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Nursing Your Career Back to Health

A friend of mine recently graduated from college with a business degree and a few years into working for a large corporation, she decided that she wanted to start nursing school. Now, I would say she had lost her mind, but honestly, I don’t blame her one bit!

Nurses are in extremely high demand and the pay is phenomenal. Not to mention, you are helping to save and change lives everyday, how rewarding! So I asked her how she was going to transition from making great money to going back to school full time while paying her bills (including her previous school loans!). She smiled and said that she had a plan.

From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Step 1: Decide what type of nurse you want to be. For example, Registered Nurses make more money, but becoming an LPN is quicker. Depending on how long you want to be in school, two or four years, will determine what you are eligible for.

Step 2: Determine how much money you will need to make in order to complete your degree. If you can afford to work part time, great! If not, try taking some courses on line while you work to make life a little easier.

Step 3: Make sure you apply to several schools. Select a few schools that offer what you are looking for in a nursing program and talk to a counselor from that particular school about grants and scholarships, there are literally millions of these just waiting to be given out! Also be certain that the school is accredited and approved by the state’s Board of Nursing, otherwise you can’t work as a nurse no matter how good your grades are.

Step 4: Take it slow or speed it up! You don’t have to take on a full load each semester. One or two classes here and there add up over time or if you want to hurry it along, check to see if your school offers an Accelerated BSN.

Step 5: Register for the nursing entrance exams for the schools from which you are applying for. These are mandatory and may take time to pass, so be prepared!

Once you pass the NCLEX and complete your degree, you are ready to start looking for a job. Apply the experience you had prior to nursing school from other jobs (ex: if you were in communications, this will help tremendously with nurse/patient relationships). It may take some time, extra money and late nights, but nurses are needed everywhere and will always be in demand.

About The Author http://nursingcareertips.com/ Registered nurse helping others nurses taking control of their nursing career The nursing Shepherd is run and operates by a registered nurse who has a desire to see nurses are empowered to take control of their career and ultimately their lives. The birth of this coaching firm came about several years ago while running a nursing recruiting firm where nurses that were burned-out, overworked, and exhausted were looking for a way out jumping from one nursing job to another. It was exciting connecting nurses to various employers, but shortly after noted the need to offer nurses more than another nursing job, but a career blueprint to help them create a vision to get them to where they wanted to go and to find ultimate nursing career fulfillment. The founder of the Nursing Shepherd believes that nurses are the CEO of their lives. They are being encouraged to look at their lives with the perspective of running a successful, growing and a profiting business. When nurses begin to take control and responsibility for their nursing career, it means that they have the ultimate control over the vision and direction of their career dreams. For many years, nurses have not wanted to take charge of their career, and feel more comfortable turning this role over to their employers; and yet actively complaining about their lack of satisfactions instead of taking control of their lives. Nurses are the CEO of their own lives. They alone are responsible for the level of success that they experience professionally, and equally responsible for the lack of success or dissatisfaction that they may encounter. The level of success that nurses will experience is defined by the career vision that they create and the choices that they make consistently. The problem with this concept is that must nurses do not have a nursing career vision, and most nurses do not believe that it is possible to incorporate their true self with their tremendous body of nursing knowledge to create their dream nursing job. The good news is that the founder of the Nursing Shepherd, Emma Soy is in the business of helping nurses to create a career vision to help them land their dream nursing job, whatever that dream may be. All things are possible, only if you believe. Come and dream big and contact us the Nursing Shepherd for a complimentary 30-minute coaching session.