My Fight to Answer the Call of Nursing

onepowerfullady, LPN

My fight to become a nurse was not like many. One day I went to work in my old career as a Human Resource Generalist only to find out that my job was being outsourced! It was pitiful because it all happened on my 33^rd birthday and it was right before Christmas. My hours had already been cut, I lost my vehicle to repossession, and I was dangling by the thread to keep a roof over my family's head.

Our manager didn't even have the guts to let us all know. I cried for three days straight and did not get out of the bed until my husband came into the room to tell me that now was a great time to go to nursing school and start a new life in what I love doing the most...helping people.

My husband's words must've been a divine intervention because I sprang out of the bed to begin my search. The big issue here in my state is that the waiting list to get into nursing school is long...point blank! I ran up on a proprietary school in my area was offering a pilot program for LPN, II. I immediately applied and went by the school to start the process. Upfront, I already knew that this program was in the early stages of accreditation with our state.

Many told me that I was crazy to do sign up for this program, but I took it as an opportunity to pave the way for another person to change their lives into a career of giving. I had a normal run through like any admissions to a nursing school until there was a phone call from the head of admissions that things had changed since I attended this school. There was a time in my life where I was sick and I had to withdraw from this school's Network Engineering program three times. My case had to be appealed to the VP of the region in which he told me no. I told him that I was not taking no for an answer. I got the number to the CEO of this school!

Yes, you read this correctly, the CEO of the school to look at my case and allow me to attend this school. After numerous back and forth calls he decided to let me in.

Can you believe it?

While in nursing school we had a Director of Nursing who was pretty savvy in this whole accreditation thing and a president at the end of my first quarter there decided to leave. Our whole accreditation was in danger.

Since our school is a proprietary school so many in our region were against us becoming accredited and many were starting to wonder if they had made the right choice in coming to the school. I, on the other hand, had faith all along that it was all going to work out. A new DON and a new president came to the school and vigorously worked to get the whole accreditation thing turned around.

There were even close calls where we didn't know what was going to happen next, but more than half of us stuck around and finished the program with good grades. No one gave them to us. It was super tough and on top of that we had to deal with the community criticizing us for not being patient in waiting to go to another school of nursing. There were times when we had to drive over two hours to a clinical because of all of the bad press our school was getting from this whole ordeal.

Some of my classmates had a lot of things riding on becoming licensed and it worked out in their favor in the end. Not only did our school gain initial accreditation, we all got a stipend until we could take our boards, and it built our character and faith in the Lord!

Here I am now..... a graduate LPN and I am now attending one of the top schools in the United States working to obtain my BSN! It is indeed an honor to not only be accepted into the school, but to obtain a scholarship is a great honor! I feel that if I had never gone through that test of faith, I would never in a lifetime become the true nurse and academic I am today! I would never advise anyone to do what we did, but I am so glad that we did! Hallelujah!

My Fight to Answer the Call of Nursing

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