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I am currently going for 3 ED interviews this week. I have a bachelor's in another field in health care and have been working at the same facility for 10 years. I went to an accelerated BSN program and now have my license and have been applying to jobs. One job would be at a very low rate (new grad pay scale), the other job could be at my current employer currently making what I currently earn plus a slight percentage increase. The only issue is I have a commitment for 2 years to the school that paid for my nursing degree. Do I go with a much higher salary and pay back the student loan or take the low new grad pay and not have to pay back the student loan?

You are on the right track. I was headed for MD but couldn't do it due to family obligations. I earned my BS in Medical Laboratory Science and now after ten years in the field see how much better nurses are treated and applied to and was accepted to an accelerated BSN program. Afterwards I have plans to earn my masters NP and Doctorates. Go for NP.

I think you should take it one semester at a time. I was going to go to medical school and got my degree as a medical laboratory scientist. The degree combines all of the classes required for medical school admission. Then, my father passed away. I was left to take care of my 82 year old mother with health issues. Medical school was out of the question. Now I have been admitted to an accelerated bachelor of nursing program. I feel my mom should do fine being home alone four days a week 9-5 for just one year. Afterwards my options for furthering my education are limitless and flexible. I plan on attaining my masters in family nurse practitioner on a part time basis. this will allow me to work part time, take care of my mother and work on my masters part time. Then, doctorates in nursing. In the end I will end up will end up with a doctorates that I will be proud of as I believe my father would too. Good luck.

I am a Medical Laboratory Scientist who is going back to school to get my BSN, I feel for you nurses. In the lab I work at they use the lean process to the extreme. We work 12 hr shifts and stand almost the whole time. The only time we sit down is to do a urine microscopic or manual differential all of which takes very little time at all.