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Hello. I'm new here. This past week I had my interview for a nursing program I'm trying to get into. I work full-time and have 2 kids. Was wondering how did you guys handle all that on your plate while going to nursing school if you're dealing with this. I'm waiting for a response on whether or not I was accepted but I really just wanted to get some feedback to calm my nerves while I wait...

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Specializes in Adult Primary Care.

Wishing you the best! When I went to Nursing school I had two young children, I honestly didn't get a lot of sleep!!! Is there any way you can work part time?

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I have accepted the offer to start in the fall - sept'18. kindly help out with topics to engage me with since this is a new line of a profession for me especially the anatomy topics. thanks

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Hopefully things will work out

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Wishing you the best! When I went to Nursing school I had two young children, I honestly didn't get a lot of sleep!!! Is there any way you can work part time?

Unfortunately there isn't. Luckily I work overnight with a 7 On/7 Off schedule so I figured that would help me.

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Specializes in Critical care, Trauma.
Unfortunately there isn't. Luckily I work overnight with a 7 On/7 Off schedule so I figured that would help me.

Honestly....that sounds like an exhausting schedule if you're going to add fulltime classwork. Everyone is different so maybe it will work for you, but what I wanted to add in case it hadn't been considered.... in my program, we were not allowed to go to clinicals after working. In other words, if you worked overnight, you were not allowed to go to the 8-12 hour clinical the next morning. They considered otherwise to be unsafe (and honestly, I agree with them).

I remember a classmate that had to work fulltime and she worked it out this way. Our classes and/or clinicals were Tues-Friday all day. She would attend class, then work 3 12-hour shifts Fri/Sat/Sun, take Monday to re-orient to days, then do it over again. I didn't envy her schedule.

I think the best thing that can probably be done would be to line up a large support system to help you through your program -- people that can take the kids when you need to study, multiple back-up babysitters (missing more than 1-2 clinicals is usually an automatic "out" because you have to be present for a certain number of hours each semester). Think of ways that you can spend time with your kids so that they have your full attention for a short period of time (I had a classmate that would set an alarm for 15 or 20 minutes for each of her 2 children and during that time she had individual time with one of them, doing whatever he/she wanted to do). I'm not a parent but I saw guilt really eat at a lot of my cohort.

We were also taught early on in our program that we HAVE to set boundaries at home.... we can't be everyone's everything. As a matter of fact my LPN program did it right -- they had a meeting for all significant others of the students, sat everyone down and basically said, "she's ours for 9 months, figure out how to manage your own life". lol Some things are going to fall through the cracks, such as housework/chores, going above and beyond to prepare things for family, etc. If your kids are old enough, getting them in the habit of taking care of whatever chores are age-appropriate can really be a time- and stress-saver.

Anyway I hope that some of this is helpful. Good luck with your application!

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