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Oct 19, 2009, 11:37 AM
 Re: Nursing School Assistance Originally Posted by Dcrane  Really? Why do you want to switch careers? I'm 39 and feel like I'm way too old-
cause i'm 46 now and gave up being a cop when i had my son - my husband is also a deputy. now that my son is older, i decided i could either go back into law enforcement, starting at the bottom of the ranks, or go into nursing, which is what i have wanted to do since i was in high school. that is why i chose nursing. i really didn't feel like starting over as a cop and deal with all the physical abuse you take on the street. now, if i could have gone back and straight back into what i was doing, as a detective in the vice and narcotics unit, then i might have considered it ...... but when my son asked me a question about "mommy, what did you want to be when you grew up?" and i told him "to be a nurse" and he said to me, "then why don't you become a nurse then?" it was at that moment i decided he was right and decided to pursue my dream of becoming a nurse. i'm slowly climbing the ladder from the bottom ... CNA first, now in school for LPN, then RN, then BSN. and i'm much happier now knowing i am doing something that i've always wanted to do. TMI? if so, sorry   | | No. 12 |
Oct 19, 2009, 12:27 PM
Re: Nursing School Assistance
NO Not TMI-that is great! My dad was a cop and I tried out twice-but it didn't work out for me...I would be put on a waiting list then my application would expire and I would have to start over-anyway I wanted to be a nurse since college and for some reason I never pursued it-so did you like being a CNA? What was your days like? How do you like LPN school?
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Oct 21, 2009, 01:21 PM
Re: Nursing School Assistance
Just to chime in -- I'm 42, with three kids, and have just applied to two nursing schools in my area.
I take the HESI entrance exam tomorrow morning at FAU. All my prereqs are done with the exception of a 6-week health providers course that I start on Monday.
I have been writer and editor, but my hobby, believe it or not, has always been health, medicine, biomedical interventions of certain health issues. I read, research, and study on my own.
I have wanted to be a nurse practitioner for a long time now, and now that my kids are older, it is a good time to do it.
In ten years you will be ten years older, with or without realizing your dream of becoming a nurse. You might as well do it.
I would go for the RN or BSN above the LPN. With either of those you can go to graduate school if desired. A lot of schools have RN Bridge programs to Master's degrees, if you want to be an NP, nurse-midwife, or anesthetist.
Good luck.
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Oct 22, 2009, 07:34 AM
Re: Nursing School Assistance Originally Posted by DawnSue Just to chime in -- I'm 42, with three kids, and have just applied to two nursing schools in my area.
I take the HESI entrance exam tomorrow morning at FAU. All my prereqs are done with the exception of a 6-week health providers course that I start on Monday.
I have been writer and editor, but my hobby, believe it or not, has always been health, medicine, biomedical interventions of certain health issues. I read, research, and study on my own.
I have wanted to be a nurse practitioner for a long time now, and now that my kids are older, it is a good time to do it.
In ten years you will be ten years older, with or without realizing your dream of becoming a nurse. You might as well do it.
I would go for the RN or BSN above the LPN. With either of those you can go to graduate school if desired. A lot of schools have RN Bridge programs to Master's degrees, if you want to be an NP, nurse-midwife, or anesthetist.
Good luck.
What's FAU? What made you decide that the career change is the right time? I guess I'm scared-I really want to do this but it's going to be a big change...
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Oct 22, 2009, 01:56 PM
Re: Nursing School Assistance
Florida Atlantic University http://nursing.fau.edu/
They have an accelerated BSN that is one year long if you already have a BA/BS, a traditional BSN program. They also have an RN to Master's bridge, which I am interested in. I don't think I will get into FAU undergraduate program because they have very few slots for a lot of applicants ( I've heard 600 applicants, 60 slots -- 30 in each program).
I did just take the HESI entrance exam today and got a 94% though, so maybe that will help.
Who knows.
The career change is the right time for me because if I sit at a desk any longer, I will go insane. I need to be up and moving -- kind of an ADHD thing -- that's me. Plus my youngest is 11, and the timing feels right. My daughters will go to the same school next year and one will be driving in a month or so, so she can get herself ( and her sister to school and back if needed). I am over hustling freelance jobs, can't stand working in an office writing web content for some largely pointless website so some guy can get rich, which is what I was doing before. I KNOW I would be an amazing NP, I just know it. That's pretty much it.
Where are you and what schools are you thinking of?
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Oct 22, 2009, 02:32 PM
Re: Nursing School Assistance
How funny! I just moved to Florida a few months ago so I don't know the schools yet-I'm in St. Pete/Tampa area-I was thinking of going for my LPN then doing the bridge to RN-I have a degree already but I heard there is a massive wait list to get into schools-
I'm in Human Anatomy right now and I'll take Anatomy II in the spring, then I'll either apply to LPN or RN school. I have to do this part time as I need a full time job to pay the bills...I think that is why I'm so nervous...I can't do the business thing any longer-I hate sitting all day and not making a difference-my job has no meaning-I was about to enter my second year of my MBA and I can't do it anymore....
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Oct 22, 2009, 03:09 PM
Re: Nursing School Assistance
I understand. My last job was in a small internet company. I only worked part-time (3 kids -- one with special needs), and I worked my fanny off trying to drive traffic to this guy's websites, so he could rake in the big dollars. He was a strange boss - terribly over critical, constantly switching up my projects without letting me complete any of them, couldn't give up control of his stuff -- he would ask me to edit something he did, or do fresh writing -- and I am very good at this -- and he constantly re-edited my edits to include poor grammar, etc., all the while criticizing me.
I am not trying to whine, but it did make me ask this question: who am I helping here?
I was a CNA/phlebotomist quite a while ago and even though it was dirty work ( a lot of poop and blood), I was satisfied at the end of every shift. It made a difference in my life to make a difference in someone else's. That's kind of what makes me tick.
So, just tick off a course or two at a time. It won't be long before your prereqs are done, then your entrance exams, then you'll be in a program. For the record, I would say go for the RN. You want a little sumpin-sumpin under your degree belt when you go for jobs.
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