This was so incredibly helpful! I'm a recent high school grad and I'm trying to decide whether nursing is for me, your videos are seriously a HUGE blessing and full of practical information!
No matter where and how you look at nursing specialties... It all suck... the nice part of your nursing day is when shift ends. But, the best is when you get out and do something else.
+Rose Xavier It is truly not for everyone, if this is how you feel most of the time then you should try to find something you enjoy! There is nothing wrong with that... but staying in a job you hate not only hurts your patients, but will be a huge drain on your energy as well. Much love, ~Caroline
Thank you so much for posting your nursing videos!! i've been going back a fourth with nursing for some time now, but seeing your videos and how honest and real you are in them have helped me so much. and i just want to say thanks
+Tia Ruffin Ohh you're sweet! Thanks a lot for letting me know. It means a lot. You are welcome by the way. I would love to see on here again soon. -xoxo
This is awesome! I was beginning to give up on going through nursing school because I didn't think I could do it... but this video inspired me. I already work as a CNA on a medsurge and OB floor, I would eventually love to move onto a big hospital after my degree and work on either emerg, NICU, ICU or even do public health nursing part time at a clinic type thing.. thank you for inspiring me Caroline :)
Thank you! This was an amazing video. I am Canadian and have spent time researching avenues here but didn't really know there are so many options. This info keeps me mitivated during my schooling.
I love your videos ! I'm an Italian nurse ,I graduated the last November and in February i will go to work in England ! Now I'm studying English ! Unfortunately I don't understand all you say, you speak very quickly 🙈 But you are fantastic, I hope to understand all your video sooner or later 😘
+Lu Cara Hi Lu, so nice to hear from you. How exciting to start a new job, on a different country! Learning another language is always good! Thank you for watching my videos! See you soon!! 😘
Thank you so much for all your helpful information! I can tell you are extremely dedicated and passionate about your career. And you have definitely motivated me and inspired me to work towards a nursing career... Thank you Caroline!!
Awe anytime Victoria!! So glad you have found the information here helpful!! This degree opens a lot of doors... so you have a lot to look forward too!! Looking forward to seeing you again soon! xoxo - Caroline
This was definitely helpful! Super informative. I had only known of some areas nursing could take you but you really opened up my eyes with this view thank you!
Hi Caroline!! My name is Macy and I am a HS 16 year old but I have wanted to become a nurse for the past few years. i have been watching your videos and live the websites you told me to use. I am still not sure what type of nurse I want to be or if i want to go into medical school and become a physition or paramedic. your videos are kind of clearing a path for me for what I want in the future. Thanks so much. I actually get excited about my education
Thank you so much for this website ! I was looking for this to have a goal that would motivate me at school. Can you tell us which units have a more positive environment and which one have more of a negative culture like you mentioned . Good day ;)
I spent a lot of time looking at the BLS.gov before I decided on nursing too. Discovernursing.com looks great. I'll spend some more time looking at it.
Hello, I'm so excited to meet you through your videos! Your enthusiasm and excitement for nursing is contagious and I hope that it will be a great second career for me. I realize that your schedule allows you to work for 3 days and then have 4 days off (thats fantastic, btw!) In the nursing profession is taking work home an understood necessity like it is in the teaching field? If so, how much work do you take home and what do you do? Thanks, Christina
Christina Cunningham Hi Christina! It is really nice to hear from you! Honestly, for most of the nursing specialties, you cannot take your patient home... therefore, your work stays at work! It is fabulous ;) Of course if you are a nursing director, nursing educator or something like that... then yes, you could possibly end up doing work from home... I hope this helps!! Let me know if you have any more questions!! Much Love, - Caroline
Hey wow I really like your informative video thank you for making your channel! I did have a question is nursing a career that can be kind to someone with physical limitations?
Rain it depends on your program (both your BScN and medical program) and your country. For my country, it is highly frowned upon because they want registered nurses to become nurse practitioners not MDs.
Hey love your videos, I just wanted to ask could you do a video on all the different units in the hospitals and which ones are more positive and which ones are negative and also ur experiences on different units. Thanks so much bye
+Future Nurse Harold I think she meant that the people on the unit are either positive or negative. At least, that is how I understood it. The people you work with will make or break the job. If the culture is to not help anybody and play on iphone for hours, then get the hell out of there. But if most of the unit is at the nursing station working on charting/paperwork and communicating, then you can communicate that you need help, or if you are able - to go give help to a fellow nurse/cna. Being a murse myself, I get asked to help move patients a lot, in return I ask other nurses to bring me stuff if I forgot it and I am in isolation - like tape/dressing/IVs/medcine etc.
Hello Caroline My name Is Ajamu I've been watching a lot of your videos on RUclips & it's has been very helpful to me learning things about Nursing from a Real Nurse. Now I'am a Future Nursing student I will be starting my CNA classes this fall!! & looking to starting Nursing school next year! I'm very excited but I really really struggle with MATH! I've had this problem through high school & even some of middle school & I heard Nursing has lots of math , Nursing is my passion I can't wait to join the Nursing profession but I'm not sure on what to do should I continue on with Nursing or find a different healthcare route? If you have any tips or suggestions I will surely appreciate it Thank you so much & God Bless
I have a question if I remember right you said you usually work on a medical surgical floor right. what do you usually do on a medsurg floor. do you pass a lot of meds. do LPNs and CNA works on the med surg floor with under your supervision I know LPNs can work on a floor such as medical surgical floor. I think the medical surgical floor is the best unit for me to work on I think if I was a nurse right now.
Hi Tim! Long time no see :) Yes on the med surg unit you can pass a lot of medications... just depends on what is going on with the patient. I do think that it is a good place to work :) since I float to different units all the time, I really like working med surg. I hope this helps! Talk to you soon! Much Love, - Caroline
I love your videos, but in this one you make it seem like it's so easy to just go anywhere you want in nursing. I took me 2 years to find a job and I am stuck in the first place that would hire me, psych. I do not like psych. Also I hate the hospital setting, but I am having a difficult time getting out of this setting. First job out of school so no real medical skills and out of school for almost 5 years. I want to work in a M-F no holiday, night or weekends setting, such as school, Drs office or Occupational Health, however I get no callbacks for any of these positions. Also I don't want to spend thousands to go back to school either. I already have 2 Bachelor degrees, nursing and accounting and I am so close to leaving nursing after only 3 years to go back to the less stressful desk job of accounting. Please don't make it sound so easy to leave a setting you hate, when places aren't hiring those without lots of experience.
Fay Nee OMG I feel exactly the same as you. I am not sure if I should quit nursing entirely and star over or look for something else because the jobs I am interested in are not calling me back. For some people is lame to want to have a life after been a nurse. I also want weekends off and holidays to spend eith my family and I know working in a Clinic would full fill that but they don’t consider me. What did you end up doing?
Hi was just wandering if you had an idea of some of tthe work or task icu nurses do, the kind of knowledge, skills and eduction they have to have, if you have been on that ward I’ve been trying to plan out my goals and would like a better idea of that path. Thank you so much.
The reason I ask it's because my daughter wants to become a nurse and she had a bit of challenge in her life and I Start looking at your video's and I show it to my daugther and she looks up to you now and she's not giving about going to nursing school thank you so much
Surgical RNs in a surgery center usually don't work weekends and when home health RNs are able to make their own schedules... they don't work weekends either!
Hey guys, is it weird for a guy to become a RN? One more thing I can't make up my mine on either becoming a paramedic or a RN? Can y'all please help me out with this questions. Thanks.
Hi Caroline, I found this video really helpful! In fact I absolutely love your RUclips channel. I am trying to decide what to be in life. And Nursing is one of the careers I'm considering! Your videos have helped me gather information to help narrow down my career search. And for that I am very thankful! Please keep the videos coming :)@Kimchea
can i teach high school science or math with my bachelors degree in nursing? im currently working on my bsn please get back to me i want to be a nurse but i want to teach in the future :)
The non hospital specialties jobs that you described in the middle of this video are not easy accessible. I have a BSN AND 5 years experience in acute hospital thru registry.I HAVE DONE A TONE OF APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS WITH NO POSITIVE OUTCOMES. THE HIRING PROCESS IS BASED ON NEPOTISM, FAVORITISM AND RACIAL PROFILING. THIS IS MY CONCLUSION. NURSING FIELD IS BASED ON THE INEQUALITY, AND INJUSTICE AND I AM IN THE PROCESS OF QUITTING THIS HORRIBLE FIELD
I did my nursing but never worked as a nurse hate it so much everywhere I go nurses are so nasty makes me hate the job. It's been a while I dunno whether to go back or just change to something else
This was so incredibly helpful! I'm a recent high school grad and I'm trying to decide whether nursing is for me, your videos are seriously a HUGE blessing and full of practical information!
No matter where and how you look at nursing specialties... It all suck... the nice part of your nursing day is when shift ends. But, the best is when you get out and do something else.
+Rose Xavier It is truly not for everyone, if this is how you feel most of the time then you should try to find something you enjoy! There is nothing wrong with that... but staying in a job you hate not only hurts your patients, but will be a huge drain on your energy as well. Much love,
~Caroline
Thank you so much for posting your nursing videos!! i've been going back a fourth with nursing for some time now, but seeing your videos and how honest and real you are in them have helped me so much. and i just want to say thanks
+Tia Ruffin
Ohh you're sweet!
Thanks a lot for letting me know.
It means a lot.
You are welcome by the way.
I would love to see on here again soon.
-xoxo
This is awesome! I was beginning to give up on going through nursing school because I didn't think I could do it... but this video inspired me. I already work as a CNA on a medsurge and OB floor, I would eventually love to move onto a big hospital after my degree and work on either emerg, NICU, ICU or even do public health nursing part time at a clinic type thing.. thank you for inspiring me Caroline :)
Thank you! This was an amazing video. I am Canadian and have spent time researching avenues here but didn't really know there are so many options. This info keeps me mitivated during my schooling.
Awe thank you so much for letting me know!!
I really appreciate the comment!!
xoxo
really well created!! super helpful!
I love your videos !
I'm an Italian nurse ,I graduated the last November and in February i will go to work in England ! Now I'm studying English !
Unfortunately I don't understand all you say, you speak very quickly 🙈
But you are fantastic, I hope to understand all your video sooner or later 😘
+Lu Cara Hi Lu, so nice to hear from you. How exciting to start a new job, on a different country! Learning another language is always good! Thank you for watching my videos! See you soon!! 😘
Thank You for sharing the websites. It's good to have an idea of where you would like to go with your nursing degree.
Anytime Fatima!!
Thank you so much for the comment & letting me know that it helped you!!
Looking forward to seeing you again soon!!
xoxo
- Caroline
Thank you so much for all your helpful information! I can tell you are extremely dedicated and passionate about your career. And you have definitely motivated me and inspired me to work towards a nursing career... Thank you Caroline!!
Awe anytime Victoria!!
So glad you have found the information here helpful!!
This degree opens a lot of doors... so you have a lot to look forward too!!
Looking forward to seeing you again soon!
xoxo
- Caroline
Thanks for all this insight about all these different areas. Such valuable info!
Anytime!!
Thank you so much for the comment!
So glad you found this video helpful!
xoxo
- Caroline
This was definitely helpful! Super informative. I had only known of some areas nursing could take you but you really opened up my eyes with this view thank you!
Hi Caroline!!
My name is Macy and I am a HS 16 year old but I have wanted to become a nurse for the past few years. i have been watching your videos and live the websites you told me to use. I am still not sure what type of nurse I want to be or if i want to go into medical school and become a physition or paramedic. your videos are kind of clearing a path for me for what I want in the future. Thanks so much. I actually get excited about my education
Great video hun...especially for a nursing student like myself..
Yaminah Harris Thank you. I hope you find it helpful and my other videos as well. Keep in touch! -xoxo
Thank you so much for this website ! I was looking for this to have a goal that would motivate me at school. Can you tell us which units have a more positive environment and which one have more of a negative culture like you mentioned . Good day ;)
Hi Stephanie!!
I love this video request!! Yes I can!! I will work on this video & get it up as soon as I can!!
Thanks so much for the request!!
xoxo
I spent a lot of time looking at the BLS.gov before I decided on nursing too. Discovernursing.com looks great. I'll spend some more time looking at it.
Hello,
I'm so excited to meet you through your videos! Your enthusiasm and excitement for nursing is contagious and I hope that it will be a great second career for me. I realize that your schedule allows you to work for 3 days and then have 4 days off (thats fantastic, btw!) In the nursing profession is taking work home an understood necessity like it is in the teaching field? If so, how much work do you take home and what do you do? Thanks, Christina
Christina Cunningham Hi Christina!
It is really nice to hear from you!
Honestly, for most of the nursing specialties, you cannot take your patient home... therefore, your work stays at work! It is fabulous ;)
Of course if you are a nursing director, nursing educator or something like that... then yes, you could possibly end up doing work from home...
I hope this helps!!
Let me know if you have any more questions!!
Much Love,
- Caroline
Great video and links . Thank you very much.
Hey wow I really like your informative video thank you for making your channel! I did have a question is nursing a career that can be kind to someone with physical limitations?
I used my bsn to get in to medical school :)
wolfiethebumpireslyr is that really possible mate?
Rain it depends on your program (both your BScN and medical program) and your country. For my country, it is highly frowned upon because they want registered nurses to become nurse practitioners not MDs.
Loved this. Thanks so much. Your an Angel.
Hey love your videos, I just wanted to ask could you do a video on all the different units in the hospitals and which ones are more positive and which ones are negative and also ur experiences on different units. Thanks so much bye
+Future Nurse Harold I think she meant that the people on the unit are either positive or negative. At least, that is how I understood it. The people you work with will make or break the job. If the culture is to not help anybody and play on iphone for hours, then get the hell out of there. But if most of the unit is at the nursing station working on charting/paperwork and communicating, then you can communicate that you need help, or if you are able - to go give help to a fellow nurse/cna. Being a murse myself, I get asked to help move patients a lot, in return I ask other nurses to bring me stuff if I forgot it and I am in isolation - like tape/dressing/IVs/medcine etc.
Hello Caroline My name Is Ajamu I've been watching a lot of your videos on RUclips & it's has been very helpful to me learning things about Nursing from a Real Nurse. Now I'am a Future Nursing student I will be starting my CNA classes this fall!! & looking to starting Nursing school next year! I'm very excited but I really really struggle with MATH! I've had this problem through high school & even some of middle school & I heard Nursing has lots of math , Nursing is my passion I can't wait to join the Nursing profession but I'm not sure on what to do should I continue on with Nursing or find a different healthcare route? If you have any tips or suggestions I will surely appreciate it Thank you so much & God Bless
I have a question if I remember right you said you usually work on a medical surgical floor right. what do you usually do on a medsurg floor. do you pass a lot of meds. do LPNs and CNA works on the med surg floor with under your supervision I know LPNs can work on a floor such as medical surgical floor. I think the medical surgical floor is the best unit for me to work on I think if I was a nurse right now.
Hi Tim!
Long time no see :)
Yes on the med surg unit you can pass a lot of medications... just depends on what is going on with the patient.
I do think that it is a good place to work :) since I float to different units all the time, I really like working med surg.
I hope this helps!
Talk to you soon!
Much Love,
- Caroline
thank you for sharing
Your welcome Tony :)
xoxo
- Caroline
I love your videos, but in this one you make it seem like it's so easy to just go anywhere you want in nursing. I took me 2 years to find a job and I am stuck in the first place that would hire me, psych. I do not like psych. Also I hate the hospital setting, but I am having a difficult time getting out of this setting. First job out of school so no real medical skills and out of school for almost 5 years. I want to work in a M-F no holiday, night or weekends setting, such as school, Drs office or Occupational Health, however I get no callbacks for any of these positions. Also I don't want to spend thousands to go back to school either. I already have 2 Bachelor degrees, nursing and accounting and I am so close to leaving nursing after only 3 years to go back to the less stressful desk job of accounting. Please don't make it sound so easy to leave a setting you hate, when places aren't hiring those without lots of experience.
Fay Nee OMG I feel exactly the same as you. I am not sure if I should quit nursing entirely and star over or look for something else because the jobs I am interested in are not calling me back. For some people is lame to want to have a life after been a nurse. I also want weekends off and holidays to spend eith my family and I know working in a Clinic would full fill that but they don’t consider me. What did you end up doing?
Hi was just wandering if you had an idea of some of tthe work or task icu nurses do, the kind of knowledge, skills and eduction they have to have, if you have been on that ward I’ve been trying to plan out my goals and would like a better idea of that path. Thank you so much.
Hi can you please tell us your story from the beganing like how old were you when you went to nursing school ?
yvanne Joassaint Hi Yvanne! Sure! I will place that on the request list :) thanks so much for letting me know what you want to see!!
xoxo
- Caroline
The reason I ask it's because my daughter wants to become a nurse and she had a bit of challenge in her life and I Start looking at your video's and I show it to my daugther and she looks up to you now and she's not giving about going to nursing school thank you so much
Have you ever thought about becoming a nurse practitioner Caroline?
Rhiannon Christine Yes, I'm thinking about it :)
***** how do you as a nurse deal with people die?
Sooo helpful thanks !
Anytime!!
So glad you liked it!!
I'm going to make the video for you soon!!
Wait for it lol :)
ttys!!
- Caroline
***** Yay! So excited to watch it! I'll def be on the look out for it! :)
Like to know where (state) to pursue an Anesthesia career that does not involve taking a GRE test ?
May I ask which RN positions that have only day-shift and weekends off?
Public health
Surgical RNs in a surgery center usually don't work weekends and when home health RNs are able to make their own schedules... they don't work weekends either!
Hey guys, is it weird for a guy to become a RN? One more thing I can't make up my mine on either becoming a paramedic or a RN? Can y'all please help me out with this questions. Thanks.
sister please tell me the benefits of passing nclex?
Hi Caroline, I found this video really helpful! In fact I absolutely love your RUclips channel. I am trying to decide what to be in life. And Nursing is one of the careers I'm considering! Your videos have helped me gather information to help narrow down my career search. And for that I am very thankful! Please keep the videos coming :)@Kimchea
can i teach high school science or math with my bachelors degree in nursing? im currently working on my bsn please get back to me i want to be a nurse but i want to teach in the future :)
How to choose the right nursing specialty career??? When you don’t know what you want to do next...
The non hospital specialties jobs that you described in the middle of this video are not easy accessible. I have a BSN AND 5 years experience in acute hospital thru registry.I HAVE DONE A TONE OF APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS WITH NO POSITIVE OUTCOMES. THE HIRING PROCESS IS BASED ON NEPOTISM, FAVORITISM AND RACIAL PROFILING. THIS IS MY CONCLUSION. NURSING FIELD IS BASED ON THE INEQUALITY, AND INJUSTICE AND I AM IN THE PROCESS OF QUITTING THIS HORRIBLE FIELD
I did my nursing but never worked as a nurse hate it so much everywhere I go nurses are so nasty makes me hate the job. It's been a while I dunno whether to go back or just change to something else
i hate nursing wht can i do
wow I didn't realize there are so many nurses feel the way I do. So tired of nursing.
You can work from home like me. Just uploaded work from home jobs
Gapus
Dam your ears and lips are giving me SVT girl!
Thank you!!!! LOL!
Yay! You saw it!!
So glad you did :)
I hope you love it!!
Have a fantastic night!!
xoxo
- Caroline