Anyone considering other options in healthcare if you don't get accepted into nursing

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What do you do in the following fields:

physical therapy

respiratory therapy

ultrasonography

I've googled them but have not gotten the information I need. Like how long is each program, and the demand for it

I want to go into nursing but I want to keep my options open if I don't get accepted into any nursing programs

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i have 3 options i am looking at:

1. work on bsn until i get in a program, some schools let you start a general one and then move to bsn after graduating and receiving a license.

2. do lpn if i can get in and then bridge to rn.

3. i was looking at radiation therapist, a lot more schooling, but i was hoping that maybe many people did not want to put that much time in to school.

or- maybe.... look into a 4 year bsn nursing course, i hear there are a lot less applicants in that.

here is some info for you, also check the school you would want to attends catalog for more detailed schooling info.

physical therapy

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos080.htm

respiratory therapy

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos084.htm

ultrasonography

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos273.htm

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what school are you attending Shannonmarrie7?

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Things might have changed, but...

I believe Respiratory THerapy is a 1 year program after pre-reqs. I know Henry FOrd CC has a program.

Ultrasonography, I think is also a one year program, but it has quite a few pre-reqs including Anatomy and Physics. I think OCC has a program, but only admits a small class each year, and you can't get on the waiting list until your prereqs are finished. That's what a friend of mine told me who looked into it.

I don't know much about Physical Therapy. I'm not sure you can get one without a bachelors degree.

Sorry I guess that's not much help, I'm not very sure of the facts...

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what school are you attending Shannonmarrie7?

I currently attend Baker, but I am also enrolled at MCC.

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i have 3 options i am looking at:

1. work on bsn until i get in a program, some schools let you start a general one and then move to bsn after graduating and receiving a license.

2. do lpn if i can get in and then bridge to rn.

3. i was looking at radiation therapist, a lot more schooling, but i was hoping that maybe many people did not want to put that much time in to school.

or- maybe.... look into a 4 year bsn nursing course, i hear there are a lot less applicants in that.

here is some info for you, also check the school you would want to attends catalog for more detailed schooling info.

physical therapy

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos080.htm

respiratory therapy

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos084.htm

ultrasonography

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos273.htm

i didn't know there were less ppl applying for their bsn, i figured it would be more since it's higher education.

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Actually I should say they take a lower GPA, BUT, they give priority over students who take all classes there. The only problem is that I heard the BSN at Wayne State in around $25,000 for the program. Here is a post about the GPA, I have to wonder how hard the pre-reqs are there if 1,200 applied and 3.6 was the average GPA though.

"Apparently at Wayne State University there were around 1,200 applicants for the undergraduate nursing program (non-accelerated). Only 60 people were chosen. A 3.6 was the average GPA. The nursing advisors recommend that students should maintain a 3.7 average to be competitive for admission. It's very challenging to get into nursing school from what I hear. The slots are limited and the number of applicants keeps increasing every year. Good luck to everyone!"

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Actually I should say they take a lower GPA, BUT, they give priority over students who take all classes there.

Cool. Their program is 4 years or is that counting the pre reqs if you take them at the university?

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You can try HFCC I think they are on a wait list.

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Cool. Their program is 4 years or is that counting the pre reqs if you take them at the university?

I'm not sure if it is 4 years or not, they have a lot of pre-reqs also. Here is the link to info on what classes you would need.

http://www.nursing.wayne.edu/Students/Prospective%20Students/Bachelors/Undergraduate%20Criteria.pdf

Admission Priority Order

Applications for admission to the College of Nursing programs are holistically reviewed

with consideration given according to the following criteria/priority order. For all

categories, students must have all prerequisites complete and submitted and meet all

minimums.

Group 1: Presidential Scholars (Traditional Program only) are guaranteed admission.

Group 2: The College of Nursing offers early admission to applicants who meet the

following requirements:

All prerequisite courses taken at WSU

3.5 prerequisite GPA

No prerequisites repeated

Group 3: All prerequisites taken at WSU.

Group 4: All natural science prerequisites taken at WSU.

Group 5:

Prerequisites taken anywhere

3.0 prerequisite GPA

No prerequisites repeated

Group 6: All others, ranked by GPA

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You can try HFCC I think they are on a wait list.

Yep they are. It is not as long as everyone thinks. Also so is the resp. program there.

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Actually I should say they take a lower GPA, BUT, they give priority over students who take all classes there. The only problem is that I heard the BSN at Wayne State in around $25,000 for the program. Here is a post about the GPA, I have to wonder how hard the pre-reqs are there if 1,200 applied and 3.6 was the average GPA though.

"Apparently at Wayne State University there were around 1,200 applicants for the undergraduate nursing program (non-accelerated). Only 60 people were chosen. A 3.6 was the average GPA. The nursing advisors recommend that students should maintain a 3.7 average to be competitive for admission. It's very challenging to get into nursing school from what I hear. The slots are limited and the number of applicants keeps increasing every year. Good luck to everyone!"

Actually only 48 of us were accepted this past fall into the traditional program not 60. I don't think that average GPA of 3.6 is right-- no one in my admitted class I've talked to had below a 3.7...

The number of slots is probably going to stay well below 50 due to budget constraints (they took 88 fall 2007 so you can see how there was a real drop in slots available). Despite common belief BSN programs are not easier to get into than community college programs.

And I know this was a hot topic a few months so please don't flame me, but in my personal experience I have found Wayne's classes to be much more rigorous than courses I took at community college. I took classes at OCC and did exceptionally well with no to little studying. I had to put in 10 times as much effort in the classes I took at Wayne vs those at OCC to earn an A. Those experiences are based on prereqs only and not the nursing programs itself (and probably a lot of it has to do with teachers. You're going to get easy teachers and hard teachers anywhere you go. Perhaps I just lucked out and got the easier instructors at OCC and had the hard ones at wayne)

I think all nursing programs offer a quality education. Good luck to everyone and I hope all you pre-nursing students find a program that suits your needs! Good luck in the application process and I'm thinking positive thoughts for all of you!:redbeathe

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