My daughter wants to be a nurse

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My daughter wants to go to nursing school. She's finishing high school this year. She wants to go to a community college and do the associates degree nursing program. She says that after she gets the RN she wants to do the bachelors. I would like her to go directly to a bacholer degree program. What would be better? I've heard that going to an LPN program and then go for the BS in nursing is also good. Any inputs? Thanks

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

All of those routes are legitimate ways of getting to a BSN. One is just as good as another, they are just different.What works out well for one ,may not work as well for another, there is no one way that is best.

Maybe you should let her decide.It's her life after all.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

your daughter is going to be the one going to nursing school . . . why don't you ask her why she wants to do things the way she wants to do them. is she afraid of going off to college by herself? are there concerns about paying for the tuition and books? are all of her friends going to the adn program? are her grades good enough for the college of her choice?

i got a bsn in the first place -- not through any coherent decision-making process or planning on my part. (i was going to be a doctor or a journalist -- but plans change). i've always been happy i did it that way - - once i got through my first couple of years of nursing. my husband has a diploma (not really available these days). we're three years from retirement, and he's really regretting that he doesn't have a bsn. there's a promotional opportunity, he'd be perfect for the job, but you need a degree. and with three years left to retirement, there are other priorities.

my last two orientees went the adn route. they make the same money as the rest of the new grads and have fewer loans to pay off. they're planning to use tuition reimbursement to work full time while pursuing their bsns. one of them is already planning to get her msn, too, all with tuition reimbursement. it's a valid choice. the other already has a master's in russian literature. (she's very interesting to talk to!)

i want to congratulate you on having raised a daughter who is planning a career where she can support herself and a family if she needs to, and who isn't planning on years and years of parental support while she tries to "find herself." my bonus child is planning on a graduate degree . . . which she really doesn't believe she's going to have to pay for herself because we're retiring in three years once she's through college! despite the fact that we've been telling her since she was eight!

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Specializes in Med Surg - Renal.

If you're paying for it, urgently request she do the BSN first.

If you ain't, then encourage the LPN or ADN route.

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If you're paying for it, urgently request she do the BSN first.

Isn't that backwards? If I were paying for it, I would much rather them go to a CC and save the big $$ :lol2:

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I'd have her go talk with nursing schools - BSN and ADN.

Since she is in high school, I would not have her go the LVN/LPN route.

Personally, in looking back, I'd have gone BSN right out of high school.

But . .. . I didn't know I wanted to be a nurse then.

I agree - congratulations on a daughter who wants to go to school!!!

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Irobinson5, you are right! That's what she wants to do anyways and it would save me money :bowingpur

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Thank you everybody. I forgot to tell you that I'm a nurse too. I just hope that she's ready to study hard because she's not a great student, but she's smart. I remember that going to nursing school was the hardest thing I've ever done. But I was 36 years old then. I have an ADN, but now a lot of hospitals hire only BSN.

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I guess coming from someone who didn't become a nurse until I was 40 - and did it after marriage, kids, divorce, remarriage and another kid . .. . . I'd have preferred to become a nurse via the BSN route right after high school.

She's young, she's unfettered, she should go for it!

Look for scholarships and grants and be careful with student loans.

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She's young she should definitely go for the BSN!!! She can can go straight thru and not stop it will be a lot of pre-reqs but if this is something she really wants nothing will stand in her way!!! Woohoo!! She's following in her moms footsteps. Aww...

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Specializes in Peds Medical Floor.

I did it the long way....was a CNA, then LPN, now RN. Just applied to start my BSN in fall. I hope to be a nurse practitioner eventually. I liked doing it the long way since I started young (19 when I was a CNA and 21 when I finished LPN school). Gave me plenty of time to learn along the way and made school easier IMO.

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Specializes in Peds Medical Floor.

Also wanted to add that by doing it the long way I got $1k from my former place of employment for LPN school, my full RN tuition paid for, and by the time I start my BSN I will be eligible for tuition reimbursement from my current place of employment. And I've built up experience as I've gone along.

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