Considering LPN?

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I posted this on the general nursing student forum and got very few replies so I figured I'd try here! I was accepted into a BSN program for this fall but have to pay out of state tuition. I thought I was going to be geting the WUE scholarship but since I was admited to the nursing program I am no longer getting it! So between tuition and two kids in daycare I will not be able to afford nursing school in the fall. I'm considering staying here and working as a CNA for another year and hoping my application for the BSN program is accepted again next fall once I am a resident. This program is 2.5 years and considered one of the best here in my new state.

My other option is that there is one community college in my home state that is still taking applications for their LPN program in the fall. I can not find any ADN programs or BSN programs still taking applicaitons. It is first come first serve so I'm not even sure if I will get my application in in time, they only have four spots open. If I do get it all of the tuition and supplies will be paid for by grants so I will not have to worry about scholarships or loans. The program is 12 months and there is a LPN-RN bridge at the school that does not have a work requirement if you do their LPN program and are not a transfer. The bridge is another academic year of 9 months. So this would take 21 months to become a ADN-RN.

So which would you do?

Thansk

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I have four kids and had a couple of choices. Apply to the rn program this winter and take anatomy and nursing school side by side, they advised me to wait a year to get my pre-requisites in order saying that would be too hard. But I did t want to wait a whole year so I'm going to bridge. I figure I'll get my rn pre Reqs in order when I'm working for a year which my college requires to bridge.

For is with four kids we need income as quickly as possible. I'm paying about $400 a week this summer for daycare to allow me to go to school. I just cannot afford it for the extended length of time it would take to go straight to rn.

I think it really depends on your financial situation and how quickly you need to work. I know a local hospital will help pay for college later too so that's a better option for me to have as well. If I were young I would go straight trough :)

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My financial situation is quite dire! I need to work ASAP and might even just move back to CA to work as a CNA since daycare is subsidized to cover all of it instead of only about half of it!

I am number three on the wait list for one of the LPN programs I am trying to apply to, it was first come first serve and I just applied Friday. The other program says I have to wait to have a transcript review first then I can apply. I only have ten days left so I'm not sure I will get the application in on time:( I was really hoping for the second school because they are in my dream location in the mountains but the first school where I am number three on the waitlist is in a prison town. But hey prisons mean more jobs in healthcare right?

I'm really hoping being number three on the wait list is good enough to get me in and hear from them soon since I need to make a plan of some sort now that I've basically give up on my BSN dream:(

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