How long did nursing school take for you?

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Im just curious how many years it took for all ur nursing school?

Was it worth it?

how many college(s) did you go to?

and what degree or diplomas did you earn?( if you want to say)

congrats..

im a pre-nursing student and hoping i'd be done before 30 :lol2:

Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.

Three year diploma program.

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Specializes in ED.

ok I think that I am the longest. how about it will have taken me 5 years to get ann assoc. degree. One year of pre-req's, 2 years on the never ending waiting list ( still taking classes part time while on the list. ) then 2 years for the full time nursing program. So in december it will be 5 years and still well worth it. By the way if I had known that the waiting list was that long (they don't tell you or I should say wont) I would have gone straight for my BSN

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Specializes in 66H.

started in aug 03 full time at one of the state universities. school did not have a nursing program but did have a pre-nursing program. i applied to 3 universities and got accepted by all 3. made my pick and graduated in may 07 (3yrs and 9months). i was 33 when i started back and have a family who supported me. i went full time every summer and my first two years i took a lighter load of only 12 credit hours while in nursing school took 15 credit hours per semester. i am glad that i went the bsn route and would not have changed that. i want to continue on with my education.

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Specializes in Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner.

Okay i was in school for 5 years total 2002-2007, no transfers. I went to college as soon i graduated high school. it was 2 years prereqs for the school, then i applied to the program got in, that took 3 years to complete. that is just how my program was ran. I recieved my BSN. Yes it was worth it. I worked long and hard and had fun my entire tim3 of college. i actually miss it. Now im a new grad for the med-surg unit.

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battpos,

do you still regret going the BSN route? I am in a sort of similar situation where I am on a two year ADN wait list or I can start in Fall 2008 as a nursing student at a private school. I have 15K in loans from my BA in Psychology and if I take the private school route, I will probably have loans between 60-70K. My friend who is a charge nurse says to go the BSN route in case I ever want to go into management.

thoughts?

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from june 2003 to april 2007. it took me 4 years un Nursing School, im a regular students, no back subjects or failing grades. good for me, because our tuition fee is really expensive.

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i started my pre-req's in the fall of 2004 and will graduate in december of this year. i was 28 when i started and will be 32 once i graduate. (my b-day is on the fault line-aug. 30th) i also took classes for 2 summers in between. so, 3 years total for me and i went full-time all the way.

i began at one community college and got my cna certificate there and completed most of my pre-req's there then applied at another community college for the program and got in on 1st try. so, two schools and 3 years for my adn.

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I'm a 2nd degree student (took me 7 years to get the 1st one), so technically it's taken me 8 years (I'll graduate in December) to get my nursing degree. I think I beat everyone one here LOL!

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Specializes in LDRP.
Im just curious how many years it took for all ur nursing school?

Was it worth it?

how many college(s) did you go to?

and what degree or diplomas did you earn?( if you want to say)

congrats..

im a pre-nursing student and hoping i'd be done before 30 :lol2:

Um, I did my pre reqs part time. Started the program and moved after first semester. Moved back and jumped back in where I left off. Part time, without the move included, it will have taken me 4 yrs if/when I grad this Dec. Thought I would be done @ 33, now it is 35! :) I'm over it, now!:uhoh3: (Getting an Associate degree and had 3 yrs towards a psych degree which cut some of my pre-reqs out.)

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Specializes in being a Credible Source.
I'm a 2nd degree student (took me 7 years to get the 1st one), so technically it's taken me 8 years (I'll graduate in December) to get my nursing degree. I think I beat everyone one here LOL!

Don't feel bad, it's taken me even longer...

5 years for my first BS

3 semesters part time in grad school while working = about 1 year

3 years through another course of study from which I left before finishing my degree

1 semester in vocational training

1 semester to finish my NS prereqs

NS = 5 semesters in 18 months

Grand total = 26 semesters over 11-1/2 years resulting in a non-nursing BS and an MSN

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Specializes in LTC, MDS Cordnator, Mental Health.

I was 45 when I went to back to school it took 10months to do the LPN 3Semesters and 4semesters to do my RN. I start my pre-req for the RN to masters this fall

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I took an accelerated 11-month Bachelors program at in philadelphia. hard but worth it!

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