Burnout advice

[anewmanx]

Dude, what do you do now, in other words, which profession again?  I know you're set or your mind set is towards the health professions - Are you set on being a nurse?  I see you're wanting to get into a nurse practitioner role with these certs.  Have you checked out all available options for a BSN/MSN combo for cheap and RA?  Do you have a set budget and timeline you want to finish?

Retired military / disabled vet. I don’t need to work again unless I feel like it. I have extensive healthcare experience, but as the caretaker of an incredibly ill child who survived, and later as a patient myself when I became severely disabled in an accident.

I have enough GI Bill left over to get to the MSN degree without expense, whether it be via ADN - RN-MSN bridge program followed by pmhnp cert, or a DEMSN - pmhnp cert path. I can pay for the pmhnp cert coursework out of pocket. Money is no issue. Time and convenience are issues.

Timeline i have set for myself is 18 months maximum to RN license, followed by 12-24 months to PMHNP, followed by a 1 year residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin as a pmhnp assuming I was accepted. 

Right now I have a BS in Religion from Liberty with a 4.0 institutional gpa for the last 3 years worth of coursework of my degree. Previous CC coursework from 15 years ago was abysmal. I have 15.5 graduate credits from brick & mortar residential seminary at 3.83 gpa, and I have intro to stats & precalc from Aleks, chem 1, microbio, business stats, college algebra, and a&p 1 from straighterline. Finishing A&P 2 now followed by the associated labs, then Some psych classes from coopersmith. 

The two big programs I’m looking at locally (Milwaukee) are Alverno’s combined direct entry bsn/msn which is 18 months and is generalist follow3d by a pmhnp cert from Herzing or Alverno, and the other option is the ADN from Bryant and Stratton BUT the appeal there is I can transfer in EVERYTHING that’s not a clinical. Pathophysiology, anatomy, pharmacology, etc. So during the 16 months of the program I only have to worry about clinicals, I get an ADN, then knock out the bsn through WGU in 1-2 months (I work crazy fast,) and do a pmhnp msn program at Alverno, Herzing, Walden, etc. time wise both paths are similar. Financially they both make about the same sense. I guess the biggest difference is I get to masters faster at Alverno, but Bryant and Stratton is MUCH lower stress and let’s me bridge the bsn and msn via online which is my preference.