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Do you feel LPN is a less intensive program than RN? How many hours a day/week do you spend studying? Could you juggle a FT job, 2 yr old, and school?

Most RN programs allow only 2 enrollments in your natural science courses and 2 F,D,W grades. My A+P 1 expires in spring 2016. I enrolled in 2004, but withdrew because of a death in my family. I re-enrolled in Winter 2006 (trimesters) and passed w...

I am specifically posting this in the Nursing forum to get advice from actively practicing nurses, so please don't move! I have heard some recommend online ADN-BSN programs from those "university of phoenix" type schools. This seems like a conveni...

I am posting here specifically to hear from nurses, so pls don't move! I am in pre-nursing (with a previously unrelated BA) working in the hospitality industry full time. I want to be in the medical field badly, but only have my CNA so far. The wag...

thank you everyone for your insight. I do enjoy "paperwork" as much as I enjoy patient care, so that part would be fine with me. Especially good observations about sometimes lower level healthcare jobs not being all they're cracked up to be sometim...

Wow, MoopleRN. Someone's cheerios got ****** in this morning. No need to be a giant turd, especially when you obviously did not understand what I wrote. First, yes, I am seriously qualified for an "admin slot" (meaning administrative, clerical wo...

I just have to toot. I am not, really really did not think I was a math/science type. However, nursing and the medical field have facinated me since childhood. I read PDRs and other nerdy stuff for fun. I always thought I was more artsy than good...

I think just for the kids sake it would be good for them not to be left without a parent. There's something to be said about the security of always have a parent there through the night.

My daugher. The thought that one day I won't have to skip meals so she can have all of hers. So by the time she gets into school she won't be the kid in class who gets made fun of because her clothes don't fit right. So she can have all of her nee...

Thanks everyone! That pt comment is classic!

no. you will not. If you can do what you did to get your HS diploma and get to where you are....literally girl, you can do anything you want to do. You have what it takes to do it. If you aren't understanding the subject matter, you are one of th...

Do you only work 7-3, 7-7, 3-11, 11-7? Or do you have to bounce back and forth between all these shifts? Do you have a weekly schedule with chosen days off? Do you get it in advance? Do you get scheduled for whatever they want (maybe even all of ...

I will be going back to school for nursing. This will be my second degree. My first was a B.A. in Theater Arts - the product of going to college right out of high school with your head in the clouds and stars in your eyes. It has gotten me many fa...

I see a lot of day shift vs. night shift on these boards and was wondering what people define those shifts as. Days I get...it's obviously during the day. Nights...are mid shifts classified as nights for the most part? The 3-11? Obviously the dre...

I have a two year old (4 kids! wow!) and work full time, go to school part time. I sit down on sundays and schedule out my week. Study time, work, one hour/day exclusive mommy daughter time (more on days off, one whole day of the week is nothing b...

I did well in my CNA course and clinicals. One who helped the others and loved doing it. I am getting a high A in Anatomy and Physiology (but putting the time in for it) and loving the course enough to research clinical applications of the knowledg...

I loved CNA school, but the clinicals left a bad taste in my mouth. My preceptor didn't speak english (which I loved because I am trying to learn their language), but because of that I feel like I didn't learn as much as I could. Still, I liked hav...

I saw it in London (or maybe one like it?) about ten years ago. AMAZING. Really solidified my interest in medicine and set me on the path to NS. If you haven't seen it, RUN, don't walk...eat ramen for a week so you can buy a ticket...do whatever y...

Thank you! You explained it really well. I always feel like I should be "doing" something. I feel better, at least I know that I'm not alone in this experience. I just wanted to see if anyone else experienced this borderline obsessive behavior wh...

I work full time, go to school part time, have a two year old with all the fun responsibilities. I am having issues with feeling guilty when I take time away from work and school for myself or my daughter. My normal day looks something like this: ...

btw I'm only in school part time, pre-nursing. I LOVE it and can't wait to begin a program, also part time. Working through it. I manage to fit in 20-30 hours of study a week between work and life. I'm getting A's, except for college algebra, in ...

wow. I hope to God my nurse or any of my co-workers are not using pot. There is just no reason for it. The "what you do on your off time is none of your business" is a load of crap when you are a nurse. If anxiety and lack of appetite are an issu...

I don't understand why the families of patients are entitled to snacks or food anyway. Of course, aside from the one attending the critically ill. Doesn't that drive costs up? Are these people being charged for all the strawberry ice cream they sn...

I'm finishing up my pre-reqs for nursing school which this semester entail college algebra and A&P1. College Algebra is challenging, but doeable if I put the study time in. I can get it. A&P1 is so interesting it's hard to put the book dow...

This is inspiring everyone! It sounds like NS will be a good fit as well, because as I'm learning these things in my pre-reqs my mind wanders to clinical applications of the info. It's like putting puzzle pieces together, many of which could be rig...