justjohn

Accordding to an article published on this website on April 17, only women were accepted to nursing schools in the early 1900s and men were not allowed in the Army or Navy nurse corps until after the Korean War. I'm not saying that men should or should not have an advantage. I just can't understand why someone who ask a question gets attacked here. And if you don't really know what you are talking about, you should sit quietly in front of your computer and not just make stuff up. Two examples have been provided to proves your statement wrong. You would also discover that nursing positions were originally held by men until the men were needed to fight in wars. Only then did it fall to women. So to say men stay away from nursing because it is "women's work," is not a very educated statement. You and the 8 others who liked your post can now attack me. Please just make sure you know what you are talking about first!

If you need to take A&P in a semester by itself, you probably won't make it through nursing school.

I'm cutting back so I went with a small today.

I'm not sure how many total students. It's a community college with three campuses. The campus I'm attending only accepts 8 nursing students every two years, only one nursing class at a time. The main campus accepts 50 every fall.

I was very lucky to get a scholarship that pays full tuition and fees for both years of my ADN program. My state also offers a grant for up to $2000 a year for people over 24 who are continuing their education. I also applied for several small foundation scholarships that pay anywhere for $250 to $1000 a semester. I'm still waiting on my award letter to see if I received any of them.

I was accepted to a satellite campus. Most nursing lecture classes will be by distant learning. We have one instructor at my location that teaches lab and a couple other classes. She is also the clinical instructor. The satellite campus only has 8 slots, they do accept 10 people though, because two are expected to drop out the first semester. The main campus takes 50 students each semester and another satellite campus takes 8 every two years. The satellite campuses only have one nursing class going at a time. So my class will be the only nursing class on campus for two years. When we graduate they will start a new class.

My class only has 8 but thats all they accept every two years.

Its going to depend on the school where you apply. I was accepted at a community college that used a point system based on grades in A&P I&II, college algebra and microbiology. You could get extra points based on your ACT score if you took it. If two people tied in points and only one could be accepted than it was who ever submitted the application first. The university where I took my prereqs was based on GPA. Last year the minimum GPA to be accepted was a 3.7. The community college only allowed you to retake a class once.

I liked micro more than A&P II. I took both classes the same semester and some of the material was covered in both classes. Make sure you really get down the gram positive and gram negative in the beginning of the course. I loved the lab. Most of our lab was doing test on our unknown bacteria. We had all semester to figure out what we had.

This is something that was covered in my nutrition class. The discussion was really about the example an obese person sets as a health care provider and how some employers were starting to discriminate against obese people. It also has to do with the fact that most obese people will use more health care and drive up the cost of insurance. I think the OP was on track to make a valid point but she was not going in the right direction with it. I do agree that just because someone is overweight that doesn't mean they can't do there job. Keep in mind that obese is different than overweight as I am about 25# overweight at the moment.

I'm not sure how FL works but I know a little about Arkansas in nursing homes. In Arkansas if you have something on your record the Office of Long-term care decides if you can work in a nursing home. Lets say that someone was convicted of forgery. You may be able to get a license with that on your record. Now the Office of Long-term care looks at your record and sees that the forgery charge was because you stole an elderly persons SSN and open a credit card account. They will now deny you the opportunity to work in a nursing home because you committed a crime against an elderly person and you would be working around the elderly. So its not always the crime that get committed but who the crime is against.

I was lucky enough to get a small outbreak from the varicella vaccine last month. I got my second shot today and I'm already itching in a few spots

I have registration and orientation on August 12, 13 and 14. Classes start on August 19. I don't know what my schedule will be like until registration. All nursing students register on the same day. I've already gotten 5 shots and have one more to go in January, the last Hep B. I don't have to have a background check and I assume the drug screen will be during orientation. All my information was just sent to the Dean's office, nothing done online. I just wish I knew what books we are going to be using so I can start tracking them down online. I saved hundreds of dollars on books for my prereq classes. I was very luck to get a scholarship for tuition and fees and a grant to cover supplies. Now I'm just counting down the days until August 19.

Some science courses are good for only 5 years. Some schools will accept them older than 5 years if you have been working in a related field. Just something to keep in mind.

Make sure you really know everything in the first few chapter of A&P I. The rest of A&P I and A&P II builds off the first few chapters. You will notice that you will use that information throughout both semesters. I would take Chem before Microbiology and I would try to take A&P II and micro together. Chem comes up in A&P and micro so have chem first will definitely help. I took A&P II and micro the same semester and had no problems with either one. The prereq I found to be the hardest was Nutrition. It has tons for information that you just have to memorize.