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QUESTION:

I want to move next year. Right now I’m in a practical nursing program so once I get licensed I can pretty much move anywhere. However, I want it to be warm and sunny and also I need to have a college nearby so I can do a bridge program for LPN to RN because my ultimate goal is to be an RN. But once I become an LPN in a few months I want to get a job and move!
Right now I live in FL. So I’d like to try something west…maybe Texas, Arizona, California, or somewhere that I can enjoy the single life as a young professional! How do I know where is best for me? I’ll be moving all by myself…just me and my two shih tzus :)
Any ideas on how to pick a city that’s best for me?

3 Comments so far

  1. Nursing Edu on December 20, 2009 1:59 am

    My suggestion is to move wherever you would prefer to live and not base the decision on school locations at all because once you’re working as an LPN you have the opportunity to take advantage of your employer’s tuition reimbursement benefit plan to enroll in an accredited online LPN to RN or LPN to BSN bridge program.
    Earning your RN degree through an accredited online nursing program gives you the freedom to do it regardless of where you decide to live and the ability to keep earning a living while you’re doing it. There are no waiting lists when you do the online route, it’s faster than attending a traditional campus based program, costs less, and is designed to let you do your course work at your own pace whenever you have the time rather than you having to arrange your work schedule around fixed class times like you would at a traditional school.
    You can find average LPN salary ranges by state here:http://rndegrees.net/campus-based-nursin…
    Information about online LPN to RN, and LPN to BSN programs is available here: http://rndegrees.net/online-nursing-prog…
    And information about employer tuition reimbursement plans is available here: http://rndegrees.net/articles/tuition-re…
    Best wishes for your move and for a long and successful nursing career!

  2. Ethan (Red Time Force Ranger) on December 20, 2009 2:21 am

    Houston’s Texas Medical Center would be your best, there are plenty of hospitals that are in need of nurses.

  3. Chef Quiet on December 20, 2009 3:07 am

    I would go to Cali. I mean it rains rarely down there, I live down there for 6 months and it rained like really poured once and a light sprinkle maybe two times. I think a city that is quiet and far from traffic so I wouldn’t do LA and not up north as it gets cold up there. I lived in Temecula but the city was so weird that I wouldn’t recommend it, but everything around it was cool. What about Carlsbad, Murrieta, Winchester etc. Those areas had less traffic and were calm. Texas has tornado’s, Cali has wildfires and earthquakes (when I lived in Cali there were wildfires but we left when it got worse, the smell was so bad. Actually I wasn’t in an earthquake until we moved to Missouri), and Arizona has dust storms and monsoons.