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Is It God Or Too Good To Be True

2007-06-21

OK, I did it.  I enrolled in nursing school today.  Ideally, I'd be able to go for a 4-yr BSN, but I don't think that's financially feasible right now.  In fact, I'm not sure how I'm going to pay for the classes I've already signed up for, but it was so easy.  I searched for local schools, requested info on one, and got a call the next day from an admissions person.  I toured the campus today.  It's small - only 32 people admitted per term.  It's a diploma school for an LPN.  The waiting list around here is 2-2 1/2 years for the other schools for the same program.  The one I applied at doesn't have strict entrance requirements - just a test, which I passed with a huge score.  I wasn't prepared to do that today, but I test well, so it was no problem.  I was so proud to be able to come home and tell my son about how I did on the test!  He was actually impressed.

I still have to talk to a couple of friends who are nurses to see what I'm getting myself into and whether or not I'm taking the right route.  At the very least, I'll have spent a year in school with credits that will transfer because the school is accredited.  It's newer, so all of the lab equipment is new and I think I'm doing the right thing.  I can start classes July 9th and take Anatomy & Physiology and Math (at 4 credits each) the first 11 weeks so that I'll only have to take 2 nursing classes when the official term starts in October.  That will allow me to ease my way in and hopefully build my confidence - if I do well.  I'm nervous and concerned about the financing, but everything up to this point has fallen into place.  I might actually have a diploma and marketable job skills before I turn 35!  If I find that nursing is suitable and I want to keep going with the education, I could still squeak out a 4-yr degree before my son graduates high school. 

It seems like a huge undertaking right now and will require some cooperation on the part of my husband (which I may not get), but come hell or high water, I'm going through with this!  I've supported him and taken on so much of the home responsibilities when he went back to school (and even when he wasn't in school).  It's not that I think he owes me anything.  It would just be nice if, for once in our sorry marriage, he could share a vision with me and get excited.  It's an exhausting thing to have to drag a person alongside you for a lifetime!

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piper (2007-06-22)
and if you didn't get an RN or some kind of degree, where would you be 5 years from now?!!!

Vick (2007-06-22)
Good for you! That first step is the hardest but you have done it! :):)

Barnabus (2007-06-21)
I think it's pure inspiration!! A skill you can always fall back on! One can never have too many back up skills!! I have Film processing & retouching, Shoe repair, musician, typewriter repair and have cashier'd. So have always had a relative easy time finding a job!!

piper (2007-06-21)
daughter got her LPN first, then RN--would not accept any help from home, financial, that is. just renewed her license...is a first responder with local ambulance system - loves nursing, although she has a city job - not nursing - best "insurance policy" there is, especially if you intend to go single later on

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