2006-10-10 09:36:42 · 5 answers · asked by LATINAGIRLY 1 in Health ➔ Women's Health
Go to college, and get your degree.
2006-10-10 09:51:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where you live. But I can tell you how I did it. I had been working as a nursing assistant (CNA) for a couple of years. I went to work at the facility where my CNA instructor was the nursing boss or Director of Nursing. She encouraged me to go back to school to become a nurse.
I visited the area vocational technical school and applied for admission. I was placed on a waiting list as the current class was already started. In the meantime, I went to the local community college and began taking support classes, such as anatomy and physiology, speech, composition, Human Growth and Development, Nutrition, etc.
I was admitted to the next fall's class and took my LPN classes, which took about 10 months. I worked as an LPN for several years to gain experience. Some of my classmates went on the next year to become RNs at the community college.
I went back after several years and took my RN classes and after passing state board exams, am now working as an Associate Degree RN.
Some prefer to go to a 4 year college and go straight through without taking LPN boards. However, if you do that and fail the exam, you drop back to whatever level you were working at before you started the classes. If you fail while working as an LPN, you still can work as an LPN until such time as you can take the test again. If I had failed the RN boards without taking LPN boards I would have had to drop back to being a medication aide, the highest level I had worked at before starting classes. It is up to you. But be forwarned..nursing school is very intense. It will take over your entire life for the time you are in school. Your family will think you have died. Your housework will suffer, unless your family is willing to help out. Your social life will be nonexistent. But the rewards of being an RN were worth all of that to me.
Good luck.
2006-10-10 16:48:33 · answer #2 · answered by dbarnes3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to a local college or university and ask about their ADN (associates degree nursing/RN) program. I was in the program at a local technical college, but I dropped because it was so expensive and I wasn't working at the time. But, the program itself was great, you just have to study really hard.
2006-10-10 16:41:46 · answer #3 · answered by ?~GotLove~? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to a college that has an accredited program.
2006-10-10 16:39:40 · answer #4 · answered by bhlangdon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to go to nursing school
2006-10-10 16:53:31 · answer #5 · answered by zoe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋