LVN - ADN - houston

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I am a 40 year old looking to do a career change to nursing. I have my masters in education but no science/health background. Hoping to get some answers. I am looking at a community college in Houston but open to other areas. 

-option1: 1 year prereq, 12 month lvn, work for 6 months, bridge to adn (18 months). Eventually maybe do an accelerated BSN but this would be a long term goal

-option 2: 1 year preq (maybe 1.5 years, not sure yet), 18 month adn program

option 2 seems to be better but I keep hearing about how competitive ADN programs are and how only very few applicants are accepted. I'm not sure how true this is yet.  The class load also seems like a lot so I wonder if I'm being realistic in being able to tackle all of this. I will not be working but have kids/husband but I feel like I can do this. My initial plan was option 1 but I hear lvn to adn bridge is even more competitive than option 2. However, my cc does say they give preference to lvn graduates from their school even though only a few are accepted each time. I'm confused - trying to see the best route. I don't really want to work as an LVN, I would only take it as a stepping stone to get my feet wet. But I wonder if I'm also wasting time if I'm just going to taking similar classes in LVN and ADN. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you 🙂

 

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