joe090909

Honestly, this is a personal situation for you. You need to do whats best for you mentally. Your mental health comes first above an expected graduation date or if you will receive any judgement from others. Nursing school is tough, and if you need a break, that is okay. It doesn't matter if it takes you 3 years or 8 years. Just make sure that you have had time to fully relax, destress, and evaluate what went wrong or what you could've done better to prevented from getting in a situation where you are burnt out. I was previously in a PA program, and I did not practice self-care and I burnt myself out. Bad mistake ignoring my mental health, so just make sure that you take care of yourself. You're going to be a nurse eventually ?

Keep your head up! Nursing school is stressful, but you don't want to bring yourself down. Keep working hard, and make sure that you are taking care of yourself. I promise you that no matter what day it is and what your schedule looks like incorporating 30 minutes of physical activity a day will make a huge difference and help your grades. This is coming from a person who barely did exercise and failed out of a program. You need to make sure that you are allowing yourself to release your stress. I always thought that I didn't' have time to exercise, but then I didn't realize how much time I was wasting because I was just sitting at my desk trying to do work even though my body needed a break and I wasn't giving it a break.

Keep your head up! Nursing school is hard its not you. Try a new study habit. Use Quizlet. Type up your class notes, but also make sure that you have balance in your life. If your not taking care of yourself, there's no way that you can expect to do well and handle the stress in life.

I've read through that many people found the Saunders Comprehensive Review helpful when studying for their class exams. Haven't started nursing school so can't testify to whether I've found it helpful.

Really depends on what you want to do. Do you like working in a high intensive stress environment? If not, ER is probably not the place for you.

Honestly apply and just see how it goes. You never know and being a guy might help your chances of getting in. I just got in and my cgpa was 3.3 and prereqs were probably 3.5 . I was accepted to 2/3 of the ABSN programs I applied to, and I consider myself a pretty average applicant. I've had C's and one C- on my transcript. Not that many C's, but my transcript isn't perfect and I was still able to get in.

Pretty sure the hospital will most likely provide those certifications for you.

Same here. once I have enough posts, I will message you.

I'm struggling to find scholarships as well. Seems like theres not much out there other than Nursecorps. Going to continue working for another year and saving up money. Might work a full time and part time job to make enough money to not have to work during school.

@futurern13 I'm sorry to hear that PA school didn't work out for you. I'm also another person who unfortunately was dismissed from a PA program. Would like to privately message you... message me.

I would go for the ABSN. Direct entry MSN will usually require a post certificate to be able to become a Nurse Practitioner. If you don’t mind me asking, what happened that made PA not work out?

I actually changed my mind and decided to wait a year to begin. Considering that there may be second waves of shutdown once things reopen up, it seems like a good amount of time of my program may be affected. Personally, I am going to use this year to start preparing and gaining more clinical experience prior to nursing school. Maybe will even take an EMT class?

I decided to just stick with it and go for it. I'm hoping for the best, but I'm also getting a little worried.. feel like I should have just deferred until next year. But that would mean I have to wait a whole year to start nursing. In your case, I would probably think about it. You really want to make sure that your mental health is all good before entering an accelerated program because it's going to be stressful.

I would have to ask them, but given the circumstances I feel that they will. I asked them about clinicals but they just said as soon as they receive approval, they'd bring us back in but for now everything will be online. Seems like they're not sure too when everything will go back to normal. But until the university reopens up, we won't be able to use the simulation lab at the school. It's not that I don't like online classes.. I just want to make sure I am getting the best experience from nursing school, so I'm well prepared to enter the profession.

I'm in Connecticut. We've been badly affected by COVID. But that is a good point you bring up, but I'm just not sure if bringing in more students would pose a risk of increasing the spread.