Working during LPN-RN bridge program

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Specializes in Allergy/ENT, Occ Health, LTC/Skilled.

Looking for opinions and/or experiences. I worked full time while getting my pre-reqs part time up until last year when I had our third baby. Now I work PRN to get around daycare costs. Planning to start clinical in July for my bridge. Obviously, much nicer to only work PRN and attend school.

My former manager is offering me a part time position in the new year at a company that is pretty coveted right now among the area nurses. I would be an idiot not to take it but ultimately school comes first. I have finished all of my pre-reqs and co-reqs so I will only having clinical/nursing classes.

How doable do you think it is in your opinion? I figured I would be just fine because of all that I was juggling before but I got a little spooked when I heard this years bridge rotation was cut in half after the first semester - like most schools, it's no joke.

Financially, my husband and I have set ourselves up so I do not have to work during clinical so I do not need this job to pay bills but conflicted because it's an excellent opportunity. I have a super supportive husband and my kids will already been in daycare because of clinical so have those bases covered. I just don't want to take on too much and be in danger of riding the pass/fail line in nursing school after all the work I have done to get there.

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