BuriedSet127

Finishing up my prerequisites and I need to take one or the other. I can see how both would be beneficial, but which would you suggest? I also want to mention I haven’t taken a biology class since high school if that makes a difference.

Thanks everyone. Your replies were very helpful and reassuring. Now I won't have to be stressed out over the next couple of months.

First I'd like to mention I'll be starting the nursing program at Ivy Tech in January so any experiences from there would be a great help. Anyways, my girlfriend's aunt is a RN and she said I'd do fine as long as I know my stuff. I've looked on these message boards for experiences on people's nursing school experiences and the only thing I'm finding (and in quite an abundance) is horror stories of people doubting themselves or bad experiences in clinicals. I'm assuming that's because those who get by okay don't come here to vent or tell their stories? Id just like to get as many responses as possible how your experience was in nursing school. In no way am I expecting an easy time...I know I'll be spending most of my free time studying, but assuming there's a passion to succeed, willingness to devote the necessary time to study, and maintaining a positive attitude, should I expect things to go fairly well?

Hey Colin, I started as a CNA at 23 years old and my age never crossed my mind. Mostly it was the fact that I was only one out of 2 male CNA's in a fairly large nursing home. I learned that if you don't make a big deal about helping elder women get showers and dressed, they won't care for the most part. There will be some people who will want a lady to assist them, so just ask if they are comfortable with you. I'm also working towards my nursing degree, and while having CNA experience gives you a great perspective of the work you'll be overseeing one day, it didn't make a difference for getting into a nursing program (for my community college anyways...there wasn't anywhere to list it on the application). Good luck in your schooling!

When I took MT online I found a lot of success with Quizlet. It's a flash card website that you can also download to your phone. Just glancing at words and trying to remember doesn't work well for me in this class, so I'd type up all of the terms on Quizlet and by physically typing them out it was helping me learn, but also then I would review them on the app on my phone. You always have your phone with you so just look at a few every now and then when you get a chance (while standing in line, before you lay down for bed, or even in between classes. You'll start to notice after you build up your knowledge of prefixes and suffixes it becomes so much easier. Then all that's left is learn the root word and you have so many different terms that you can break down.