I am new to the forum, and sorry if this is so long. I stumbled across this site while searching information on second degrees in Nursing.
My situation is- I am 34 year old mother of 3. I have been in the IT field for over 11 years. I am currently halfway through my BS in Health Administration. My issue is that I wanted to go into the Health field, so I was going to go into Health Informatics, as to not lose all the years of IT experience, but I have been watching jobs HA in this area, and none are paying nearly what I am making now. It also seems that most HA jobs want you to have experience in Nursing. Nursing is always something that I have wanted to do, but I felt as if maybe I couldnt do it and juggle a family as well. So I focused on something that came easy to me.
Now, all these years later, I am at a cross roads as to what I need to do. I have looked as ABSN programs at Duke and UNC, as well as Watts School of Nursing. All of those programs require full-time commitments. There is an Associates program at a local community college for ADN and it offers a night options with weekend clinical hours.
After reading some of the posts here, it seems that the BSN or ABSN would be the option for me, but I am wondering how you all were able to do it and juggle a family also (financially)? I am scared to step out there, but my company has had layoffs every year, and is now wavering on bankruptcy. I dont want to wait until I get my pink slip to make a decision on the future.
FutureBSN?
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Thanks!