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Follow your gut...I got a BSN in 77 and worked until 89...then I started adopting kids...while they were young I wanted to stay home with them but still have my hand in nursing and make a little money...not much just fun money...I became a licenced medically complex foster mom for medically fragile infants for 15 years (adopted 2 of them)...this kept me current with peds issues and in touch with with other disciplines like PT, OT ,docs, and social workers etc. I have been paid anywhere from $350 to $2500 a month and babies were eligible for WIC and $300/year clothing allowance. I then got too old for those early feeds and apnea monitors waking me up so when I turned 50 I stopped and immediately landed 2 case management jobs ( 0ne in Hawaii making 70 K and another in St Louis making 76 K and a summer camp nurse job caring for 1400 guest a week in New York State one summer making $300/week. Keep your licence and and you will be fine honey...take some online master's courses...have fun...Nursing will always be there and it is so diverse...thats the beauty of it:) email me at [email protected] if you want to chat more...Belinda

Have you check out St Lukes or Baptist in Kansas City? St Lukes is the Mecca for mother baby. Baptist has a great refresher course. I used to work PP in 82-84 at St Lukes then I joined the Navy Nurse Corps and put immediately in L&D and loved it. I put on my own Fetal scalp leads and set up and monitored (increased it at my own judgement) my own Pit drips under MO (medical officer) orders of course. If you like travel, good money and perks with comrodery with great people, ...GO Navy ....I loved it.

ST Johns's Mercy Hospital in St louis Mo will put you to work teaching while you work on your Masters that they will pay for...Thy need teachers that bad and I know there are other institutions doing the same for those who want to teach and get their masters at the same time. You have 5 years to finish. Bel PS..They offered to start me out out 3 years ago at over 32 dollars an hour.