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Liberal Arts degrees - april004 - 03-11-2011
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Good thing I saved my money getting my liberal arts degree at Excelsior than spending gobs of money and being unemployed. I used to be embarrased of my vocational lpn diploma. No more!
Well, I am not an Lpn anymore but I still do one weekend shift a month to keep my skills up through a nursing agency....just in case. I remember people telling me, "You only have a vocational diploma?"
Of course now people say, "YOu have a liberal arts degree!? What?!"
And then I say, "I have my lpn diploma....just in case."
I am finally hearing, "Smart girl!"
After all these years...I finally have people telling me it's a good thing to have.
Liberal Arts degrees - P00057870 - 03-11-2011
Never be ashamed of your LPN - these days you can use it to fast track to an RN and/or a BSN.
Liberal Arts degrees - Maniac Craniac - 03-11-2011
An LPN diploma is, and always has been, a great asset. You shouldn't cease to be proud of it, nor being a nurse.
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Liberal Arts degrees - cookderosa - 03-11-2011
Maniac Craniac Wrote:An LPN diploma is, and always has been, a great asset. You shouldn't cease to be proud of it, nor being a nurse.
+1 that! :iagree:
Liberal Arts degrees - burbuja0512 - 03-11-2011
Nurses are awesome! How many people can you care for with the skills you learned studying for your liberal arts degree?
Liberal Arts degrees - ryoder - 03-11-2011
Ever consider doing the rn degree?
Liberal Arts degrees - kester22 - 03-11-2011
Food for thought: ISU has a LPN-BSN program online with clinicals in your area, great way to get your RN and leveraging your BALS and get your BSN. I'm enrolling in their program this fall, I am an LPN too, but no bachelors in anything, unfortunately.
Liberal Arts degrees - april004 - 03-13-2011
ryoder Wrote:Ever consider doing the rn degree?
I have...but I hate nursing. I just happened to be on that track after being a medic and then going to Lpn school in the Army. When I got out everyone expected me to get my Rn. So I pretty much took my time taking one course here and there at a local community college. My ex husband (he's a good man even though he's my ex) said I was taking my time because I never wanted to be a nurse...and he was right.
I can't even think of going back to school and getting my RN. Just the thought of it sends shivers down my spine. So I have my liberal arts degree in something I always wanted to study. My Lpn diploma(just in case!) and a great job I am doing currently that only requires a certificate!
Still, I was always embarrassed of it. Especially because I never planned to pursue an Rn. I do get alot of, "That's it? "
.....
Or at least I used to get embarrassed, when they realized I wasn't going further with it. My that's it vocational diploma still pays better than alot of people's bachelor's.
Liberal Arts degrees - ZsaZsa - 03-14-2011
I agree with April! I became an LPN because it was available,affordable, acceptable to my family, and paid well with steady employment. NOT because of a burning desire to be a nurse. BUT. . . then I found out I liked it,and was good at it, especially the office/clinic field.
I have no desire to go on to RN. While it certainly pays more- the only fields for an RN in this area are working the hospital floors (never again!) or administration.
The liberal arts degree is the one I should have pursued at 18 if I had had the family/financial support needed. Now I'm doing it on my own to fill what amounts to a void in my psyche, and to complete something that feels unfinished.
Will it help with my employment? Maybe- I was recently laid off, and there were a lot of jobs I would have considered, but you couldn't get in the door without a degree. It will give me more options as I age, and become less physically able to tolerate the stresses of nursing.
Liberal Arts degrees - cookderosa - 03-14-2011
I don't blame you at all. I strongly considered nursing. I for a year I did the pre-reqs, earned my CNA, volunteered at a free clinic, shadowed several MSNs, and day 4 as a patient care tech I knew nursing wasn't for me.
Funny thing, I had people come out of the woodwork when I was considering it- 9 out of 10 saying how well it paid, especially for "only" an associate degree- and how you can go onto to being a practitioner (money and Independence in 3 years and online! whoo hooo!) but maybe 1 in 10 told me what was great about the job :ack: I won't bash, but it's a good fit for a certain kind of personality. Within that year I searched high and low for alternatives, peripheral jobs that might be a better fit for me. I even considered applying to med school. But, it wasn't a fit so it wasn't a fit. No a big deal.
Didn't you land a job at the University of Illinois-Chicago? How's that going?
I always thought you'd be an excellent physical therapist due to your body building interests and nursing background.