All I want for Christmas is... (the school nurse list)

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Specializes in School Nursing, Ambulatory Care, etc..
Money to go back to school and do LVN.

Not that you asked, but I'm going to give you my opinion anyway. Skip the LVN and go for RN - either ADN or BSN. When I was getting ready to apply to nursing school, I was thinking of getting my LVN because it was a year long program and I could start working and then go back and do a bridge program. At the time, I had a friend that was unit clerking in an ER and she told me to spend the extra year and get the ADN - so many nurse's she worked with did the LVN track with the idea of doing a bridge and got stuck. I took her advice, and it is honestly one of the best things I've done. I graduated with my ADN in 2005, worked a couple of years, and then did my BSN online, graduating in 2011.

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

Here's a thought: add to that long list of school supplies that parents are supposed to send at the beginning of the year (Kleenex, paper towels)

a package of your child's size underwear.

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Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.
Not that you asked, but I'm going to give you my opinion anyway. Skip the LVN and go for RN - either ADN or BSN. When I was getting ready to apply to nursing school, I was thinking of getting my LVN because it was a year long program and I could start working and then go back and do a bridge program. At the time, I had a friend that was unit clerking in an ER and she told me to spend the extra year and get the ADN - so many nurse's she worked with did the LVN track with the idea of doing a bridge and got stuck. I took her advice, and it is honestly one of the best things I've done. I graduated with my ADN in 2005, worked a couple of years, and then did my BSN online, graduating in 2011.

I'll be honest. I can't. And it's not negative thinking. I have Dyscalculia and it makes it very difficult for me to finish my last 3 classes, which would be College Algebra and Chemistry. So because of this, I can't finish my Associates of Science which I need to go into ADN and RN, because either way I need to get to statistics and Chemistry to get into it.

The only one option I have that I can do right now is LVN, because I have all the requirements done.

It's not laziness either. I literally spent $20,000 on school for the past 8 years to get my associates. I did these classes more than 5 times. I'm done and tired and I'm out of money. I rather just get my last class, which is an exercise class and get my associates of arts so I can do the LVN.

If there was a way I can get my associates for just that, I would, but sadly I can't.

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