Nursing to Doctor

Are there any nurses (or former nurses) who decided to go to medical school after becoming a nurse? Anyone felt like like you wanted more control in your field and to direct care plans instead of just following them?

How was your experience with transitioning from being a nurse to becoming a doctor? Why did you choose to pursue the medical model rather than continuing in the nursing model (MSN, DNP)?
If you think nurses just "follow care plans," you still have a lot to learn (I saw from your other post you haven't yet started nursing school). Nurses have a HUGE influence over patient care. You may or may not have seen much of this, since you work in a SNF, but when you get some time on the hospital floor, you'll see how much nurses are really in charge. The MDs write the orders, but half of the time, it's because a nurse told them, "My patient needs orders for X, Y & Z," and the nurse can take a phone order to get things rolling, and the MD comes in later and signs it. Nurses are the ones with patients for significant portions of the day. MDs may spend 5 minutes with them here and there.You're right that the medical model and the nursing model are different. The medical model looks at a disease process. The nursing model looks at a patient as a whole.
Since this is a nursing site you will probably not have too many nurses here who are MD's. You might want to find a student MD site.Me personally I never wanted to be an MD. I didn't want call. I didn't want an office. I didn't want staff.I have found plenty of autonomy in critical care and emergency medicine. I see that you are a pre-nursing student and a sophomore in college and want to work with babies, children and L&D. Are you already in a program?Yes there are nurses who change to medical school to be MD's after being an RN and they are sucessful MD's There are nurses who continue their education to be an APRN, CRNA, or DNP and have independent practice.
Excuse my lack of lack or terminology for saying they just "follow care plans", that's not the way I was trying to get my point across. I understand nurses have a huge influence on patient care, as they are on the front line.
Quote from pre-unsureExcuse my lack of lack or terminology for saying they just "follow care plans", that's not the way I was trying to get my point across. I understand nurses have a huge influence on patient care, as they are on the front line.My point was just whether or not anyone felt like they wanted to make an even bigger impact on patient care, involving more medically-related knowledge and chose to go to med school.
Many people told me I'm not suited for nursing because I'm "too smart". College professors and my mom told me this. I began to wonder if nurses ever got to act independently or if they just followed orders.I can tell you, I'm a new grad LVN and I do work independently. I do make important decisions that impact my patients/residents life. I am in charge of an entire building when I work PMs or NOCs. I supervise aides. I implement nursing interventions independently. I do assessments. The work is not mind numbing, nor is it simply following Drs orders.As a nurse, I do write care plans. I also get the wonderful opportunity to do patient teaching. Sure, the doctor approves meds I'm teaching on, but I get to put the info into laymans terms so my patient will hopefully be compliant. I get the chance to sit and talk with my patients and hear their concerns and tailor my teaching to their needs. As a nurse, I am able to help the "whole patient" and not "just" treat their symptoms with a pill or procedure.That being said, one day, I do think I want to be a nurse practitioner so that I can prescribe medical treatments as well as continue to talk with patients and do teaching in a hopefully, meaningful manner that gets through to them.
Quote from pre-unsureExcuse my lack of lack or terminology for saying they just "follow care plans", that's not the way I was trying to get my point across. I understand nurses have a huge influence on patient care, as they are on the front line.
Quote from pre-unsureExcuse my lack of lack or terminology for saying they just "follow care plans", that's not the way I was trying to get my point across. I understand nurses have a huge influence on patient care, as they are on the front line.
How was your experience with transitioning from being a nurse to becoming a doctor?