Re: A Nursing Career Over 50

nothing should stop you! if a 90+ year old lady made it (check out Nola Ochs from Fort Hays State University, KS), why can't you?

there's no age limit for learning! best of luck!

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Totally agree...age should be no barrier.

Best wishes to you and in your career.

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I am 51 and feel called to become a Nurse. I have a BA- I graduated in 1980. What is the best path for me to pursue a career as a nurse? Am I too old - I feel like I am in the prime of my working career! I have no experience in Nursing but lots in working with people.Any advice is appreciated.

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GroovyCindy

You're never too old. I'm 54 and graduated school June 13th & got my LPN licence 8/8/08. If I can do it anyone can. Go with your feelings & good luck

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I'm 50 and just getting started with Excelsior after 20 years in the Army as an 18D and then being "retired" for 7 years. There are many ways to practice nursing - certainly there is a place for older newbies!

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After 30+ years in retail management, I begin my new career next Tuesday as I enter this falls LPN program at the age of 57.

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I am a newly licensed 54 year old nurse. Turn downs and no call backs from interviews as a respiratory therapist were brutal. The blond new grad hottie always got the job I once got at interview. So, nursing is, praise God, different. School, however, was a bit of a shock. Senior moments in a classroom of kids in their twenty somethings--priceless. At graduation I was bestowed the Florence Nightingale Award and was first by months to pass boards..welcome!!

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It's a great idea...that's why I'm doing it. I'm a 55 male, now taking my prereqs. I have a B.A. and a M.S., and need to do something different. It all goes well I'll start school in 2010 and be hitting the job market in 2012. Good Luck to you. Feel free to email me privately.

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There was a guy who started when he was 58 after a life long career of being an accountant. He made it.

There was also a lady in my class who started when she was 65, she was a few sandwiches short of a picnic and was clinically very, very dangerous. She finished too.

Of course, I'm from NZL, a blind gorilla with no arms could get into some of our schools. >_<'

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It's absolutely possible. I work with a nurse who left the financial world and received her RN license at the age of 50.

I'm kinda in the same boat. I left the mortgage business and now I'm pursuing my RN license. Just starting with pre-req's so I'm hoping by 45- 50 I'll have my license ..

I look at it this way. I'll still have at least 20 more years of working left in me at that point?