Step by step please as soon as you're finished with high school...currently in long island,ny. Thank a lot.
2007-08-22 05:25:19 · 6 answers · asked by Meelz J 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment ➔ Health Care
If you would like an Associates degree in nursing which takes 2 yrs, go to a jounior college and apply for the Nursing program. If your accepted, you take 2 yrs worth classes and graduate in 2 yrs.
I do not reccomend being an LPN 1st which takes 1 yr to complete. LPN's work mostly in doctors offices and nursing homes. Physicians hire them in their office because they cost less than an RN because they get paid a lot less. They have less education and most of them have no hospital experience or acute care experience.
If you would like to go to a 4 yr college or university, you can get a BSN which is a bachelors of science in nursing. The program takes 4 yrs and you have to go the the university of your choice and apply to get into the nursing program. If they accept you, you will enroll in classes for 4 yrs then graduate.
After you finish your college degree, whether it be a 2 yr or a 4 yr degree, you have to apply and take a national exam and pass this exam before you are issued a nursing license for your state.
The pay for a 4 yr graduate vs a 2 yr graduate is similar. The 4 yr graduate where I work makes about 0.20 cents an hr more then the 2 yr RN. The biggest difference is 2 yr RN's are not usually offered management positions in health care.
BSN prepared nurses usually end up in management or upper level care.
Hope you do well.
RN x 12 yrs
2007-08-22 06:57:24 · answer #1 · answered by happydawg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to a college that has a nursing program. A 2 yr degree is a associate RN, a 4 year, a bachelor. Either program you have to take the state nursing board and pass to be licensed. Good luck
2007-08-22 06:31:30 · answer #2 · answered by shekittee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get enrolled in a community college. Tell them you are interested in their RN program. Take the classes required to get into the program. Get good grades. Take the entrance exam. If you get in you have to go to those classes. Take the exit exam. Then you're an RN. Easier said than done.
2007-08-22 05:28:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first step would be to work on an LPN degree. Do you have BOCES schools there? They have LPN courses relatively inexpensive. After you got your LPN degree you could work as a practical nurse, and then take RN courses on the side, like evenings or weekends. Blessings to you!
2007-08-22 05:31:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
After you start Nursing School you will have a Pediatric rotation. This gives a nursing student the ability to work on peds. you go through clinicals and you will have this course in peds. Then when you graduate from nursing school and pass your boards go apply for a job in Pediatric's.
2016-05-19 23:07:41 · answer #5 · answered by luella 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4 year degree in science. Then exam for license to work in hospitals
2007-08-22 06:10:25 · answer #6 · answered by anaise 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋