I am tearing myself up inside on the decision to become a LPN. I go in about a week to take the pre entrance exam, but I have a millions what ifs in my head. I have a 2.5 year old son and married and planning to buy a house next year. Right now we live in a in-law apartment so we dont pay much rent, and I work 2 days a week because I dont have any help to watch my son, and daycare is too much.
I always wanted to be in the health care field, a good amount of my family are doctors and nurses.
I'm wondering if I should wait until I am older, after we have all our children to go to school or go now? When I tell my friends I am in the mist of registering for nursning school and they find out its for a LPN I feel like they are looking at me funny and then they say oh, what about a RN?
The program is 22 months long and 3 nights a week and ALOT of online work Im told.
I can only go to school part time and nights because of my son. I wish I could find a part time night program to become a RN, but I also need to finish some prerequites and that would take me a long time doing it part time, I think I need like 10 more classes.
Im nervous, I wont have enough time to study, or enough time for my son.
Sometimes I want to slap myself and say "Erika you need to do this for you and your family" and sometimes I wake up and say there is no way you can do this. I would love to have another child but I would need to wait until we get another place and to finish school and then after school I want to stay home for a bit with the baby, and hope to start slow possbily part time. Will I forget evethtning that I learned? Do I have to take the big exam every year? Is it worth it to become a LPN or should I wait and hope I can become a RN? IS there a bridge course to become LPN to RN? Are there good jobs for LPN out there and do they pay good?
I know this is veryyyy long and I really appreciate any advice or help I can get.
ebsf
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Thank you April and to everyone,
I really really appreciate everything and all advice and sugguestions.
I have 2 more weeks until my pre entrnce exam. I have been studing the verbal section for a while now and need to get on the math.
I am a person that gets so nervous to take leaps, espceailly after my son is born.
Sorry I have another question, if I didnt take all my pre reqs yet and want in the furture to be a RN, do I have to go back and take them?
Erika