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1. Orthopedic RN on February 8, 2010 3:23 am

   You will enter into college as a prenursing student. Once you get into the nursing program you will be a nursing student. I would suggest that you just become an LVN first since you only want to work in a doctors office. If you become a RN you will be paid a whole lot lower pay in a doctors office than if you work in a hospital so i wouldn’t go through all the extra work to become an RN if you will be paid like an LVN. You can always bridge up to an RN. If you get a LVN you will be hired right away in a doctors office but if you get your RN you will find it hard to get employment at a doctors office.

2. mischa on February 8, 2010 3:41 am

   It depends on the doctor’s office, some will require some hospital experience where others may not. I would suggest it though, because it helps you to identify problems and the experience is very valuable. You can choose nursing or pre-nursing as your major, it really should not matter. If you chose nursing, sometimes you have an advantage over other students in choosing the classes during the registration process. Pediatric nursing is a specialty Field, you may find that when you go through your clinicals during nursing school that you like other areas too. That is a bonus in nursing, if you get tired or bored in one field you can move on to a different field. Good Luck, it is a wonderful profession.