Help!!! NEED ADVICE PLEASE?!!!!

[mercadoadrian9]

My fiance is 22 and has been working really hard to get her nursing degrees started. I am going to be 24. She is dead set on finishing her nursing degree in CT because she is a CT resident and it would be cheaper for her. She has considered many routes including getting a LVN-->RN-->BSN which if everything worked out perfectly it would be about 3 years in CT and then we can move back to Los Angeles so that I can start Medical school before Im 30. I guess what I am asking is what would be the best route to take for her to earn her BSN with out having to be in CT for 5 plus years? We both want to settle down in CA eventually. All I want is for my soon to be wife to realize her dreams because she would be the best nurse in the world I just do not want this to take so long that it pushes everything else back like starting a family and my finishing school. Please help if you can thank you.

[Nurseadam]

It's going to be expensive for an out of state to apply for nursing school here, all i could think of is loans. Going for your BSN is the best route, no need to waste your time with LVN and RN first if you have the good gpa for the BSN.

[sckitty]

I disagree with the previous post. I'm a new grad RN with an ADN (associate's) and I wished I would have become an LVN first as a stepping stone so that I had some sort of nursing experience before I became an RN. Also it makes nursing school a LOT easier from what my LVN former-classmates told me. If the job market in CT is better for new grads than it is here in CA (it's nearly impossible to find a job) then she should do the ADN get 1 year experience in CT as an RN and then when you two move to CA it will be much, much easier for her to get a job and support you guys while you go to med school and then if she wants she can get the BSN. Employers will choose 1 year RN experience with ADN over no experience with a BSN any day of the week!

Hope this helps.