1. Actually yes - if you are interested in how, here are some sources: (source 1) (source 2) (source 3) 2. For my personal situation, no ABSN wasn't the most cost effective option in that I should have gotten a nursing degree as my first bachelor's, but I didn't realize that until I was halfway through getting a different degree at a college that had no nursing program, so this is how it worked out in my life. But if you look at the sources above, you'll see that even if I did that, "working through school" as in working enough to graduate with no debt is pretty much not possible now. Not meaning to come off as dismissive/harsh, but this is a topic I'm pretty passionate about.