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I think this is smart in a way as you have a plan B in case you don't get into medical school, however you are taking the seat of an actual student who wants to be an RN and not go on to medical school. Not sure how I feel about that. I know there isn't a nursing shortage, but it just doesn't sit right with me. Organic Chemistry is A LOT of information (I majored in Chemistry the first time around). I am redoing some of my nursing prerequisites because mine expired, but I knew people who struggled with Organic Chemistry while taking a much easier load in their other classes. Physics isn't exactly a cake walk for most people, it's a lot of calculus which I excel at and took both physics 1&2 while taking Organic chemistry 1&2 and made A's. I'm a super science geek though. I don't think I'd like taking Organic while taking and trying to keep up my GPA in Nursing School. FYI not all medical schools even require a degree, it's 'preferred' at most (well the last time I looked about 5 year ago). I know many people who have been accepted to medical schools with minimum requirements met (however they had 4.0 gpas and killer MCAT scores).

Thanks for the info. I really appreciate it. I don't think it will change my husbands mind, I do fear he has been indoctrinated in some things when it comes to medical care (however he does believe in acute emergency care, as his father broke his bone and tore his brachial artery last week and was life flighted and it saved his life). I fear this is going to become a huge issue in our marriage. I'm going to have to try to convince him in baby steps, and in the meantime our daughter is already 14 mos. old. (she did get the hep b in the hospital and he has no idea about that. I don't like lying to him, but he has never asked.)

My husbands chiropractic college teaches against vaccination. They had an entire course on it one quarter. I wasn't there, nor have I ever attended chiropractic school so I don't know what was taught. He holds a doctorate degree (and he had to take USMLE step 1 and 2 so I know he knows way more than I do) and I don't so I feel easily defeated when discussing this with him. I'll check out your link, but research he has from the CDC shows that polio was declining before the vaccine was available.

I know first hand vaccines aren't 100% effective. My son had both doses of Varicella and still got chicken pox. I just wanted to see what response was for to the question because my chiropractor husband refuses to let me vaccinate our daughter (my son was vaccinated, he is from a previous marriage) from 'evidence' he learned in school. I haven't been able to budge him on this topic. And if the measles were to be at the school somehow anyway, and 100% were vaccinated some still would end up with measles. This will be my husbands argument.

My Danskos used to hurt my pinky toe and across the top of my foot. I started wearing slightly thinner socks in and it fixed the problem. I don't know if breaking them in will fix it, I changed my socks about 5 shifts in so I really feel like it was the sock for me causing the problem with this particular shoe (never had problems with other shoes).

I wish I had followed this advice 15 years ago. I let two friends who were RNs all me out of doing nursing school. I just floated around college and ended up being a Chemistry major. I've never been happy with that. Then later on I wanted to go to nursing school and my parents talked me out if it. Said I couldn't do it (I was a single mom at the time). This time NO one is talking me out of it. The biggest thing I figured out though, was to not tell people what I'm doing (other than my husband of course, who is totally supportive). I wish I had been more like the OP when I was younger. I lived and learned though. Moral of the story, don't ever let anyone talk you out of what you feel you want to do.

I had no idea what magnet status was until I started reading it on AN and researched it. I worked in a new 300 bed hospital for over 3 years and never heard of it. I guess we weren't a magnet hospital, and apparently we weren't striving for it either.

I'm a non-traditional student. I have a husband and 2 kids, 33 years old. My parents have been the biggest nay Sayers. I was so stupid when I was younger. My parents were paying for my college and I had no loans. I couldn't decide what I wanted to do, I wanted to be a nurse but several people I knew who were nurses talked me out of it, and I let them. I was only doing school part time last 2 years because I couldn't decide and focus on a major. I met a boy at 22 and we got married when I was 24. my dad quit paying for my school. I don't blame him. I was getting no where. I ended up finding out I was pregnant unexpectedly 7 months after ring married and a month later exactly found out my new husband was cheating on me and wanted a divorce to be with his new girl friend. SO I became a single mother and had to work a full time job making $14 an hour just to make ends meet (which they barely ever met, and if it weren't for my parents my child and I would've been homeless). I wanted to go back to school but with the cost of daycare and not being able to go to school or work at night bc daycare closed at 6 I was trapped. My parents helped financially but refused to put their lives on hold to babysit for me. My dad actually said, "You passed your time, suck it up and work your crappy job to provide what you can and that is all you can do with your life." I felt so defeated. I didn't know anything about student loans because I never had to deal with financial aid office before. I felt my dad was right and i didn't even talk to financial aid office about loans at that time. I felt hopeless and one day I DECIDED instead of listening to my parents that I needed to do what I thought was best for me and my child and go back to school. It wasn't easy, but I met an incredible man a few years later and we eventually got married and my husband has been incredibly supportive of my decision to go back to school. So I didn't even tell anyone I was going back (besides my husband and son of course). It's really nice to not have all the negative talk, and to know that I am going to school to do something I'm passionate about and know I will get great satisfaction from doing.

I didn't attend APSU SON but was a Chemistry major there and know quite a few nursing students and nurses that graduated there. It is very competitive. A friend of mine had a 3.6 GPA and didn't get in, she got accepted to Murray State in Murray, Ky.

Ambien in molecularly different than benzo's. I can't remember it's actual classification at the moment, but it should not show up as a benzo on a drug screen. It has it's own classification.

I live in Alabama and was raised in Tennessee. I've lived, mostly in bigger cities, my grandparents live in a very rural closed minded area of East Ky that is very weary of outsiders in general, regardless of skin color. In the rural areas you will find that a lot of people have known each other since being in elementary school, an their parents before them, and theirs before them. I white, was felt very discriminated against (and my son as well in his school) because I didn't grow up in that town. We moved to Huntsville and feel very welcomed and included in the community here. There are several AA in our neighborhood and they are very friendly as well as the Hispanics and other whites. I really just think rural communities are more likely to be weary of outsiders than towns and cities with more population, where everyone doesn't know everybody. I'm sure there are plenty of rural communities that welcome new comers though. I love living in Huntsville, feels more "home" to me than where I lived for the previous 12 years before moving here.

I lived in Tampa area for years. There are some good schools there and it was pretty affordable. I enjoyed living there and have thought about moving back. I lived in the Valrico/Brandon area. Sent from my iPhone using allnurses.com