I have given up trying to get into nursing school. I love my husband, but his career in the military has crushed every opportunity I have been given to start a nursing program. By the time I am accepted into a program, we have orders to move. When we are staying put for a few years, he deploys (I cant balance school full time, with four kids, and a son in renal failure while he is away). That being said, there is a local RT program I am very interested in pursuing. Its a hybrid (theory online, clinicals on campus) which works perfect for my lifestyle and I will finish before we have orders to a new location.
I have two questions...
1. I volunteer at a hospital and a few nurses have mentioned RT's are being phased out with nurses. Is this true? I would hate to invest my time and money into a career which will be eventually taken over by nurses.
2. My husband is due to retire in 5 years... Around my 40th birthday. I still very much desire to be an RN, but is it ridiculous to think I would be taken seriously if I apply to nursing school in my 40s?
