how did you decide to get your NP?

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I'm just trying to figure out if this is the right path for me, and I was just wondering how you decided to go on to get your NP, or did you always plan on it?

Right now I'm doing a 1+1 type thing: about to get my LPN, start RN in the fall. So if I decide to do this, I need to start gearing up to apply to BSN and then NP. The great news is that there is a big university in town with pediatric NP and neonatal NP programs and I really feel like that's what I would like to do.

I'm a single mom of a 4yr old, so the idea of so much more time in school is kind of daunting, but at the same time we were told that we need our MSN by 2015 if we want to be grandfathered into the whole doctorate level nursing requirement that is coming. So there is that time pressure looming. Otherwise I do think I'd take a break until my son is older.

So, what do you think? How is it going for you?

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Specializes in Critical Care, Orthopedics, Hospitalists.

I'm one of those people who "always knew I'd be a nurse!" I spent a week with a Nurse Practitioner my senior year of high school, loved her job, and decided that was what I wanted to do! So, I've always planned on getting my NP, though I didn't really think I'd go back so soon!

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Specializes in family, internal, pediatric.

I was a respiratory therapist, wanted to know more, 10 years later graduated with my RN, went on immediately to a BSN pathway program, graduated 16 months later, I went one day a week, 8 hours, did alot of work on line, volunteer hours in the evening and made it through.

I decided in my RN program that I would go on for NP, I brought my sons to a large pediatric group, saw the NP and liked her.

5 years after my BSN, graduated with my MSN, FNP. I like what I do very much. I would suggest a pathway program for you which would be shorter.

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