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I am a student at MATC (taking my pre-reqs) and planning on transferring to either UWM or Cardinal Stritch in Fall 2014. I was taking all of my general classes with UWM curriculum in mind, but now I am learning more about private colleges (Cardinal S...

Hi there, I am a future nurse, but right now I am going to be a patient and need some advice from experienced nurses. I want to thank in advance to everyone who will share their opinions. I will have a general surgery next week (distal pancreactomy...

Girls, I was just asking for your own experience with both methods of pain managements for your patients. Of course I will be the one who makes this decision, just my doctor's suggestion is only one person's opinion and I want to know all the facts b...

I wanted to start this thread for awhile, and since today I am in a particularly bad mood, I decided it was definitely time to do so. So many times I've seen pre-nursing students starting topics here asking for advice regarding applying to nursing sc...

Endocrine in AP-1 was my hands down favorite! Liked cardiovascular this semester in AP-2 as well.

Well, that's just the way it is. And I think it is fair. A lot of students DO work and have 4.0 gpa. Others take loans with living expenses and repay after the are done with school. You will still have to pay your bills while in nursing school, but I...

what kind of schools are those? Counting classes in progress as C's can put a lot of applicants to the bottom of the list. And it does seem weird. It's not your fault you didn't get in, you have great stats.

Ok, you need to give us more info about your situation: 1. what is your GPA 2. do you have any volunteering experience? 3. are you considering only public schools or also private? 4. where do you live? 5. what about ADN in the community college?

I've been on this forum for sometime now and read a lot of threads about how competitive nursing programs are and people are staying on a waitlists and are willing to travel miles and miles from home to any college they get in. I have a question, why...

The bones are not the hardest part, wait till you get to cardiovascular with its "wired men". For me personally, anatomy is the best part. I loved learning bones, muscles, heart, veins, etc. Physiology, on the other hand, is so much harder! I am a vi...

For my state I found all that info on Board of Nursing website. It has every school and program with passing rates as well as how many people took the test each quarter. However, you don't know how many people originally starter the program and how m...

Thanks for your comment, gpa is really something I need to consider (in terms of private school especially). I also wanted to ask if employers actually looking at our overall gpa after we finish nursing school? Or all they need is our license?

LadyFree28, thank you for responding, it was very helpful

I just googled it, very informative! Thanks)

Wow girls, reality is hitting hard.. After all your comments I start wondering who actually goes to private schools as what are they hoping for. Average 18$/hour? Are you serious? To be clear, I know nurses, but none of them I know close enough to as...

Using this calculator, my payment would be around 530$/month for 5 years (estimate of course). For 3 years the tuition will be around 27,000$

Thank you for your post. I will try to answers one-by-one 1. The job. As I stated before, it all depends on location. Where I live I know quite a few nurses (I volunteer at the hospital) and they all found the job easily. If I lived in, for example, ...

I believe it has a lot to do with the location. I live in the Midwest, in a small town. It is not my goal to move to a big, popular, but saturated state. I will be happy to move closer to the West (Colorado, Washington, maybe Arizona) and live in a m...

The scholarship is renewable (every year) as long as students maintain 3.0-4.0 GPA I know a nurse who graduated with 72,000$ with her BSN because she took all of her classes in a 4-year college.

Yes, faculty to student ratio in private schools is a big plus. I also think that some public schools have higher standards because they know there are students in line to take the places of those who failed. It can be a beneficial practice, since t...

1. I am doing my homework; including the fact that I am asking for advice here 2. I am not interested in LPN/ADN programs and I know they are much cheaper at CC 3. The private school I am interested in is non-profit and charges 13,500$/per year (afte...

Well, first of all, I am sure that if I work hard enough, I will be able to find a job, especially when it comes to health care. I do have a great support system, my husband stands behind me 100% and will help me as much as he can. I am not the kind ...

Thanx for your post. The passing rate for their ADN program is 86% (which is far from perfect, I realize that). However, the passing rate in the public school is 85% (BSN program). The only schools in my area that have greater passing rates are commu...

Hi there! This is exactly what I have in mind. Our public school is mostly about community care, which is not what I was planning on doing.

You have a good point here. I do want to go to grad school in the future and it might add more debt for me, unless the employer will pay for it (which is very common nowadays). I do realize that 11,500$ is a big chunk of money. I just read a post by ...