Am I moving too fast?

[aspiringnurse25]

Hello everyone,

I am a pre nursing student. I start my pre reqs this Fall, in August, and I am beyond estatic. I work fulltime currently at a Health Plan doing insurance. My question is am I moving too fats? I have been studying dosage calculations and I mastered it already. I am also starting to learn pharmacology with the help of youtube sing a long videos and other online sources. It's just I am so excited to begin nursing school and I have not even started my pre reqs. Granted I will be done in 1 year and I would love to have a heads up when I get accepted to my dream school (la county school of nurses). Should i be spending so much time learnng this stuff now, or should I enjoy my time out of school and worry about learning it while in nursning school?

Any advise would be healpful.

Excited soon2bern

[rys22]

Nothing wrong with being excited:). As long as you're not stressing yourself out with the studying right now then I say go crazy!:) Every little bit helps but do enjoy your time right now. I always hit a wall about a month into a semester where I would rather go scrub my bathroom down instead of do schoolwork and have to remind myself that it's all temporary and just make sure to enjoy my breaks in between. I am just wrapping up with my pre reqs so that's the position I'm speaking from. Good luck getting into your dream school!

[aspiringnurse25]

Thank you for responding. I feel like a kid excited for a birthday. Its crazy because I have been talking about going to nurrsing school on and off for so long and one day I decided to just do it. It's all I can think about. Im on the internet ALL DAY on nursing websites and blogs. It has conusmed me. Are you in California?

[rys22]

Haha that is EXACTLY what I was doing when I finally officially decided to go back to school! I had to kinda restrain myself once I started because it was getting in the way of actual schoolwork that I needed to do online! I get on here a few times a week though because it keeps me excited and looking forward to the new position I will have one day :). The giddiness you're feeling right now will (if your experience will be anything like mine) wear off when you're going through a mundane class like the math and english classes that have very little to do with nursing but eh, I guess that's the price we have to pay :) No I'm not in California - way over on the other side in Ohio actually :)