Become a Nurse without Nursing School

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Anyone know of any opportunities abroad to become a nurse thru apprenticeship rather than thru traditional education?

(I'm fed up with looking for accelerated programs, having to meet bogus requirements, etc. I'd rather just do on-the-job training for 3/4 the pay in some other country. Anyone know of anything like this?)

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. While some of us are working so hard to attain our dream job, others are quick to try to find the easy way out.. Nothing worth having comes that easily. It takes hard work and dedication. Yes, sometimes it's frustrating, but that's what makes it so satisfying in the end. And if you don't think it's worth the hard work, this probably isn't the career for you.

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Disappeared like so many trolls before...

This WAS fun, wasn't it?? I'm beginning to enjoy being a COB.

Alas, I think our witty bon mots have fallen on deaf ears; OP appears to have vanished into the ether. Too bad.

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Travel back in time and if you worked as a 'practical nurse'in WWI and after( ie, trained on the job), when the actual licensure became more common in the late 1940's, you could be grandfathered in and get an LPN lic. without formal schooling. My Nana did it.

OK, back to the derailment....

Quick, to the TARDIS!!

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OP -

Travel back in time and if you worked as a 'practical nurse'in WWI and after( ie, trained on the job), when the actual licensure became more common in the late 1940's, you could be grandfathered in and get an LPN lic. without formal schooling. My Nana did it.

OK, back to the derailment....

Perfect answer. Yes, you can travel back in time to the day when you wouldn't have to know anything about antibiotics (not invented yet), blood gases (not yet), EKGs (just barely in clinical use), IV therapy and electrolytes (ditto), surgical repair of fractures, IM injections, supplemental oxygen, and of course a lot of the people we treat and save now wouldn't be bothering you because they would all be, like, dead ... Such a loooooong list. You could be competent to practice then without much boring education. And no registration in nursing, so no actual, like, enforced standard. Sounds like just what you need.

So let me know how it goes. Drop me a line and I'll tell you where to leave the time capsule for me to find now.

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I want to be a neurosurgeon. A previous poster pointed out that medical school was so much harder than nursing school, so I'll just skip the school part. I'll go straight into an apprenticeship.

I only want to spend 6 months learning before I fly on my own. The reason is, should this not work out, I don't want to waste too much time. I'll switch to orthopedics. I'm looking for the high paying jobs. I need to be able to fund my fancy house and cars. None of that sissy primary care stuff for me. Someone might come in coughing or sneezing and make me sick.

I think I'd be able to do either one of these because it's always been my dream. It doesn't really look that hard because on TV the doctors have plenty of time to hang around the nurses' station and hide out in the linen closet with friends.

Anyone want to be my first patient?

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Walt Whitman it up.

Bonus points if you can write truly haunting poetry along with it.

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Specializes in critical care.
Walt Whitman it up.

Bonus points if you can write truly haunting poetry along with it.

I'd rather Walter White it up. I'm in the empire business. I am the man who knocks. ?!+€#.

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Specializes in ICU/PACU.

You could always go to a regular 4 year college. Nurses can still go to those right?

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

If you really want to become a nurse without attending nursing school, you can join the military, become a medic, and challenge the NCLEX when you get out. New York allows military medics to take the NCLEX-P without going through a nursing program. If you pass, you will be an LPN.

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Specializes in ICU.

There are people who have tried the "short-cut" route to becoming a nurse; they are listed under the "imposter alert" section of my state Board of Nursing.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
There are people who have tried the "short-cut" route to becoming a nurse; they are listed under the "imposter alert" section of my state Board of Nursing.

There's an "imposter alert"??? Hot diggetty, I'm goin' on a search!

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Personally, I kinda like all the knowledge I'm getting in school. It's fun being smart.

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