RebeNurse

This is what I was going to say. My husband is self employed and I work prn. We get our own insurance, which costs about the same with the government subsidy that I would pay if I worked part time. Instead, I work prn, which gives me the flexibility to say no when I am busy with school or to pick up extra work when I have time. It also helps that I have a position that allows me study time.

After an intensely stressful couple of weeks and calling about 30 clinics within a 1-2 hour radius, I have found and started with my new preceptor! It is with a big clinic that services low income patients and I have been calling the contact person for months for this and other rotations and never really got anywhere with her since she rarely returns calls. I finally started emailing the HR and administration contacts from the clinic website and got someone to answer me. I am so thankful I got in there and am already learning and seeing a lot. I had started to accept that I wouldn't find a preceptor and that I would be in school another year by thinking about all the time I would have to spend with my kids. Well, now I am as busy as ever and I miss them, but Mom won't be a student after this summer!!! Thanks for all your support :)

Well, apparently it is not a good thing to find a preceptor too far in advance and then not remind them over and over that they agreed to be your preceptor. I just called the one I had found for this semester and she forgot about agreeing to this and booked two other students instead. She mentioned these students when I talked to her before, but I guess now she realizes this is too much. So I have to find another preceptor and the semester started today. Great. This is simply the most stressful part of school I have encountered. If I have to drop this class, it will set me back by another year since this class is not offered again until this fall and then I have to take the final capstone class after that. I feel a bit better after my vent and my cry earlier.

Graduate school is possible too! My daughter was little when I got my BSN and it was hard, but possible. Two weeks before I started grad school to be a nurse practitioner, I found out I was pregnant. I graduate in one year and my little one is 1 1/2 now. We can do this!

The program has been very doable so far. I had started out doing all the online classes and I was able to do that plus work full time plus have a baby and take care of my other child & hubby. Then I started clinicals and had to cut back A LOT. I now work prn only but I am going to be doing lots of clinical hours until I graduate in a year. They don't recommend doing the program this way anymore, now they want you to take one online class with one clinical class as soon as possible. I think that would help spread things out.

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I found out I was accepted the the FNP program on Friday!! Woohoo!! The program focuses on rural family practice, which is one of the things that interested me about the program in the first place. I have searched high and low on this site, and there is practically no information about this school and this program. Any info would be greatly appreciated! Anyone been through this program or in it now?