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Thank you!

I've been wondering this about hospital volunteering....How does scheduling work? I would think you can be really flexible with when you go in? How do the hours differ from an employed situation? - you arrange them ahead of time? you pick from what they offer?...

I'm enrolled at Sellersburg and live in the area, but am taking my A&P I class this semester at Ivy Tech-Madison due to scheduling. Hopefully I'll be able to take classes at Sellersburg after this semester, so I'll be keeping an eye on this thread :)

Thanks everyone! I definitely feel better after reading these posts!

Yes, anatomy and physiology. Thanks, I already ordered those flash cards and are waiting for them to arrive. I've always been a "crammer" so I hope I catch on to "real studying" quickly!

"Yes, I used to read this board daily and get very intimidated by the information I was reading. Was I ever going to know what these people were talking about?" Thank you! This gives me hope :) (and lets me know that I'm not alone) I wish I wasn't such a worrier! I really appreciate your response. THANK YOU!!

I'm a pre-nursing student and will be taking ANP I next semester. This will be my first class geared towards nursing (I have a previous B.S. degree in education). I've been out of school for a long time. For any of you in the program, or already graduated, did you ever look ahead to try to prepare yourself for upcoming classes....or read other people talking about things (nursing lingo) that you've never heard about before and then gotten scared? I've been trying to gather info to prepare myself for my ANP class but instead of feeling better prepared, I feel more intimidated and find myself lacking confidence. I try to remind myself that of course information I haven't had a chance to be familiar with yet will seem foreign and overwhelming to me. I'm just worried that a part of me is trying to give up before I even get started. Any words of wisdom are appreciated. I'm a big ball of stress already and I haven't even taken one class yet.

Thanks for replying. I've contacted the local community college and learned that I only need to complete A&P I & II before I could apply to the program (I took English Comp and Psych with my other major). How many people start out in nursing with NO medical background? Like....I couldn't even tell you what all your major organs do. Heart-blood, lungs-air...that's about it. I told you I suck at science! But I also know that I haven't had a need to know this stuff, so that's why I don't know it. I'm guessing I could learn it, but I'm worried I don't have the right type of mind to really understand it? If that makes sense.... Ugh, I have a headache, lol.

Hi everyone. I've been lurking here a lot and just registered today so I could start posting my questions. I am considering going into nursing. I used to be a special education teacher and am now a stay-at-home-mom. My youngest will be in full-day kindergarten soon and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go back to teaching. I have been driving myself crazy going back and forth in my head if I should try nursing or not. I really do think it's something I would enjoy - I care deeply for people and want to be in a "helping profession." Really my only concern is that I won't make it through school. Science was always my worst subject and I avoided it whenever possible. I'm also afraid that if I manage to get through all the tough classes/clinicals, that I will enter the profession without really understanding everything I should. Like I said, I've been lurking a lot and the threads I've seen from nursing students and nurses talking about everything they know or need to know seems so overwhelming. I did very well in high school and college but I'm afraid that I only did well because it was regurgitating information, rather than actually doing critical thinking that I've read is so important in nursing. I'm sorry for babbling. I've just been really stressing myself out with even making the decision of if I should try this or not. I guess what I'd like to know is.... How much of what you learn in nursing school do you actually have to retain and use on the job? If science is not my strong subject, should I rule out nursing? Thanks in advance!