Moving To Puerto Rico For Nursing School at UMET!?

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  1. New School, New Major, New Location: UMET Puerto Rico (Bayamon)

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      Be able to say, "Been there, done that" so yea!
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      Too much of a hassle!
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      Too much lack of security!
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      Their Nursing Program sucks, you'll regret it.
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      Anything worth having is worth fighting for, struggle through it and help others along the way!
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      There's a better school in Puerto Rico than UMET, don't go there.
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      Better play it safe and stay enlisted in the Air Force
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      Do it! If you need any assistance, I'll help how I can. Add me as a friend :)

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I've read many different things on different threads on this site and it was very informative, by the way. Let me start by saying that I am an African American female in the Air Force (Active duty) and I'm researching the idea to apply to go into the Air Guard or the Reserves (Called Palace Chase). This entails finding a new "home base" and applying for the Guard or Reserve there. Since they don't have my job choices around my area I'm deciding to look into moving to a new location entirely. I'm currently about to begin my upper-level courses in Behavioral Sciences at Wilmington University in Delaware and planned on pursing my BSN with the nursing school in southern Delaware. Attending UMET would mean that I would/could skip the first BS in Behavioral Sciences all together and go right into Nursing. Nursing isn't ultimately where i want to end up in life but I love science and I love helping people and being useful, so Nursing seems to fit me naturally. I'm prepared to put in the work, especially in a "dream" location like PR. My Spanish is very decent, however I know i would do better in their English Nursing program. I'm really excited to get help from you guys on how to access the school. Hearing your stories and suggestions would be very helpful and motivating. I'm usually a very self-motivated person but after spending so many years doing everything on my own, it'd be nice to lean on some decent advice for a change! Help a sista out!! Post, message, email, send links, contacts, phone numbers, and I'll be doing my own research of course on my end as well. I'm always looking for an opportunity to travel, but it would be especially neat to live and learn in Puerto Rico, as Spanish has become my second language and I really don't have many people to speak it with to perfect it. I hate leaving things undone! So I've blabbed enough, hopefully I've painted you a pretty little picture of what I'm looking for. Ask and comment away... go! :) Bless ya.

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ok, so I read your earlier post. Seems like you'll be going to the Bayamon campus, so when you search online for places - you'll probably need to check around that area - if you'd like to live near campus. I commute from the beach area to Cupey - which is where my campus is at.

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Hi guys, thank you replying and giving some info about PR nursing schools. I have not had much luck talking to the schools. I just do not get a response. Could anyone please tell me how long those programs are and what are the perquisites?

If I go to college here to do my prereq then as I move to PR, will I be able to apply those toward my degree????

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Hi guys, thank you replying and giving some info about PR nursing schools. I have not had much luck talking to the schools. I just do not get a response. Could anyone please tell me how long those programs are and what are the perquisites?

If I go to college here to do my prereq then as I move to PR, will I be able to apply those toward my degree????

And also how much does it cost?

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Hi guys, thank you replying and giving some info about PR nursing schools. I have not had much luck talking to the schools. I just do not get a response. Could anyone please tell me how long those programs are and what are the perquisites?

If I go to college here to do my prereq then as I move to PR, will I be able to apply those toward my degree????

And also how much does it cost?

It really just depends on what you transfer over. If you're doing the full non accelerated program at Inter Metro - it's 3 years. the full accelerated is 2 years (need a previous bachelor's to get in it) If you've got transfers it could be less. :)

If you've never gotten a bachelor's you could reduce your gen eds by taking them at home - but you would have to make sure they match the exact requirements.

Cost is between 2500 to 3500/trimester for classes. depending on gen eds, labs, etc.

No pre reqs currently for Inter.

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Hi, you seem to be very helpful on these threads. So I am attempting to start school at UMet Aguadilla in January 2014. I am having such a tough time getting any type of concrete answers from them by phone OR email that I am thinking of flying down just to solidify my admission. I plan on taking my nursing classes in Spanish for the ADN program. I already have a BA of Economics with a Spanish minor, and am currently finishing up Micro & A&P II at a school in the states. So, I will have completed all of my gen eds excluding History of PR and Computer Literacy. This means I need to start right in with NURS 101, according to this document: www.suagm.edu/umet/pdf/catalogo/undergraduate_catalog.pdf . I am having so much trouble getting anyone at UMet Aguadilla to answer me as to whether the Jan semester offers NURS 101, and according to this document they don't offer it and UMet Bayamon does :www.suagm.edu/umet/pdf/regular/programacion_02.pdf . Can anyone verify if this is the correct schedule and if I should just give up on Aguadilla til next fall and start in Bayamon in January? Thanks.

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Bayamon has the English nursing program but you cab do the spanish one also. Private message me so I can tell you who to get in contact with I just graduated this summer from there .

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Jen_Jen88, unfortunately I just joined the site so I can't PM until I have more posts accrued. If you add me on Facebook you can PM me there. facebook.com/sarah.r.henry.1 Thank you so much for your help! Also, if anyone has access to the UMet schedule of courses offered between Jan & May it would be great if they could post that link so I can verify if the schedule I found online is correct or not.

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Jen_Jen88, unfortunately I just joined the site so I can't PM until I have more posts accrued. If you add me on Facebook you can PM me there. facebook.com/sarah.r.henry.1 Thank you so much for your help! Also, if anyone has access to the UMet schedule of courses offered between Jan & May it would be great if they could post that link so I can verify if the schedule I found online is correct or not.

I sent you a message. Did you get it??? I'm not sure it went through

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Thank you for your post! Is your program in the evening of daytime? I have a BSN in science and an AAS in Respiratory Therapy and now want a BSN degree in Nursing. I had prepared to only attend the US accelerated programs and waiting for acceptance in the Fall 2014 - but Puerto Rico sounds like a better deal. The tuition for the whole program would be about $15,000 ?? Where do you plan to take the NCLEX?

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Thank you for your post! Is your program in the evening of daytime? I have a BSN in science and an AAS in Respiratory Therapy and now want a BSN degree in Nursing. I had prepared to only attend the US accelerated programs and waiting for acceptance in the Fall 2014 - but Puerto Rico sounds like a better deal. The tuition for the whole program would be about $15000 ?? Where do you plan to take the NCLEX?[/quote']

BSN = bachelor's of science in nursing.

BS in science is a BS

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Thank you for your post! Is your program in the evening of daytime? I have a BSN in science and an AAS in Respiratory Therapy and now want a BSN degree in Nursing. I had prepared to only attend the US accelerated programs and waiting for acceptance in the Fall 2014 - but Puerto Rico sounds like a better deal. The tuition for the whole program would be about $15,000 ?? Where do you plan to take the NCLEX?

Ok, I think I understand your question from another post. The English program is mainly in the evening but I have had classes on Saturday mornings and a Tuesday morning once (for clinicals).

Yes, you have a Bachelor of Science not a BSN? So I'm assuming you have to take all the ASN/BSN courses except since you have a previous bachelor's you should be able to get into the accelerated BSN program (there is no acceleration (typically) for the ASN. The cost is about right I believe. This term I'm paying a little over $2000.

My thought is to take it THROUGH Wisconsin but you can TAKE it anywhere it's just at any Pearson? testing center once your register. You can register the location of where you want to take it when you pay for the exam. But Work wise - where ever I get the job :)

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Bayamon has the English nursing program but you cab do the spanish one also. Private message me so I can tell you who to get in contact with I just graduated this summer from there .

Hi Jen,

You been such a great help at clarifying things for us. I am highly interested in your school program but having a hard time gathering the information. I found out about the program not to long ago and was wondering if its to late for me to start in January. I have an AA-Associate in arts and I also have my LPN will love to move to Puerto Rico, do you think they have a Bridge program from LPN to BSN and do I have to complete the BSN because I would not mind an ADN as well? what are their admission deadline? GPA requirement? I really appreciate the time you take to help.

Sincerely

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