jennyjen87

Thank you everyone for taking your time to read my long post and to give me some advice :) I'm just nervous about the cna program i feel like I might hate it!! Where I live cna's really only get hired in nursing homes and I for sure don't want to do that! I just don't want to get all the dirty work. And like I said I would really like my nights, weekends and holidays with my family..I'm still going to consider cna though..What do cna's do in hospitals?

Ok so here it goes..I'm kind of torn on what to do in my certain situation.. I've spent hours on the internet researching and hours on this website reading the pro's and con's of being a certified medical assistant, or certified nursing assistant.I've been going to school off and only (mostly off) for nursing. I attend my local community college and was planning on getting my ADN working several years and then go for my BSN. I'm a mother of two I have a six year old son, two year old daughter, and i'm pregnant with our third baby due in July.I've read so many threads saying just skip CNA or CMA and go straight for nursing but in my case I just know. That's going to be very hard. It's not that i don't believe in myself or anything but it's just nursing school is hard that's a fact and doing it with little ones is going to make it harder. I want the best possible chance of passing school.Oh not to mention my husband works offshore and he's home for three weeks and gone for three weeks and I don't get much help! So i'm at a crossroads of what I should do next....be a CNA or CMA??? The CNA program is only $375 it's six weeks long and it's a night and only 30 minutes away from me! But I don't like the hours they work and I don't want to be the one doing all the dirty jobs all the time. I really don't want to work in a hospital I would if I had to though and I for sure don't want to work in a nursing home! Now CMA is more exspensive the school I would be going to cost about 9200 for everything. It's almost an hour away and it's ten months long. I would be going at night so I wouln't have to pay for childcare. I like how I would work in a office and be off on nights, holidays, and weekends though. The CMA program is ABHES accreditited so that's a plus! I don't know my main priority is to be a wife and mom but I would like to work and do something in the medical field. I'm kind of bored just being a stay at home mom and I would love to just be able to have a normal 9-5 job..With all that being said i'm still like ugh should I just suck it up and go straight for Rn..There's alot I need to do retake classes, retake ACT, take the TEAS V and hopefully pass...I'm just not sure what I should do! I would love some good honest advice sorry this is so long I just wanted to make sure I covered everything.

Hey everyone, I've been out of school for about a year and a half. I graduated in 2006 and since then i've been going to school off and on..The first several years I didn't really care about school and I didn't make the best grades. Right now I have a gpa of 2.45. I'm a smart person and I know i'm capable of doing way better than that! But I was wondering should I leave that class alone or should I go ahead and retake it? I was thinking about just taking some easier classes to bring up my gpa this coming August because i'm pregnant with my third baby and I know how A&P is you have to STUDY! Has anyone got into the nursing program with any c's in their pre-reqs like one of the A&P classes?

Hey everyone, I'm registered for my local community college for this fall..I've been out of school for going on two years and i'm just ready to get back into school and pursue my dream of becoming a nurse. I'm nervous because I have a six year old, two year old, and i'm currently seven months pregnant with my third baby! I know its going to be tough but i'm just soooo ready!!! I would like some opinions on private colleges vs community colleges..I need to retake some science classes that have expired so i'm registered to go back this fall but i've found a private school that offers an lpn program. The program is 22 thousand dollars!!!! But they have night school so I won't have to pay for daycare..If I got into my local community college tuition would be cheaper but I would have to go during the day so I would have to put two of my kids in daycare which your looking about a thousand dollars a month! I'm thinking in the long run the private college might be the best choice. But could I become an RN if I wanted to later down the road if I went to a private college? I know that's what I will want to do in the future..If i'm not able to do that I guess I would rather go to a community college.. Also the night program for LPN is two years long!! In a way I think going into a two year RN program would be better and I would make more money but it's more competite to get in so it could take me longer to get accepted into my community college's program. If ya'll were in my situation which sounds better to you? Private school or community college?

Thank you! Yeah I was just nervous like maybe they will give me a test on the day of the tour or something but i'm pretty sure i'll have to schedule an appointment for the test. Thanks again :)

I have an appointment to go tour the school this Monday...I was wondering to get into the LPN program do you have to take an entrance exam? And if so what exam do you take and what kind of questions are on the exam? I'm not that great with math and i've been out of college for almost two years now so i'm nervous! I intially was going to do their medical assistant program but I decided since nursing is my passion I would be better off just doing the LPN program..If you have any info on this i would greatly appreciate it!!

Thanks for the math website I need all the help I can get!

Wow thanks so much! Its great to get encouragement..I've always been very hard on myself! Which is really getting to be a problem especially trying to get into nursing. I was thinking I think I may have ADD. I have a hard time focusing and get easily frustrated. So maybe I should get tested because if I do have it i'm sure medication would do wonders for me. I will look into getting a tutor! Nursing is in my heart and there is nothing I can ever do to change that...I sure wish elementary ed was because its way easier lol but its not! I really needed this I thank the both of you from the bottom of my heart!

Hey everyone, I've been going to a cc to work on my assocciates in nursing. I've taking classes here and there since 2006. I had a baby girl in 2009 and haven't been back to school since then. Well schools starts in two weeks and i've been racking my brain as to what I should do. I'm between nursing and elementary ed. The problem is I have a 2.54 gpa (horrible I know). Here's what my prereqs and grades look like A&P I C Psychology C English I B Micro B Sociology C English II C Oral B I've taken the TEAS VI three times I need at least a 70 i've made a 68 on it three times( I studied my butt off and did remmediation). I made an 18 on the ACT my school look at English and math subscore i'm good at english horrible at math I need at least a 17 on the math portion I have a 15.. After taking it four times I got a 15 on the math twice and then a 14 and then a 13! I'm just so tired of working so hard and nothing showing for it! I can't even pass the nursing entrance exam my gpa sucks and I got to pull up that math subscore and i'm horrible at math! I just know in my heart I would make an awesome nursing but academically I just don't know if i'm cut out for it. I hate to say that about myself. I'm a mother to two beautiful children, a five year old son, and 21 month old daughter and I would never encourage them to give up on their dreams but I'm very close to giving up on mine. I think I would be happy as a teacher but the pay sucks, and while money isin't everything...I don't want to go to school for four years only to make 30k! Do nurses make much more than teachers?? I know that everywhere its different I live on the Mississippi gulfcoast. I'm not trying to make it seem like its all about money i've had a passion for the medical field since I was a toddler! I love it with all my heart and soul. But i'm discouraged and mentally worn out! I'm trying so hard. Should I just pursue teaching??? At least with that degree I can take classes. You have to pass the praxis and then your ready to teach. Nursing is just so competative and the longer it takes me to even get to where I can apply the harder its seems to get. They keep changing things !I'm so stressed...College is all I think about. As of now i'm registared for classes going towards elementary ed. It would kill me to give up on nursing but its taking so long and i'm feeling like maybe nursing just isin't in the cards for me as much as I would love it to be! So my questions are...If I stick with nursing should I take all my classes over that I made c's in?? If so what if I can only bring it up to a b? Is A's and B's good enough to get in or do I need a like a 4.0 and all A's??? Should I stick with elementary ed and maybe do nursing at a later time?? I mean i'm only 23! Please any advice would be very helpful!!! I want the good, the bad, and the ugly lol just tell me the truth i'm desperate because I just really don't know. Oh one more important thing I left out is I have had a TON of nurses tell me that nursing sucks and is no career for a mother! The majority of nurses I have met are so over being a nurse and that does scare me so that does affect my descion too. I'm scared to major in something that might take a lot of time away from my family. Thats what I love about teaching less money but more family time. Nursing is more money but you sacrifice weekends and holidays I HATE that. My family is my everything but the pay and doing something in the medical field might be worth sacrificing that time. At least I would have a finacial secure job...Sorry to go on and on...Please just give me some advice.