SiggyStardust

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1. Low cumulative GPA. Hope for ABSN?

   SiggyStardust replied to sleepymonkey022's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I think if you have a general up-trend of grades, most schools will notice that. My grades from my first few years of college were Cs, Ds, and Fs. Miserable. At one point, my GPA was 1.41. I took a few years off from school, then returned and kicked...

2. Fundamentals Nursing Outlines?

   SiggyStardust replied to injured1's topic in General Students

   I've always made my own outlines. Read the chapter, take away the fluff, study the important stuff. I've found higher education requires a lot of self-teaching. If the power points don't have a lot of information on them, you'll have to fill in th...

3. Does the exhaustion go away?

   SiggyStardust replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

   Since you can't give yourself more hours of sleep, you should work on improving the quality of the sleep you do get. Tea and warm baths before bed, a good, cool sleeping temperature, dark and quiet room. Maybe even the occasional melatonin? You shoul...

4. Nursing schools WITHOUT wait lists?

   SiggyStardust replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in School Programs

   In my research, I never found a comprehensive list of community college programs. For my situation, i figured that since I wanted a BSN anyways and i already had a BA, I would try for ABSNs. If your ultimate goal is BSN, why wait? Registered nursing...

5. Starting out in LTC?

   SiggyStardust posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am completing an accelerated BSN program soon and will immediately be moving to an area that appears to be pretty saturated. I'm going to be applying to every new grad residency/program I can find within a 50-mile radius, but if those don't work o...