My girlfriend is a cardiac nurse. She had a love/hate relationship with nursing school haha. it's a ton of work, but she had a lot of really good experiences and got to spend time at the hospital in different areas of nursing so she could choose what she wanted to be.  She ended up graduating top in her class and loves her job now. She said all the hell she went through in school was totally worth it. She's actually going back to school this fall though, so she can become an adult acute care nurse practitioner, which = lots more money haha.