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It seems that alot of people are doing nursing for a second career. Just curious. How old is everyone? Who has kids? Is it a mixed group in the professional part of the nursing program (I am still doing pre-reqs)? Where are you living and what school do you plan on going to. BSN or ADN? What area of nursing do you want to go into?
I am 32, will be 33 in August. I am married with 3 kids. I live in Phoenix and will be going to Arizona State University for my BSN. I am doing the BSN rather than the ADN because I would like to be a CNM. Although I am also interested in ICU too.
It seems that alot of people are doing nursing for a second career. Just curious. How old is everyone? Who has kids? Is it a mixed group in the professional part of the nursing program (I am still doing pre-reqs)? Where are you living and what school do you plan on going to. BSN or ADN? What area of nursing do you want to go into?I am 32, will be 33 in August. I am married with 3 kids. I live in Phoenix and will be going to Arizona State University for my BSN. I am doing the BSN rather than the ADN because I would like to be a CNM. Although I am also interested in ICU too.
Hi to everyone!
I'm 27, turning 28 on the 19th of this month. I am married with 2 kids: a very energetic 4 yo (playing with her is my exercise for the day) and a happy 3 month old (she's always smiling--gas maybe?). My husband is a paramedic, and is very supportive of my career decision. I graduated with a BA in Accounting and Information Systems and have lived in NY for all my life.
This Fall, I have been accepted at a local community college for my pre-reqs. Plan A: I plan to go to Columbia University, as they have a 3 year program for "non-Nurse College Students" called ETP (Entry to Practice program). Upon graduation, an ETP graduate obtains both a Baccalaureate and a Master's degree in Nursing. Plan B: if I don't get in to this school, I plan to go to Pace University, as they have a very good program as well. If not there, then the next school, and the next. Point is, I don't plan on quitting no matter what, as Nursing has been my true calling. My ultimate goal is to become a Nurse Anaesthesist.
Happy Birthday to Manna. Pisces women rock!...LOL!
Take care everyone and regards.
I'm 38, not married, no kids.
I used to sell real estate...but not very well so I was looking for some sort of career change.
I got interested in nursing after my mother was injured in a car accident. She had a broken bone in the pelvis and couldn't move around at all, She spent over 6 months virtually confined to bed and it took almost 2 years to get her back to the point where she could completely care for herself.
I moved back in with her to take care of her during that time and that experience caused me to become interested in nursing.
It seems that alot of people are doing nursing for a second career. Just curious. How old is everyone? Who has kids? Is it a mixed group in the professional part of the nursing program (I am still doing pre-reqs)? Where are you living and what school do you plan on going to. BSN or ADN? What area of nursing do you want to go into?I am 32, will be 33 in August. I am married with 3 kids. I live in Phoenix and will be going to Arizona State University for my BSN. I am doing the BSN rather than the ADN because I would like to be a CNM. Although I am also interested in ICU too.
I'm 50! And am starting in the fall. ADN. That was the first program to call and I jumped at it.
I'm 41, single mom to a 19 year-old, was working on pre-reqs for an Accelerated BSN/MSN program due to start this May. Money issues and a health problem have reared their ugly heads (again), so as of right now I'm not taking classes and had to withdraw from the program I was going to start. I'm trying to see the good in all this, but I feel like it's one road-block after another sometimes. Anyway, I still have my goal of becoming a psychiatric nurse practitioner someday; it'll just take a little longer.
Hi all:
I am turning 36 in March and am now taking the first two nursing classes for a bachelor's at RIC in Rhode Island. If I go through both summer sessions, I should graduate in the Spring of 2006! I then plan on getting my Masters in either Psych NP or Health Administration. But who knows, by then I could change my mind and decide that I want to practice in a different field of nursing.
I am divorced with no children but have 2 furbabies, Zeus, a chow and Persephone, a great pyrenees. Up till now, I have been a legal assistant/office administrator at a law office and have slowly been taking my prereq's and general ed's for the past few years in order to obtain my goal of being a nurse.
I think that there is definitely some advantage to being an older student; for myself particularly, I feel that I take my classes with more seriousness than I would have earlier on in my life.
Good luck to all........
Carla
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Hi, I'm 31, married, with 2 kids (4 1/2 and 3) and taking my pre-req's right now. Got 5 more to go, so I'd be looking at entering the ADN program in the next 18 months - 2 years depending on how I schedule my classes.