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I'll be one year ahead of you in the accelerated program when you start and graduate in December 2006. Classes for AB's and A2D's are identical the first semester, and all the clinicals courses are identical all the way to BSN. Clear your life for nothing but Nursing school during your first summer semester. Very busy. NCLEX type review books are useful for some folks to practise study questions or shortcut reading. Not necessary for all clinical classes. Look at the prentice hall review and rational series. Hardest semester will be your fall semester this year. VCU is an outstanding nursing school overall! Mike

I wound up using styleezze simply because it had a free demo to try it out and it worked fine for me. Really cut down on some major formatting headaches due to lack of understanding. Learning as I do. Perrla looked good as well, similar in function, but did not try it since there was no free demo version.

I wound up using styleezze simply because it had a free demo to try it out and it worked fine for me. Really cut down on some major formatting headaches due to lack of understanding. Perrla looked good as well, similar in function, but did not try it since there was no free demo version.

why wait at all? Physicians don't have to wait. And start practice as new beginners. 1/2 the people I'm studying with in an accelerated program will immediately go on to obtain their masters. And begin practise will little previous experience. Whoever hires you would likely take that into account and "mentor" you?

One should not forsake the benefits of a BSN program, such as high quality instruction, if he/she has the qualifications to be accepted to study. Otherwise take the path of study, which is available. It all leads to RN. There after, study for an advanced practice role is easier if you are already a BSN.

University study is AMAZING! We get the best of everything. Including instruction, concern for US, the students. It was worth all the agony and effort to attain the grades to be accepted to study .

Does PERRLA do more than cover and reference page?

I was looking at some of these. Don't really want to learn another way to format and write papers. Rather focus on content of writing and other studies. http://www.charm.net/~rps/index.htm http://thewritedirection.net/drpaper/dp-home.asp http://www.styleease.com/APAMain.htm http://www.apastyle.org/stylehelper/ver5/ May try the syleease demo version first but would love to hear about any of these from others. Hey Tweety, does reference point do more than reference formatting? Mike

There are several commercial templates aavailable to format APA type papaers and I'm looking for recommendations. Anyone use one and can recommend as outstanding?

Any recommendations on commercial templates? There are several available to assist in formatting papers to the APA format.

I started in a diploma program. It was just OK regarding the actual learning experience. Decided it was not enough and applied to a BSN program and started completey over (after a year at diploma). There's no comparison. The BSN program is incredible. The academics are outstanding. The instructors are all PHD researchers, or MS critical care specialists, or MS critical care flight specialists, or heavily experienced MS nurses working on Phd's, absolutly cutting edge instruction. And the instructors are carefully selected as to ability to teach as well. Studying at the diploma school was exceptional preparation for university study. IT WAS NOT A SUBSTITUTE. Glad I did a year there. I'm going to be incredibly well rounded in the basics. However, I'm astounded at how much the diploma program left out! But then one does not need to know all that to be a floor nurse AND PASS THE NCLEX. It's preparing a foundation for advanced study and advanced practice. good luck Mike

I applied to vcu/mcv in Richmond, VA for entry summer '05. Fingers crossed regarding entry. I'm already studying in a diploma program for RN. Hope the fact that I'm already studying nursing helps "get me in". Unfortunately, none of the nursing classes in the diploma program transfer to the university BSN program. I'll be starting over, will lose two semesters of work. Yea I'm that unimpressed by my current diploma school.

Heck, I'm in an overly accellerated diploma program and am hopefully looking forward to acceptance at an accelerated BSN program. It would be nice to have the time to actually study a complex topic, such as Peds or OB, in more than 3 weeks each. A whole semester would be wonderful!

I'm in virginia so it's not what you are looking at. Best advice someone here gave is talk to the students at the school.

I think this is the best advice yet.