Should I go into Nursing or PA

Hello, I am 31 year old male with BS and MS in engineering and thinking of going to stable carreer. I like the fact that Nurses have stable jobs and pay is not bad. I worked in Healthcare environment before and considered doing Md/DO programs but being in school for next 10 years is not attractive to me. I would like to go in surgery field if I am going to go into it but not sure how much interactions to surgery RNs actually have. Will it be even wise for me to go into nursing if I am interested in doing hands on surgery or should I look into PA instead (not sure if PAs can even do surgeries). What do you think? Thanks for your help.
The roles for RNs and PAs is VASTLY different. PAs do not perform surgeries-I don't know if they assist in any way-the surgical PA I worked with basically rounded on patients after surgery and performed minor procedures such as wound debridement. RNs do scrub into surgeries-they are not the ones cutting/suturing, etc. They monitor the patient and maintain sterile technique, among other things. PAs work under the supervision of a physician, they can write orders for some things and help the physician create a treatment plan. RNs do not create medical plans of care (ordering drugs, performing surgery) but we are not just order-followers. Bedside nurses assess patients, carry out physician orders but also use nursing measures to impact patient outcomes. It's more direct/hands on. However, that is only a late-night, brief definition. I suggest you go to the Occupational Outlook Handbook and look up the entries for each career pathBTW, if you are referring to PA vs. NP, that's a different ballgame.
Just re-read your post, and honestly I don't think as a PA you will be doing "hands-on surgery".
Nurse practitioners have wider scopes of practice than PAs in NYS.