Double major

[Trickster]

Hey everyone. This is long but its my future!
COllege is coming up soon, well next year but itll be here soon.
I know what i definatly want to major in, psychology. I love it, i read all about,love helping people with problems, i got a passion for it and whenever i see something on tv or a book related to it, i will be so focused so im not confused there lol.
But i was thinking of having a dual major in nursing with it. Psychologist as many may know have to get high degrees to be renowned and more credible. And i wanna have a Ph.D in it or Psy.D. and that takes time. So i was thinking i could be a nurse while i get that high degree. Now i love working with people and nursing i only need an associate degree to be a registred nurse.
The problem is should i do that? Because itll be alot of work to do both at the same time and im not sure how hard dual majoring is. Also on an added note, could someone give me an in-depth detail of ALL the things nurses do. i got a good hook on what they do but id like a little more detail.

[Reverie]

Psych is pretty easy to combine with another major, in my opinion, especially something that's related, such as nursing. Then again, my major has almost twice as many requirements as psych, so I might be biased here.

Just get ahead in high school by taking math, introductory sciences, and general education classes. AP or IB classes are good for both credit and background knowledge, however, I found community (Junior) college classes to be better in all respects.

If you are ahead, doing a double major will be much more manageable.

Also, if you find that it's too much, you could consider minoring in one or the other.

[INFERNO]

I'm doing a double major with a minor and one of the majors is psychology and am in my fourth out of five years at university. When the majors are related, you can learn about the same things from different views to have it reinforced and better understand it. But you'll still need to do more work which does make it harder. I actually added on the minor later on because I liked some other stuff and decided I could handle that while still doing my double major. If the majors are not related, it can be more challenging. But it all boils down to your understanding of the concepts because some understand things quickly and have a passion for it. If you can handle the load, then do it but the only way to know is by doing it.

For psychology, there are many different types of it and in first-year, it's a general overview of most of them. So although you like helping people and psychology, you have different routes of how to do this and different perspectives of study. Myself, I'm doing a biological psychology (neuroscience) as well as abnormal psychology and forensic psychology. Forensic psychology, such as with profiling that's often on TV that you may have seen isn't a first-year course and may not be taught in first-year at all. It often is a third-year course.

I'm going to assume that when you want to know what a nurse does, you mean a psychiatric nurse. Their jobs are very much like other fields are but there are some differences. They all administer the medication; responsible for a set of patients as the wards often are not large; work with doctors, social workers, therapists, patients and visitors; help with restraining patients; help with the activities and programs that all patients involved in; help with other personal needs; may transport patients for testing on other floors and monitor which patients can be allowed off of the ward. During the sessions with the doctor and/or therapist, the nurse may attend or not.

Main differences with other areas, such as emergency nurses, are the types of patients they deal with because usually they don't have IV's, catherers and other devices that require them to be bed-ridden so they can walk around. This brings security risks with escaping patients, attacks and more patient-nurse interaction (can be good). They also have to document and report to not only doctors and other nurses, but to therapists and social workers. They also have a greater amount of security and corrections officers (officers transporting prisoners who may also help with security of other patients) because the patients are not bed-ridden.