maddiem

I'm 27, a wife and mother of two young children under 3 years old. Over 7 years ago now I began my prerequisites for nursing school and life took me in an other direction. I worked in management for 5 years and when I had my youngest in January I did...

Since you haven't even started nursing school yet, I would maybe wait to make that decision when you get closer to it. You will experience a variety of clinical settings during your time in nursing school so you're mind may change. I had a friend who...

A&P is not an easy course! The amount of content can be overwhelming, but if you study efficiently and don't fall behind it won't be so bad. The key is to stay ahead. Get your book early and read the first chapter before your class starts (defini...

I don't know the status of Chamberlain's NCLEX pass rate, but up here in Chicago Chamberlain is a very highly regarded nursing school. I have some friends who have graduated from there and they all have jobs at big hospitals in the city. One even had...

You can get a decent blood pressure set for around $30. I would highly recommend getting a good quality stethoscope!! If you get a cheap one they can be hard to hear out of! Definitely get a Littman!! The classic is about $80 and its a great stethosc...

I would advise you to not take the LPN rout. Many schools in my area are phasing out their LPN programs (I'm from the Chicago area). And there are not that many LPN to RN schools around. I'm not saying they don't exist, but in my area at least, they ...

Chamberlain in my area is very well known and well like. I have a few friends who graduated from there and they all have good jobs at hospitals and were hired right after graduation. One girl was even offered a job before graduation. Chamberlain may ...

I would recommend completing all of your gen ed requirements before entering nursing school. You're going to be overwhelmed with all the nursing classes you're going to be taking, and then having to take gen eds on top of that is just going to be so ...

What were your grades in your prerequisite science classes? The classes you listed that you got A's in were not for the nursing program so they're really only going to help your cumulative GPA. Your cumulative GPA is important, but the nursing school...

You can't just go straight into a nursing graduate program. You need to get at least 2 years of experience in a hospital, preferably in the icu. I would get a job at a hospital first before making any decisions about where you want to go with your gr...

Unless you have 6-8 hours a day to devote to studying...I don't recommend you take these classes together. I was pre-med before I decided I wanting to go into nursing and I took organic chemistry. I'm very good at science, and it was the hardest clas...

Its a really impractical way of going about getting a medical degree. Less than a quarter of your nursing prerequisites will count for the classes you need for med school. And the classes you take in nursing school won't be transferable to med school...

I'm not sure how much research you have done on nursing school, but both of these degrees will get you an RN license. The reason you are hearing people tell you to go with the BSN is because most hospitals require that you have your BSN to work there...

I'm somewhat familiar with Chamberlain. I went to their open house at their Addison, IL. campus and they talked about admission profiles a little bit. You did pretty well on your HESI and your GPA is good. There will be people applying with higher GP...

Even if you got a B in A&P, it wouldn't be the end of the world! I know people who have gotten B's in A&P and they got into nursing school. Everyone has a bad test. You just can't let it get the best of you! If you quit, you will regret it. D...

Usually the cutoff for GPA's is around 2.70-2.75. This is just what I've seen in most of the requirements to apply to nursing schools. My advice to you is to retake any classes that you can and do really well in them. The new/better grade will replac...

All nursing schools have science prerequisites. Generally they include: Anatomy & Physiology I and II, Microbiology, and Chemistry. And most nursing schools require that you take General Psychology, Sociology, and Statistics (or some form of high...

Might sound kinda silly...but have you ever considered going to a therapist? There are special therapists that deal with phobias and can help you deal with year fear and get over it. So if you really want to get over your fear before nursing school, ...

@Cg37387n 3.3 gpa is not bad. As long as you do really well in your prerequisites courses it will go up significantly and you will have a competitive application. But I am confused about one thing...So you want to go pre-med ultimately? Because if yo...

General Chemistry is a prerequisite for nursing school, so you will need to take that class over again. Here is a list of the basic prerequisites for nursing school, they all vary by school, but these are the ones that are the same among all schools ...

@Cg37387n No problem! Ask away :) And yes, it would be a great idea. Even if you decided later on that you don't want to get your ADN (Associates Degree in Nursing) and you want to get your BSN (Bachelors of Science in Nursing) instead. You still hav...

I would highly encourage you to go into the nursing field! I was a computer science major and I decided that I didn't want to spend my whole life sitting at a desk coding and programming...lol. Almost everyone changes their major at some point, so do...

I would definitely take your prerequisites, or at least a good portion of them, before applying to the program. It will give your application much more credibility. The biggest piece of advice I can give you about applying to nursing schools is to ne...

Being a CNA first is great experience, but mostly for yourself and getting adjusted to working in healthcare, basic patient care, and time management. But unfortunately some employers won't care too much about your CNA experience because it's not RN ...

I'm doing prerequisites for an ADN program and I plan on going into an RN to BSN program very soon after graduation. My community college has universities that offer RN to BSN programs at the community college and at a discounted rate. I'm saving a l...