Prospective Brookdale Community College student

Hello all,

Before I sign up, I wanted to get ur opinion on how likely / difficult it is for a person with a child to successfully complete the Brookdale nursing program online. I don't want to start and the fail out.

I am 10 years out of college - have my BA in Econ/psychology and now looking to change carers from an unstable print industry into something a lot more stable like nursing. I am married with a toddler and work full time. I will have to continue to work full time while trying to do the online track at Brookdale. I will be very busy and not sure if I will even have enough time to completely my studies in.

I know some of my undergrad credits will transfer over- but I am not sure how many. That might leave me with 2 or 3 prerequisite courses and then the 8 nursing courses if I am correct plus labs, clinicals I could hopefully do on Saturdays. This morning I requested my ru transcript to be sent to Brookdale and same for my A&P 1 credits from ocean county college which I took in 2010 but stopped at that due to some family matters. I wasn't married back then so didn't care that I had stopped pursuing nursing anyway. That was attempt #2 that I failed at- I passed the class with a C.

In Hs I took 4 years of Latin bc I wanted to be a nurse but then took chemistry and that discouraged me big time from going into anything science related. I should have pushed through and attempted the nursing path during my college years. So yeah, Hs was my #1 failed attempt at nursing.

Fast forward 10 years here I am now with a husband and a child and I feel like I need to try to better my career once again.i do have the motivation more than ever now because of my child except now I am that much more busy than I was the other times so I am not sure if I blew my chance at nursing for good or if I can still go for it and become a RN due to all the obstacles. Fyi, I am also kind of shy so That might be another obstacle ☺️

Any thiughts, insights, advice, words of wisdom will be appreciated 😀