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I forgot to add that yes, I find myself looking up tons of diseases and conditions since I've started nursing school and especially after clinical rotations. Yesterday I had a patient with severe cellulitis and a two stage 3 pressure ulcers. I was so...

That's interesting -both my mom and I have malignant hypothermia and I never really researched it in depth until nursing school.

In my program we wear our uniforms to skills and assessment labs at school, and during clinicals. The instructors gave us the reason that you learn more if you are in your uniform. We'll see if that works....

I'm in an accelerated BSN program now and probably about half my class has a scholarship with a hospital. In our accelerated program we have 4 hospitals that we can do clinical rotations at and all 4 offer scholarships, and if you take the scholarshi...

I'm about to begin an acclerated BSN program in Florida next week, however my ultimate plan after graduating from the program is to work as a RN in another state (either Georgia or Tennessee). How exactly will I go about this? I guess I'm a little co...

Thank you so much - that really cleared up a lot of my confusion.

Hi Batlin I am starting FAU's accelerated program next week so I can't tell you for sure what the hours of the program are, as they change each semester. It is a 3 semester program, starting in May and ending May the following year. This summer I wil...

I was in the same boat as you currently are in - I have a BA in public health and decided to change careers. I am fortunate enough to live in an area where the accelerated BSN program is not that expensive (it's a state school), but generally speakin...

Mine will technically cost around $7000 but my job is paying for half of it (thankfully!). I already have a ton of loans from my first bachelors and masters so I am very happy about the low out of pocket cost for the BSN program that I chose.

Yeah - I get a mix of positive and negative comments when I tell people I'm about to start nursing school - anywhere from "NS is hard! How are you going to do it?" to "Why do you want to do that? I can't understand how people want to be in that job?"...

Here are some things I found by searching on the internet: The first two are basically the same - the first came directly from the Delaware department of Health & Services site and the other from HRSA: http://dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/hsm/opslr...

Nursing is my second career as well. I have a BA in public health, and a MPH in epidemiology. Sounds like it could be exciting but not so much - basically sitting at a computer crunching numbers all day. But - I will be starting an accelerated BSN pr...

I'm right there with all of you. I'm absolutely excited about starting school but at the same time absolutely terrified. It's a huge life change for me as I'm changing careers, taking a cut in pay, etc... and I'm a worry wart by nature and these past...

My top 2 interests are L&D and NICU. But I haven't started school yet or clinicals, so you never know what will happen - I'm going to try to keep an open mind on all the clinical rotations though

I will be starting an accelerated BSN program in May and my goal is to gain experience as a nurse for a few years and then probably pursue either a PA or NP degree. Good luck everyone!

Hi Abelshan I'm another one who went pre-med to pre-nursing. Like the others - I did a double take on my choice when I thought about the amount of sacrifices that I would have to make, and let's not forget about the amount of debt I would have been i...

If you don't mind doing a service committment after you are done with your BSN there are gov't programs to fund nursing school - such as the National Health Service Corps (which you can also do as a loan repayment option after you are done) and they ...

Florida Atlantic University accelerated BSN program starting May2007. Congrats everyone!!

I have a good friend who is now in a PhD clinical psychology program. You really need to research these programs - she doesn't have to pay for hers. Instead they give her a $14,000 stipend a year - but she has to TA some courses. She has told me that...

I personally like the Princeton book too - they give a lot of tricks for math to make calculations easier, and tips on how to answer verbal questions when you don't recognize one of the words, etc... I also bought the ETS GRE book which has actual ol...

I've actually had quite the opposite reaction from my med school friends - but it just may be that they are all in residency right now and are hating their lifes, or that they have matured and appreciate more what nurses do. But when I've told them t...

Congrats Moondance - were you accepted into the traditional or accelerated track?

Have you thought about signing a contract with a local hospital to pay your tuition (in return for a work committment), or any of the nursing scholarships that may be available through your school? You mentioned that you weren't eligible for scholars...

A little off topic but I'm a Hopkins grad myself - what year did you graduate? And more on topic - I knew a few students from Hopkins with so-so grades that got into the Hopkins accelerated program, so keep your hopes up! My undergrad GPA was OK, but...

Accepted into FAU's acclerated BSN program that starts in May (thank goodness too because it was the only school I applied to!)