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I'm sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere -- I can't even find the thread I started on it a few weeks ago. I'm scheduled to take the NLN-PAX on 6/5 for admission into an RN program. I see lots of info on the NET, etc., but nothing on the PAX. I...

I'm overwhelmed to the point of tears. I just began my ADN program last Monday and feel like I am drowning. I really am not trying to complain, but I could use encouragement from others going through the same thing or those who have been there and ...

Oh, wow, I know how you feel! I just posted a long-winded weepy tale about my first week -- it is pretty overwhelming!

Good luck to you! My fall semester starts Monday. I, too, subscribe to this thread to remind myself that I am not the only one (I'll be an RN in 2010, when I'm 45).:redpinkhe

I love these threads! I am almost 44 and just beginning my ADN program as well (after a year of pre-reqs and changing my plan from becoming an LPN to becoming an RN). I can't do all-nighters either -- no way! In fact, I turn into a pumpkin after 11...

OK, after reading some of these posts, I feel like a giant slacker but I am studying n*o*t*h*i*n*g whatsoever except a couple of fluffy novels by the pool. My poor old brain is tired after a year of pre-reqs with no breaks and I know that once I sta...

My books will cost $500 used -- I have to wait until the financial aid office gives me a book voucher to purchase them. If the used ones are all gone by then, it will cost upwards of about $750. My uniforms are another $225 (which I have to purchas...

I'd cut it -- I did, actually. :) You can always grow it later. Mine is chin length -- a "graduated" bob: very short on the nape and wedged in the back and a little longer in front. Very little layering, and I've grown it out before -- there's n...

I will owe $5-7K. I'm going through the ADN program at my community college, and it's fairly inexpensive. I had hoped not to borrow any -- I didn't for my pre-reqs -- but my uniforms/supplies/books for the first semester alone is right around $1K. I...

Absolutely not.

I'm so happy to see this thread! I'm scared out of my mind -- actually even posted a thread about it yesterday. I start in a month, "cold" as well. I have a CNA license as a requirement for the LPN program I was going to go into before I applied an...

Hi all -- I start my ADN program August 18. I have straight As in all my pre-reqs and am even finishing up Micro and A&P2 right now with As so far, so that once I begin the program, all I have to take are nursing classes. I should be sitting pret...

Today I signed up for my fall classes to begin my RN program. Ordered the (dreadfully unattractive and uncomfortable and expensive) uniforms, and the cap (!) and priced my textbooks. Officially, I am both grateful to be starting and scared to death....

I am 43. I will be 45 when I finish my RN program. It's never too late!

:chuckle I just found out that mine does! I'm not sure how I feel about it, other than I think I'll look pretty silly. Does anyone have any idea how to clean one of those things? And last, it does bother me a teensy bit that the men in the program d...

Yes, my program is in WV. It's supposed to be a really good one, too. *sigh* I guess I just may as well suck it up and put on the cap. And then burn it when I finish.

:angryfireOurs are all white, too! This was exactly my thought when I found out. I wonder about the brains behind some of these ideas, frankly.

Yes! Exactly. I have to say I genuinely dread it -- plus I am always acutely aware when something in on my head; I hate hats and find them very distracting. And I'm not overly picky but it peeves me that we have to wear them when there are men in ...

I have been accepted to a 2-year RN program beginning this fall and am completing the health history form. I want to include everything necessary but don't want to give my life's story -- if anyone can help me with two of these questions, I'd be so ...

I just found out I am accepted to a local 2-year RN program beginning in the fall, as well! Currently I have A&PII and Micro and have finished all my pre-reqs with a 4.0, so my remaining classes with be Nursing and Clinicals. Can I just say, I a...

I have it this summer, too, and it is going to be a bear! We just started Monday. My advice is to hit the ground running! What helps me learn is repetition, repetition and repetition. Each evening, I re-write my class notes and place them in a bi...

You can probably buy it online but the college bookstore carries it so it's easier to get it there (for me).

Thanks to both of you -- I have three weeks after this semester's finals before summer classes start, to study. And I am going to really buckle down... I'll be sure and post how it goes.

I've finished my STNA course at the comm. college where I plan to enter the LPN program and our State test is tomorrow -- part written, part skills. I'm petrified. I'm so nervous I can't even look over the material. I have an A in the class and have...

Thank you! Actually, the examiner led me to believe that I did very well, and I am pretty sure I did well on the written part also. But I was SO nervous; my legs felt like cooked spaghetti! I was incredibly anxious and my brain was spinning with al...