Can you work in the LVN-RN program?

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Hi all!

I am taking my last prerequisite to apply to an RN program this spring (I'm already an LVN). However, many people have been telling me that you cannot work while in the RN program. That it is too much, and so on.

Is it doable? I have an excellent job where there isn't too much to do on shifts and I usually am able to study 4 hours or so of the 8 hour shift. I'd obviously be part time when I go to the program. I was just wondering what you all thought?

Thanks

Specializes in LTAC, Telemetry, Thoracic Surgery, ED.

ADN is associate degree nurse (RN)

Did you work when you were in the LVN program?

Specializes in Med/Surg.

Yes, I worked while in a full-time LPN-to-RN program. I worked about 24 hours a week, and that felt like enough to me. BUT...I do not have children (yet), and had a very supportive husband who makes good money to help me out. I was very fortunate. A lot of the girls who had to work full-time worked a 'weekend option' job, in which they worked 2 12 hr. shifts on the weekends, and were paid for 3 shifts a week. You may want to look into a job like that if you are going back full-time. Good luck to you!

-Kacy

Specializes in L&D.

:saint: I'm starting to feel a bit Anxious over this next semester. Since I left my previous job and took this new job, they don't have a weekend program for the LPNs..only the RNS. So I took a job Mon-Fri 3-11pm. No weekends. But I told them I have class on tues and thurs when I took the job. So theyre looking to see if they can put me on somewhere on 7-3p those 2 days. Problem is, the pace of the floor is Fast, and there is no down time. So if I'm working all week and going to school WHEN will I have time to study?

Im really starting to worry about it. Im thinking maybe I should of taken the local job that paid less.....but was on a assisted living floor with LOTS of time to study lol.

Helpppppp!! How do you all deal with working fulltime and school fulltime. I carry the benefits so I have to work the hours.......

For me I am have four more classes. Of course, those are the hard ones. I am 46 and I figure around 50 I should have my Rn. I know I will have to work. So I am just going to have to do it. I don't want to get in debt. So I will do what it takes, because the possibilites are endless!!!:nurse:

Anyone out there starting school over 40 like me????????:bluecry1:

Specializes in L&D.
Anyone out there starting school over 40 like me????????:bluecry1:

Specializes in floor to ICU.
It has to be doable for me. No one's going to pay my bills.

:yeahthat:

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

I think you ought to stop trying to figure out if you need to be doing the things other people are telling you you should do or start thinking for yourself. What qualified them to be experts in this? It sounds like you have your own situation well in hand. Don't let the things that other people say upset your life. If you begin to notice that working and going to school at the same time are taking too much a toll on you, I would hope that you would be able to solve your own problems and make the right decisions to correct and deal with the stress in your life that will keep you in school. You have to have a bit of skepticism when it comes to advice--even the advice I'm giving you now. Only YOU know what is going on in your life and how you are likely to respond to stressors. Listen to these people, smile politely, go about your business. As an RN you are going to have to learn to make decisions using critical thinking and then stand by them. People will offer up their opinions, some good, some bad. But, ultimately, you are the one in charge of the final determination of what to do. Are you a leader or a follower?

When I went back to get my BSN I went to school full time and was working full time. I was able to handle that quite well until I got to my last year of classes. I could tell, on my own, that my school work load was going to increase and that I was going to have to make some changes which is what I did. I didn't need anyone to tell me how to handle my own affairs although I did consider some of the opinions people gave me whether I asked for them or not. Don't throw your own freedom to think and act on your own behalf away so easily.

Definitely can be done......can be challenging, but what's life without a good challenge. I've been working as an LPN for 8 yrs, been in school it seems like forever (part-time), working fulltime, fulltime mother. Just like someone said, bill must be paid, you have to bite the bullet and just do it....I'm starting to sound like a commercial......dedication and willpower is some of the things you need, oh yea, and someone's shoulder to cry on from time to time.....mine is dry right now if you ever need it......good luck in you decision:nurse:

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