work and go back to school

[andreead]

Hello

I am in the beginning beginningstages of my nursing career. I am 27 and I want to do an accelerated BSN and then a MSN towork as an NP.I currently work as a medical technologist and I have a confortable life-I make 50K.

However, I worry. It will be a financial burden to get my BSN which is understandable. I will work part time at best or even take off for1 year to finish my accelerated BSN.

But my question is once I will work as anurse and decide to becme an NP should I expect another financial burden or you can take onine MSN and just one class a semester? I know that it will take forever to graduate, but I need to work to pay the bills. How do all nurses do to go back for masters? Do they just quit and go back to school?

thanks so so much

andreea

[TexasNP14]

I can't speak for others, but I was just accepted into an online NP program and will start in May. I plan to work full time nights until clinicals start then cut down to part time. That is my plan, but know that could change depending on how difficult it is to manage both. I don't have the luxury to not work at all. I have worked full time while doing online RN-BSN with plenty of time to spare and no issues, although I know NP school will be so much different.

I only worked one day a week while getting my RN, mainly for experience in the hospital. Honestly I feel RN school was so much work I don't think at that time in my life I could do more.

If you can do accelerated program and not work then I would do that to begin. then work a few years and save and then apply to NP school. Good luck!

[adamRn79, BSN, RN]

I at 27 I switched careers to nursing, got my ASN in 2 years, was able to work FT with the schedule changes my first, different job part time the second year. At 29 I became and Rn and did an online BSN bridge. Now 34 was accepted to FNP program which will be about 50k Soren's over 3-5 years. Currently work 3 pm night shifts, plan to quit or try PT when clinicals begin.

[Annaiya, NP]

I, like many people on here, worked full-time during my NP program. I did school part-time so it took an extra 2 semesters but it's doable. Also a lot of hospitals have tuition reimbursement which can help reduce the cost.