Finally...A sigh of RELIEF!!!!

[Futrern]

I've been going to school for almost 3 years straight. I completed my A&P I and II, MTH 100 and Micro all by the summer of 2010(went to school part-time). I went into the RN program in the Fall of 2010 and have been going non stop. Well in the summer of 2011 in my 3rd semester of school I'm sad to say that I did not pass. I needed to make a 78 on my final and only made a 73. But the sad thing about it is I wasn't mortified but just TIRED. I cried one day and went on vacation the next. Well needless to say my advisor asked me if I wanted to go into the LPN program and I told her that would be fine. The whole while I was saying that I didnt want to be an "LPN" I want to be an "RN". Well GOD wanted me to do differently. I just took my path as saying "God didn't think I was seasoned enough just yet".:) Well, I am happy to say that I went into the LPN program and I graduated this month. Please believe that this program was not easy but the information was presented a little differently and I learned more and knew more than I actually thought. On Monday I will be submitting my application to take the NCLEX. I too have heard that the LPN jobs in AL are far, few and in between but I have seen them out there. PLENTY OF THEM!!!!

In the next couple of weeks, I will be taking the NCLEX and going to work those hours to get back into the RN prrogram if God says it's my time....

Congrats to all that have gotten into Nursing programs (whether it be CNA/RN/LPN) and congrats to all that have made it!!!!

[AZMOMO2]

Sometimes our plans just don't coincide with what path we actually take. I myself was gung ho on the RN program. I was planning on one particular program and decided that I would just get a plan B and applied into the LPN program at another location. I nearly procrastinated my way out of applying too, but I did, and that is the program I got into.

Now nearly two years has passed since passing NCLEX... I have a great job and have managed to pull my family from the brink of financial woes and have decided that now is the time to go back to the RN part. Just waiting on the fingerprint card.

Congrats on graduating! Good luck with NCLEX and the job hunt!