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Hello I'm a new grad as well moved to Florida due to losing my home in NY to hurricane sandy and I have been having a hard time finding a job here on the west coast. As soon as I applied to certain hospitals they send me an email back right away I don't qualify. It's so frustrating!!!! This is ridiculous!!! They all ask for experience as an RN but no one wants to give it to you! I have had one interview but when I called to follow up (4 times) after the fourth time they gave me the excuse that they didn't have any preceptors. -_-smh What does that mean? That all your nurses that work there are not experienced!!! Sorry venting :/ Good luck to you! Hopefully you have a better experience than I'm having!

I would just finish out and get your associates. Like you said you can work while getting your BSN. I am doing the same. After I get my associates I'm signing up with Lamar university online and there clinical is you working, you can get your BSN in 13 weeks. Good luck on whatever you choose.

I am in my last semester of school and I use ATI, I know about saunders, but what is Hurst. Please if you can tell me where I can find this. Thank you Olivera

If you do write about that please post so we can read I know it would be a great learning experience:D

It is all up to you and your study habits. Everyone studies differently. I find my iPhone helps out a lot with meds and medical terms. Once you start you will find the best way for you. Advise from me don't stress, don't leave things for last minute and breathe. Good luck!

author: gloria d. pickar dosage calculations, a ratio-proportion approach, 2e this what we used in class. hope this helps

Sorry to tell you the truth I love my children and I don't see them as pets. What I do see is me making an easier life for them when I'm done with nursing school. The best thing about it is that all my children sit with me and study as well ( the older ones), and the younger ones try to read even if they don't even know the letters. So it's not treating our children like pets but only making a better life for them. Oh, by the way I have six children so I do deserve some help from family which I hardly get. My best help is my husband, my 16year old son and 17 year old daughter. Point being, when and if you need the help ask for it. You are not hurting anyone but yourself when you don't finish what you have started.

Suffolk County Community College Nursing program has it as a recommended link on their website Awsome site I have learned a lot and met very good people.

Sorry I don't agree with AyvasMom. Last year I started my pregnancy in the Spring semester and had my baby in the Fall semester. Classes where Monday, Wednesday. I was taking Micro in the fall went to the hospital on Sept. 15th which was a Tuesday, missed Wednesday class and went right back to class the following Monday. My boy was only a week old. if you talk to your professors they will help you and make it work so you don't miss your final. Oh, by the way I also had class on Sunday, which luckly the professor took off that Sunday. Not to mention I have five other kids. So if I can do it, (have a baby and take care of five others and still make it to school) anyone can do it. Just a word of advise, pace yourself, and definetly have family and your better half take up alot of the household chores including taking care of the newborn. Good Luck! Congrats on baby, they are such a joy. (when they are not crying) LOL:D

I am using ATI is required by my school. I also have found helpful because I have an iPhone and they also have an app. that has all test questions. Pretty cool:smokin:

It's true that you would save money, but what if you get a low grade on the CLEP and have to take the class now, tey still look at your CLEP score. I believe that is why they don't recommend it, because it won't look good when you apply. If you feel confident enough why not take it, all they can tell you is they don't recommend it but it is still your choice if you want to take them. More power to you! I know I wouldn't even try, it is easy to get an A in class their is room to improve your grade throughout the semester, but with CLEP the grade you get you have to live with. Good Luck!

Monters, I believe that they except Clep from ENG 101 and PSY 101, I don't know about MAT007 and I defenitly do know not CHEM100 You can call admissions and they can send you some info 631-451-4000 hope this helps Good Luck!

Sorry Islandgurlie that I have not answered been busy yes all A's except for ENG 101 got a B+, BIO 244 I took after I applied and I got a B in that one. RpmSteve no you don't need Micro to apply but if your grades are low in your other classes this will help you get in easier if you have it before you get into nursing. And taking a Nursing class with Micro is very hard that's why they recommend that you take Micro before Nursing. Congrats on your acceptance. Isn't it exciting

Is that your last pre req? And are you taking it at suffolk? If it is last pre req than what are you waiting for apply. If you are taking it in suffolk just go fill out change of emphasis at admissions. GOOD LUCK!

If you are not attending Suffolk and have all your pre-reqs then all you have to do is apply online and state your major but if don't have pre-reqs than you have to apply to Liberal Arts Science

I wanted to become a nurse the day my daughter was diagnosed with SVT and had the surgery. From then I was amazed at all the things the nurses were doing for my daughter and that's what set me on my way. And after having my fifth child I decided that I would love to be one of those nurses in the nursery or delivery room. Just to witness the birth of a child is amazing and I won't be doing the pushing LOL, or feeling the pain. I might feel some pain because I know what it's like, but all in all I believe it would be fun. The pay scale is not that bad either.

Hello Mercy2012 You need to go to admissions and change your curriculum to nursing that is how you apply you can't apply the regular way like online. Good Luck:D

Try this formula Ordered/Have X Volume Per Have = Liquid required Don't forget to transfer 0.3g to mg or transfer 500mg to g Hope this helps

The hardest for me is Micro. I just hate the essay test. Too much to remember.

1) what school will you be attending? suffolk county community college 2) when is your orientation? dec. 14th 3) do you have anything else left to do before clinical starts? i need my physical, redue my titers, got all the little things for nursing all i have left is background check, nursing uniforms. we're not aloud to do any of the medical stuff until after dec. 20th if i do it before then, then i would have to redue all of my titers, tb, etc. good luck to you all!

Hello, I live in Mastic Beach. I applied for the Nursing program at the grant campus for Spring2010 evening program, and I got in. I am taking Micro now, which by the way is very hard, and with 6 kids it really is not easy. I spoke to my old English professor who is also the head of admissions in Ammerman campus. She said that; if you have a high GPA and don't have Micro you won't get in, but if you have a high GPA and don't have Micro but you have all the rest of the pre-reqs plus the co-reqs that are required to be taken in the program (non-nursing classes) you have a better chance of getting in. Also they look at you better if your science classes have a higher grade then lets say English. So thats what I did, now all I have left are the Nursing classes and I will be done. Good luck to you all! Keep up the good work.

hi frodo-dog, i have a 3.9 gpa no net has to be taken in my school. the classes that i have taken are: eng 101, a&pi, a&pii, psy 101,soc 101, these are pre-reqs and the following are classes you have to take while in nursing but i took them ahead of time so in nursing all i will have left are nursing classes, eng 102,developmental psych, micro, and communications, this is a hum class. but you said you are applying to mcc that is different than my school which is sccc the requirements might be different. good luck!

I'm in as well start Spring 2010 @ SCCC. I think my husband is more excited then I. Go figure, he can't wait to have to work less. Congrats to all! :stdnrsrck: :rckn:

Nursing program pre-reqs are as follows ENG 101 PSY 101 A & P I A&P II BIO 244 These are for the evening program I know cuz I just got accepted. hope this helps:D

With A&PI I took developmental Psych and I got an A in A&P and B in Psych but the teacher was new so you really couldn't take any notes because she didn't know what she was teaching Second semester I took A&P II and English Lit and got an A in both classes so that combination was pretty good and easy I guess if you like writing which I really don't. I couldn't take more than two classes a semester because I have 5 kids and I still had to have some time with the kids not all studying.