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Make sure you fill out FAFSA, look at your state's website and see if there are any separate scholarship/financial aid applications there. My school also has its own general financial aid application that has multiple scholarships tied in with that so definitely contact your guidance counselor and develop a good relationship with them. I remember the guidance counselors back in my community college that just handed me a piece of paper with a bunch of links on it. Not very helpful, but try to go through all of them and see what you can get. If you have a good relationship with them, they can tell you if any new grants or scholarships come up that can be suited for you. =)

You can do it in 1-1.5 years if you take classes in the summer and winter sessions in addition to fall and spring. I could have easily done it in 1 year at my community college.

I'm looking into nursing informatics too. You'd have to: - Finish most of nursing prerequisite classes. - Take the TEAS test - Apply for BSN programs - Get accepted - 4 years of nursing school - Pass NCLEX - Apply for a nursing informatics program in Graduate school, its about 40 credits Good luck!

Lol yeah. I plan on doing nothing after clinicals except sleep hahaha.

Omg. I went to the most incompetent community college ever. I had the same thing done with my transcripts and I got screwed over because of them. Ever since then, I either pick them up personally, or have them send my transcript to my house so I can send it all together with my application stuff as a huge packet. I've talked to a lot of recruiters and they actually prefer to have everything put together anyways. (Even for scholarship applications)

Yuppppppppppppppppp.

Organize your time well and you'll do fine. Do not be lazy, get up early, have a plan and stick to it

Easiest nursing job are the ones who are in those private practices who make appointments and go in to take your vital signs and then leave. Seriously. Maybe sometimes they'd give you your vaccine after the doctor tells them to. How come no one's mentioned these! And they practically have a 9-5 nursing job!

White tops and khaki pants In 1 of my rotations I went into the OR and changed into their surgical scrubs. Ooooomg.. I wish we could just wear those. So comfortable and probably cheaper. I'd rather have my school issue scrubs than having us go out to get them on our own.

So what's your IGN? lols

Business casual/street clothes for my psych rotation. No one wore scrubs at the facility I was in.

I'm also a 3rd semester student and although I haven't personally experienced a death, a lot of my classmates have. Mostly in our 2nd semester on the adult IMC unit... we even had to do postmortem care ourselves.

Oh. Then honestly, it doesn't really matter what you take. If I were you I would just take something that I could get an A in. It's senior year after all! And basic math/algebra/stoichiometry from Chemistry is all the math you'll use in nursing school.

Becoming a CNA is the best way to get experience as a pre-nursing student. I agree with Me-erThanMe, the CNA students that were in my class were much more confident and comfortable doing all the nursing skills we learned in the 1st semester.

would it help me get a job(after nursing school) or even get into nursing school if i can carry on a simple conversation in spanish? yes, i think being able to speak spanish can highly increase your chances of getting a job after becoming an rn. well, depending on where you live. my area has a high population of spanish speakers and it'll be a bonus to employers if you are bilingual. as far as getting into nursing school... not as much in my opinion. it's always a bonus to be able to tell any employer or recruiter that you can speak another language especially in the us. i know that i regretted not taking the extra year of spanish in hs because i've met so many people who could only speak spanish... would have made my life so much easier if i had free time, i'd learn another language on my own any day because at the same time, you also learn about other people's culture as you're learning the language and that is really good for a well rounded nurse!