RN's..Advice appreciated!

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Specializes in Hospice CNA.

Hi!

I have posted here a few times in the LPN section, which was my original plan. Now, I'm having second thoughts.

I HATE math! I mean HATE! I'm not good at it at all!! English and writing is my thing. :) The LPN program I was interested in requires Math116 (Math Applications) and English 101. It is a Tech college.

A community college, for the rest of 2009, is allowing Math116 and starting in 2010, they will be requiring Math100 (College Algebra) for new applicants. I feel like if I can really study and be eligible for Math116 for LPN, why not just do the RN program?

I'm 24, will be 25 this Summer. I'm not married and no kids..just animals. LOL.

I was just in a hurry to finish and I thought a year would fly by and I would have a great career, but I'm looking at the big picture. The jobs I see in the paper are mostly for nursing homes and assisted living facilities for LPN's. I'm just not interested in doing that.

My dream is to be a community outreach nurse.. as I do ALOT of volunteer work with homeless shelters. I would also love to work in Oncology, as I lost my grandmother to a rare cancer in 2001.

So.. I only have until the end of March to decide between the tech. college or the community college for RN.

Any advice is great! Thank you for reading.:typing

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

By all means, if you can go for your RN - please do so. At your age, you have unlimited possiblities - and have already realized the limitations of an LPN. Get your RN so you can take advantage of all those possibilities.

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Specializes in Hospice CNA.

Thank you!

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Specializes in Psych, ER, Resp/Med, LTC, Education.

Oh yeah definately --if the Long term care thing is not for you I wouldn't waste your time with the LPN thing.

An I will tell you ---I am not great with math at all---hate it. I passed. it's primarily Algebra-- and from there I would say that you might want to avoid peds nursing as there is more calculating there because most meds for kids are ordered milligrams per kilograms (body weight) and you are always doing the calculations for that-- one (of many) reasons why I don't do medical peds--

emergency might be hard to as you sometimes have to figure doses quickly in an emergency--

I have kids on the Psych ER --but the meds we use for them in an emergency are pretty limited and the docs will tell me how much to give-- they don't make me figure it--thank god!!!

Another thing to think about is ...if you like the community outreach thing.......not sure what kind of goals you have in the way of money but have you thought of Social Work? They do a lot of that stuff --But you would need to get a masters to make the best money and most jobs tend to want a MSW.

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Specializes in Hospice CNA.

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, that was my original goal after high-school, then I started doing CNA work and fell in love with the medical side. My mother is a counselor, and even with all of her education, my aunt who is an RN makes alot more than her, with an associate degree.. my mom says she wishes she would've chosen nursing. LOL.

Yes, Community Outreach, Hospice and Oncology are defintley the things I'd love to do. I have met a few outreach nurses and they said that even though they don't get paid alot, they really love their job.

I love Hospice work.. I can't explain it. The relationships that I have made in that field, I will carry in my heart always. :)

PS- My mom thinks I shoud be a Psych nurse..She said she could get me a job, but only if I was an RN of course.

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