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Nursing school and nursing are brutal for the most part. You're expected to give so much physically and psychologically, yet go home and take care of a family at the same time. I chose nursing over medical school, because I wanted to stay in Canada and take fewer years of school - little did I know what I was signing up for...

I also chose nursing school because it was fewer years of school...Nursing school is shorter, but that's not a good thing, in a way! We are expected to know enough to write orders and catch medical mistakes, yet we are paid relatively little and have no power to implement the things we see that need to be done for the patients. I like what I do, but I think I deserve more money, for sure.