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Has anyone had any luck with applying at National University for their nursing program? I applied back in Oct 06 and have been waiting to hear from them. They are supposed to notify in 3 months. I have called and called and written email upon emails with no response really. :banghead: Please, if anyone has applied and received some sort of letter, I would greatly appreciate your reply.

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Hi everyone! Thanks for all the info in this thread, I feel so much more prepared! :)

I have to take my pre-reqs before I can apply (hopefully in Dec) and I am scheduled to start my first class, ILR, next week. I have to take everything but english. :uhoh3: I was wondering if anyone else took most of their pre-reqs through NU and how much time they took up? I want to try and take psych and sociology online through a community college while I am working on my sciences but I am not sure if I am being overly ambitious. I also work as a CNA doing home health 48 hours per week (I will have to cut back to 36 once I start my sciences in July). Am I crazy for wanting to double up? Thanks for any advice!!

p.s. congrats to all of you who just got in and are already almost through! :yeah:

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Hi everyone! Thanks for all the info in this thread, I feel so much more prepared! :)

I have to take my pre-reqs before I can apply (hopefully in Dec) and I am scheduled to start my first class, ILR, next week. I have to take everything but english. :uhoh3: I was wondering if anyone else took most of their pre-reqs through NU and how much time they took up? I want to try and take psych and sociology online through a community college while I am working on my sciences but I am not sure if I am being overly ambitious. I also work as a CNA doing home health 48 hours per week (I will have to cut back to 36 once I start my sciences in July). Am I crazy for wanting to double up? Thanks for any advice!!

p.s. congrats to all of you who just got in and are already almost through! :yeah:

All of the prereqs except the sciences are 1 month classes. The sciences are 2 month classes. If you want to get done quickly and money is not a concern, then NU is the way to go.

I have a degree already which took care of most of my prereqs. I needed the sciences though. While I was taking A&P II (NU) I took an accelerated summer Soc class (online) through a CC at the same time. I was very cranky and only got off of my couch to go to class. Otherwise I was studying! The sciences are very intense in an 8 week format.

Good luck to you!

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I'm doing my sciences through National and it's pretty intense, but that's to be expected since it's a full semester of coursework crammed into two months. It all depends on what you think you can handle. The girls I carpool with are both taking other classes along with the A&P1 and seem to be doing well, but I don't think I could do another class on top of this one. Worst case scenario you should know for sure how much is too much by the time the drop for your soc and psych comes up. Good luck!

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Thanks for the quick responses! :D One more question for Daleen, are the girls you're carpooling with working too? Thanks! :)

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One of the girls works, and the other is a mom and wife (like me). I bet each professor has their own method to the madness, but we're basically covering 3 chapters a week. I'm not sure how they do it- I feel like all my waking hours are spent studying while my family lives on take-out (me, I live on coffee, lol)!

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So, I looked at the syllabus online because the professor just put it up on NU-Fast and she changed the edition of the books! The syllabus she gave us during the orientation had the same books but one edition lower. I already bought them a month ago! Have any of you in the nursing program had problems with using text books that are one edition behind?? Thanks!

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twilight,

It depends on the class. Usually being a book behind is fine, you may have some misplaced chapters, but for the most part no problem. Heck, one class (pharmacology) the slides and tests were off the old book and the book they told us to buy was worthless. I'm in OB now and this is the first class that you might be lost with the old book because the teacher really expects you to do the reading and if you were reading the wrong chapters, it would mess you up for tests.

So long story short, doesn't usually matter if you're one edition behind.

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Thanks maiday! I appreciate the info. Kind of upset the teacher changed the editions one week before class. I am taking health assessment first. Hopefully it won't matter!

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Twilight,

I thought they changed the program so that nursing theory was first? How come you're doing health assessment first?

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Oh wait...you are right prettyinpink...got them mixed up again... :D

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Lol I was gonna say - they need to figure it out and stop changing things! :D

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Twilight, which version did they change to? Is it the same one that NU text direct has (I'm not buying from them, I just looked to see what the books were)? I want to get the books a couple of months early to get a head start :rolleyes:

Let me know how class is going when you start. Cheers! :cheers:

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