Major choice: Pharmacy or Nursing?

sasha2014
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:58:14 +0000

Pharmacy can also take you to working close with people up close and personal, only in different ways; some pharmacists who work in hospitals will do things like administer flu shots etc. It really takes a lot of dedication to be one. I would do pharmacy if I were contemplating both. You could go lots of place with either degree, but I think pharmacy would have a better payoff. There isn’t just retail or clinical to go into either. You can work for the corporations were meds come from in testing them and stuff to make sure they’re effective. Ah, a lot.

SO but anyways ah yeah my dad is a pharmacist who graduated from UT. Maybe I’m biased in that way. But I have a nurse in my family too. The work seems to be just as demanding in either field. As far as the chemistry component goes, yeah I’ve talked to current pharm majors and they say after the first few years, it becomes second nature to them. Like all things really. You’d have time to get better at everything once you got to UT as far as chem v. bio.

There’s good opportunities here too. I see a lot of pharmacy students shadowing and interning at the pharmacy on campus and then there’s hospitals around Austin too like St. David’s - works for either field you decide.

So there’s my vote for pharmacy!