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I would 100% leave. I felt bullied as a new grad at my first job but I stuck with it for a year and eventually did travel nursing once I got one year experience. It just felt like just about everyone in that hospital was miserable and since becoming a travel nurse I have been so much happier. No job is worth that mental abuse that they are putting you through. Trust me there are better places for you to work where you don't have to put up with that stuff and you will thank yourself later.

I think alot of programs have similiar prereqs so your courses should be usable for other applications but you should make sure by looking up programs in the area that you could potentially go to and either giving them a call and asking or looking for their prereq requirments online.

Yea my programs reputation is complete *** and it has lived up to the hype. I knew what I was getting into before I decided to go there so I have just been busting my *** to learn everything on my own and its been working out for me so far since I am close to graduating. All ill say is that if you do decide to go to that school be prepared to work really hard, use outside study sources like Youtube and Google and keep your expectations low. don't suddenly expect the teachers and the school to be good just because you go there. If you manage to survive, the school you went to will be irrelevant and you'll be a nurse just like everyone else. ?

Well yea the quality of education is certainly a little suspect at my program and that's putting it nicely. I would imagine the program in your area with the low pass rates is similar to mine but that's just an assumption. If your more concerned with getting an adequate education I would probably invest a year or so to get into a better program. I don't know your stats or anything but as long as you don't have a GPA under 3.0 its probably worth the investment. You can get by in the low pass rate program with hard work and learning things on your own but I definitely would not recommend it if you don't have to do it.

In my situation, I was in my upper 20s so I felt an urgency to start right away and my GPA was pretty bad from my time in college so I went with the ADN program with a low NCLEX pass rate. The low pass rate didn't bother me because I learned how to study effectively after college (unfortunately) so I am confident in my ability to pass the test with or without a great school. If I was younger and had a better GPA would I change my decision? Yea, I probably would try and go for an accelerated BSN or a good 4 year BSN program but I am completely fine with the decision I made and how everything played out. So for you, I think it comes down to urgency, GPA, tuition, commute times, and how comfortable you are in your study skills/work ethic.

I have never taken stats and I know it is a hard course but im absolutely positive you can do it. There have been plenty of times where I have had to take several difficult courses at one time and in nursing school this can be the case as well. Just set your mind to it and work hard and you can achieve anything.

I was in a similar situation to you a year ago. My grades sucked from my time at college which was several years ago and I had just given up getting into med school. I knew nothing about getting into nursing school and the requirements I just knew that I wanted to go for it after I got my first job working in a hospital. When I looked up schools in my area I had the same issue of feeling my grades were not good enough and feeling overwhelmed by the whole process. I ended up looking up every single program in my area and looked at their admission requirements and acceptance percentage. Like you mentioned, some schools will make you become an LPN and transition you into and RN, some schools are accelerated BSN programs, some are ADN programs, some are 4 year BSN. I was able to find an ADN program that was accredited that essentially accepted everyone as long as they passed there entrance exams (they told me they don't care about GPA). Its definetly not the best program in the world but it let me begin my journey to become a nurse despite having a low GPA so I am grateful. So for your situation, I would consider looking into ADN programs as I feel they are generally easier to get into or the LPN to RN. The accelerated BSN and 4 year BSN programs can be competitive. Call up each programs admissions office and give them your story and ask them if you have a chance of getting accepted with your stats/ what you need to do (prereqs etc.). Also whether it is the HESI or TEAS that you take, what you get on that test can make up for poor grades you got in undergrad. Schools with high acceptance rates are usually for profit schools so they can be expensive but its worth it in the end, just make sure they are accredited. You are young though, if you want to get into a better school you have plenty of time to retake classes you did poorly on and redeem yourself. The world is yours there is no hurry. You got this.

Im currently a second semester nursing student so maybe im not the best person to be giving you advice but the benefits that I see in getting a non-nursing masters degree would include: being able to throw it on your resume to help land some jobs, having a backup if you fail at being a nurse or you decide you don't like the career (can be common if you go into it without knowing what your getting yourself into). With that being said, I think once you get your initial year or 2 of experience after graduating it should be fairly easy to get jobs. If you are dead set in doing a masters to get that benefit as you mentioned I would imagine that doing one in something science like Nutrition or in Business could be helpful. You do need to get those prereqs done but becareful because some programs will make you retake them if you took them like 2-3 years before applying. I would take them towards the end of your service or lookup/contact programs you are interested in and ask them if prereqs expire for them.