How many hours can you work in Nursing School?

[IrishItalianRN]

I am starting Nursing School in January and I am wondering how many hours those of you in the FULL TIME program are working and still managing to pull off good grades???

How many hours what is your schedule and when do you study and how late??

I might have to go back to work and maybe even drop out or defer starting this time around which is killing me inside.... but I have to help pay the bills so I will do what I have to do... I was just wondering if (before i decide to put off nursing school, which btw it has taken me 4 years to complete my pre reqs to get in) if it was going to be possible for me to work and go to school FULL-time. I dont have a choice about the full time because it's the program i got into.

HELP!

Thanks for reading!

This is the third place im posting this cuz im really in a pickle and need some advice...

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

I had all the pre-reqs and co-reqs done and just took nursing.

I worked 40 hours (sometimes 32 on exam week as I'd take the evening off before).

I made one B and the rest A's and graduated with a 3.8.

You have to do what you have to do.

[Squaw]

I feel like a C nurse is sometimes better than an A nurse. I work full-time, I go to school full-time and I have 2 children living with me (5yr old & 7 mth old). When you graduate noone is going to announce your grades, they will just give you the diploma that you have passed the required areas.

Please do not feel like you have to be an A student to be able to go to school. Do what you have to do for your family but you can make school work! I had to give up all of my extras but it has been worth it.

Good Luck!!

[IrishItalianRN]

Im afraid that if im just a C graduate that i will not understand things that are very important down the road when im on my own as a nurse and not in classes and clinicals with an instructor, I dont want to just slide by.... isnt that dangerous at this point?

I have a job interview Thursday for a part time pool / on call type job so im going to see how that turns out. Im hoping to work 15-20 hours per week. Thanks for all your input!