Direct entry and graduate entry programs II

Nursing Students Pre-Nursing

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Hello all,

Its been mentioned before about ending our thread and starting a new one. Think it was tried a few months ago.

Maybe it is time now, seeing as the thread is 72 pages long. That is sort of hard for a new reader to sift through to see where we are now, don't you agree?

Gen

p.s. still waiting for my interview information! agh

hey everyone,

i've been so busy the past few weeks i didn't even know there was a new direct entry thread until today!:chuckle a few months ago i spent all my time waiting for that acceptance letter and now i fly out to columbia to move in like 3 weeks and i'm leaving my job in 11 days (and shaking the dust off my feet as i walk out, man i hate that job). anyone else overwhelmed?

best wishes for those still waiting. i'm going to the dentist right now and praying for no cavities.

Hi Laura and everyone,

I am in the process of moving as well. I am having a garage sale on Saturday and I realize I have too much stuff! It's overwhelming knowing I'm going to be leaving May 23rd to drive across the country from California to Baltimore to attend Johns Hopkins June 2nd! So I can well relate to you moving to attend Columbia!

We're supposed to read "How to Calculate with Confidence" and there will be a test the 1st week! No pressure, eh? :chuckle

Good luck at the dentist's! I had no cavities which was good. And I got all my prescriptions filled while I had my physical. Did you get all your immunizations? Too much stuff going on!

Smile123

Specializes in NICU.
hey everyone,

i've been so busy the past few weeks i didn't even know there was a new direct entry thread until today!:chuckle a few months ago i spent all my time waiting for that acceptance letter and now i fly out to columbia to move in like 3 weeks and i'm leaving my job in 11 days (and shaking the dust off my feet as i walk out, man i hate that job). anyone else overwhelmed?

elizabells, i feel ya on the med-math book. the math is easy but i kinda wanted to be taught the nursing stuff (isn't that why we're paying 56k tuition). i don't know what this test they're threatening is going to be like but i'm pretty sure that they aren't trying to weed us out. have you read the novel yet? i thought it was really interesting (especially compared to the math:chuckle )

best wishes for those still waiting. i'm going to the dentist right now and praying for no cavities.

lol laura, I finished up through the part about converting milligrams to grams to micrograms and then I nearly stabbed myself in the eye with a pencil so I stopped. For real? A whole chapter on dividing and multiplying by 1000? Wow. I'll pick it up again in a couple days when I'm less annoyed. And honey, let's not even talk about the other book. I hope we don't have to have some kind of class discussion on it, because I'm going to be verrrrry unpopular very quickly if we do. But we're almost there, baby! Did you get your room in the dorms yet? What do we have, like 28 days till classes? Scuse me while I go hide my head in the sand for a little bit longer! :chuckle

Specializes in CTICU.
lol laura, I finished up through the part about converting milligrams to grams to micrograms and then I nearly stabbed myself in the eye with a pencil so I stopped. For real? A whole chapter on dividing and multiplying by 1000? Wow. I'll pick it up again in a couple days when I'm less annoyed. And honey, let's not even talk about the other book. I hope we don't have to have some kind of class discussion on it, because I'm going to be verrrrry unpopular very quickly if we do. But we're almost there, baby! Did you get your room in the dorms yet? What do we have, like 28 days till classes? Scuse me while I go hide my head in the sand for a little bit longer! :chuckle

oh man, i practically wet myself reading your post:chuckle . i couldn't believe my eyes when that chapter kept going on and on about converting milligrams to grams. i was almost an anthro major so maybe thats why i liked the novel more than you. there were several boring chapters but compared to converting milligrams to grams its a party.

i did get housing, yeah! i can't believe i have to go back to dorm living though, eek. i thought those days were over. you're living in bard hall too right? looks like we'll be neighbors.

Specializes in NICU.
oh man, i practically wet myself reading your post:chuckle . i couldn't believe my eyes when that chapter kept going on and on about converting milligrams to grams. i was almost an anthro major so maybe thats why i liked the novel more than you. there were several boring chapters but compared to converting milligrams to grams its a party.

i did get housing, yeah! i can't believe i have to go back to dorm living though, eek. i thought those days were over. you're living in bard hall too right? looks like we'll be neighbors.

I didn't find the book boring, particularly, I found the author's assumptions really offensive. Keep in mind I went to UC Santa Cruz and I grew up in Berkeley. I'm as liberal as it gets, but her basic premise that her readers were probably white and prejudiced against the Hmong rubbed me the wrong way. I also thought she was condescending about some of their traditions.

I think I'm in room 619. I got a sink! Yay! See you in a couple weeks. I'm moving in on Sunday the 29th. Woohoo!

Specializes in Ortho, Med surg and L&D.
I didn't find the book boring, particularly, I found the author's assumptions really offensive. Keep in mind I went to UC Santa Cruz and I grew up in Berkeley. I'm as liberal as it gets, but her basic premise that her readers were probably white and prejudiced against the Hmong rubbed me the wrong way. I also thought she was condescending about some of their traditions.

I think I'm in room 619. I got a sink! Yay! See you in a couple weeks. I'm moving in on Sunday the 29th. Woohoo!

Hello,

Good luck on the move!

Also, I want to encourage you to trust your initial reactions to the book. It sounds like the author was forgetting that her book was for a wider audience than she was trying to 'sway-insult.' I think, if so, I know what you mean, that is no fun to read about any broad over-generalizations no matter which direction. It sounds like the author herself fell into some ethnocentricity and 'othering' her own biased-self (term by a feminist sociologist who I cannot remember right now!)

Possibly this is the reaction that your professor was hoping to hear, an open minded person see through this biased and paternalizing book. I'm a mixed-cultured person who pretty well is assumed, (by basis of appearance) to be a member of the dominant culture although, my radar for paternalizing, ethnocentric biases is pretty sensative, although, it could be just because I am also pretty tolerant, liberal and open minded, not just because of the mixed culture thing.

Again, congratulations!!!

Gen

Specializes in NICU.
Hello,

Good luck on the move!

Also, I want to encourage you to trust your initial reactions to the book. It sounds like the author was forgetting that her book was for a wider audience than she was trying to 'sway-insult.' I think, if so, I know what you mean, that is no fun to read about any broad over-generalizations no matter which direction. It sounds like the author herself fell into some ethnocentricity and 'othering' her own biased-self (term by a feminist sociologist who I cannot remember right now!)

Possibly this is the reaction that your professor was hoping to hear, an open minded person see through this biased and paternalizing book. I'm a mixed-cultured person who pretty well is assumed, (by basis of appearance) to be a member of the dominant culture although, my radar for paternalizing, ethnocentric biases is pretty sensative, although, it could be just because I am also pretty tolerant, liberal and open minded, not just because of the mixed culture thing.

Again, congratulations!!!

Gen

Exactly,Gen! I'm just so damned tired of people assuming that, based on the fact that I'm Caucasian, I have no concept of the realities of life or really, assuming anything about me at all. I got in so many arguments in college with people who figured that I've never suffered anything, ever, because I'm white. Hey, guess what? Some of my life can shut those assumptions up pretty quickly. Eh. What can you do.

Aaack you guys, I've got Strep throat! School starts four weeks from today, and I've got freakin strep. Someone up there has it in for me. Sigh.

Exactly,Gen! I'm just so damned tired of people assuming that, based on the fact that I'm Caucasian, I have no concept of the realities of life or really, assuming anything about me at all. I got in so many arguments in college with people who figured that I've never suffered anything, ever, because I'm white. Hey, guess what? Some of my life can shut those assumptions up pretty quickly. Eh. What can you do.

Aaack you guys, I've got Strep throat! School starts four weeks from today, and I've got freakin strep. Someone up there has it in for me. Sigh.

Elizabells - Better to be sick now than in 4 weeks when school starts !! Feel better and rest up :nurse:

Exactly,Gen! I'm just so damned tired of people assuming that, based on the fact that I'm Caucasian, I have no concept of the realities of life or really, assuming anything about me at all. I got in so many arguments in college with people who figured that I've never suffered anything, ever, because I'm white. Hey, guess what? Some of my life can shut those assumptions up pretty quickly. Eh. What can you do.

Aaack you guys, I've got Strep throat! School starts four weeks from today, and I've got freakin strep. Someone up there has it in for me. Sigh.

Sorry to hear that! At least you know there are antibiotics to take care of it! :nurse: And I agree, getting sick before school starts is much better than during the term! Get well soon darling!

Smile123

Specializes in NICU.
Sorry to hear that! At least you know there are antibiotics to take care of it! :nurse: And I agree, getting sick before school starts is much better than during the term! Get well soon darling!

Smile123

Feh. So I ended up at the ER last night w/an allergic reaction to the penicillin. And then today I got fired from my LAST WEEK of work. Silliness. Whatever, now I have an extra week to pack, suckers. :chuckle

Specializes in CTICU.
Feh. So I ended up at the ER last night w/an allergic reaction to the penicillin. And then today I got fired from my LAST WEEK of work. Silliness. Whatever, now I have an extra week to pack, suckers. :chuckle

sorry to hear about the strep. that bites (especially coupled with an allergic rxn). i got it a few months ago and i was out for almost two weeks so take extra good care of yourself.

btw i'm in room 221 (i have a sink too!), so i guess we're distant neighbors:) .

apparently they only took 40 etp students for housing this year. sooo glad to be one of the chosen.

Specializes in NICU.
sorry to hear about the strep. that bites (especially coupled with an allergic rxn). i got it a few months ago and i was out for almost two weeks so take extra good care of yourself.

btw i'm in room 221 (i have a sink too!), so i guess we're distant neighbors:) .

apparently they only took 40 etp students for housing this year. sooo glad to be one of the chosen.

Wow, 40? Well, I know most of the people at my table at orientation were from the NY area, so they wouldn't be eligible, but still! That's less than 1/3 of the class. We are the chosen ones. Sweet, I've always been jealous of Buffy! :chuckle

Hey Everyone, my name is Carol from Australia. I have recently moved to Orlando from Tasmania Australia and have no clue as to how I go about getting my last year of nursing done. I have a lot of credits that should transfer over to the USA along with a couple of personal refs from lecturers at the uni I attended. I know that I will probably not be able to work here yet but I was wondering if anyone had ideas as to how I could maybe be sponsored by an agency to work in the industry until I complete my degree (RN). Please if anyone has any sort of clue as to how I could do this I would very much appreciate it as I plan to live here with my fiance (US citizen) and my 3 daughters. My Email addie is [email protected]

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