I am in an accelerated nursing program and will finish in May of this year. I am also projected to start the MSN portion of this program in August. Essentially, the only experience I will have is from the my clinicals as a BSN student. I'm sure there are posts in regards to this but I think I have a couple of things to consider:
Reasons for continuing on to MSN:
-The material is somewhat fresh
-I've already been accepted
-familiar with the current university
-My family is able to support me for the remaining 3 semesters of this program (I live at home but my parents are getting older and my siblings need help with their children---both my niece and nephew are 10 mo now, I also have a younger sister living at home--13)
-I'm still young and can handle the studying (I'm only 26), I have no major responsibilities(no kids or husband)
Reasons not to go on:
-I have roughly $80,000 in student loan debt and it will prob. cost $40K-$50K to finish
-No experience
---I don't plan to work as an NP right away and would like to work in the ICU of one of the major hospitals here in FL but I am mostly concerned with the debt. I am interested in becoming a family NP but I still want to wait till after my first semester as MSN student to decide
