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:bluecry1:I HAVE A DISABLED HUSBAND THAT I CARE FOR AND I'M TIRED OF BEING A SECRETARY. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY ADVICE?

My husband is a disabled vet who is just everything to be but I need to start thinking of our daughter. I can't go to a traditional college but I really want to do something else. Please, someone tell me that there is hope for a better future. I really need an online college.

Miami:yeah:

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I do not think there is anywhere online that you can do LPN. There was a thread recently asking the same thing. Here it is https://allnurses.com/forums/f328/struggling-find-online-lpn-program-307793.html

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That's depressing!!! I can't give up and I appreciate your reply. There has to be a way for me to do this. I don't have anyone to help me with my daughter and husband but I really need this. Again, thank you but I'll just keep searching.

Miami

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Have you checked with your state and the VA to see if there is any financial assistance available to you or your husband to assist you in going to school?

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That's depressing!!! I can't give up and I appreciate your reply. There has to be a way for me to do this. I don't have anyone to help me with my daughter and husband but I really need this. Again, thank you but I'll just keep searching.

Miami

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Let's say you did find a program online, how would you do clinical? You cannot do that online.

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There are certain medical classes that people can take online and you can do your clinicals with an area hospital. College.net (or something like that) offers a class LPN to RN for example and they are accredited. I have some critical care nurses where I work at who where LPN's and took that route. As far as the VA, I'm not worried about the finances it's the convenient time of doing it online. I have been a unit secretary for 15years, I know going through an LPN course would be like walking through your home with your eyes closed. Yes, I am giving myself a pat on my back because I know what happens in a critical setting. I do have medical terminology that I have been using for years. Ask any RN how much easier (well not that easy) it would be for a ICU unit secretary to go through an LPN program than someone who has no medical terminology. I know I can do it, it's just the convenience that I'm scrude with.

Miami:eek:

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Well, I'm an RN and can tell you that knowing terminology is only a small part of what's involved in a nursing education program. There's a big difference between functioning (however successfully) as a unit secretary and being a nurse. Certainly, your background would give you a slight advantage early on in the program, but no more than that, just as people who have worked as CNAs for years and then go to nursing school find that they have a small advantage over their classmates early on, but the classmates catch up pretty quickly. (Experienced CNAs also, often, expect school to be v. easy for them because of their experience, but quickly find out that nursing is much more complicated than they realized.)

As for convenience, there are no "quickie," on-line nursing programs for those just starting out (as opposed to the on-line LPN-to-RN and RN-to-BSN programs available) because you have to learn the hands-on skills, and, in order to be eligible for the licensure exam in any state, you have to have completed a specified (by the BON) number of hours of clinical instruction in specific clinical areas (med-surg, OB, peds, and maybe psych (do LPNs have psych? I don't know off-hand).

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Moved to the LPN Nursing Student forum.

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