Taking time off after nursing school

Jo Dirt · Apr 20, 2005

Is it possible for a new grad to even work part-time or prn? I wanted to comment to the post that I should put off nursing school....well, I had considered delaying entry into nursing school last month when I found out I was pregnant and I miscarried. I would rather do nursing school now because there is no guarantee that the next pregnancy won't turn out the same way and I would have put off school when I didn't need to. I may not get pregnant right away (didn't last time either) in which case I would go to work. I am just concerned that I will have difficulty securing a grad nurse/new grad job after being out of school for a year+ and yes I am concerned that my skills will get rusty. I am almost 31 and will be 32 when I graduate (so time is a factor in pregnancy as well).

By all means, don't put off school if you don't have to or don't want to. You never know when the opportunity to go to school may come again. Life happens, as they say. I knew girls who dropped out of school when it took more than they could put into it or were willing to put into it at the time. They said they would go back later when their situation was more favorable. Well, four years later they are not in school, haven't been through school, and are still working as CNA's or at the gas station. I haven't worked steadily since I graduated but I have never lost skills or knowledge from it. In fact, each time I come back from a hiatus I am only better than I was before.

I'm 30 as well, and I am so glad I just bit the bullet and finished school when I was younger.

If you struggle and fight your way through school you will not regret or resent your nursing license, but if you wait, you will look back in a year or two or whenever you would decide to get started on it and you WILL have regrets that you didn't do it when you had the chance.

Don't listen to the flippant and sarcastic remarks of burned out nurses. You do what is best for you.