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here goes january 2008 got accepted into the lpn program at my local vo-tech school. i had applied several times and finally got in as well as just finished certification for medical secretary. i got a job at a hospital for unit secretary it's ok i have been on the job a year now great. i am on a program that pays for my education but i can only obtain 2 certifications and the rest have to be degrees. now mind u i have a certificate in medical secretay which is okay wish i need did it that was an alternative until the nursing program became available once i was choosen as a alternate for the nursing program but was never called.

any who long story short while in the program i knew i was pregnant and was given an option to stop and end of first quater and return in october to graduate in june 09 or to continue and return after 2weeks of having my child in may i choose to continue so that i could graduate with my class in dec 2008. we began clinicals and i had a great time in the ltc facilites it was great but all of a sudden i passed out this was only day one and i told my instructor because i was scared and i sat down for a while and then at lunch and returned but we left early that day so it was great. next day i returned and it happened again and my instructor told me to go to my gyn to make sure all is well i was put on bedrest for unitl my next appt which was about a 1wk and the doctor said i could return and that is was normal some women who are prego experience orthostatic something of nother but i understood its were when you stand you have a decrease in bp and how it pools to ur feet and that's when u have spells of syncope yada yada yada

any who after i recieved my letter they said that they did not want to be liable for me and that i have missed too many days already but i could return in october 08 so i turned in my readmission letter i passed every thing that semester and finished all of my 1st semester so i did not have to withdraw. so i calculated when acceptence letters would come out and it would be in june08 for the fall semester in aug08 and i did not recieve anything. sooo i went out to the school and spoke with the director and she told me that the admissions have first serve and that my hand book states that their is not garantee for readmission once out of the program but if their is space available i could return in october which i know it will be our class the first semester started out with 44 and ended with 20 and that's after the 1st semester before i left now maybe its 18 or so left but i know that i could have a chance or not she suggested that i do cna to refresh and to meet the standards of the programs that are paying for my tution do u think this is at all fair what do u suggest.

i am so tired of everyone saying that it's going to be harder since i have two kids now and i am just feeling discourage and plus the program i am on pays me to go to school and pays for my tution but when i turn 23 in january the money will be gone but they will still pay for my tution which is great but i will have to start working full time again which i have before but my son was 3 and i only had one now i have a 4yr old and a 2month old big difference plus i am breast feeding and i don' t think i am ready to work those 12 hr shifts again and give up my weekends once more what should i do confused and frustrated and plus i feel like i am taking a step back by doing cna until then but it would be good for me because i don't remember a thing

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I'm sorry...what's the question?

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It sounds like your thoughts are incredibly jumbled at this point. I think that perhaps you need to take some quiet time, and either journal it or talk to your partner/friends/etc and see if you can get your thoughts straight. You need to do whats right for you, be it working, staying home with your kids, LPN, CNA, whatever. Having a two month old, I can imagine how hard it is for you to imagine leaving her. My daughter is 9 months old and I just started working and am going back to school full time in August, but I wouldn't have been comfortable doing it when she was younger.

Its really your choice and I do not think there is any one right answer. It just takes a lot of soul searching to find your own path, and thats something that I would not feel right doing "for" you.

I hope that makes sense. :)

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Don't give up your dream of being a nurse...I'm not hear to preach to you, but maybe you should protect yourself from pregnancy in the future so you can finish your schooling...You're making sacrafices in order to finish school....that's great, but you should get your priorities straight and focus on what you feel needs the focus, whether that's school or your kids....For me, it's my kids and I'm making sacrafices in order to go to school...Although this is something I want to do, this is something that I'm also doing for them because it will allow me to give them things I wasn't able to have while growing up....You started having children at a very young age and you're still quite young yourself....Focus on what you feel the focus needs to be on....I know it's hard and frustrating because nursing is something that you want to do...but you have two small kids to think about...Good Luck and congratulations on the new baby!

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I'm sorry...what's the question?

I know right! I was the first one to read this post but as much as I mulled it over in my mind, I could not for the life of me understand the question because all four paragraphs is one long run on sentence (or statement) but either way, NOT a question!

Sorry

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Uhm, you have a certificate as a medical secretary? I guess you rely on spell check?

The ability to write clearly, with correct grammar and spelling is required for nursing school.

Could you tidy up your draft and let us know the focus of it?

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Williamsa, this board is heavily searched. Please make us, nursing students, look intelligent. I got so lost in your post and didn't even want to read it anymore. Write it over.

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Uhm, you have a certificate as a medical secretary? I guess you rely on spell check?

The ability to write clearly, with correct grammar and spelling is required for nursing school.

Could you tidy up your draft and let us know the focus of it?

It is for us US students, but it doesn't look like it is required of the foreign grads....Totally off subject, but it's pitiful how we're held up to a standard in the English language while others can walk off the streets with barely a 5th grade education in English and can land a nursing job...

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Specializes in Hoping to soon become an LPN.

I couldn't make any sense to it all either since it was all a big fragment with no periods. I had no idea what to write when I first read it.

To the OP, I think you need to set your priorities straight and focus on what you need to accomplish first & go from there!

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Specializes in geriatrics, geripsych.
:yawn: i must agree with my fellow students. your post does not make sense. first of all, it is called orthostatic hypotension. that is a term you should become very familiar with as you will use it throughout your career. if you were so serious about your program, you may have wanted to pay more attention instead of saying,"yada yada." it seems as though to me you are complaining about not getting what you want when you want and how you want it. i am in a very accelerated program. i have seven children and i still manage to work part time. it can be done, but you must have the will to do it. so, i suggest you stand up tall, stop being negative, keep up on your studies with what you have already done, and commit yourself to giving you and your family a better life that you are proud of. :twocents: ps fear stands for false evidence apppearing real. good luck.
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I really hate to sound ugly....however, you decided to get pregnant so I mean woman up! What do you want us to say to you? The school's policy apparently stated they didnt have to grant you readmission and you should have thought about that before you got pregnant. I mean why should they obviously you didn't take it seriously the first time around so why would you this time? You breast feeding....Anduh?? Pump or use formula. Most people do what they have to do and dont complain and look for sympathy, it seems to me you have a bunch of excuses. This is just my opinion, maybe you should rewrite your post so we can understand what you trying to convey.

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laydiebuug, aren't you being a bit too harsh. You don't know her situation behind her pregnancy, so please lets try not to judge. I recommended to her that she use precaution before getting pregnant. But lets leave it at that. How do we know she wasn't on birth control and it failed? Birth control isn't 100% so lets not judge. She came on this board because she was looking for guidance, not a lecture. Lets be fair here, and try to give her the benefit of the doubt. Just like I'm being fair to you by not asking you to rewrite YOUR post using proper grammar and sentence structure. I know what you're getting at regarding rewriting the post because I had to read it several times to try to understand what she was saying.

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