Applebed

I've used RMP for all my prereq professors. Hasn't failed me yet! I love it. Unfortunately, not one nursing instructor at my college has a review. Myspace also has a similar version of RMP but has different reviews (myspace members only, I guess).

-Composition and Rhetoric -Issues of the Older Adult -Intro to Nursing -General Psychology -Intro to Sociology -Mth1100 or higher (3 credits) -Any 3 credit communications course -Two 3 credit art/humanity courses - I'll be taking developmental psychology and contemporary ethics Then you have to either take Zoology or Intro to Anatomy to advance into the biology prereqs, which are: A&P I, A&P II, and Microbiology. Then 4 semesters of nursing courses once accepted. We don't have a streamlined way of being accepted. Alot of factors go into it though. (1) county of residence, (2) program GPA, (3) ACT score and (4) number of courses completed when petitioning are usually considered first. Ultimately it's up to the college, though. Sometimes lower GPAs get picked over perfect ones..

I got straight A's this semester. I think my jaw dropped straight to the floor when I found out. Haha. A&P I, Health: Issues of Aging, Intro to Nursing, and Intermediate algebra.

Statistics is one of the main reasons I probably won't go for a BSN.. The only math course I took in high school was consumer/finance math since I had completed all my algebra requirements in middle school. Probably not the best idea because anything other than basic algebra is so frustrating for me now!

Summer 2005: Soc1010, Psy1010 Fall 2005: Bio1020 (Zoology) lecture + lab, Com1010, Eng1010 Spring 2006: Bio2070 (A&P1) lecture + lab, Mth1080 (intermed algebra), Hth1080, Nur1015 Summer 2006: Mth1100 (college mathematics) Fall 2006: Bio2080 (A&P2) lecture + lab, Psy2050 Then I (hopefully) will start the nursing program in Spring 2007. I will still have to take Phl1410 (ethics), and Bio2010 (microbiology) lecture and lab. I'll probably take those over the entire 2 year program in the summer sessions.

College Mathematics. My last math class. Ever.

My college does not require chemistry for the ADN program, but if you plan to transfer for a BSN, you have to take a 3 credit general chemistry course.

I'd take A&P1, English, Speech Com, and Psy. I took something similiar last semester (zoology instead of A&P) and it worked out very well.

To apply: -Must place in the Eng1010 level or take Eng1010 to achieve level. -Must place in Mth1100 (college algebra) or take Mth1080 (intermed. algebra) to achieve level. -ACT composite score of 21 or higher. -GPA of 2.0 and at least (I think) 12 college credits. Although you really have no hope if you're not applying with a 3.0 or higher. We take the NET after we have been accepted. They only use it as a diagnostic tool to see where the nursing class as a whole may have trouble. They used to require A&P1 to petition, but it's no longer a neccessity. After the three above needs are met, students are ranked according to ACT score, # of classes completed, and overall GPA in program classes only (for example, the rereq to a&p, zoology, is not factored into the GPA).

College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, Maryland.

600-700, I think. At least that is what my prof. says. :)

I definitely agree! We did cat dissections for the muscles, and I would often find myself looking at my own cats to try to memorize their muscles. :) I find it also helps to make up rhymes or acronmyns (for example, the deltoid muscles on the cat spelled "CAS." Same for the trapezius muscles. And the lower leg muscles spelled out TEPS). :)

My zoology instructor did the same thing. I could not STAND it. I guess the only upside was that we got extra credit if we found any typos in the text, and there were plenty to find.

Principles of Anatomy and Physiology by Tortora and Derrickson. 11th Edition. It was $180, if I remember correctly. For lab we use my instructor's lab book (black binder.. it was $3.50), and Mammalian Anatomy: The Cat by Sebastiani (2nd Edition). I think it was less than $15.

Congrats!!! I got super excited for a moment when you said you go to CSM, because I do too.. but I'm waaay over on the East Coast (College of Southern MD). Haha.