ISingTheBodyElectric

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1. 400-level lecture class taught by a BSN educated nurse?

   ISingTheBodyElectric posted a topic in Educators

   Is this a normal / common practice? Should I be concerned if this is going on at my BSN program? I'm a second degree BSN student, and still figuring out the differences in standards and conventions between nursing education and other academic discipl...

2. Can my school change prerequisite requirements?

   ISingTheBodyElectric replied to km1427's topic in General Students

   I'm confused. Your above plan doesn't make any mention of A&P; only A&P 2 is mentioned, and according to your original plan you were going to take it this spring. Does this mean you took A&P 1 this semester and failed it, in addition to b...

3. Are we "semi-professionals"

   ISingTheBodyElectric replied to GastroAwesome's topic in General Nursing

   Here's a quick and dirty way to determine if something is a profession or not: Could a reasonably intelligent person with proficient high-school math and literacy skills be trained to do your job in 3 - 4 weeks? Not do it as well as you can -- that i...

4. Trying to get a feel for USM's accelerated MSN...

   ISingTheBodyElectric replied to Take2inRI's topic in Post Graduate

   Without going into too many details that might identify me -- I'm a current USM Options student, and if I had to do it over again, I would have gone somewhere else.

5. Not working during nursing school?

   ISingTheBodyElectric replied to Infofreak411's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I am SO sick and tired of people trotting out the "dun wanna support you wif muh tax dolluhs" whenever someone mentions going on food stamps or taking another form of assistance while in nursing school. The EBT, medicaid, and daycare grant that my wi...

6. Does my RACE matter when applying to Nursing Programs?

   ISingTheBodyElectric replied to LinaJill123's topic in Pre-Nursing

   If you're truly concerned, email the dean of nursing and ask. I'm a male, accelerated BSN student, and the school I'm attending had no photos of men on their webpage. Not a one. They also have no men among their full time faculty. And that bothered m...

7. A&P prior to Micro?

   ISingTheBodyElectric replied to tulipsweeti's topic in Pre-Nursing

   You need to know the basics of human anatomy and physiology, and also the basics of chem before taking a micro class. If you can honestly say you got that from highschool and whatever college biology & chem prereqs you've already taken, then you ...

8. Goal is NP. ASN>BSN>MSN -or - ASN>MSN???

   ISingTheBodyElectric replied to BooBear'sMommy's topic in Post Graduate

   Out of curiosity, I googled asn to msn bridge and up popped Frontier school of nursing, which is a private non-profit. It looks like they have you take 12 months of classes before the MSN/NP portion starts, but a BSN is not awarded. The entire progra...

9. Direct-entry NP with no prereqs

   ISingTheBodyElectric replied to ISingTheBodyElectric's topic in Post Graduate

   Update: She dropped out after two weeks. Said she felt overwhelmed, and like she was expected to know a whole lot of things that she didn't. Said she was never warned that it would be like that. So I guess that answers my question .. though I would ...

10. Direct-entry NP with no prereqs

    ISingTheBodyElectric replied to ISingTheBodyElectric's topic in Post Graduate

    Interesting. But looking at the Yale GEPN course of study, and as you mentioned, I see that in first semester includes fundamentals of anatomy, nutrition, and something called biomedical foundations of health and disease that looks like it covers phy...

11. Direct-entry NP with no prereqs

    ISingTheBodyElectric posted a topic in Post Graduate

    Has anyone successfully gone through one of these, or know someone who has? Or have any horror stories to share? I just found out that one of my wife's good friends is in the first semester of a direct-entry NP program with NO prerequisites other tha...

12. Nursing school too hard on purpose?

    ISingTheBodyElectric replied to fangirl's topic in General Students

    A critical incident? For wearing a ball cap to lecture? Did it have something obscene or racist or sexist or etc written on it? What lesson did your classmate learn from this? That small minds focus on small things?

13. Nursing school too hard on purpose?

    ISingTheBodyElectric replied to fangirl's topic in General Students

    I saw the title and thought I would find someone whining about failing classes with less than an 80%, being dropped from the program after two failed classes, having to write papers in APA format, etc. I have a special, angry place in my heart for la...

14. loans and scholarships

    ISingTheBodyElectric replied to direw0lf's topic in General Students

    This is my 2nd degree, and it's a graduate degree, so I have a whole different set of federal loans to choose from compared to you. But I would almost always recommend federal loans over private, especially in undergrad. Especially if you can qualify...

15. RNs with a Bachelor's in another field

    ISingTheBodyElectric replied to TwistaKrista's topic in Activism

    Thank you for posting that, but I should have been more specific. By asking if the studies controlled for ADNs with prior degrees in other fields, I was wondering if the studies, or subsequent analysis of the studies, took into consideration the poss...