Need Advice

LPNweezy · Mar 20, 2011

As a nurse, you can choose to have many different kinds of jobs, with many different kinds of hours! i work at LTC, and full time is only 4 days a week! If you work in home health, YOU can choose your schedule. Hospitals are the same as LTC i think......everywhere is different. Just don't over work yourself once you graduate, take it easy :) Plus, imagine how easier it would be just going to work, and not having to worry about school, tests, clinicals, studying, etc. what kind of nurse are you becoming?

katy81 · Mar 20, 2011

Thank you for your advice!! I'm glad to know there is options. I have no clinical experience and don't even really know any nurses to go to for advice!, so I appreciate your input. I haven't decided on what kind of nurse I want to be yet, I am leaning toward something with children, or I would like to work in and Eating Disorders rehab. I enjoy working with the elderly as well, so I'm kind of open right now. Thanks again!!

LPNweezy · Mar 20, 2011

thank you! if you are becoming an LPN, you can choose to work in a Dr.s office or a clinic. the hours in those environments are fantastic for parents, because its usually open 8am-4pm and closed sunday :)

dthfytr, ADN, LPN, RN, EMT-B, EMT-I · Mar 20, 2011

Work 3 twelve hour shifts per week, and you have 4 days off every week. That will spoil you really fast. Plus you'll have a descent income. There are many other options as a nurse, and if you finish school and don't like them, where does it say you MUST work as a nurse? I too worked full time and went to school full time. I'm glad I ignored the many temptations to take an easier route. I hope you can make this all work really well for you long term.

NPinWCH · Mar 20, 2011

Working three 12 hr shifts will spoil you

When you start working you usually, but not always, end up on night shift, but that's not a hard rule. Since nursing is a 24/7/365 job weekends and holidays go with the territory. Most hospital and LTC jobs require you to do your share of them, but it's doable.

Remember, most nurses who have families started them while they were nursing, this RN included, so you'll be in good company.

Chin up · Mar 20, 2011

Katy,

You're just overwhelmed right now. Understandable too. Depending upon where you are at in school, gets you doubting as well. Once you get over that big hump, even school becomes easier, if not a breeze. Really...you may not know now where in nursing you are headed, but during clinical rotations you will Know where you are pulled and where you don't want to go. For now, work, study and enjoy hubby. It is a lot, but worth it and soon will be over. Nursing is a great field for mothers, there is so much flexibility, so yes, you will enjoy your family and be able to enjoy, the "fruit of your labor". I think more so in nursing than some other professions. Most of us who complain, are taking on more than we need too. So don't let that influence you. We have more control over our schedules than what we let on. Good luck, you made great choice! Peace!

RNKPCE · Mar 20, 2011

I worked with someone who worked fulltime as a CNA and did a bsn program, don't know how she did it. She got hired on fulltime 8 hour day shift after she graduated which is hard too. But she said after going to school and working fulltime, just working fulltime was a peace of cake. She has continued to work fulltime for 15 years and I work where most people work 75% time.

Kudos to you for doing all you are. Remember when you graduate you'll still have some outside learning initially and other times occasionally but not the amount of work to do at home by any means that you have now.