Vocational nursing-but I have an associates degree!

Hi all! I finished all my pre-requisites in 2012 and am so tired of applying to community colleges and getting shut down. My GPA isn’t a 4.0, so I can’t get into Sac State’s program. I was looking at Carrington and Blake Austin, but they will only let me do Vocational nursing, even though I have an Associate’s degree. I’m asking anyone, from your experience, is it even worth it to get the vocational nursing cert? It seems like a waste of time and money and I had heard years ago they were phasing that out.