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Third semester was by far the hardest semester but let me tell you about MY third semester, keep in mind while reading this that I did pass and if I could pass anyone could. Third semester started on a Monday, that Thursday, 3 days later, my Mom passed away. 12 days later, my father-in-law passed away. I had to miss school for both funerals but the instructors were wonderful about it. So yes, it is hard but you can do it. But you will be glad to get through with it!!

I use to work with Dr Michael Jackson, He was family practice.

I just graduated from RSCC nursing program last week. It is a great program!! The instructors really care about the success of their students and will go above and beyond to help them succeed. In answer to the previous post, 2nd year students fall semester do School health, home health, pediatrics, and med-surg clinicals. Spring semester you do 4 weeks of psychiatric clinicals, and 4 weeks of transition clinicals. For transition, you get to pick the 3 hospitals and dept you want to do clinicals in and they try to get you your top pick. I wanted to do the ER at UTMC but I ended up getting my 2nd pick which was PACU (surgery recovery room) at UTMC It was awesome!!! Then you have 4 weeks in that semester that you don't have any clinicals. I have done clinicals at Parkwest, Children's, Mercy West, UTMC, Peninsula, Cumberland Medical Cente in Crossville. A lot of it depends on where you live.

Roane State Community College Harriman, TN

I graduated from nursing school last week at 42 years old. We had people from age 20 to 50 in my class. Don't let your age stop you. Yeah sometimes the young ones got on my nerves, I envied there unending supply of energy, and a lot of days, I literally drug my rear end home exhausted from clinicals. But, I hung in there and made it. YOU CAN TOO! Don't let the fact that you are "older" deter you. Age has nothing to do with your ability to succeed! Good Luck and follow your dreams!!

Congratulations!! As of today, I finished nursing school!!! It has been a good for both of us! The best advice I can give you is be organized, stay on top of assignments, don't procrastinate, and keep up with your reading, you will have a lot of it. Don't be scared, you will make wonderful friends who are all sitting in the same boat you are!! Just take it one day at a time and remember this, one of my instructors told us one time that when we get stressed out remember this "Dumber people than me have gone to nursing school and are now nurses" YOU CAN DO IT!!!!:)

There is also a large VA hospital in Johnson City and Kingsport and Bristol both are only a few miles from Johnson City and both have hospitals. Good Luck.:)