Switching from nursing to premed?

I received an associates degree in nursing and then pursued my goal of becoming a physician. Like you, I became enamored with the Science of Medicine, and the Physiology, Pathology, and Anatomy were my favorite parts of nursing school ( and were not near as in depth as I had hoped). Because I was in an ASN program, I decided to stick through the program and after graduating I worked as an RN while starting my premed classes in earnest. I actually went for a completely new degree in Biology, for two reasons. One, I couldn't stand any more of the nursing style classes, they were a bore to me. Secondly, the degree in Biology was more useful credit wise and gave me time to further increase my GPA (nursing school is kind of hard on the GPA, at least where I went). So, with that in mind, this would be my recommendation to you.

If you are nearly complete with nursing school ie, one year, I would continue with your studies and reap the reward of making a decent salary and boosting your "EC" background in healthcare.
If the above doesn't apply, then I would consider just switching degrees and focusing on the hard sciences since you're actually interested in those. Either route you take you will be exposed to more sciences (med school pre reqs must be taken regardless.

If you're in a bachelors program for nursing, I doubt you would have taken too many nursing specific classes at 2 years in? If so transferring out won't hurt too much. For me, when I transfered it was like dumping half my degree down the toilet, as the nursing credits didn't count at all.

Regardless, you have a good GPA and if you make sure to volunteer and maybe get some research with a solid MCAT you'll be golden. Just be sure to have a strong idea of "why medicine, not nursing." It will come up in interviews.

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Switching from nursing to premed?