hlneumann

I will pre-read all assignments, have questions ready to ask during appropriate time during lecture, and also (and I suggest you beginners take this to heart) go into it as if it were a job. It is our job to complete nursing school.. not just a cont...

"Calculate With Confidence" is a great med math book... Just figure our which way you want to solve your problems - deminsional analysis, ratio /proportion, etc. (its all in the book).. and practice practice practice practice

I agree.. canned power points don't cut it for me. It would be ok as "background" material, but if you read your book before the class, you'd just have to take notes on the material you didn't already absorb. My instructor (just completed 1st semes...

Wow.. I was also looking for dx for my pt... he has SOB, and wasn't sure. Should have known Maslow would be mixed up in this!!! LOL

I agree.. do what makes you happy. It doesn't seem like you won't like nursing, just may take a little to find your niche. You can go hundreds of ways once you're in. And being too old???? I'll be 58 when I graduate with my RN!

You're not kidding when you say it's harder as we get older. I'm starting my RN courses Monday, and I'll be 55 in October.

I took all the entrance exams and TEAS seemed easiest to me.. I have my nursing orientation today and my nursing classes starts next monday! FINALLY :hug:

I am just finishing a 12 week A&P II class crammed into 6 weeks... That's hard, but next summer I will have the same thing for Microbiology. At least we can take that after nursing courses start! Let's keep in touch and see how it's going thru ...

How is your schooling going? I start official "Nursing" classes (Clinicals) in September! I can't wait!!!!

Glad to see that there are other "older" students. I do have a lot of second career people in my class, not suprisingly, 1/2 of them are men! I do, however, find I am older than most my professors.:) I still find the memorizing for A&P very diff...

I'll be 55 years young in October:yeah:and am finishing my A&PII class this summer so I can just do my nursing courses starting in the Fall! I have wanted to be a nurse since I was abut 12. Life, unfortunately, kept getting in my way. Now that...