Please Help!!!!!!

nurseaboveboard · Mar 21, 2008

Bummer! I do not know the answer to your question, but I just wanted to wish you good luck, and I hope you'll get some answers here! :)

Lost23 · Mar 21, 2008

Thank You very much. I really want this. It's funny I feel like im soo far behind and LOST...hence my username..I see plenty of people on here like me. It feels good to know im not the only one. Are you a nurse already? How did you get through it all? Thanks again! and if ANYONE out there has any advice for me please please take a few seconds to reply to my thread. THANK YOU ALL......

PreRN Katie · Mar 21, 2008

Try Emory, they're private (and therefore slightly easier to get into, at least so I've heard) and have an accelerated BSN program for people who already have degrees. Good luck!

nurseaboveboard · Mar 22, 2008

Hello again Lost23. I will share with you and others my "journey." I did not finish high school, had my senior year to go. I was the typical kid from a drunken, violent, abusive home. I was not a good student, but did make it through my junior year. I had two children by the time I was 18. Divorced from an alcoholic/drug addicted, abusive husband by age 21 (what a surprise!). I remarried at age 22, and am still married to the man who was the "real" father to my children (we learned how to love together, and how to have a healthy marriage, but that is another story!). Had another child at age 26. I got a GED about this same time. All along, from my early life, I was interested in medical things, loved to visit hospitals, and dreamed of being a nurse. I took a job in a nursing home to get experience, and became a QMA. When my youngest was two, I started college. I had to enter as a non-traditional/non-degree student, to "prove" to them I could do it. After a few science pre-reqs (I learned that a "c" could be a noble grade!), I was allowed to apply and was accepted to nursing school. Ultimately, it took me 4 years to finish the Associates program, as I had 3 young children, and worked 24-32 hours per week, and commuted 50 minutes to campus. I rarely had a car that ran, so mostly I car-pooled with 3 smokers. I only tell you that, because after the trip to campus, breathing the smoke, I used to throw up in the grass before going in to class. We were dirt poor, and rented a freezing farm house for $35.00/mo. We ate a lot of bologna, potatoes, bread, and popcorn. I was able to get grants and loans. I passed my boards in '82, got a BS in '92, and my MSN in '06. I am the only college graduate in our family. While none of this really answers your original post, I share it with you so that you can see, where there is a will, there really is a way! There are many "testimonials" on this site like mine. I think if you really want this, you will manage to find a way, and I really wish you, and others like you, the best luck!

jb2u, ASN, RN · Mar 22, 2008

Hello again Lost23. I will share with you and others my "journey." I did not finish high school, had my senior year to go. I was the typical kid from a drunken, violent, abusive home. I was not a good student, but did make it through my junior year. I had two children by the time I was 18. Divorced from an alcoholic/drug addicted, abusive husband by age 21 (what a surprise!). I remarried at age 22, and am still married to the man who was the "real" father to my children (we learned how to love together, and how to have a healthy marriage, but that is another story!). Had another child at age 26. I got a GED about this same time. All along, from my early life, I was interested in medical things, loved to visit hospitals, and dreamed of being a nurse. I took a job in a nursing home to get experience, and became a QMA. When my youngest was two, I started college. I had to enter as a non-traditional/non-degree student, to "prove" to them I could do it. After a few science pre-reqs (I learned that a "c" could be a noble grade!), I was allowed to apply and was accepted to nursing school. Ultimately, it took me 4 years to finish the Associates program, as I had 3 young children, and worked 24-32 hours per week, and commuted 50 minutes to campus. I rarely had a car that ran, so mostly I car-pooled with 3 smokers. I only tell you that, because after the trip to campus, breathing the smoke, I used to throw up in the grass before going in to class. We were dirt poor, and rented a freezing farm house for $35.00/mo. We ate a lot of bologna, potatoes, bread, and popcorn. I was able to get grants and loans. I passed my boards in '82, got a BS in '92, and my MSN in '06. I am the only college graduate in our family. While none of this really answers your original post, I share it with you so that you can see, where there is a will, there really is a way! There are many "testimonials" on this site like mine. I think if you really want this, you will manage to find a way, and I really wish you, and others like you, the best luck!

I just wanted to thank you for sharing your story and proving that "rising above" only works if one uses his/her legs!!!

Lost23 · Mar 23, 2008

wow! that's just a wonderful story.......I'M HAPPY FOR YOU AND IM GLAD THAT YOU CAN EASILY SHARE YOUR PERSONAL LIFE HERE....AND YOU DO THIS JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT TO HELP ANYONE AND EVERYONE BELIEVE THAT WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY....SO THANK YOU!!! I ADMIRE YOU!!!