You just graduated nursing school and now you’re ready to find a new job and start living as a responsible adult. Maybe you’ve been a nurse or nurse practitioner for sometime now, and you’ve always known you probably need to figure out this budgeting thing. Or maybe you feel like you already manage your money … Read more
You made it into nursing school. Congratulations! Getting into nursing school often seems unnecessarily difficult. Navigating nursing student loan debt and paying for nursing school seems even more daunting. I applied to a community college ADN program and an accelerated BSN program. The ADN program was more difficult to get into! Unfortunately state university cost … Read more
A basic premise of investing is to sell high and buy low. That premise generally goes against our gut urges. Human nature has a strong urge to sell your investments when they are not doing well especially when they don’t do well over a long time. Creating a plan for investing in stocks and bonds helps balance our gut urges.
Can you imagine a generation of nurses who graduate financially savvy and investment smart? My undergraduate nursing program and my recent graduate nurse practitioner program had ZERO information about personal finance much less investing the money we’d be soon making. We just learned how much student loan we would get with the promise of TONS of good-paying jobs for nurses. Reality is I graduated with too much student debt and no financial advice from my nursing programs.
We’ve increased our net worth by almost $23k in the past 90 days despite a stock market dip! I’m starting a new rhythm for NurseWorth. Monthly I plan to report to you our progress towards financial independence.
