DaniGrrl

The expense worries me too. I was hoping to quit my job while attending, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to afford it. If you've got student loans over your head already, the CC route would probably be much more affordable. Good luck either way.

I think there's a huge difference between typos and posting in text style. I can live with people's typos, I wish people would make more of an effort to use something close to correct grammar/punctuation/spelling, I skip over posts that look like chat-speak or texting or don't use paragraph breaks. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to do what they can to make it easy for others to read their posts. In face to face communication, we expect people to try to enunciate and pronounce words correctly and to move logically from one thought to the next, so why should we expect less from the written word? To my mind, it makes sense to expect more from a person who is typing out their though because they can review before posting, if they choose, but when you're speaking you don't have the same luxury. I've been active on various forums for the last 10 years. edited to add: My 13 year old daughter feels the same way, so I don't think it's an age thing.

The test does not have science content. It seems to me that it is mainly a test of reading speed/comprehension and basic skills - vocab, math calculations. If you read and work quickly, the test isn't too bad. I was shocked at how fast the time passed when I took it, I definitely didn't finish all the questions.

I did pass on my first try, but I have always been a fast reader and a good test taker. As I stated above, the time is the killer on this. If the content isn't too hard for you, then you just have to work on your speed. That test was the first time I ever didn't finish all the questions, so I agree that they don't give you much time.

Yeah, I only took it once. We did two test sections, on the website they refer to three sections, I think that's why there was a time difference. I really think that the big challenge on that test is time, the questions themselves aren't that difficult, really. I tried to be as correct as possible, as quickly as possible, so that's the best advice I can give.

He already said that the 3000% was incorrect, he meant $3000 per year. Geez o flip.

I wish it wasn't called the healthcare bill, because it really isn't changing healthcare, but here goes nothing... The healthcare bill is going to cut the deficit over the long-term: billions over the next 10 years, more than a trillion the 10 years after that. Those numbers come from the CBO. It does not cut Medicare, but it DOES limit the profits that private insurance companies can make from Medicare Advantage. It cracks me up that so many people talk about how horrible a "government take-over of healthcare" would be, and then rail against cutting Medicare which IS government healthcare. The mind boggles. It's going to protect people who are currently on Medicare but have to pay for prescriptions out of pocket for part of the year by closing that hole in their coverage. It's going to expand coverage for kids, immediately, including stopping insurance companies from discriminating against kids with pre-existing conditions. Thank God, because 2 of my 3 kids have those. It's going to end lifetime caps on coverage. It's going to limit the profits that private insurance companies can make - so that they can't keep upping rates and cutting sick people to make more and more and more money. They're going to have to actually pay out some of the money they take in to insure you, that'll be a nice change. Also, it doesn't cover illegal immigrants, they are explicitly excluded from all the plans. Which means they'll still be using ERs as Primary Care centers, I guess that's preferable to many conservative lawmakers though it seems counterintuitive to me. FOr most people who already have coverage through their employer, nothing will change. Your premiums will probably not go up for a few years due to new caps. Your plan will probably stop making you pay a co-pay for preventative care sometime over the next 4 years. That's about it. If you don't have employer sponsored coverage because you work for a small company, you'll have a new way to purchase insurance instead of having to buy it on your own. If you've never had to do that, thank yourlucky stars, I have and it's a horrible experience. You have to try to balance what you need covered with what you can afford and end up paying too much for too little coverage.

I'll be 34 this summer, about 2 weeks after I start my classes, you're definitely not alone. I've always wondered what I'd be when I grew up, now I know. It's funny because once I decided to do to nursing school (a few years back) I just knew that it was right, there was no more doubt or hemming and hawing (which I'm really good at). Anyway, good luck to you guys!

My aunt woke up with a hugely swollen nostril as a toddler. They took her to the doctor worried that something was wrong. It turned out that the day before she had gotten hold of a dried bean and stuffed it up her nose. Overnight, it absorbed the moisture in her nose and tripled in size. My oldest daughter stuck a rock in her ear at daycare when she was 2.5. I had to take her to an ENT to get it out, the pediatrician refused to even try saying that she was worried it would crack and damage the ear drum because my daughter had stuck it in so deep. I didn't have insurance at the time, so it was a very expensive piece of gravel.

Oh my gosh, he said 3000% instead of 30 times or whatever other number was meant. Surely that shows that he is incompetent and fixing health care is a socialist plot!

I got a financial aid award letter from MOC, but I haven't gotten any phone calls from them. The waiting is killing me! I took a few of the pre-reqs years ago, but I'm not holding my breath that I'll get credit. I don't mind if I have to retake them, I figure that could help break me in to school.

I'm in the same boat. My general classes start in June, nursing classes in January. I hate waiting for the information! I want to know which classes and books and supplies I need so I can start getting ready.

There's a forum for that :) https://allnurses.com/mobile-computing-nursing/ I'm thinking about the same issue right now. I'm about to start school in just a few months and I'm trying to decide if I need an iPod Touch or a PDA or if I'm just making an excuse to buy a new gadget.

I just want to point out that I'm a 33 year old woman and I like talking about sports, LOTR, AND Star Wars. So, you never know who is going to have similar interests to yourself. Bring up the stuff you like, if the person you're talking to is a decent person, they'll participate in the conversation and you'll find common ground.

My 13 year old daughter is an Aspie and she calls it Ass Burgers all the time.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEwwwwww! Moonscapes? That's such a disturbing image.

The really abusive side of the system is the amount of money that is dumped into it by people who are working hard and trying to get by and how little those same people get out of it. Please don't try to claim that that is due to abuse by the uninsured, have you seen the profit margins on insurance companies? The economy is in the toilet and they are turning record profits and dropping customers and raising rates. That's abuse.

Congratulations! I'm terrified too.

It's great that you had such a great day and that you helped her with breastfeeding. My family does not BF, and I wish someone had educated me about it when I was a young mother with my oldest daughter. By my second daughter, I did figure it out.

I know there are a few of us here, I've seen others post in different threads. Waiting for the MOC person to call is going to make me crazy. I want to talk to them and have everything set up now. Clearly, patience is not my greatest virtue. I feel bad because it seems like the only thing I want to talk about lately is this program, and I'm trying to not to wear out my family and friends before I even start school. I wish I knew what classes I'm going to take so I could get my books. I guess it's obvious by now, but I am a total geek. Text books make me happy! If anyone reads this who started in January, or even before that, and you have any advice to give us soon to be newbies, I'd love to read it!

I am only speaking as a patient here, so take this for what it's worth. One of the problems that I see in the US is that it is very easy to get caught in an insurance limbo and end up without access to care. For example, my parents were both laid off in the last 2 years. They are 58 and 60, in this economy, nobody wants to hire them. (My Dad is a newspaper editor, so he's REALLY out of luck). Anyway, they don't have insurance through their jobs anymore. They don't qualify for Medicare because they aren't old enough. They don't qualify for Medicaid because they don't fit the categories Medicaid covers (mostly low-income families with children in my state). They are living on my father's unemployment, he has diabetes, my mother has chronic bronchitis and is headed for COPD and they have no insurance. I had to buy my own insurance as a self-employed single mother years ago, and there were many times when paying my insurance premiums and deductibles for my daughter's care meant that I couldn't pay my electric bill or put gas in my car. At the time, I was told that I made too much money to qualify for medicaid. One of the problems in the US is that if you are relatively healthy and have been covered by employers' health plans for most of your life, you might never see the ugly side of the system. Because it is essentially a for profit system, created by health insurance companies, it works very well for the people they like to sell to. In my opinion, the problems in US healthcare are pretty simple: 1. For-profit insurance companies make decisions about who gets coverage, who doesn't, and which treatments you can have. 2. There is no consistent safety net for people who get kicked out of the for-profit system unless they are permanently disabled or over 65. That leaves a pretty significatn portion of the population on shaky ground. If you have good insurance, the problems are pretty minimal.

Thanks, and congrats to you as well! The program is kind of unusual, it's a diploma program that made an agreement with a college so that graduates would have a diploma RN plus an Associate's in Health Sciences. As part of the agreement, everyone who starts the program has to spend a semester taking a minimum of 18 credits from the college. If you have no transfer credits, you're taking mostly intro college classes: ENG 110, MAT 110, SOC 110, PSY 110/210, HIS 110, REL (the college is Baptist, so they require a religion credit), plus Biology and A&P. I have no transfer credits, so I'll be doing all of those from June to November. I haven't been in a class since 1995, so it's a bit intimidating, but very exciting. So, you can figure that come June, I'll either never post or I'll be posting lots of "OMG what did I get myself into?!?!" posts.

I wouldn't, nor would I expect anyone to do that for me.

I got into a diploma program. I start the required non-nursing classes in June. Nursing classes start in January of 2011. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it.

According to Wikipedia (the font of all knowledge LOL) your Wonderlic score is approximately equivalent to an IQ score of 121, so that's better than average for sure. Sounds like you did well, congrats.