jbrookec79

thank you everyone for the kind advice. I decided to listen to my gut instinct and withdrew from the program. I enrolled in physiology for the summer, plus microbiology and anatomy for the fall. The school I withdrew from is discontinuing this particular program and will only have 12 month ( day) programs in the future. If I have trouble getting into an rn program in the future, a day lpn program would probably be a good fit. All of the reasons you guys listed are good reasons to do the lpn first. I also get to take my cna. Thanks everyone and best wishes to all the wonderful nurses and students out there

Congratulations! way to go

I can totally relate. I never had panic attacks until starting nursing school. You can do it though. Have faith in yourself. Don't give up:)

Hi everyone. I'm new to the forum and was looking for some advice. I'm thirty three years old and I realized a couple of years ago that my dream is to be a nurse. After asking many nurses, everyone told me to go straight for the rn. I guess I got a little impatient to become a working nurse, and I applied to an lpn program. I started in Oct. Our original class size was 12. The problem is that the program is 20 months long, yet it is all consuming and feels like it's full time. There are now only 7 of us. One person quit while everyone else has failed out. I realize that I have invested 7 months, but I'm so scared of failing out and wasting more time. I'm currently in good standing, but feel I made a mistake. I'm thinking of quitting before I take another test and in time to slide into some summer science classes at college ( for which I pre-enrolled, just in case). Sorry for the long post but so confused and feel like I would do better in nursing school after having completed all the pre-reqs, even though rn school is supposed to be much more in depth. Any words of wisdom? Thanks in advance