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Nursing & Family Life?Rating: (votes: 0) My advice would be to wait to have kids until you have at least one year experience working as a nurse. It would be hard finding your first job as a new grad as it is but a nurse with no experience that long out of school would have a much harder time. I'm not too familiar but there are also rules about inactive licenses that you may want to look up depending on how long you are planning to stay home. Comment: I agree with the above advice. Try to get a year in if you really can. Then maybe you can even go per diem and work very minimally, but still have your foot in the door and still be getting experience. The beauty of nursing is that there is a lot of options in terms of jobs and job schedules that can work for families. For examples: Growing up my father had a "normal" M-F day job, and my mother (an RN) worked 11-7 per diem. We rarely had to have sitters and never needed to go to daycare because of this and my mother got to spend a lot of time with us. Now that she is an empty nester, she works a per diem day job. I work a part time day shift job and a per diem hospital gig. I could always only work the per diem gig when I have kids if I want. So my point here is there are lots of options! Especially once you get that year in! But for now...focus on school and your goal of becoming a nurse. Then you can focus on getting a job. If having a family happens somewhere in there, so be it, your life will adjust. Once you have been working for a bit and depending on where you are in terms of family life, then you could consider an advanced degree. It's all steps and will fall into place. I understand that you are just trying to think and plan ahead, but I think you are a bit ahead of yourself. One day at a time
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