melissa2222

Unfortianitly while working in a LTC I too had a similar situation. But the resident didn't have dementia or any issues as such. She was such a sweetie and we all felt bad for her because she knew what was happening but her family didn't tell her anything about her situation until the last minute. It made her very depressed so we had our ways of trying to cheer her up. The only thing we could do was try to help her cope. Its such a shame that these things happen. But like you said, you never know what happened in their lives and we shouldn't judge. Thanks for sharing and best of luck with "Molly"! :)

Thank you all so much for the advice! It's good to know that there are other people out there who have successfully gone back to school and done well. I think if your not in the right mind you wont succeed. Like right now I'm barely getting through the rest of these prereqs and they shouldn't be this hard. But anyway, I haven't looked into financial aid yet. I honestly don't know where to begin. And the BSN program I'm supposed to go to is a 2 year accelerated for those who have taken the prereqs at a different college. I've been looking into other nursing programs recently and there is a school close by that is way cheaper but they only have an RN program and an LPN bridge. Who knows maybe some time off would give me time to find better schools? :)

So I guess I need some advice. I'm almost done with the prereqs for the nursing school I want to go to. I'll be finished in the fall. After that I go straight to nursing school. But I've been stressing out. I realized that I just don't have any money saved up. My family is not in a good financial situation right now and I'm not even sure how to pay for books at this point. So financially, I'm not sure how I'll get through nursing school. I've already accepted that I'll have to work part time and the nursing school I'm going to is an accelerated BSN program. I've also been contemplating nursing as a career choice in general. I keep going back in forth in mind wondering if this is the right path for me? I've looked at other careers in the medical field and none of them sound as exciting as nursing, but I'm just not confident that I'll make a good nurse. Currently I'm working as a CNA at a homecare company and I enjoy the work I do but I'm only working weekends due to school so I haven't gained that much experience. I think maybe it's a good idea to take some time off before nursing school to save up money and figure things out before I just jump right into it. But my family keeps telling me that I'll never go back and that I wont make it. Does anyone have any advice? Thoughts? Opinions? I'd really appreciate it I'm kind of lost right now. And in a time crunch with nursing school being so close after I graduate. :)