non native speaker nursing students

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Hi,

I am a pre-nursing student. I would like to know how hard is nursing school for non native speakers. I am planning to get into GSU. I am studying so hard( gpa 4.0) for it.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the Pre-Nursing student forum

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Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

You need to find a school regularly admitting non-native speakers. Should not be a problem if you live in a metro area with high concentration of immigrants. You should ask this question directly to admission advisor.

Keep in mind that, outside of areas where many non-native speakers live, discrimination against both nursing students and nurses speaking accented English is more a norm than exclusion. Accents are generally not covered by EEOC and, unless there are plenty of other nurses speaking second language/accent around you, your situation can be very difficult and unpleasant.

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Specializes in ER/Tele, Med-Surg, Faculty, Urgent Care.

What is the name of GSU? What state/part of the country are you in? English is my second language, but I am American born so am fluent in both languages. Spanish in the Southwest is actually an asset. What is your language? I taught in a BSN program and we had many multi/lingual, dual-language students. Russian, Farsi, Arabic, French, students from Ethiopia, Cameroon, Nigeria, China, Japan,Korea, India, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, many from Latin America,. Even had one student whose third language was English. I have a friend from Cambodia that I met in NP school, English is her third language also. So depending on where you live it may not be a problem, just might be a fluency issue. I did have students that would "switch" to Spanish when asking questions in class. Also I know many students during an exam, would translate the question to native language which did take a few seconds longer.

I just read where French is your FOURTH language! Wow, what other languages do you speak?

Spanish speakers have an advantage in Latin based medical terms.

Lungs are "pulmones" Pulmonary

Kidneys are "rinones" {with accent over first N} so renal.

Scars medical word is "cicatrix" or Cicatris.

Peau de orange, jaundice well those are French.

I do know that some students during exams translate the questions into native language so it takes a few minutes longer to finish an exam.

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Georgia state University

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