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It doesn't cover chemistry specifically. You might need to know something chemistry related, but it is very general. I wouldn't waste time studying chemistry specifically.

I was only doing research for future purposes. I graduate December 10th so I will need to work at least a year to find a good travel job, at least that is what a couple recruiters have told me. Have a good day. JF

I am a white male as well. You are the wrong color and gender for a scholarship. White males get the shaft. Good luck anyhow. Let us know if you get some help.

I doubt that straight males who enter the nursing profession are homophobic considering the gay population within the industry. That is like a person who is scared of spiders working in the arachnoid exhibit.

So we should do it because France does? Since when do we follow the lead of the french?

All white or white tops does look gay. That is why it is not worn anymore by the different professions you people have mentioned. I am sure you will find your occasional old school worker who likes the white look, but it has been replaced for the most part. Times have changed and he shouldn't feel great wearing a white top.

Who cares if he used the word gay. Some you sound as if he called your mother a wretched old skank. We all know the term gay takes on various meanings. All this politically correct garbage is you brain being washed from nursing school.

no doubt she would be happier doing what you did. i was only saying if she had no other option. if your school will replace the old grades with the new grades, that would be the perfect scenario. nursing school is getting extremely competitive because of the current job market. older nurses are hanging around because they can't retire and people who would have never thought about nursing school are suddenly interested because of great pay, upward mobility (CRNA, NP, DNP), stable job, and freedom to relocate anywhere. i wouldn't let your current GPA extinguish your dreams. you will get there whether you have to retake classes or not include previous transcripts. who cares as long as you get to the final destination. whatever you do, put in the time it takes to make good grades the second time around.

atitesting.com has some information on what sort of math they test for on the TEAS exam. it isn't difficult. review and practice is all that is needed.

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One poster asked about working as a TMA to get prepared for pharm. Any atmosphere that you are exposed to drug names and their uses is very helpful. Get a phone app and everytime you hear a drug look it up on your phone. always know the class of medication. learn the generic name first. the brand names will come with time. extensive math is not really needed. you only have to know how to do dimensional analysis. there are books through amazon that can cover the math you need for medications. it is easy once you get the hang of it. i worked as a scribe in a busy E.D. before i entered nursing school. it was very helpful. the only downside to that job was i began to think like a doctor instead of a nurse. there are things outside the scope of a nurse and you can get tricked into picking those answers on the test. testing in nursing school is heavy on ordering interventions according to their priority. in med-surg you will see that a lot of the times the priority interventions will deal with airway maintenance. post surgery hits mostly on post-op bleeding. the best ecg book that money can buy is "rapid interpretation of ecg's by dale dubin"

The ironic thing about nursing school is the material isn't so hard. The hard part of nursing school is the way in which they ask the questions. It leaves a lot open for interpretation. You are given scenarios and expected to pick the best response. The problem with the scenario is it doesn't give you the whole picture so you are left to fill in the blanks. It isn't the proper way to test in my opinion. For instance, many questions deal with what is the primary nursing intervention or what is the primary assessment. In a lot of cases that depends on things that aren't spelled out in the question. Combined that with the fact they put two appropriate answers and you are left scratching your head. Nursing school is the only program that you can know everything about the question they are asking and still get it wrong. It is extremely frustrating. The quicker you get accustomed to their unique type of questions the better off you will be. Your school is ultimately concerned with its students pass rate on the NCLEX. Having that in mind it is wise to get accustomed to the way they ask questions. I suggest all students entering school to study for the hurst review upon entering and midway through the program. It is a good review that puts all the pieces together. More about nursing school later. Keep asking questions and I will answer.

whomever is telling you to be honest is living in fantasy land where rainbows end with pots of gold. i would like to know if they have been completely honest on all charting they have ever done on a patient. i highly doubt it. Some need to get off their high horse. the means justify the ends of providing a life for yourself. i don't mean to sound doom and gloom, but you will not get accepted to any nursing program if you have a 2.1 GPA. i went to college in florida and had to come home for a semester. i took a semester of classes in my hometown and had to stop halfway through the semester. i received all F's because it was past the withdrawal date. i never transferred those credits over and it was never exposed. i received financial aid at both universities.

I am in an accelerated BSN program. The program takes a year to complete and there is no waiting list. You have missed the deadline for this year and would only have to wait a year before starting, but you will finish in a year. Are you willing to relocate?

imagine that??? looking at grades rather than color of your skin. novel idea!

are you trying to get a scholarship based on your academic performance or your minority status?

college is generally divided into two parts. the first part is your first two years (60 units or, put another way 60 credit hours). The first 60 hours or two years of college is considered general education courses. The second year of college is more specific in its focus. If you wanted to complete a BSN, you would take general education courses for 2 years just like everyone entering college. Once those are completed and assuming you are in good academic standing you will apply to the school of nursing, within the same university. Once in the school of nursing you will take courses specific to your major. You can get there one of two ways. You can proceed as you plan to do and take all your general education courses at the same university that offers the BSN or you can attend a community college for the first two years and earn an Associates Degree and transfer all of those hours/units into the university in which you plan to complete your nursing degree.

You should forget about your past existence in community college and start fresh. Take the courses you need at a new college and only forward your transcripts from your new college. It is important not to tell or send anything to new college in the form of transcripts. They might include that in your new academic record at your new institution. While it might not be status quo to do this sort of thing, you do what you have to do. Make sure you do better the second time around. Never mention about your first community college experience on any application to any nursing school. Pretend like you never took classes.

Do not slack off in your prereq's. They are extremely important to your success in nursing school. If you work hard in anatomy and physiology it will pay off in the end. Without a strong understanding in that course, it will be hard to incorporate all that you learn in nursing school. Concepts will be superficial without a solid base. If you have a chance to take nutrition as a prereq, take it. Nutrition is hit hard in virtually all nursing classes. There will be on average 2 questions per test dealing with nutrition throughout your nursing program. Once in your program, focus hard on pharm. This class seems to be one of the tougher courses because of the way in which the material is presented. It is like opening a phone book and being asked to memorize the book. Group medications into classes. Notice the ending of the generic names. For example, propanolol (beta blocker). Noticing that beta blockers end in lol will help you to identify medications. Most medications follow this rationale so it is important that you know the generic name first and then memorize the brand names for popular medications. Another key to pharm is to know your receptors. Know the response those receptors illicit once stimulated. There are key receptors in the body. For the purposes of drugs, these receptors are Alpha 1/2, Beta 1/2, Ach (acytlecholine), dopamine. There are more, but these are key. Especially with heart and asthma medications. Break the side effects down to common or expected and then to adverse or not expected/detrimental. Know what are indications to discontinue medication. As it pertains to side effects make sure you can group side effects. It will be impossible to know all the side effects for each medication, but if you can group side effects into neuro, GI, or cardiac it is helpful. Know the side effects for each body system. If you say that they have neuro side effects, know that entails confusion, ataxia, ect. I hope some of this helps. J

I can help you. Give me your email address. I am finishing up a BSN in one years time. It can be done but you have to prioritize. I will give you pointers about what to expect and how to consolidate all the material. There is a learning curve to answering the quirky nursing questions. It doesn't matter how smart you are, if you can't understand what they want for an answer you will struggle. In the beginning, this was my problem until i figured it out. I tutor people now in my program.

The hurst review is a must have even if you are in the beginning of your program.

Attitude doesn't keep a patient alive, knowledge does. I hope that you know the difference between certain medications and their contraindications. Hopefully you know the patho of your patients disease so as to preserve their kidneys in the face of heart disease. Those are the real issues, not massage therapy, cultural competency, or therapeutic communication. Trust me. I wonder everyday why I went to nursing school. That will be solved. I went to nursing school for one purpose only. That is to become a CRNA. I have now shifted my focus on a career boarded by medicine. (Physicians Assistant) Apparently so have many other nurses. My attitude towards patients is fine. It is my attitude towards the schooling that is terrible. It is a joke. I learn more from wikipedia than any of my text books.

need more men in profession.

There is an important trend happening as we speak. Many nurses are entering P.A. school as opposed to N.P. school on the basis of curriculum. Want to know what is offensive, calling any male "nurse". It is a feminine word. If it was a male dominated profession and the word to describe the profession was masculine in nature the women would have it changed so quick. Nursing is an antiquated term and needs to be changed. It is demeaning to males in the profession and should be demeaning to females as well. Change it to practitioner and call the N.P.'s, advanced practitioners.

Have you ever massaged a patient a day in your life. If so, how many times?