Hi everyone, new nursing student here..just a few questions

[hudsonsmommy]

Hi all! I have a question, hoping some of you might be able to give me some insight.

I have just been accepted into the RN program starting in January (yay!) So my concern right now is class load. I will be taking nursing foundations (7 credit hours), & A & P II (4 credit hours), I need one more class to complete my (12 credit hours) for full time status, what would you reccomend? I need stats, but worry that this will be too difficult. Should I take a different pre-req , that isn't too difficult? Any ideas would be great.

[hudsonsmommy]

If you can take a class this summer before you start in the fall, I'd take a pre-req during the summer and something really easy in the fall such as PE. Why make it more stressful then it already is? Good luck!

I start in January 2010, in just about two months, and this summer is pharm & patho condensed into 10 weeks. Realisticlly, that is not fesible, but I appreciate the idea.

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

I haven't found fundamentals (your foundations) to be hard. I am almost done with the semester and i have probably spent a total of 5 hours studying for that class this semester. We only have our final left.

[Jljkhorton]

Where I go to school they make us have all the prereq's done before we can apply to the nursing program. Of course it's not written that way, but if you applied w/o one done, you'd lack in points on the weighted score sheet. I have to say, that if I had to take another class with my nursing classes, I'd fail. Easily. If your school offers a BS course, like bowling, or some class that will benefit you really in no way, take it. But knock out your prereqs asap!

[litenbug]

Stats is offered online, and that's what makes it so much more appealing. I have taken most of my pre req's, all my psych's, english, and humanitites. I was hoping to start my BSN pre req's so that I can to fill my 12 hours, but just curious as to see just how difficult foundations is compared to maternal child, and med/surg.

Its good to get everything over with but don't overload yourself because if you mess up in your Nursing classes everything else is out the window.

If I were you I would take a PE class only because I wouldn't want to get off course with my Nursing classes. Its good to get the pre-req's out of the way but its also important to obtain the grades to stay in your program. If you don't get the grades to stay in Nursing the other classes won't mean anything. You said that you have to take A&PII, your taking Patho and Pharm in the summer, when do you plan on taking Microbiology?

[cingle]

Honestly, I cried my way through Stats last summer. Very few other things in life have frustrated me so much as that class...but I don't naturally think in numbers. There is no way I would take Stats with anything else challenging.