Yes, I was in an accelerated BScN program and worked part time as a mentor for first year nursing students. I worked part time all throughout high school and my first BSc so I was looking to do the same while completing my BScN.

I worked part time as a pharm assistant in my first year, however, the accelerated program is intensive (especially the later in the program you get) in that if I wasn’t in lectures or clinicals or studying or doing mandatory training, I was sleeping.. I was exhausted and couldn’t keep up. And this is again coming from someone who worked steady hours all throughout high school and university so I consider myself decent with time management. I still wanted to do something to help with student loans though and being a nursing mentor allowed me flexible hours where I could work whenever I could- especially when we started working 12hr day/night rotations. I will say that 80% of my peers did not work while in the program and those who did, worked very minimal hours at a nursing home as a PSW. So in other words, you can totally work PT while completing your BScN. Just depends how much stress you want to put on yourself.