Where do I start if I want to be a R.N.?Can I work and learn?help?

Answer 1

Sure, start out at a local Community College and get your CNA or LPN. This way you can work in the nursing field, see whats going on and if you really want to be an RN after you see what it entails, you'll also be racking in a paycheck so that will also help. If you decide that after all that you wanna become an RN go back to school and hit the books.

Answer 2

Contact your local community college to find out if they have an A.D.N. program (two-year). If they don't, you may want to consider a university with a four-year B.S.N. program. Once you've determined which you're going to go with, then you can work on fulfilling application requirements and prerequisites, and getting accepted. You'll usually need to take a placement test and an entrance exam, and possibly write some essays, above and beyond the usual application process. Once you're accepted, you have to fulfill the college's requirements for degree completion, whether associate's or bachelor's, which usually means you have to maintain at least a 2.0 GPA in all your nursing classes. After graduation, you must wait for an authorization to test, and then register for a test date for the NCLEX exam through your state's board of nursing. Once you are licensed, then you're entitled to practice and work as an R.N. You can earn other certifications during an R.N. program, depending on your college's specific program, and those certifications/licensures will usually enable you to work before graduation. Also, every nursing program I've ever heard of requires a certain number of hours of hands-on nursing experience supervised by an instructor, usually called clinical.

Answer 3

The quickest route to being an RN is to go to a community college and get your associate degree. You can take your required courses first and get them out of the way before you start clinical work. I held down a full time job as a practical nurse while I worked on being an RN. My hospital let me off early so I could go to my clinicals on second shift. Your employer should work with you and make your time flexible. Good luck.

Answer 4

You must go to a university in order to receive your RN license; four years and then you must pass all of your boards before you can get your license. You could go to school for 2 years and earn your LPN license. Then, you could slowly work toward your 4 year degree.

Answer 5

You need a 4-year degree to become a RN

Answer 6

Have to go to school (college). for a two year degree then pass your boards

Answer 7

you need to go to college first

Answer 8

http://www.sfc.edu/nursing/lpntoasn.htm

Answer 9

forign legion