plz answer my qestion about GED

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Im Wanting To Become A Nurse im Not Lazy Ect But In my High School I Had very Bad Problomes With Grades Normely C-E's I Try Really Hard But I Still Fail. So IV Desided To Take my GED Now My Qestion Really Is If i Pass My GED Is There Really Any Chance of Become A Nurse? *reasion behinde wanting a ged is i have failed 2 tiems already on 9th grade and trying hard on 3rd time but seems its not work for me so iv desided to find out if i could become a nurse with a GED whats are my chances could u plz tell me? thank you

LPN's here can be licensed as soon as they graduate from HS, if their vocational high school program was for nursing.

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LPN's here can be licensed as soon as they graduate from HS, if their vocational high school program was for nursing.

Even if you are 16 or 17???

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Even if you are 16 or 17???

As far as I know. You often graduate before 18. I can't imagine they make you sit around the house or the corner.

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Thats a really uninformed statement. Most people believe Einstein failed out of school, but this is inacurate. He once failed an enterance exam for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, but even then he scored very highly on the math/physics portion (the area of study he would later be known for). He later DID complete secondary school (called high school in the US), and eventually DID study at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. A lot of people love to point to Einstein as an example of the great things you can accomplish without a formal education, but those people are misinformed. Furthermore, Einstein's work did not have people's lives depending on it, so it didn't really matter whether he came up with a given theory in one year or one decade. Nurses, however, need to know what they are doing and be able to put their knowledge into practice quickly and effectively.

Its statments like this that contribute to erroneous assumption many young people have that they'll be just fine without school.

You still didnt stated what degrees do you have?

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I'd rather have a nurse who knows her/his stuff. If I or my family member is circling the drain, you'd better stuff your compassion somewhere and get on the ball and ACT appropriately. When the poop hits the fan, I don't care about how compassionate you are, I care that you know what you're doing. In fact, I'd prefer a nurse that is observant and intelligent enough to notice signs that things aren't right BEFORE the poop hits the fan, and can take appropriate action to prevent the poop from hitting the fan in the first place.

To the OP; I too, have a GED and my ADN is my second degree. However, I agree with the others who state that quitting high school to get your GED won't solve the issues you have with being successful in your education. You need to figure out what the problem is and do your best to rectify it, or these same problems will follow into your college career. Nursing school is no cakewalk; at least, my program wasn't. It was extremely competitive just to get in (I had a 4.0 GPA), and then to succeed and graduate was very challenging, and my program was "just" a community college program.

You need to collaborate with your parents, your teachers, and your academic advisors at school to identify your strengths and weaknesses and formulate a plan for success. Best of luck to you!

Right we are machines and the patients are robots and we all went to nursig for money...

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Totally agree with ya, Virgo. I could care less about how compassionate you are. What matters most to me is that you know what you are doing when you are trying to save my life.

ICU is just one isolated specialty.We also have a med-surg,lab-delivery,oncology,hospice,nursing homes,should I go on?

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.
ICU is just one isolated specialty.We also have a med-surg,lab-delivery,oncology,hospice,nursing homes,should I go on?

What's your point? If I was a patient on a med-surg unit, I still would care less if my nurse was compassionate. If I'm about to crash, I'd want a nurse to know what the hell he/she is doing.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.
Right we are machines and the patients are robots and we all went to nursig for money...

Is it possible for you to make comments without alienating other members because Virgo never said anything about going into nursing for the money.

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You still didnt stated what degrees do you have?

Not that it really matters, but I have an associates [non-nursing]. My previous line of work does not require an advanced degree,nor would one result in increased pay or allow me to do my job any better, so I never bothered [waste of money]. And before you spring on that , let me just say that I knew the line of work I wanted to get into, and did not just blindly assume that I would be fine without additional formal education. My current path, however, will end with a master's [physicians assistant]. To call my current level of education into question, I believe, is grasping at straws, since you can't come up with a direct, logical way to refute what I'm saying. Furthermore, you may have misinterpreted my statement about not valuing education. Obviously, since you are a nurse, I was not implying that your yourself are uneducated. As I've said in a previous post, please view all statements I make in the context of the original post. I was saying its sad that you dont see the value of this person having a solid educational foundation. I would never judge someone for not having some degree or other, I'm just saying that, in the OP's case, it would be unbelievably foolish to assume that college/nursing classes are somehow going to be easier than basic freshman year high school courses. Obviously, this person needs some sort of remedial studies, and nursing school is not the place for that.

BTW, as other people have stated, when it comes to a patients health and safety [which is ultimately a nurse's primary concern], actual knowledge is far more important than compassion will ever be. Honestly, I think you're just reacting to my "nasty tone", rather than what I'm actually saying. I appologise if I may have offended you, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm right.

[And honestly, you're questioning my education by saying I "didn't stated" the degrees I possess? Really, you're going to have to do better than that...]

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.
ICU is just one isolated specialty.We also have a med-surg,lab-delivery,oncology,hospice,nursing homes,should I go on?

...and people crash in med/surg, L&D, oncoloogy, in nursing homes....in hospice, you can have compassion coming out of your ears, but if you don't have a strong grasp of the pathophysiology of death and pain management, your patient's going to lie there suffering needlessly in their last days. But hey, that's okay, because the nurse is compassionate!

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.

I wanted to be a physician when I was 16. But that dream seemed so out of reach, I didn't pursue it. Instead, I dropped out of high school and made a lot of really bad choices. It wasn't until I was in my early twenties and a mother of two small children that I obtained my GED and went to college. I think we can all agree that dropping out of HS and getting a GED is certainly not the end of the world, and does not preclude one from being successful in college. The point here, to the OP, is that I think it's important to identify WHY the OP is struggling so much with academics and to formulate a plan for turning things around. Sure, you could drop out of HS and get your GED, but when you go to college, you may struggle for the same reasons that you're struggling with your HS curriculum, because you have not addressed the root cause.

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Specializes in ICU, PICC Nurse, Nursing Supervisor.

to my knowledge you have to wait until you are 18 to sit for the nclex. however, these programs do exist.

even if you are 16 or 17???
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