IN NEED of some nursing advice - DECISION MAKING - Oklahoma

[BabyNurse_PJN]

hi, i'm new to this site but joined and decided to share with you my delimma. my husband is about to take on a new job with a police dpt near tulsa. for the past year i have not been working and have my lpn degree. i was a highrisk pregnancy which prevented me from working. i am weighing in 2 options as of right now. the 1st is i can return to school for a year and get my rn degree or i can work as an lpn opposite my husband's shift (still not sure what his shift will be)

here are some of the pros and cons with my decision making:

rn pros:

getting my rn degree-one of my long-term goals

getting paid more

doing what i want to do in nursing

sign-on bonuses with places hiring rn's

living oppurtunity is there-my grandma is giving us her house to live in, rent-free

rn cons:

babysitter? depending on my school shift and matt's work shift.. not crazy about my 5 month old being in someone else's care.

we would be living rent-free at my grandma's home which is currently unoccupied, only, it's her house and i want us to have our own house. it's a small home and 4 of us would be squeezed between 2 bdrms.

schedules and time would be of the essence and centered solely on school-lpn school was hard enough-rn school will be harder and more stressful/time consuming.

lpn pros:

i can work practically whatever shift i want, which would be opposite matt's. giving me more time with the family.

we can rent our own place-nice place.

lpn cons:

i don't want to stay an lpn.

i can't work where i want to work, not as many options as an lpn

the pay is less

so there it is. help me. what should i do.. i have thrown each option to and fro and still have not decided for sure what i want to do. i am pretty sure that going back to school would be the smarter and more reasonable thing to do. just need some advice and viewpoints.. i'll appreciate all that come my way :-)

also, i would like some advice on where a good rn school would be to go to and what they require in tulsa. it would be very much appreciated. i graduated from platt college with my lpn, i would like to broaden my horizon though and find another school to acheive my rn.

[picurn10]

do you have all of your prereq's for RN out of the way? If you do and you can jump in halfway through the traditional RN program (that's the way most of the programs in OKC are) I would go that route.

I'm a single mom and am about to start an LPN program, and because I have all of my pre-req's done, I plan to jump straight into an RN program upon completion. It will only take me 2 semesters, which is nothing but will hugely increase my pay, and I always wanted to be an RN so that's the plan.

I was debating between giong with the CC, but because I have all my pre-req's done, it just felt like I'd be draging it out and not able to do anything with it for two full years. This way I'll be able to work as an nurse while in RN school.

I just think the two semesters, even with a baby wouldn't be too bad. You'll get a month break for winter, and then just 4mo later be able to have a huge hike in pay The programs I'm looking at are not super intense and if you're not working you'd be able to just go home be with your baby, and do homework.

I mean, in both situations you're leaving your baby right? At least with the RN route it will be a much more productive track in the end.

Also, you might start looking into the different programs around here because I know that Platt college (at least in OKC) doesn't have a good rep, and you have to take a couple of extra classes/test if your LPN is from there.