It took me a while to find this messageboard, but google sure gave me a helping hand here. Anyway, I was just wondering, as I'm currently at my first year of studying nursing and I still don't have a clue on what I would like to do later on. I've been through a 4 week "practical course" at an retirement home, and although I got through it, I found out that I'd prefere not to wipe peoples behind for the rest of my life. So therefor I was wondering what field within nursing you are in, and if your job consists of lot of "ass-wiping", washing etc. ? I was perhaps thinking about going into anesthesia(spellcheck please) or maybe psy. or something like that later on, but haven't made up my mind just yet. Thankfully I have a couple of years left to decide. I mean, I know there are tons of directions you can go within nursing, but I hardly know any. But do you have any suggestments on exciting fields to go into?
And another thing I was wondering about, is how much a RN usually earns in USA. I know it varies a lot from what kind of job you have and so on, but I was just thinking about the averge, cause I have no idea at all. I live in Norway, and I'm studying here, but I have a dual citizenship and tons of family in Florida, so I was thinking about maybe going over there for a couple of years just for the experince. From what I've heard the license I get from my nursing degree here, is valid in America, so I should be all set.
Sorry if this seems as a hopeless thread, but I just have a lot of questions, and don't know any male nurses so I'm having trouble asking people about this kind of stuff.
Thanks in advance.