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I was not aware that you do not get summer's off in nursing school. But that's okay, I was just planning on getting a full time job in the summer time to earn a few thousand dollars... How many years is it to be a RN? A CRNA? And could I work a job on the weekends possibly? Thank you very much for all of your help guys. You're all awesome. :)

Thank you everyone so much for all of your answers! My GPA is currently 3.6, but I am really working on getting a 4.0.

Hello everyone! I am new to allnurses, so please be kind. :) I want to go to medical school for sure, but I'm not sure what I want to be for sure. I was going to be an Anesthesiologist, but after seeing how much they had to pay for malpractice insurance-the numbers scared me away. So I started researching medical careers, and nursing seems appealing to me. I think I want to either be a RN or a CRNA, but I would MUCH prefer to be a CRNA. The problem is, is that I live in Indiana, and from what I have heard, there are absolutely no CRNA's out here because the Anesthesiologist's hate them (which to me seems totally ridiculous)... Could I go to school in Cincinnati, or somewhere else close, and then come back and be hired here? If that fails, then I would like to be an RN or something else with higher pay. My concern is, is the pay. I've seen that it averages 40-50k. Do you get paid more with more experience? What is the starting salary? And what schools would you recommend? I've also read that if you attain a bachelor's degree, you can get paid around 6k more per year. Is that also true?