EmDash

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1. Commuting to clinicals from 1 hr away??

   EmDash replied to nursingstudentwannabe's topic in General Students

   Yeah, depending on which hospital I'm going to, I'm between 45 min to an hour away from my clinical site. We have to be there by 6:30 a.m., so I usually get up at like 4:30-ish and leave in time enough to get there like 15-20 min before just in case ...

2. Not being considered because of a C- in English...

   EmDash replied to n0rse's topic in Pre-Nursing

   If this is a nursing school that you want to get into (and you don't get into your other options), then I'd definitely retake the English course. It may be that the school itself requires you make a C in order to consider a class as satisfying a Gene...

3. TEAS exam preparation tips?!

   EmDash replied to NursingStudentakr's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I personally used Mometrix's TEAS secrets book and then Youtube to review the science portion a bit more in-depth than the book can go. The test is pretty much middle school/high school math (up to maybe algebra 1), high school reading, high school E...

4. Advice Request for Starting an ABSN Program

   EmDash replied to nursecyndii's topic in General Students

   Time management and managing your expectations are definitely major portions of preventing burnout I think. You have to make sure you are giving yourself enough time to review modules and information, study, and do the assignments while also scheduli...

5. Can I work during an ABSN program?

   EmDash replied to Bloop41's topic in General Students

   I'm in a 15-month program, and we have quite a few who work part time. Though we've also had a couple people who came in working part time and quit the first semester. If you are good at time management and the job is flexible, then it's definitely d...

6. Preparing for nursing school

   EmDash replied to Sammiegurl87's topic in General Students

   Personally, the main things I think would have helped me going into the program were reviewing A&P again and learning some medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words (which is helpful in figuring out medical terms that you may run into for the fi...

7. Debating between BSN or ADN programs, please help!

   EmDash replied to prenursing2019's topic in Pre-Nursing

   So you asked for a letter of recommendation from several professors, and they said no? If you have any other ones you haven't tried yet, I'd email them if you have 2-3 weeks still until the deadline. It doesn't have to be someone you know particularl...

8. Did your school require an entrance exam?

   EmDash replied to goldellie's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I'd say entrance tests are fairly common, but not every program has them. One that I applied to didn't have one, but they did require several essays and a personality test. The program I'm in required the TEAS, which they weighted more than the prere...

9. Advice for taking Statistics...

   EmDash replied to futureRNnicole93's topic in General Students

   Focus on trying to understand the underlying concepts. What exactly are you doing with the formula? What is the answer telling you specifically? What does this term actually mean? I've taken it twice now (as my first one was taken a while ago and was...

10. TEAS

    EmDash replied to Foxgloveandsage's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Unfortunately, it depends entirely on the program. Some programs will only take the score on the first TEAS attempt within the last so many years, some give you 2 or 3 attempts and use the best attempt, and others let you attempt as many times as you...

11. RN to BSN process vs BSN

    EmDash replied to WannaBeNurse1999's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I honestly don't think there's actually much of a difference in the way of quality and result. You get the same degree in the end and you get the same education. Well, other than ADNs (and I'm assuming Rn to BSN programs) usually being cheaper. I'd ...

12. RN to BSN process vs BSN

    EmDash replied to WannaBeNurse1999's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Well, first off, have you researched your university's program? Talked to current and previous nursing students? Unless your first A&P professor is part of the nursing program and has control over the atmosphere, their class isn't necessarily ind...

13. eBook vs Physical Book

    EmDash replied to Liz48's topic in General Students

    Are they having you rent the ebooks instead of buying them outright? Because if you are buying them, you should have access to them for at least several years. I'd honestly double check because it seems weird that the program would try to determine i...

14. Failed Nursing 1 by less than a percent looking for advice

    EmDash replied to joven4801's topic in General Students

    What exactly do you meant that you feel like the material you studied and the exam questions did not correlate? Were there questions on topics that weren't at all mentioned in the chapters/lectures? Or were they just more application-based questions ...

15. Primary Degree & Secondary Degree

    EmDash replied to Rayvnm's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Depends a bit on the options you have, I'd think, and if you are wanting to start with an ADN or BSN. Ultimately, the degree is the same BSN as the traditional programs, so it's not going to help with employers, etc, and you don't really learn anymo...