accelerated part time nursing at Kent state and working full time?

[andreead]

am i crazy for doing this?

I am thinking to start an accelerated BSN at Kent State that is offered part time in the sense that classes are only Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. It takes longer than the regular accelerated nursing.

I have a M-F 8-4 job so I plan on keeping that for now and see how i do with nursing. I graduated with a 3.95 GPA with a biology degree previosly. i plan on getting now before i start(still 1 year) the exact books that we use in class and take notes of the chapters and easen my job a little bit for later.

What do you think?

Thanks

Andreea

[javaRx]

I am in the Kent UH program that has class/clinicals on fri, sat, sun. While it isn't easy working full time and doing an accelerated nursing program, the majority of my class finds a way to make it work. If you're smart, and judging from your GPA it seems you are, you can juggle both.

On the other hand, it is incredibly difficult to get a handle on the amount of info they throw at you. We had a few people not make it first semester because of it. 100 slide powerpoints are given in one lecture and you are tested on it the next week. This is the pace of the program.

I wouldn't advise taking notes ahead of time from the book. We skip a lot of chapters and the majority of the questions come from the powerpoint- not the book. If you want to study something, study normal lab values, common conditions that you find a lot of in hospitals (diabetes for example), common medications ( especially all the insulin types and their onset/peak/duration).

Good luck!