Man goes on quite a trip....

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Originally Posted by Marilyn

So, you're a nursing teacher in Austin, and I have a daughter in Austin trying to be a nurse. She's attending Texas State, because she loves it there, but their nursing program will be in Round Rock and starts in 2011, I think. She's hoping to move to San Marcos or Wimberly and go to UTMB in the fall of '09. If she can get in. She thinks she won't have a problem. Hope she's right. She wants to get into a BSN program, and eventually work in labor and delivery. She's thinking she will eventually go for her masters so she can be a nurse practicioner. We're hoping she makes it!!!

Yep, that's where I am and what I do! Good luck to your daughter! I'm a little confused though, how will she go to UTMB if she lives in San Marcos or Wimberly? Do they have an extension or online program? I would tell her to check out UTMB's program very closely - the rumor is that there will be big cutbacks in the nursing program due to the hurricane damage and the reduction in beds at the medical center in Galveston.

She's right on target to go to a BSN program - and she will want her master's at some point. If she stays in labor and delivery, she'll have to be a Family Nurse Practitioner as there is not a practitioner program for maternity nursing exclusively. However, the family nurse practitioner program does cover pregnant women and newborns.