ISingTheBodyElectric

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

Ok, I think the problem here is that we're arguing past each other. It seemed to me that the OP was very much concerned about jobs. The OP wrote: "Since I have started working though, the hospital has been breathing down my neck about when I will be...

Fair enough. If you are willing to take the time, would you detail what exactly you feel the BSN-specific classes provided that you didn't get from your polisci degree? I am having completely the opposite experience, but I'm not entirely finished wit...

Cliff effects are a &$*!#. Wife and I are facing a similar circumstance right now. If we make $1 over a certain amount, our childcare cost goes from $480 to $1120 a month.

You're beating a strawman. Nobody on this side of the debate is arguing that undergraduate degrees generally confer discrete skills and knowledge that can only be obtained via majoring in that particular field of study, and that a bachelor's of scie...

Sincere question: did those studies control for ADN nurses who also had degrees in other fields?

Nursing is "different" because, apart from the hard sciences and clinical training common to both BSN and ADN programs, a BSN offers very, very little to improve the quality of care of a nurse who has already received a bachelors degree in one of the...

As someone with a BA in another field (English with a philosophy / psychology minor), almost two decades of work experience, who has just finished his first semester of a direct-entry MSN, I feel your pain. I. Feel. Your. Pain. This blinkered opinion...

Yes, a BSN and journalism classes would prepare someone to work as a journalist. One does not actually need to take any "journalism classes" in order to be a journalist.

Jules A, I hope you take this in the spirit that its offered, but have you maybe considered that there are a lot of nursing students (perhaps the majority) who can't work 30 hours a week, attend full time, and pass their classes / learn enough not to...

Yes, I did. I think it takes some time for them to contact the next person down the list.