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GlennaKilgore thank you for all of that awesome info!! I was hoping for other suggestions, I was losing my mind camping out in the nursing section ar Barnes & Noble!

I'm taking it 6/1....thank you so much! Word problems frustrate me the most for some weird reason.

Thank you Loriangel! You have no idea how much that helps me. I don't feel like a freak anymore. I am so excited!

"I was your supervising physician and now I'm your PATIENT??"

That sounds like me, loriangel14. Did you have much trouble with the left-brained subjects in college? I did really well in psychology, and almost passed basic math class...failed it by 3%...no calculators. I love taking care of people and to help bring about improvements; to be therapeutic. My favorite thing is to make people more comfortable and I seem to be good at calming them down. I do it all the time at the customer service call center at the hospital I work in. I was never real fond of the idea of acute care, but I did volunteer in the ER and loved it. --I wasn't responsible for much though!

Hm....I've been hearing mixed reviews on this. I may need to push out my target start date if I'm going to go to Carrington and do some multi-level studying. Thank you Blue Felt Fedora.

Hmmm....very interesting! I looked at some job descriptions on CareerBuilder. I do like to do research and advocating, and I've played the liaison before in other jobs....hmm...thank you for bringing that one up twinner05, never would have thought of that!

I am good with my English skills, but I'm feeling pretty discouraged about my math. I only have a month to re-learn it. I work full time and this late in life I really need to be a full-time student. Feeling discouraged in general at the moment.

Thank you melc0305! It didn't take very long to go back and scan it in the book, but I noticed I would have answered some of the questions differently had I not been able to refer back to it....so what a relief.

I wonder...is there a good specialty fit in the nursing profession for someone who has considerably more of a propensity toward the arts and language, who thinks more from the heart and navigates with their feelings and intuition? Say, someone with a Meyers-Briggs INFP personality?

Whew...thank you much, MommaTy! :)

In the Reading Comprehension, since I'm studying from a book and the test is digital, are they going to allow me to review the passage to answer the questions? Thank you in advance....

Just got the book...a lot thicker than it looks in the picture....lol

I guess there are no guarantees on anything and you just have to minimize the risks the best you can and go for it.

Anyone use this book for the entrance to Carrington College? Seems there are mixed reviews about its effectiveness and accuracy? Is that true?

Thank you Guide! "Behaviors," and I accept your constructive criticism with gratefulness. This is really great advice; thank you!!

I have a date. An actual day and time when I will show up on a Saturday morning to take my entrance exam to Carrington and hope to make the top 36% of the test-takers...June 1st. Oh-em-gee. I have a great start on reading and writing, for I excel at those. Math....notsomuch. Word problems hate me and algebra and I have barely met....BUT....I did do well on the HESI for Kaplan College some years back and Carrington College uses the Kaplan test...but I don't know if that would be the same one. If I knew how to study for it I'd be okay....

For nurses and supervising nurses---In your daily travels of nursing school and work, are there traits in effective new nurses that have you noticed that they have in common? I want to make sure I have some those traits by the time I do my first clinicals. Thank you in advance.

Well that encourages me, Hodgie, thank you! I'm meeting with HR at the hospital I work at soon to discuss tuition reimbursement, and I have another appt with Carrington to get some more questions answered, and plan to see a regular counselor to overcome some of the fears I have. I spoke with a nurse today who was exposed to HIV and the tests she had to have done, etc. and I have to admit, it almost deterred me, but I know there are nursing jobs that are more hazardous than others. Thank you again.:)

Thank you hodgieRN, I appreciate your taking the time, sharing insight, encouragement and for being completely realistic. You gave me some very key things to consider and some very good information. I will look into math for nursing majors. I guess I'd be okay; some years back I did slam a community college online basic math class into one summer after 25 years since high school and only failed by 3%; no calculator allowed. I use basic math in my billing customer service job and haven't made a blunder yet. I have always treated medication with a healthy respect and have a habit of checking and re-checking, just in everyday life. I guess it isn't math I'm afraid of, it's making a medication mistake...but then I hear there are tighter systems in place. The only thing on your list that gives me pause is memorizing. I will have to write little songs and use mnemonics, I guess! At my age and with the fact that I have to work full time I think I'm a good candidate for a career school. In our small town we have few colleges so LPN is not an option, since my focus is bedside, but we do have a Carrington College with RN. I will hopefully have tuition reimbursement available soon. I was always hoping I could be a full-time student so I could excel instead of just survive. Thank you again, I will discuss your key points with an academic advisor!

I've been dancing around options for a second career for some time now. Everything I am truly good at is creative but I don't think I would want to use my escape as a job, not that there are a lot of them anyway. The other things I've always been good at is being an empathetic caretaker, being a calming agent to aggressiveness, and reading people pretty well. I've been a good student for vocational studies or independent studies but have never been in a long-haul program. I'm not good at math. Nursing has been a consideration off and on for all of my life. For a 46-year-old I'm told I'm pretty youthful, but I don't feel sure at the moment because of the questions pinging off of the walls of my head. If I do decide to pursue this dream, will I find myself in debt up to my ears and hating life? Is it too late to train my brain? Am I too right-brained for all that math? Will it suck up all of my energy, even on my days off? Will it be worth it? If anyone has been in my place, I'd be grateful for your insight.....