Hello Everyone, I am asking for help with my pre-nursing dilemma. I have just recently graduated in September of last year with my Bachelor's degree in Business Administration for Health care Management. I have always wanted to be a nurse since I was a little girl.
I have over $40k dollars in loans right now and it looks like for my nursing it'll be another $40k due to me not having done the prerequisite course work. I am a single mother of one (1) and have been on a vigorous search for employment so that I could work and pay as much off my loans as possible before starting school again, with no luck. I have looked into Scholarships.com and not much help there since I didn't take the ACT or SAT. My college accumulated GPA is 2.95, the college I just graduated from was a 3.0.
I am to apply to the nursing program of my first choice on Feb. 1 at Mount Carmel School of Nursing. With my application I am to include a written essay answering "as a future nurse, what do I think I could I contribute to nursing" but I have writers block because I'm so worried about if this would be a good thing to do the nursing program now or if I should wait. I am 26 yrs old and my goal was to be done with school (outside of the refreshers to stay up-to-date) before my daughter started school, shes 2 yrs 7 mos. I feel like my goal will have to wait because of the financial stress I am going through right now with no job to pay on my current loans and then the loans that would come with the nursing program and prerequisites. When I had done research before choosing the degree I currently have there was a high demand in and surrounding areas of Columbus, Ohio for entry level candidates with a BS; but that was in 2010 now they want experienced individuals with my degree now. I've tried jobs that anyone with a H.S Diploma should get and they will not hire me because I'm overly qualified with my experience in C.S and education.
Is anyone else having a similar dilemma? Or ideas?
BWillison10