Nursing Tutor?

[Zooey72]

I am considering paying for a nursing tutor before each of my exams. A quick search showed they charge 40-70 an hour, and I am prepared to pay that if it is worth it.

I have an advantage of being old, and being so I was able to save money so that I do no need to work during nursing school. I have no kids and my wife knows she will not see me while classes are going on. I tried very hard in my prereqs, and received all A's except for one B+.

I just had orientation and one of the speakers asked "How many people have jobs, how many people have part time jobs, how many people have children, and how many people have not finished their prereqs"?

Out of the 90 of us who made it, I would say only myself and maybe 5 other people never raised our hands. My school has a 90 percent completion rate, and an 88 percent pass rate on the NCLEX. My point with this is, it is probably the people who have other "distractions", that don't make it. I am not trying to be a jerk to people who have kids or who have to work while going to school, but my set up allows me to only focus on nursing school.

In a round about way, my question is given my circumstance am I just going overboard with the tutor thing? Some of these other people were working full time jobs and raising kids while going to nursing school, if they can do it with all of that on their plate I would hope that I can do it when all I have to do is nursing school.

[NICUismylife, ADN, BSN, RN]

I don't know if all schools offer this, but my school has free tutoring for nursing students. You do have to get authorization or a recommendation from your instructor, but then you can get as much tutoring as you feel you need, for absolutely free. And there is nothing wrong with that. Utilize every single resource that you can!