Preparation advice for Nursing School

Get a Medical / Surgical nursing text book and read it cover to cover, if you have a year to prepare for it.

Another good thing to read would be a "fundamentals of nursing care" book. Heck, I'll even sell you mine!

If you have a year to prepare, You should be working on anatomy / physiology, medical terminology and pharmacology.

The best advice I can give you about nursing school is to do your reading assignments before you go to class, so that you will be able to concentrate on taking light notes and paying attention to your instructor for points to look for, for the test.

If you have that much time, you should also look at doing some nurse's aide/ patient care tech work. Even if you only work 1-2 times a week, you will be comfortable with patient contact and you will learn some of the more basic nursing skills / duties that have to happen on a day to day basis.

good luck. PM me with any questions~

Great tips, thanks.

WOW! a year to prep? great.

if the school you are considering has entrance exams, do some studying to prepare you for those.

since you have a background in architectural engineering, math probably comes easy to you. but it's those pesky word problems, dividing fractions (remember the terms improper fraction, proper fraction, invert and multiply...), dividing and multiplying decimals, moving the decimal over so many places, ratio and proportion, and more!

math always came easy to me in school so when I had to do entrance exams, I thought, no problem. none the less, I did some prep work and realized that my math brain cells had gone dormant. a little refresher and I was back on track.

and that 'ole english grammar. similar word comparisons, word association, reading and comprehension.

so find out what test(s) the school(s) you are applying for require (HESI, TEAS, other) and get some study guides. alot of this stuff is also available online. they'll help alot.

all basic stuff but it's been over 30 (a-hem!) years since I graduated from college with an undergrad in agronomy, and quite frankly, some of this stuff hadn't even crossed my mind since HS.

good luck in your new quest!

Really??

Don't sweat those entrance exams. I'm sure that part of your prereqs are going to be some of the classes I listed. If you get through those, don't even worry about the entrance exams... seriously.