Nursing school(scared of board test)

Hello:

I have a bachelors of arts in psychology and looking to change my career to nursing. I worked about five years in social service and the money was less than 23,000 a year. I am a single mother of three children under 10. I would like to go into mental health nursing because I love psychology.

I am a little scare that I am not smart enough to go to nursing school. I am not good in math. I love science, but not the math part. I am a little scare of taking board exams.

The start salary of a RN is more than I will make in 3 years of social service employment. I know that I will make a good nurse because I know how it feels to be sick.

What is the best study guide?

Please Help,

moon30

I like the Calculate With Confidence book. also, the Incredibly Easy series makes a calculation book too.

Don't let the math scare you. I HATE math but its really just memorizing a few formulas and knowing when to apply them.

Hi Moon - I remember before starting nursing school being terrified of the maths. In fact it turned out to be the LEAST of my worries! Actually the math has been a way to get easy marks in exams because it's something that actually has only ONE right answer! :)

Don't let your fear of math put you off - go for it! It's just like anything else - you study and practice and eventually it sticks.

Best of luck in your future career - I'm hoping to go and do post grad mental health too...just gotta get through the RN course first and then I'll be shopping for a course in mental health.

Cheers!

Actually the math has been a way to get easy marks in exams because it's something that actually has only ONE right answer! :)

:rotfl: How true!