ANChar

American Association of Colleges of Nursing | Nursing Shortage

I appreciate your response and I appreciate anyone taking the time here beccause I'm beside myself,but I'd have come to that conclusion too if it were about the class making me miserable but I think the context was missed. I think there's a misunderstanding of my situation. I would love to study all the time if I didn't already have a stressful job that I have overtime for to survive it. I'd happily leave my position for full time studying but to take that gamble and end up not even being able to get into a program. Put it this way, my job has a constant level of learning and focus, leaving precious little forr anything else. I've heard different reports about nursing shortages. I tried to put a link, but basically I find articles saying that the aging baby boomers are creating a future shortage

I am 48 and realized I wanted to leave my job and get into a Nursing Program, knowing it wouldn't be a risk because I graduated with a BA top 10% of my class, near 4.0, so its a matter of putting my focus to it, but come to find out its impossible to get into a program. I'm taking only 1 class at a time after work for the prerequisites since I can't gamble my job with that as the reality, but its a 20+ hour commitment going to lecture twice a week, a lab, and Im logging something like 15 hours a week in homework too. I don't have time to fix computer problems, work out, or cook healthy meals anymore, and am completely MISERABLE. And I have to do this for 6 semesters (3 Years?) only to not know if I'll even get into a nursing program? And I can't leave my job to focus on school just to find out I can't get in after taking all my prerequisites either. I am beside myself. Does anyone have any ideas, are there any other paths to becoming a nurse? I looked into becoming an LVN and paying for schools but they are all at least 30,000, so the debts would far outweigh how long it would take to pay off all the loans because I also have at least that much in living expenses. I'd have made a wonderful nurse, and this is breaking my heart.

I am 48 and realized I wanted to leave my job and get into a Nursing Program, only to find out that its an impossible dream. I'm taking only 1 class at a time after work, but its a 20 hour commitment going to lecture twice a week, a lab, and Im logging something like 15 hours a week in homework too. I don't have time to fix computer problems, work out, or cook healthy meals anymore, and am completely MISERABLE. And I have to do this for 6 semesters (3 Years?) only to not know if I'll even get into a nursing program? And I can't leave my job to focus on school just to find out I can't get in after taking all my prerequisites either. I am beside myself. Does anyone have any ideas, are there any other paths to becoming a nurse?