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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 shou...

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 founda...

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 sl...

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...

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...

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...

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. Y...

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...

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.

Hello everyone, I'm a 33 y/o male who is starting RN school in August '13. I tried to get into nursing school 13 years ago and my life took a different path when I was not accepted. I've wanted to do this for a long time and now I finally have my ch...

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...

Electronic medical records is a product of the Bush Administration. The purpose of them being put in place is so the patient would have more portability to seek cheaper medical care.

Any law can have an exception to it but federal law does not allow a polygraph as a condition of employment. There is a section on the federal labor law posters that all employers are required to post. It the poster that tells about the minimum wage...

The school is going to provide us with some review software and the dean stated that in years past since the school purchases so much software each year that the company even donates some software to the students. I'm not sure what all it includes a...

I would love to do a BSN to start with but I can't even apply to one until fall '14 and if I don't make it, well then its another year of waiting. My plan is to try to complete it online after I finish the ADN program. I'm going to a satellite campus...

Thanks everyone, it all sounds like a lot of good advice. I attended a information session with the dean a couple months ago and the school is really big on students learning NCLEX style questions from the very beginning. Students will have the oppo...