millerma1993

Does anyone think that it is virtually impossible to double major in nursing and dental hygiene at a two year school? I do plan to go right back to school after getting my ADN to achieve a BSN plus get a four year degree in biology when I start at a university to complete the two years left to get a BSN, if that makes sense (Get my BSN but keep going for the next two years after that to get my BS in biology). I must say that I am only 17 years of age and this is just a crazy idea. I also got another crazy idea from listening to guest speakers at my school who were nurses, and that was to become a substance abuse counselor. So now I totally do not know what to do! My original plan was to double major at a two year school in nursing and biology and get associate degrees, to save money. Then move on to a university to get a BS in each major. (for a two year degree at the local community college is the price of one year at the local university, all in all it would save me a lot of money, if that also makes sense) :confused::confused:

i have a spelling and some what reading problem so theirs absolutly nothing i can really do to improve that so ive been told and i just say it as it comes when it comes to posting things on message bords i really dont care what my sentace structure or grammar looks like on these things, ive made it this far with my education with out being the best english student im sure that i can do it in college also :)

this is greatly apreciated from all of you thank you! :) so from reading your posts i also relized i forgot to menchion i can not go out of state because my mom is sick, with things like heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and shes falling fast! so going out of state for me isnt an option incase somthing happens:crying2: 2nd i really can not stand big cities i can get along with fort wayne and theres a university known as IPFW its 45-60 minutes from where i live and i think that that is where im going to go or i will suck up my fear and go to IU southbend:heartbeat:redbeathe... but i dont want to leave my friends either, most of them arent going to college and the only one that is is going to fortwayn to be a nurse also... i also thought last night after i had posted i would get my CNA to work through college but what if i did get an ADN to earn more money but go right back to school when the next semester started, I dont know thats just a crazy idea of mine now:lol2:... and yeah i am taking as many science calsses as posible as well as math classes in high school last year i took a medical terminology class as well as a science class that combined chemistry and physics and another science class that was earth and space... and to be honest i havent even taken my SAT and or ACT yet im going to take both this year closer to may/june, most likely im going to take both because i screwed up my sophmore year and got sick and they kicked me out of school:down: because i had missed tomany days and it wasnt like i was faking i was in and out of the hospital and had notes from my doctor and my surgeon... then i went back the nxt year and faild alot because i got sick with H1N1 and a few other infections plus was diganosed with depression (which to me is NO excuse) and missed a lot(so im suposed to be a sienor now but not until after this trimester so 3 more weeks and im a sienor:eek: but i still have to go back the next year to get other classes that are regirued to graduate so im graduating late early if tht makes sense but as long as i get out of high school ill be happy and ill be even happier when i move on to college)... but this year im on a role again for the first time since i got sick, i did summer school and im going to do more summer schooling this year if the government didnt cut it from the funding, as well as get my CNA this summer, so im going to take the ACT and the SAT so i can proove that im not screwing around and that i mean business:mad:! plus also raise my high school GPA some where around a B, wich is going great! and before i forget where i live i think that it would be better for me to get an MSN because theres only one nurse that i know of that has one and she teaches a CNA class at the trade school in my town so if i got my MSN after a BSN with some years of expierience then i will be like king (not really)of the nurses at the hospital, i dont mean to sound like the typical male (i am gay tho so i dont see it) i also thought about working in a nursing home because it would be able to remember what the residence like and dislike you know like what they like to eat, how they like to take there medications, who they like and dislike, remember some of there childrens names, you know things like that but i dont know it just depends on where life takes me i supose

ok so i just want to let people who read this know that i am only 17 i am a junior in high schoo:dl nursing seems like the place where it is at and it seems like something that i am interested in because i know a lot about disease and taking care of things plus i think i can be a good leader and be a good listener as well as not being so judgmental, caring and always remembering the little things about some one that would make there day if you asked about it in the future (if that makes sense). ok so the other day at school we had a guest speaker in one of my classes it was a cop, he asked each and every one of us what we wanted to do as a career after high school and of course i said nurse, ok well he went on about how everyone needed to get as much education as they can because it's a competition, i've heard this before by my econ teacher but he put it as we need to set our self's different form everyone else in the pack... ok i can do this get good grades get my cna join some organizations study somewhat outside the field(:idea:like in art, literature, music, dental, you know things that don't go with being a nurse), piece of cake! (in my opinion) ok so this is where it gets complicated:uhoh3:, my mom's side of the family is well known around town and my family knows a lot of people around our town too. i was telling my aunt that from her being the person that runs our family business that someday i wish to be the head nurse of the hospital in our town, because if you knew this hospital you would know that things need to change for the better like faster more efficient results and tests to get patients where they need to go faster and in a less timely manner, better hospitality, and more paying attention to the situation and not being in "denial" about the patients conditition and saying they have something else when they clearly have something that's not the something else or saying that their fine even when they're not, because recently a mrsa outbreak occurred and a man almost lost his life because of it but thank god his wife took him in to the nearest largest city of fort wane to a competing hospital that diagnosed correctly and started the correct treatment thank god that is life wasn't cut short because of the local hospitals negligence, but there was a mal practice law suit brought apoun the er doctor that saw the sick man. so pretty much i want to be in a position where i can make some changes and do well for the patients as well as be a better service to the community:heartbeat my aunt then told me that the officer that i had in my class as a guest speaker was married to the head nurse of our hospital (so the saying is somewhat true nurses and cops making the world a better place one person at a time.) well uh there's a little problem, they kind of hate us because my aunt was arrested as well as my cousins and my uncle for marijuana possession almost 9 years ago and you won't believe it was the same cop that came in to talk to us... he doesn't know me because i don't share the same last name as my aunt the name of our family business and my aunt told the head nurse off at the hospital because she was being an air head and wasn't doing what the doctor had told her to do for my grandma when she was in the hospital before she had passed away, and now i feel that some of the decisions that my family has made that now it might hold me back and that i may not get to do the things that i want to do or at least try and do. but we don't share the same last names and i'm not a pot head and i have a clean record and i'm far from being like them except i can be a bit ****** if things are going like they should be but for the right reasons, if that makes sense. so i know that an adn would not be enough to be the head nurse someone told me bsn , well i was looking on the internet and i knew that there was higher than a bsn and that an msn so my main question is which one can i be a candidate to be the manager of the hospitals nursing staff (if chosen) even if i couldn't be the manager of the hospitals nursing staff i still want to be a nurse so that i can help people and maybe even change a few things even if there small things, i know that with an msn i can teach people who are becoming nurses (i think) but another thing is what if nursing turns out to be something that isn't for me and i want to become a high school biology teacher (and theirs also a lot of thing that need to be changed in the local school districts for the better, but that's another story for another day) or a dental hygienist or even a medical transcriptionist... ok so i know that the msn is probably my best option (because i'm getting the most education and i would most likely have to go to school less to transfer to a career that is in the medical or science field) to be hired by the local hospital plus make them think that i'm nothing like my family (under educated barley made it out of high school have criminal records family that expects something for doing nothing) in case someone knows but can some one tell me the steps id have to take to get their like do i have to get an adn and work my way up for example practice for a minimal time with an adn and move up to bsn (through going back to school) and repeat the process to get to an msn? can i just go to school all at once and get an msn or a bsn? does any one know the requirements for indiana licensure? witch one says management material or "he knows what he's doing" degree? thank you so much for reading my extremely long has nothing to do with my question(s) post

thanks so much for replying:D well if i go for two years to become a dental assistant then i might as well become a dental hygenist and get paid more cause i was told tht it take two years for a dental hygenist... and that came from a dental hygenist her self... idk tho i get told things by people then they tell me somthing different the nxt day lol or i research and get somthing different.... and when it comes to loans id perfer not to because my mom got into a lot of trouble with loans and credit cards. id rather work for it and go to school and work at the same time. i so dont want to repeat my parents mistakes. but i guess to i could do a lot of electives that have nothing to do with the criteria to become a nurse like i could study a lot of astronomy or religion or somthing plus the nursing stuff, wouldnt that look good on a transcript? i still have to take the SAT and i still want to get my GPA up and still do the volunteer work only because i feel that i need to volunteer. idk i want to be a nurse bad enough ill do wut ever it takes as long as it take i guess and i think ill go for my CNA in the spring and start saving money i have a whole nother year left after this year in high school... i got kicked out my sophmore year i also want to join the peace corps idk if tht will show up on any thing tho...

ok first off let me start by saying im a male tht is only 17 but i am totally thinking about becomeing a nurse... i mostly want to become a nurse because i want to work with the mentaly ill or people with HIV/AIDS but i also want to work as an ER nurse also or in a jail or state pen... ok so through my local high school they have a CNA program that you can take during the school year and you get credits that go towards college and graduating high school i applied and then notice that i can go throught the comunity college durring the summer well some financial problems occured when my dad was put in the hospital and then i was also told i couldnt do it because my attendance at school was suckish and i will admit i need to work on that. well i took a summer school class this summer and my teacher told us tht we need to differenciate our selfs to the best of our abilities from the rest of the people in our field even with good grades and volunteer work. :idea:ok so i was thinking about this: you have to be 18 to get a dental assisting certificate in the state of indiana and i was told it take 30day or 6 months i got those answers from two different web sites so i was thingking i could get that then save up and go for a CNA and work my way through college as either a dental assistant or CNA then become an RN mostly in psiciatrics and HIV/AIDS care and emergency care. ok so would all of those things make me look "different" or "better" than others in the nursing field or higher my chances of a job out of college?