Pediatric Nurses, do you enjoy your job?

Any nurses please answer =]?

• I'm 16 years old and have a year and a bit left of school. My ambition is to go to uni and eventually become a paediatric nurse. My question to any nurses is basically what are your overall thoughts on the job ? Do you enjoy it, what's bad about it, how was the training, just an overall opinion on it. Any answers would be greatly appreciated =]

• Answer:

  Most nursing schools now are aligned with colleges since now most jobs require you to have a bachelor degree with your nursing. You need to take college prep courses in high school now before you start your nursing education. (I graduates over 40 years ago from a 2 year nursing school & went back later for my bachelors). When you go to nursing school you will have courses & spend time in each area including the O.R., Medical floors, geriatrics, pediatrics, and mental health.You will need to learn anatomy & how medications work to help heal. You will also have college courses, with term papers, just like the other college students. You will learn how to do care plans ( like deciding what you will do for someone with difficulty breathing to help him). There is a lot of paper work, esp. doing assessments on a new admission, and you will always feel that you never have time to do it all. You will want to be with your dying patient, but find there isn't time for that too.Depending on where you work, the money isn't too bad, but you'll work for it (average 45-50 thousand a year). I made a difference & can tell you I saved more than 5 lives alone(one man's heart stopped & I shocked him with the paddles, restoring the heart & he went the next morning for a pacemaker, and another geriatric patient got part of a hot dog lodged in his airway so I put him on the floor & did the Heimlich on him.The hot dog FLEW out). Nursing is hard physically and mentally. I've sat at the bedside of dying patients so they will not die alone.Would I do it again?Damn right I would.