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  1. Age question

    Hotflashn replied to Sandy_dfw's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Go for it. With both your previous health care and life experience you will have something important to offer. I think in many ways there are advantages to schooling, career changes and what you can...

  2. " Lies, Damn lies and statistics"

    Hotflashn replied to keeptryin's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Try to read the text and do the homework before the lecture, then go over it again. Go to the math lab and get some help if you can - often other students, tutors and TAs can do at least and often...

  3. Family crises and NS

    Hotflashn posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Nothing like a crises to take your mind off the acceptance/denial letter wait. My sweet boy (he's 22 but will always be my baby!) broke his back last week. Fortunately, after a life flight heli ride,...

  4. Family crises and NS

    Hotflashn replied to Hotflashn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    YOU! I have been counting on your good thoughts, Sister! Better not stop! I beg you. I didn't know you were here either... great minds thinking alike and all that. Now you get double doses of me and...

  5. For all of us who are sweating bullets waiting on acceptance/rejection letters...

    Hotflashn replied to phoenixfire's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I know what you mean about getting your hopes up. In some ways that makes it harder. For me anyway. I have been told that I was a "strong candidate" and "likely in the top 150" (out of 800) which...

  6. Movie: "The Business of Being Born."

    Hotflashn replied to epiphany's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Its available on

  7. Waiting List VS. Actual Time Wait

    Hotflashn replied to Bridgett's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am still not in, but I was told the wait was 3 years at a couple of different ADN programs I applied. It looks like it will actually "only" be 2 years. I think it depends how many schools are in the...

  8. Family crises and NS

    Hotflashn replied to Hotflashn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Thanks, Jean. I wish I knew if I was in or not, it would make things so much easier. The thought of muddling through this last bit of O chem only to not get in is crazy-making. But at least, if I...

  9. Family crises and NS

    Hotflashn replied to Hotflashn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am glad your son is doing better, Coolpeach. Its all so scary and challenging. My boy was in a motorcycle accident on the freeway when the vehicle in front of him lost control, he hit them and then...

  10. Am I Too Old?

    Hotflashn replied to Gambln00's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Good for you! I have no doubt that chem (and studying in general) keeps the old cogs turning. I can actively feel my brain developing like a muscle. Sometimes it hurts from overwork! I love the...

  11. For all of us who are sweating bullets waiting on acceptance/rejection letters...

    Hotflashn replied to phoenixfire's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I vote for revenge, too. That was evil! I get so mad every time I get some stupid piece of nonessential snail or email from the college (about orientations or open house or tooting their own horn...

  12. I hated cat dissection!!! Will I hate nursing?!

    Hotflashn replied to WantAccel.BSN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    We never did any animal dissections, we had human cadavers. At the start, they were mostly prepped for us, skinned and such. It was still SO HARD to have to dig a garbage bag wrapped arm or leg out of...

  13. Denied

    Hotflashn replied to katie07's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am sorry you didn't get in this time, Katie07. How disappointing. Retake the TEAS! Also, you might want to go ahead and apply to as many ADN programs as possible, get on any waitlists if they have...

  14. Am I Too Old?

    Hotflashn replied to Gambln00's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

  15. Am I Too Old?

    Hotflashn replied to Gambln00's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I didn't plan on working until 65 either! Do you have a trust fund or something? How do you plan to retire at 50? I am curious because I would like to retire at 50, too. Trouble is that I am 45 and...

  16. Am I Too Old?

    Hotflashn replied to Gambln00's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Absolutely! Really, that is all there

  17. Am I Too Old?

    Hotflashn replied to Gambln00's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Check with the nursing program adviser at program(s) you are interested in. If you are in an area with highly competitive programs that rely soley on GPA of prereqs, your grades are probably not in...

  18. Am I Too Old?

    Hotflashn replied to Gambln00's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Oh goodness no. I wanted to laugh when I read that you were only 26 worrying about your age, but I realized that you obviously must have that fear or you wouldn't have posted! You aren't too old even...

  19. Organic Chemistry

    Hotflashn replied to Sapana's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Lactose forms a ketone? I am not challenging, I am questioning. I thought lactose was a diasaccarides of galactose and glucose, both aldehydes. Aldehydes oxidize, ketones don't. I thought some ketoses...

  20. Teas Test

    Hotflashn replied to Nervous Nursey2b's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Do you think the ATI people ever put poser posters on Allnurses to see what if any test info or answers are disclosed? Make me wonder. I do know that the avg TEAS scores keeps going up each year. Are...

  21. Accepted!

    Hotflashn replied to OrlandoFLNurse2b's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Juls, how encouraging that you got in when you thought you had another semester "on the bench!" I applied to Solano, Napa, Los Medanos and CSUEB. The first two should open in Spring 09, the last two...

  22. Accepted!

    Hotflashn replied to OrlandoFLNurse2b's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Yeah for you, Juls, and congrats on your anniversary, too. It is good you two had good sense of humor about the date. Fun. I was so worried about having my first baby (who was overdue) on April Fools...

  23. Another discouraged, unhappy camper here

    Hotflashn replied to Scooter321's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Though it probably does not seem like it, it sounds as if your college actually did you a huge favor. If you didn't get accepted because you don't have enough of the general education courses...

  24. I can't retain enough information!

    Hotflashn replied to Irishowl's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I use a recorder and record lecture then listen when I am in the car, getting ready, cooking, cleaning etc. Well, just all the time! I also record my own notes and listen - that way I own it. It took...

  25. TEAS Question

    Hotflashn replied to Leomom's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The two ATI practice tests are the same both times. I took the first practice before I started studying and did it as fast as I could. I did the 100 questions in about an hour. I got like 78%. Then I...