text: If you are far into the program, I would stick it out and finish it up.  Nursing careers can take a lot of directions.  A lot of nurses who decide they aren't interested anymore in hands-on nursing go into management, training, or even research fields.  There are also a WHOLE HUGE number of nurses doing jobs other than nursing because they've become disenchanted with the pay and working conditions in our current healthcare morass.  Which is to say that a nursing degree tells employers that while you may be trained as a nurse, you are educated, you are trainable, you have certain transferable skills, etc.\n\nIf you are still early in your program - maybe different.  In that case you may want to do a quick gut check and maybe change direction before you get too far invested.  A career or guidance counselor may be able to help you.  If nothing else you may want to switch to a liberal arts type of program that gets you a general degree and doesn't lock you into a field.