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I am currently finishing up my RN, testing next month (May). I was wondering for those of you who have done WGU RN to MSN executive program if you think a new RN would be successful. I've read reviews from experienced nurses, but I'm wondering if I don' have experience on my side how much I'm going to have to teach myself to catch up. I have been working as an LPN in home health for about a year, so I am not completely inexperienced, but home health is very different from acute care, and of course, a year is nothing in the career span of a nurse. I still have much to learn, but I don't want to stop going to school for fear that I won't want to go back. Plus I work nights, so WGU will allow me the flexibility that I just can't get from my current university - I'm also very blessed to have an LPN job that allows me to do homework.

You didn't ask me, but I will say I would definitely work as a CNA while in the program! I didn't go to WGU for my ADN, but it was always obvious among my classmates who had worked as a CNA and who hadn't. The one's that hadn't struggled with certain ideas that were obvious for anyone who had worked. Plus, when you do start working as an RN, you will have CNAs under you and I believe it is important to have walked in their shoes for manage effectively. The nurses I've encountered who didn't work as CNAs first were always hated because they didn't truly understand the CNAs job.