I applied for the RN program at my college back in Dec. I won't find out until the end of January or maybe a bit later. The wait is killing me especially since I am still on Christmas break and classes don't resume for me until Wed. I completed all of my pre reqs for this college so I took a few fluff classes this semester to keep me busy so I won't be stressed out.
There are days when I feel really confident and tell myself "you'll get in. you did good in all your classes. you have nothing to worry about". Then I have moments when I am very, very anxious and fear that I may get put on a waitlist until 2014 or not accepted at all due to other students with slightly more competitive and better grades than I am. I end up on the verge of tears.
I am under pressure from my family because they are expecting me to get in and I don't want to let them down. if I don't get in I'll be so embarassed and I fear that they will lose faith in me. My parents do not understand the whole college process, they didn't even understand why I was taking all those classes without being in nursing school. so if I dont get accepted they'll be asking me all these questions about what am I going to do with my life, and why am I still taking courses if I am not in the nursing program. If I get accepted the concept will be much easier for them to understand than hearing me explain to them that I need to apply to different schools or take an extra course because this school requires it
Take a phlebotomy class in the mean time!!! You'll have to learn how to draw blood as an RN and it's hard sometimes. If you take phlebotomy, you'll be less nervous with injections...and drawing blood during clinicals.
I was tired of showing the RNs how to succesfully draw blood because they would make a mess. I had been a Medical Assistant before I became a CNA, but got tire of telling them how to do their job.
From what others have told me, the math involved in Drug Calc is the most
frequent cause for failures and dropps..
I'm planning on taking an hour to hour and a half a day to study for the TEAS and drug calc from now till I start. It may not happen every day, but every bit
helps. I'm hopeing that if I do it a little every day, by the time these two come around for real, I'll be ready.
Also then my family will get used to me "needing" to be left alone to study again.
Are you guys taking classes this spring? I'm hoping school starting next week will keep me occupied.
Yes, I'm taking four this semester, plus working f/t.......that should keep my mind off of it =) I'm taking Soc, Psych, Anatomy & Physiology I and Microbiology. If I get in with the Teas score in March, I'll just need the nursing classes + A&P II.
I'm actually really excited because one of my classes put up "Blackboard" already, so I already have the syllabus and can start on the reading this weekend. It doesn't officially start until Tues, but I'm happy to get a jump start.
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Take a phlebotomy class in the mean time!!! You'll have to learn how to draw blood as an RN and it's hard sometimes. If you take phlebotomy, you'll be less nervous with injections...and drawing blood during clinicals.
I was tired of showing the RNs how to succesfully draw blood because they would make a mess. I had been a Medical Assistant before I became a CNA, but got tire of telling them how to do their job.