Well, if you want MY advice you should get your RN

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*Vent* So tell me, how come whenever someone asks me what I'm going to school for and I say "I'm in school to become a practical nurse." they say something like "OH okay well if you want my advice you need to go to school and become an RN." and they act as though the classes I'm taking now are just a cake walk because I'm not going to school to become a "real nurse". I am SO sick of this! Yes I do plan on pursuing my associate's or bachelor's degree in nursing, but I'm 18 and don't have the money to go to school for 3-4yrs while working as a CNA. I just want to be a nurse and I always thought that LPNs are nurses but evidently I'm just flat out wrong. I've had some people even tell me I was silly or stupid or just "wasting my time" for going to LPN school! Even my family has this attitude, when I graduate from LPN school this may" I'm planning on moving out and my dad and my grandparents keep saying things like "well you need to go to school before you do that" or "you need to become an RN before you move out" etc etc well I hate to break it to em but when I get up at 4 in the morning to go to my 10 hour clinical rotations I'm not just eating bon bons in the break room lol I'm sorry for the long post but the snobbery that SOME people have is just absolutely downright disrespectful and rude. It just saddens me because graduation is getting closer and closer everyday and I'm SO excited but everyone around me just keeps saying RN this and RN this. Luckily the nurses I work with at the hospital have been SO supportive and have celebrated everything with me from my first foley cath insertion to my first IV start. I guess what really bothers me is the lack of support and enthusiasm from my family, they don't see what I'm doing as "real nursing" and I don't know how to get them to understand lol thanks for reading I just had to get this off my chest. :smilecoffeecup:

I had this happen the other day at super cuts!!! We were getting our son's haired trimed & the women asked me what I do & I told her that I was about to start nursing school.....after talking with her a little more she found out I was in LPN school NOT NURSING SCHOOL!!!

She then went on a 3 mintue rant about how she always wanted to be a med-surg nurse but wouldnt WASTE HER TIME going to lpn school! Well I got defensive & told her that in a year I will be working as a NURSE & then will be working on my RN.....***& she will still be cutting hair in Walmart!***

:angryfire Dont let STUPID people bring you down! I am excited to finish school & be a LPN!!!!:angryfire

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

Next time some one says this, interupt them and say. "No. Actually I don't want your advice.":trout:

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I had this happen the other day at super cuts!!! We were getting our son's haired trimed & the women asked me what I do & I told her that I was about to start nursing school.....after talking with her a little more she found out I was in LPN school NOT NURSING SCHOOL!!!

She then went on a 3 mintue rant about how she always wanted to be a med-surg nurse but wouldnt WASTE HER TIME going to lpn school! Well I got defensive & told her that in a year I will be working as a NURSE & then will be working on my RN.....***& she will still be cutting hair in Walmart!***

:angryfire Dont let STUPID people bring you down! I am excited to finish school & be a LPN!!!!:angryfire

I had a similar situation happen many times to me. I have had people say "LPN school" and "Nursing program". I have told them that I was also in nursing school, and AM a NURSE in my own right. And, yes, my response was just as rude as theirs was...who asked them??? THose that want to become RNs have my avid support...it is just not for ME. I am happy, I have my patients, and I work my new job in pride.

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Try this on for size. I cannot get financial aid for an Associates, I have had too many other classes in my life. But, I could get some financial aid for the Practical Nursing program. After this if I want I can go for the Bachelors and receive financial aid.

But, do I go premed or BSN? :trout:

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