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I'm only finished wth my first week and I'm not saying that it's easy but I mean I'm not in a fetal position crying my eyes out. With the exception of fundamentals, all of my other nursing courses are once a week, so I feel that gives me optimal time...

Well I don't think Medgar Evers needs an agreement with a CUNY Associate degree program because they have their own 2 year associate degree program. It might be one of those things where the program is usually designed for people that did THEIR assoc...

It's going to depend on your area. Where I live a BSN is becoming preferred but if you can get a job with your associate's I wouldn't worry about it. Unless you plan on going into psych nursing or maybe public health I don't think your bachelor's in ...

Well I can only tell you about Hunter. First their GPA is about 3.5 and higher for a cut off. Secondly you can't transfer directly into their nursing program, you have to be a student in their school for at least a semester before you can apply to th...

I'm a little of the opposite, I'm a good test taker but I'm absolutely paranoid about failing clinicals, which I know most students probably feel. Just hang in there and try to find a method that works for you, and not just the method everyone else i...

I'm shy as well and today was my first day of class. We were in skills lab and we were using the pulse oximeter on one another and I'm fine with talking to people I don't know but when I professor was watching I just froze up, stumbled on words, ect....

I'm not a nurse yet but my sister's friends named her twins King and Queen. Maybe some people find that cute but I think it's ridiculous lol.

Okay so I had my first day of nursing school was today! Finally! The only class I had today was my nursing fundamentals skills lab. I wasn't sure what we were going to do because none of us have had lecture yet but we jumped right into work. We had a...

I'm definetely going to take a more aggressive approach and not let people borrow my notes when they could and should have taken their own. The last straw for me was last semester in physiology when they actually started to photocopy people's notes! ...

For mine, the clinical replaces the skills lab. So we have lecture and skills lab for 7 weeks, that class ends and then we have lecture and clinical for the last seven weeks, we actually have them with the same professors so it doesn't feel like it's...

I don't understand it. People in my program are already making plans for their NP's and stuff and we haven't even started yet! And everyone's always saying, look at master's. I feel like the only one whose not lol. Nursing is not like some of the oth...

BSN program we start after 7 weeks. However when a program starts clinical doesn't matter as much as how many hours you spend in clinical.

In NYC new grads at the big hospitals make about 37-39 bucks an hour with an extra 2.00 in night diff. These hospitals are looking towards the BSN preferred routes however and with most BSN programs in NYC being private schools, you need that kind of...

Thanks for the answers and I know my personality probably has a lot to do with it. I'm not a partier so I really won't have to worry about that kind of thing. As far as condemning them too quick? I don't think I've done that either since I've been fr...

My program starts clinicals in October, the first seven weeks are skill labs. We don't do med-surg until our third semester however, this semester is Geriatrics.

Thanks and I will. I mean I know it's labor day weekend but you have 6 days to do all of these assignments, none of which they started. They kept telling me at orientation how they hadn't even opened their books yet and then last night were shocked w...

Agreed, I mean how many "I'm doing great!" posts do you actually see around here.

My school's micro class was only three credits and yes, it did have an attached lab. Most schools are really anal when it comes to that sort of thing so it really depends on what the program feels. You said you can't find a school that offers lab on...

I've never been good with handwritten flash cards, but I did find some of the one's that I found online that have the quizzes to be more helpful for certain things, so if anything I will just make some online flashcards but I usually just rely on my ...

I think sometimes people forget how far a positive attitude can go. Even when things are downright hard that doesn't mean you have to go out in the backyard and start digging a grave for yourself. Compare yourself to what you were like during clinica...

It's cool! I still laugh when I see my school's commercial because it's SO awfully cheesy, like those videos they show students at orientation. Oh I really hate those though that are all the same "Hi I'm *insert name* and with one phone call I change...

Well...my private university has a TV commercial and we have the highest NCLEX rate in the state for BSN programs. So do not throw everyone into the same category. Some real universities do have tv commercials. Anyway, I can't really offer too much i...

None of the hospitals where you could work offer a day care onsite?

The MSN route is if you want to do Teaching or Leadership or a Nurse Practictioner (Specializing and majority in an outpatient setting). If you want just want t be a beside nurse for right now, then a Master's is overkill, go for the ADN or BSN. The ...