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    Posted: 11 Apr 2013 at 15:28
Hello All,

I am currently studying a BSc in Psychology, im in my final year and due to graduate in a few months. I have thought long and hard about what I want to do and I keep coming back to being a nurse. I really want to care for and help being and think I'd love being a nurse, but i didn't want to do another undergraduate degree! 

I discovered recently that you can do a PgDip with registration in nursing which acknowledges you have done a degree in something already. I was looking at my options and I definitely don't want to do mental health nursing but I am stuck between adult or children's nursing. I love children I have been brought up around lots of babies and children and had numerous baby sitting and nannying jobs in summers between studying but I don't want to limit my career options too much. 

Id appreciate very much and advice, tips, stories and expertise from nurses or nursing students. :)
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Hi tmeb,

Child Nursing is a relatively narrow speciality. Adult Nursing would undoubtedly give you a broader choice of Nursing opportunities with many specialities to consider as you get more experience.

Getting on well with children is certainly a useful character trait/skill if you chose to go down this route. You would of course also need to be good at looking after children who were not well, plus their anxious parents. Seeing a child in distress can be a lot more heart-wrenching than seeing an adult in pain. This is not meant to put you off just make sure you are you aware that happy and well children are incredibly different to unhappy sick children. You are also always more likely to be dealing with their parents too.

Perhaps you could contact a local hospital with a paediatric unit and say that you are considering child nursing as a career and see if they would let you spend some time on a children's ward to see what went on?

I've worked in both areas although only sporadically with children. They can certainly be equally rewarding.

Nigel
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