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You'll probably be missing time if you go the ADN route now. It's not like you can apply over the summer for a program and get in the fall--probably the earliest would be spring semester, later if you have pre-reqs to take, and depending on the ADN program, you'll probably have to start at the first nursing semester once you have your pre-reqs done and have been accepted to the nursing program. It may take you almost as long to do an ADN at this point as the bachelor's. So probably your best bet is to set up appointments with advisors at the CCs you're thinking of attending and get a good idea of the timeline and an idea of exactly how much you'll be spending there so you can make an informed decision.

I would suggest getting your BSN after you're past your "fourth trimester", however long that ends up being for you. You could probably be able to do half-time for your pre-reqs while you're trying to get pregnant and during your pregnancy (if you don't have any financial aid dependent on you being full-time), and then apply to nursing school when you and your baby are ready for separation. Science classes are usually good for at least five years so if you decide to have more than one baby you don't have to worry about them "expiring" before you enroll in your BSN program. You probably won't want a gap between getting your degree and starting a nursing job--not impossible to get a job in that case, but it will probably be harder. It also depends on what your work situation is, and if you need to take paid family leave, etc. It may be in your best interest to start your BSN as soon as possible, get a job, and then get pregnant so you can have paid leave. To re-iterate, it is your decision and only you can truly decide what's best for you.

As I started to finish my first semester of nursing school I applied for probably at least a couple dozen patient tech/entry-level NA positions before finally was interviewed and offered a NA I position. I'm just started to get rejection letters from another hospital system for positions I applied to a month ago. So it might just take some time. Volunteering at the hospital won't hurt and it may help--and if you're unemployed, it's a good way to fill that time gap, and you may get some good references from it. If you're not being utilized in the area you've been assigned, keep your volunteer manager up to date on that and just keep letting them know that you like to keep busy (not too often and in a nice way of course.)

I wouldn't put my career on the line for cats. You called animal control, and that's where your responsibility ends--you don't have the training to walk into a stranger's house and deal with their animals. Cats are pretty resourceful and the chance of them dying before animal control shows up is pretty low. This is anecdotal, but I had a client several years ago that got arrested and it turned out he had dementia, and it he was gone for a good week before animal control was able to pick up his cat, and the cat was fine.

Your boyfriend sounds like an ass. Make it clear to him all the reasons why you want to be a NA, and then tell him he can support you or go somewhere else. I usually soften my responses with "You might want to consider" or "I'd suggest", but really, no one should have an intimate partner that doesn't support them, especially when in this case where he's acting like a NA job won't help you be a nurse--it's not hard to make the connection so there's probably something else going on there.

Um, WTH? For one "snake pit" isn't funny, and two, nothing HouTx said should have been taken the way you apparently did.

It does sound like McRoberts. How is this medical advice?

It says you have good grades--all that honor and integrity stuff, that's just what they say. There's no real vetting of that.

Including nine hours of pre-reqs, I'll be spending about a total of $8000 just for tuition for my ADN at a CC.

What school is requiring you to get a smart phone?

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I had mine 14 years before the titers, which came back too low, so I had to do the whole series again.

Not only is it too much, the degree you get is essentially worthless: those programs tend to be lacking in proper clinical areas so it's near impossible to get a job, and none of your classes will transfer should to you decide to do a RN to BSN/MSN program. Also, the "wait-list" thing tends to be a myth--there's supposed one at my school, too, but in reality there isn't.

My school (CCAC-Allegheny) did a really odd thing in the spring semester: we were told we needed to buy the $170 books for first semester and they had to be from from school bookstore (though they said they'd make exceptions to people who had taken the first semester before), and that we'd get our access codes when we bought the book. The access codes did not come from the book--they actually just gave us a Xerox of the codes. And then later I found there was a link on one of our bulletin boards for a free PDF copy of the ATI book. In previous years the fee was included in our tuition and students got the books for free. So it doesn't even seem to make sense to buy the books next semester (at least for me--I don't find study guides like that useful. YMMV)

No leader can force people to follow, however, you can incentive while CYA: what you can do is make it clear you're keeping track of everything (if you are, and if you're not, I would highly suggest it): that you keep attendance for each meeting, how many emails they respond to, and exactly how much everyone contributes; and that you will be updating the professor every week (or whatever works) about how much everyone puts into it--including yourself. So that does two things: it gives incentive for people to come (if they want to) and gives your prof an idea of how much work everyone is putting in--including yourself.

I would say yes, that is too much to expect pretty much anyone to learn in six weeks. You _might_ pass all of them, but probably just barely--and probably be overstressed the whole time--so if your GPA is at all a concern, I'd definitely vote for dropping to down to two classes.