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Anyone else waiting for acceptance? Or already accepted to start at Georgetown in the Fall?

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I'm starting nursing school in May and trying to sort out which stethoscope to get too. My school requirements say to have a stethoscope that has a bell and a diaphragm... so would the tunable diaphragm on the Littman be okay? I'm trying to figure out all of these terms. Thank you for the help!

Kapplan Medical Flash cards. They are amazing! I brought them with me everywhere. I had to do all bones and muscles in one month, same test. I got an A on that test and an A overall for the class. Just have to study a lot! I would write the names down in a notebook as I did the cards. This just helped it all sink in. And spelling counted for my tests, so it was good practice. I'd keep going through the cards until I could get them all right.

You don't have to be a volunteer doula. You could make it your job. Obviously, you have to do what is best for you and there are so many variables to that equation. But that is an amazing opportunity that your Dad is an OB and open to having doulas on staff! That is great news! Would he be interested in having more doulas on staff? If you network with other local doulas, working in a team can make scheduling and long shifts in labor easier. I work as an independent contractor doula through a family wellness center. We work as a doula team, generally. This means we can work in 12 hour shifts, and we always have a back-up doula rotation in case something major comes up, for instance in my case, an exam. I did my doula training with Childbirth International. It's completely web based. I also attend various local workshops when I'm able or it makes sense. I took a rebozo certification workshop, which I feel was a wonderful opportunity and it has helped a lot in my work! I know of a few schools that accept doula work as experience.

Single Mom here. I started the pre-req road 2 years ago when my youngest was still basically a baby. I'm in my last semester before starting the program and my kids are 5 & 3. My daughter loves hearing all about what I am learning. They also like helping hold note cards or whatever. It's something they are growing up with. So, it's totally do-able!!

I made some notes on your list. Many schools have you complete all pre-reqs and gen. eds. prior to starting the actual nursing program. Pre-reqs generally are about 2 years worth of schooling, depending on how you break it down. It is a really good idea to nail down a plan such as if you are going for your ADN or BSN first. If you are planning on attending a community college and then transferring, look into what kinds of agreements your community college has with local colleges. This will save you big time on not taking classes that may not be needed or that won't transfer. I hope this helps. I had a crazy spreadsheet going when I hammered down my choices and plan and I'm happy to help further if you need it. :-)

I wasn't entirely sure where this question should be posted. I have been trying to research it, but am still kind of confused. This isn't something I have to worry about right now, because I still have about 2 years to go, but I always like to plan ahead some and have ideas. I live right on the border of PA and NJ, and about only 1.5 hours from NY. Should I get licensing for all three states right off the bat? I'm going to hope somewhere along the line of school this will become more clear. I'm planning on going right into grad school for Nurse-Midwifery and the grad schools I'm looking at are in all three states. So that is another part of the equation. Does anyone know if the midwifery license is the same way as the RN license? Will I need to get and maintain a midwifery and a RN license in each state that I may work in?

so many of us having to take A&P II and micro together. Good luck all around!! I'm taking a super accelerated painting course over two weekends in the winter semester to satisfy my last last art req. Spring: A&P II Micro Bio History And then I am DONE with prereqs!! It is looking good to start the program May 2014! Current GPA is 4.0

Kapplan Medical Flash Cards saved my life in A&P I.

I did it!! I thought for sure I'd end up with an A- in A&P I, but I did really well on the last two tests and got an A!! 4 A's (A&P I, Nutrition, Sociology & Art Therapy)!!!!!

Have an A- with 2 more lecture tests and one last lab practical to go. Almost there!!!

My A&P I class we had to know ALL of the bones and all of the parts on the bones, such as fossas, tubercles, condyles, epicondyles, the foramens, etc. We also had to know the tarsal and carpal bone names. Kaplan Medical flash cards saved my life.

Another vote for Chem first. There has been a lot of chem related things that have come up in A&P and I am SO glad I took Chem last spring. I know I'd be struggling a lot more had I not done chem first.

Thanks everyone. I'm still kind of freaking out. I seem to do okay with matching when I have a word bank. But I can't seem to come up with most names off the top of my head yet and we start muscles this week! I don't feel confident in bones at all yet and now it's time to add in the muscles. I'm not sure how to make my head remember all these crazy names! I wish we could at least have a word bank or something for the practical. Or I wish we could at least take a separate test on bones and then a test on muscles so I'm not trying to memorize 100's of crazy names all at once. I'm really trying.