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I believe my class was the last accelerated that did not require patho as a prereq. Although I did try to take and was told that I couldn't before I was accepted into the program at CSU-P. Funny how when I got there, there were other students that had taken it and tested out and were not required to take the online patho that the school had us take. I was a little peeved. But I do believe the people that took it before just took a regular patho class. I would call Peggy Foley to make sure though.

Oh Katie--you don't want to be a nurse anymore?? What changed your mind? Could it have been this last semester?? Believe me--my whole carpool was questioning it too. Hopefully this semester will be better, but WTH is up with these 2 Saturday things? Psych lab on Saturday? And don't even tell me they just HAD to put the state hospital orientation on a Saturday! Ugh. And what exactly is this convocation thing at night? Sorry to threadjack and vent. I'm in class with Katie (I think we're the only two on here from our class). But all I can say is be prepared for utter disorganization. Most nursing students are very type A, and you would think that the nursing department would be that way too......uh yeah...not so much. Also be prepared for the "you're lucky to be here" kind of attitudes from some individuals. One in particular--which you will recognize immediately. Not to discourage you guys though. There are some really great instructors and some that need to NEVER teach again. I'm a former teacher and one class in particular was totally ridiculous this last semester. I've also had 2 really great clinical instructors that I learned a lot from. In that other thread about Beth-EL vs. CSU-Pueblo--yeah Beth-el has it's share of problems as well, and some people there aren't so nice either. From the discussions I've had with the nurses I was assigned to this past semester from clincals--no new nurse hits the floor and knows exactly what's going on. That first year is a learning experience and you should have an orientation to whatever department anyway. I know the ER at Memorial has something like a 20 week orientation where you don't do anything without your preceptor--so it's like being a student again. So to make a long story short--I don't think either school will have nurses coming out that are really ready. Also we just moved to Kaplan testing--so we'll take the Kaplan review at the end of July. Well technically it's Aug. 2-6, because they claim they can't fit it in, in July. Boo, I wanted to be done. The review is included in your nursing fees. And all the accelerated students I talked to from the class before us have passed their NCLEX. Oh and here's a good one--if you haven't taken A&P for awhile, brush up before orientation because there's a test on the first day that they don't tell you about. And if you don't pass you'll have to do remediation (which I think can be done at home) and take it again. Katie is much better at answering questions than me. But I'm here if anyone has any other questions. Oh and for those with kids, it can be done. I have a young one at home right now and with a lot of planning and support it's hard, but not impossible.

I'm in that program this year as well. Orientation yesterday and Thursday right?

I start class on Monday, just went through 2 days of orientation. 4 days a week this summer, 19 credit hours for an accelerated BSN. Nervous, scared and excited all at the same time.