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  1. School and Life

    Koala33 replied to ChaeF's topic in General Students

    What you have said is not entirely accurate, unless I'm misinterpreting what you are saying. My sister is a nursing student at Penn State. They have updated their facilities to include a state of the...

  2. Nurses Going to Med School

    Koala33 replied to freakjojo06's topic in General Students

    I don't know that I was clear in my original post... so I'm going to go through this and clarify some things. No, these weren't the requirements at all. I'm not sure what you mean by 200 level and...

  3. Nurses Going to Med School

    Koala33 replied to freakjojo06's topic in General Students

    I was a pre-med who switched to nursing, not because the pre-med course curriculum was too much for me, but because I realized that the work and lifestyle of nursing suited me more than medicine....

  4. How did you decide where you wanted to go to nursing school?

    Koala33 replied to Ted D's topic in General Students

    I applied to schools with ABSN programs that had high NCLEX pass rates in cities where I thought it'd be nice to live. I had about 5 schools on my list throughout the East Coast (mostly in the...

  5. Who's moving to another city/out of state for Nursing School?

    Koala33 replied to Cherish's topic in General Students

    I'm moving over 150 miles away from all of my family, my boyfriend, and my boyfriend's family, at some point in August, and I don't have a car. And I don't really know anybody in the city that I'm...

  6. A&P in high school vs. A&P in college...

    Koala33 replied to nocheapones's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Bring colored pencils or markers with you, too! If you don't get Powerpoint slides and your teacher draws out a lot of diagrams, colorcoding will become a fast friend of yours. I was gently teased for...

  7. A&P in high school vs. A&P in college...

    Koala33 replied to nocheapones's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I took A&P in high school, and now I'm taking it four years later in college. A&P in high school is definitely a lot more basic, with less emphasis on the chemical aspects. My class in high...

  8. Nursing Tuition off the Chain!! Need Help!!

    Koala33 replied to JoI8815's topic in General Students

    Apply for outside scholarships. Trying looking at www.fastweb.com and http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/financialaid.htm. FastWeb has nursing scholarships, but you can look based on other criteria...

  9. Reading alot of posts discussing "A" nursing students vs "C" nursing students

    Koala33 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    There's nothing wrong with being an A student. Or a B student. C's across the board is a little questionable, especially if there's no effort involved. I wouldn't want somebody to be my nurse if...

  10. Reading alot of posts discussing "A" nursing students vs "C" nursing students

    Koala33 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    Being an A student doesn't mean that one has a type A personality and/or health problems. One can have a type A personality and be a B/C student in nursing school. I don't really think that you can...

  11. Would You Prefer a Male Nurse?

    Koala33 replied to djc1981's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I did not call you ignorant, I said that "this" ("this" being the statement, not you) seemed ignorant. There is a difference. The only reason I said that was because you said that you "don't have to...

  12. Reading alot of posts discussing "A" nursing students vs "C" nursing students

    Koala33 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    Were you trying to be ironic here? You just stereotyped all of the A students by saying that all of them stereotype in a blanket statement. That's pretty

  13. Being a dorm Resident Assistant while in Nursing school...

    Koala33 replied to Trilldayz,RN BSN's topic in General Students

    I was an RA for 1.5 years when I was doing all of my pre-requisites for nursing school with the intention to enter an accelerated 2nd degree BSN program after graduating, so my experiences aren't...

  14. Would You Prefer a Male Nurse?

    Koala33 replied to djc1981's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I find this a little ignorant. You are essentially ignoring the fact that a homosexual population exists in the health care profession by saying that you don't have to worry about a provider of the...

  15. Would You Prefer a Male Nurse?

    Koala33 replied to djc1981's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I don't care about the sex of the individual, as long as the care delivered is professional, competent, and sympathetic to my needs. I can name health care professionals of both sexes that have...

  16. Microbiology over the Summer - New to Forum

    Koala33 replied to WWE DiVa's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Do you need to work? Do you have children? Are you taking any vacations or do you have any big commitments that will interfere with your ability to devote attention to Microbiology? I took A&P2...

  17. ~!~ ...SERIOUSLY ...~!~

    Koala33 replied to 2bNurse22*'s topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Know all of it. Or as much as you can. Would you want to be in a situation where your nurse didn't pay much attention in her A&P class and just hoped that the concepts came to her in nursing...

  18. Georgetown Accelerated BSN

    Koala33 replied to firstyearRN's topic in School, College Programs

    For what it's worth, I spoke to a few ABSN students at my visit and interview, and they said they loved the program (even when the administrators left the room). They said that they were always able...

  19. Georgetown Accelerated BSN Program Fall 09 Interviews?

    Koala33 replied to stacy1234's topic in General Nursing

    I've got four pre-requisites to finish. I'm in three of them now. I'm really nervous about doing well in them, especially because I have a couple of science classes thrown into the

  20. Georgetown Accelerated BSN Program Fall 09 Interviews?

    Koala33 replied to stacy1234's topic in General Nursing

    Still waiting....has anyone heard anything? This is

  21. Georgetown Accelerated BSN Program Fall 09 Interviews?

    Koala33 replied to stacy1234's topic in General Nursing

    I've still got

  22. Georgetown Accelerated BSN Program Fall 09 Interviews?

    Koala33 replied to stacy1234's topic in General Nursing

    This is killing me. Do you think we'll definitely hear today? I can't take much more of

  23. Georgetown Accelerated BSN Program Fall 09 Interviews?

    Koala33 replied to stacy1234's topic in General Nursing

    This is agony. I just received that e-mail as well. It was such a

  24. Georgetown Accelerated BSN Program Fall 09 Interviews?

    Koala33 replied to stacy1234's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, same exact thing last week. It feels like last year, though. Hopefully, we'll get "yes"es again. Good

  25. Georgetown Accelerated BSN Program Fall 09 Interviews?

    Koala33 replied to stacy1234's topic in General Nursing

    Has anybody heard anything about the scholarship yet? So far, I've got nothing. We are supposed to hear today,