gpod97

This is my first time posting so I hope I'm doing this correctly! Anyway, I am a student who has completed most of my core classes. I am concerned however about this class called Pathophysiology. I will be starting nursing school in fall of 2010. I've passed the entrance exam to get into Brenau and they suggest taking it the summer BEFORE starting nursing school because it's so difficult. My friend is in it now and says it's the hardest class she's taken in her life! She normally a high B student but is barely hanging on with a C while so many others are failing it. I would like some comments from anyone who has taken this course from either Brenau or Ga. Baptist at Mercer in Atlanta. I've heard in the fall of 2010, Mercer is going to somehow combine both patho and pharmacology together into one class. Can anyone comment on what they think of this? Is it true that you don't have to take patho at Piedmont College? I'm worried and just don't want to pick the wrong college where I have to take unnessarily difficult courses that I might not have to elsewhere. I've worked to hard to even be where I am now. I would love to hear from any of you at these 3 schools who are there now or have recently graduated.

I will be 48 the end of this month. I've just completed the end of my 2nd year. Plan to begin nursing school in fall of 2010. I will be 51 years old when I begin my nursing career. Just praying my health will be maintained and I will have the stamina necessary to spend at least 15 years in this profession!