anthony5649

All right have made a decision to go into nursing as a career change at 30. Have looked at several options and not sure which direction to go in. I would love to get a BS RN in 4 years and have someone else pay all my bills while I attend school. won't happen I would like to quit my job and go to school full time for 2 years and get my Associate and become an RN. However I have two children and I need money to live. I'm considering going to an LPN program which due to the much lower tuition I may be able to stop working and just go to school for the year. After the year I could work in the field in some compacity probably PT and apply my LPN toward an advanced placement Associate RN program immediately. Does this make sense I'm hearing diffrent things such as: my LPN won't matter due to lack of experience with it. A lot of programs don't apply credit from an LPN. It will still take me over a year to obtain my associate RN. I will still need to take a lot of specific General classes to earn the associatem and it will cost almost as much and take almost as long as the original Associate RN program. My question is if I can save a lot of $ and get my LPN can I then transfer right into an Associate RN program and graduate the next year, as a result not having wasted time and money. would It still only take two years: 1 to earn my LPN, 1 for Associate after I have my LPN Any thoughts? Please Advise