[Mommabear_mvj]

Anyone who's enrolled in it, can you enroll/apply w/o having any prior experience or schooling besides HS? I've been out of HS for 7yrs now, and a mom to 3 kids, never had a career of any kind. Am I fooling myself for even thinking about this? thanks for any help.

[jrwoodall79]

i dont go there, but from their website, found this information: http://www.readinghospital.org/Docum...g_section3.pdf

go down to "future students"

should answer all of you questions

[evbella]

You may have to take a few prerequisite's before applying. Contact them and they will send you information on exactly what you need and about the school.
I am in my 2nd year evening/weekend program. Most of us have children anywhere from baby all the way up . You absolutely can do it.
The best advice I can give you is to give it 100% with the prerequisites. Grades a a big factor in who gets accepted each year. You can meet these prerequisetes at community college inexpensively. The fact that you have no education past high school doesn't matter at all.

Best of luck to you

[Brian F]

well, i am not that familiar with RHSON, but I just graduated from Pottsville Hospital School of Nursing back in August and I know from there you did not need any pre-requisits to join. They are a 3 yr program with the "pre-reqs" the first year at Penn State Sch. I also went to HACC 2 yrs prior to switching to PHSON and they make you take all your pre-reqs then apply to the nursing school. I cut about 1.5 yrs off my schooling by transferring to the hospital baased program. I loved the program at PHSON and was a smart decision for me. Hospital based programs give you more clinical time as well. I know PHSON allows students to do IV's and phlebotomy in school. Not to many other schools alow students to do that. I have done about 50 IV's before I graduated school. Some nurses have not done that many in their career becuse of IV teams. I have some friends who graduated from RHSON. you could call the school and check on their program or the internet is always a good choice as well. Sorry for all the side bars but it is an important decision to make no matter where you decide to go. Look at all the options before making a decision.