bite the bullet and go for the BSN for more opportunities.
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