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I am an LPN looking for a program (Bridge) home study to get my RN, I live in Florida, does any one know of any good ones, I heard of Rue and the Nurse Connection, also Distance Learning Systems, they sell you the texts and study guides the you take the tests....Cost $10,000 to $13,000.

I was 48 when I got my LPN now I am 53 and trying to find a home study program to get my RN. I was 10 years old and had this dream of being a nurse but never had the money for books and had to work 60 hours a week to live, then I found out late in life that there was a thing called the PELL Grant in which the local college never told me about nor did they tell me about loans you could pay back later, so I wasted so many years. This was a crappy college for not telling students what there was out there that could be offered to students wanting an education. I also had an Aunt that went to LPN school after me, she was 67 when she graduated and worked 4 years in Mother Baby unit then retired.

I am an LPN, 10 years now, I didnt have the self Esteem to work in a Hospital so decided to work in Nursing homes and salary was better too. After being back stabbed by so many other nurses and even set up which almost lost me my nursing license, I decided to go Hospice, there was no other way and I needed to work, now looking into RN home study so I can get into a hospital but heard nightmares there too. While working Hospice I met this man his father was dying, he worked in the same Hospital for 18 years, good employee, no write ups, someone had laced one of his IV's, he was a mess for almost 2 years, was terminated, turned into Florida State board, later it was discovered at the hospital that this other nurse if she didnt like you for any reason she just laced the IV's, bad thing is that he suffered and so did his family, they had to move as well and start all over. In my case I had a supervisor that disturbed me during report 17 times, she wanted the keys to my med cart and refused to wait, I got so mad I tossed them at her, latter it was discovered a NARC was taken out, I had staff search the unit 4 times and it was found untouched, yet I was fired over this and turned into state boards, this supervisor set me up and it was all over me telling her she if she was on a med cart and I was to take her hall she needed to be ready and not let me wait 45 minutes into my shift, the D.O.N. over heard me tell her so this RN got me and would you believe she still works there. I mind my own business and do my work, I am quiet and dont bother anyone else but will help out during a code or admissions, one night while working a PEDS unit, I happen to make another room check on my infants that were on Apnea monitors, all of the infants had trac's, when I walked in 6 of the infants monitors were turned off, and O2 tubing to machines had been all pulled out, one of these infants could have died and it would have been my fault, well the quiet nurse that I always was cut loose and I tore the whole staff apart, I can not say for sure because I didnt see it being done but always thought it was the RN supervisor there as she was so jealous of me and was a swinger always making sexual remarks to me (sexual harrassment) and I am a straight person, I didnt do what she wanted so she might have tried to destroy me. I ahve also heard other nightmares of nurses in the hospitals here, yet it always comes out in the wash, the person doign these things gets caught !!