And nursing school has not started yet!

L&D_2b · Apr 19, 2008

There is so much to do by June 20 honestly I do no where to start.
Study for the Hesi (pass with a 80%)
Get medical records
Fill out paper work
Write 400-500 word essay on "Why I want to be a nurse"
Get my apartment in order
Have my cpr card sent to me
Pass my A&P class this summer
Redo my resume (I work in the business field)
(I was picked for the opportunity to work in a well know hospital here as a CNA and get 85% tuition for LPN paid for)
Come up with the other 4,000 down on nursing school
My husband and I are also moving @ the end of July
If I finish everything I should be starting school in Aug 08
I just feel like I won't be able to get everything done in time

Just remember this quote, "You only see the obstacles when you have stopped focusing on your goal". Now, just keep the LPN license in mind:)

--Marci

DelanaRN, MSN, APRN, NP · Apr 19, 2008

You prepare as you would for anything else. You make a big list and you tackle it, striking items off the list as you complete them.

I hate to tell you, but this is the easy part. When you start LPN School, your current list will seem trivial and "all in a days work"...Seriously, the program I'm in, is that tough. The only way I can get through it is to do as I instructed above....make a list, and just go at it. The hardest part is getting started.

Good luck!! You'll do just fine!

mrsraisinkain · Apr 21, 2008

I am here to second... and third... dconnors's statement. Actually being IN LPN school is so much tougher than the huge laundry list of items I had to complete to get in - and I thought that was huge. I am just starting week 4 of my classes. This week I have clinicals on Tuesday, a Nursing Concepts test on Wednesday over the LPN's scope of practice, a Nursing 100 test on Thursday (on hygiene) and an A&P test on Friday over the skeletal system. Just like the above person said, you just have to bite it off one chunk at a time and the one thing that has kept my head afloat even this long is being ultra-organized!! It's a rough course, but I keep telling myself that balancing all this (plus being a wife and mother) is training me to be an awesome nurse with great multi-tasking skills.

You can do it and it will pay off in the end more (for all of us!!) more than we can imagine!