Of the 23 other students comprising the group that I entered nursing school with, three of them are men. The class that is graduating at the end of next week I believe has 1 male student, and as far as I know the class immediately behind mine has 1 as well. This is about 60 students (some classes have had students drop), with 6 of them being males; that's only 1 in 10.
So we know that male nurses are few and far between, but how old are we?
The 1 student in the class graduating next week is 28.
The 1 student in the class that entered the semester after mine is at least 30 (a second career-er I believe).
Of the 4 in my class, 2 are about 45, 1 is 40, and then there is me...21.
How old are you guys? How old when you started school?
I am 29, will be 30 when I graduate from my ABSN program. There are 15 guys in my class out of 60. 25% guys! Late 20's-early 30's is the average age in my class.
Congrats on the students starting NS right after High School! I had never even considered nursing as a career when I was in high school.
I am 39 and started school at 30!! My fellow students were all female except for myself and 2 other guys, who were in their 20's..The funny thing is they thought I was old!!! LOL
I began school at 33 will receive my ADN at 37. People are correct when they say that a two year program will take you four if you've never been to college before. Two years worth of prereq's before i could even apply to the program. All went well though and in hind sight, there is no way I could have been as successful as I have been without the preqeqs. Good luck to you all.
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malestudentnurse,
I completely agree. I already have a B.A. that I got a year ago when I was 22, but I didn't have many of the prereqs necessary for nursing school because my degree was more on the liberal arts side. I'll probably be 24 when I matriculate and will most likely do a 2 year route, as opposed to an accelerated program, so I will be 26 when I graduate.
From 22 to 26...I really do think it's a 4 year process for most people nowadays. The thing that makes it the hardest is that most don't want to "put all their eggs in one basket" and apply to one school, so applying to more than one school makes it even longer because each school seems to always have that one class that you have not taken. I wish there was a way to standardize prerequisites.
I started toward my bsn when I was 24. Had to take credits a little slower cause of the fam. Just got my a 2 year degree and am going for my BSN now. I will be almost 29 when I finish up. Should have went right to college outta high school, but I guess being a first gen college student didn't have it all figured out.
For me this is a second career, I was a manufacturing engineer but you see how plentiful those jobs are.
I took RN license here in the Philippines and completed my BSN degree at the age of 19 and took the NCLEX at the age of 20 and i am still waiting for NCLEX RN results
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I am 29, will be 30 when I graduate from my ABSN program. There are 15 guys in my class out of 60. 25% guys! Late 20's-early 30's is the average age in my class.
Congrats on the students starting NS right after High School! I had never even considered nursing as a career when I was in high school.