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Amen! I push myself hard to learn the material because when this is all said and done, peoples' health and well-being is going to be at the mercy of my knowledge and abilities. This is serious...

I applied this time last year and my acceptance letter came mid-April. It felt like an eternity! Good luck.

I'm no where near Louisiana but my school offers advanced placement in the BSN program for LPNs. Although, by "advanced placement," they really mean that you don't have to take two classed during...

I wish that I would have taken all of the "nursing school is so hard and you'll never have a life!!!" talk with a huge grain of salt! It's not easiest of educational paths but I'll take it over a...

I hate not having it count towards by GPA but I love the stress that P/F takes off of me. Out of 14 credits last semester, 4 of mine were P/F (I had two 1 credit labs and one 2 credit lab). Even...

Honestly, I rarely take my books to school. I have a North Face backpack with a padded compartment for my laptop (which I only sometimes take to school). I would occasionally take a book but mostly...

I'm a mom and I really like nursing school! My kids are a bit older than yours (6 & almost 4) so I have them in school/childcare during the week from 8-4 (many mornings start early than this for...

I love school. I'm looking forward to our next semester and clinicals although I'm not super excited about some of the busy work that comes with it. After Christmas, I started getting antsy and...

This, too. I should have clarified that my example was specific to my area. Our hospitals will hire new BSN grads to the ICU but not ASN grads. Of the two health systems I'm interested in working...

Do you know what area(s) of nursing you would like to work in? Which hospitals employ the type of nurse that you want to be? What are their hiring policies? I ask because I think those are...

As it was explained to us, and as is supported by the definition found here, a clear liquid diet consists of anything that is clear and liquid at room temp. It's not that they have to be eaten at a...

In my BSN program, it's pretty evenly divided between us old folks and the younger, first time college students. I've made a lot of great friends in my program and age doesn't seem to be much of an...

I did my CPR course through Guardian College (on Fairview between Eagle and Locust Grove). I don't think that they seperated out the renewals from the first timers but it was scheduled as a four...

We were taught to aspirate, also, but when I did a flu clinic, the nurses there told us it wasn't necessary. The CDC's recommendation on flu shots: Because there are no large blood vessels in...

My best advice is to avoid reading or listening to "OMG, A&P is so hard!!!" type of threads or conversations! It's not the easy class I have ever taken but there are plenty of people who do well and...

We have 3 cameras and microphones recording our every move! I usually get so immersed in what I'm doing that after a minute or two, I forget that my patient is a mannequin. It always feels a...

But nursing isn't like working for other companies. If you're working on a floor with patients, you're taking over someone else duties and until you show up, they can't leave. I doubt they care...

I thought general chem was pretty straightfoward and easy. For the most part, if you understand a few basic rules, it all falls into place. Once we got into organic and biochem, I was lost!

It's unfortunate that college aged people are acting so horribly but I've gotta say, who has the time or energy in nursing school to worry about seating arrangements? Our professors let us be the...

All of the health science programs at my school are pretty competitive. When I was taking pre-reqs, it seemed like pre-nursing students were dominant but the nursing program is also the biggest - 60...

I felt a certain sense of "ok, accomplished that goal," once I received my acceptance letter. But it was quickly replaced with a whole new list of things to do and goals to accomplish. I'm sure...

The worst part of A&P is the belief that it's the most impossibly hard class ever! Nursing is a second degree for me and I hadn't taken anything remotely related to biology for 15 or so years when I...

Patho relies a lot on A&P so I would take it after you finish A&P 2. I took micro and patho together and it wasn't too bad but I don't think A&P and micro would be unmanageable, either.

Are you only interested in Seattle area schools? I did most of my gen ed courses 10+ years ago and it wasn't a problem. We have a handful of students from both the Portland and Seattle areas...

I loved http://www.khanacademy.org/ for chemistry.