Starting nursing school in few weeks

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Hello everyone,

I really need advises from you guys, I got accepted into nursing school and I am starting it very soon. My concern is that I am currently working a full time job and stop working is not an option at all, my question is did anyone do it and worked full time and manage to do it all? I have a wife and 2 babies and I can't just quit to go school and in the same time I really can't leave nursing seat because I want to complete my education no matter what. I took my cna certificate recently, is working as a cna while going to nursing school is a good idea? life is hard and we are really poor but I manged to go through the prerequisites with GPA 4.00 I am very good in managing my time and I think I can do it all, but reading through the topics of this website about how hard the nursing school is hold me back.

Thanks

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Posts like this drive me up the wall.... Of course, you can and will finish nursing school. As long as you are dedicated, you can succeed--it's all up to you. No one said it will be easy, but it will be worth it. You are not the first to go through nursing school while dealing with other obligations, and you certainly will not be the last. Good luck!

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So my husband is working full time plus at a company he is part owner in and working on his RN. Oh and we have 5 kids and I'm in grad school...so not quiet and calm at home.

I did my RN with 4 kids and little support at home...I was a stay at home mom to 3 special needs kids and 1 normal child. It was much more than a typical stay at home parent and would have been easier to work!

So yeah...it can be done. If you want it...you do it.

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A million nurses have achieved this. You can , too.

Most likely ..sleep is what you will have to give up.

Hopefully, your wife realizes she must handle the child rearing right now.

Talk to your counselor... there are probably grants, etc... that will help you financially to go to school full time.

Best of luck, feel free to PM me, I've been there, done that.

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Thank you all of your support :)

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I will be in a similar situation soon enough. My thought process is to just do it !!! I know it's going to be hard, I know schools frown upon it, but in the real world it's necessary sometimes. Especially when you have kids, bills, and a mortgage payment.

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with God help and faith and our dedication to our lives and families I believe that we can do it.. I manage that with all prerequizts but nursing classes are long beside the clinical portion and it's time consuming that why I am worry about but it will be totally fine :)

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I too was working full time while I was in nursing school, I was fortunate, in my second semester my husband got a significant raise and I was able to quit working, then my grandmother-in-law's health was degrading and she was home on hospice I was helping care for her. My sister and her 5 children (I have 2 of my own) and her crazy boyfriend moved in with us. My grandmother-in-law passed away, I continued with nursing school though I considered dropping out, my husbands job was outsourced to India, I continued. It was very difficult but I took it one day at a time and was determined that no matter what I would finish I had worked to hard and struggled to much, it doesn't just affect you it affects all your loved ones. You don't have the time you want to spend with them, but it is worth it. After fighting and struggling to complete school I was able to support my family with only my salary while my husband struggled to find a job. I know there are nurses who struggled more than I did, and we made it!!! You can too, with some determination and hard work.

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