CarlyAnne11

I certainly think so! especially if the school you are applying to has an interview portion! Some schools only calculate three number, like GPA, some test score, and something else, and calculate like a number for you, and if it is high enough you are accepted. But my school has an interview process. In an interview, you would be able to explain your short comings and with school and explain your low GPA, as well as talk about Peace Corps. I don't know about other schools, but my school average acceptance rate is a 3.5, but I guarantee they would eat up the fact you were in Peace Corp and look past your ify GPA. Hope that helps, don't let ONE NUMBER ever define you, you WILL find someone wonderful and become an amazing nurse!

Hello Nurses :) I am a twenty year old planning on graduating with my RN/BSN next May! I have a tricky question, and I'm hoping someone can help me answering, preferably someone that takes medication for ADD/ADHD or know someone who does. After struggling for years wit attention issues, I was finally diagnosed a few months ago with mild attention deficits and have been placed on Adderall 20mg qday. Today, I found out that I got the dream summer externship of a lifetime: An extern in the ER in a hospital close to home. I am overjoyed! I am nervous however, because they called me today asking if I would take a drug test tomorrow (blood or urine, not sure) I take my prescription responsibly, and met with my psychiatrist and he even wrote a note to the drug testing people saying he prescribed me a stimulant that would show up on a drug test. So I am planning on bringing that along with my prescription bottle tomorrow. My question is, do hospitals not hire nurses/employees that take medication for ADD/ADHD? I know for most jobs it wouldn't be a problem, I was just concerned since Adderall is a stimulant/controlled substance, I'm a little worried they will decide to un-hire me if they find out I take Adderall This is my dream job and I don't want medication I take to keep me from thriving! Please someone help me out and assure me that it won't be a problem! Any advice would be WONDERFUL! Thanks nurses :)

Hello fellow students! I am in my first semester of Nursing school and plan to get my BSN in two years. This being our first semester, we at our school are expected to take a HESI for each class I'm in (Fundamentals, Assessment, and Pyschiatric Nursing) and make a score of 900 or better. If you don't make a 900 then we will have to take remediation and re-take it senior year, which I would love to avoid. So my question is, what's the best way to study for the HESI's/Nursing finals in general? I have the actual review book by the evolve people which is helpful, but does anyone else have any advice? I feel like we have learned way too much this semester to look at every detail. What I've been doing is skimming the textbook chapter summaries, doing the questions in the book, and going through the sections in my review books. Anything else? Is it that hard to make a 900 on a HESI exam? (I have all B's if that helps) Thank you in advanced for your feedback :)

We don't have a curve... I am pretty jealous! In fact, our grading scale is even higher! 75-83 C 84-91 B 92-100 A Gross! Our professors have the mentality "we aren't teaching you so you will make good grades, but so you will pass your boards" We have a 100% pass rate on the NCLEX, but I believe that is partly because our professors make our Senior Exit Exam for Nursing incredibly hard, so when you take the boards they almost seem easy. The pass rate for our senior exit exam first try is around 75%