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Like you, I was worried I'd never start my nursing classes. After 3 years of going to school full time, and transferring from a university to a community college, I finished all my prereqs this semester, have a great gpa, and my community college waitlisted me because I'm not an in-county resident :angryfire so I applied to a hospital based program co-op with another community college in April. I was accepted 2 weeks after I applied and I start this fall. Ironically, my college then actually reached my name on the waitlist and accepted me in the beginning of this month, but I turned it down because I want to do the other program as I heard from two RNs that the hospital based program is much better. :rotfl: I refused to sit around and wait to be accepted and it paid off. Would it be possible for you to transfer to another program in your area without a wait list and where you wouldnt have to take those bio classes before being accepted? Might be something worth looking into to save yourself from wasting all that time and money.

That nurse's rudeness and lack of compassion for your son is unexcusable. She judged your son's condition a little too quickly I think. I am also in nursing school and I know I'll never treat a patient the way you were treated! Last summer I had 2 kidney stones. The first one in my right kidney I passed without a problem after a trip to the ER, the second time it was in the left kidney. I went to the ER both times, was given some pain medication thru iv and other iv fluids, and then sent home as usual with a prescription, though the second time the attending physician was very hesitant to give me an RX for pain medication; I guess they thought I was a drug seeker because I had just been there a month before for the other kidney stone. Well the next night the pain was back, something unusual for me because usually the first time at the ER is usually sufficient and I pass the stone on my own at home. Well I went back to the ER, my mom drove me and I was in excruciating pain. The ER nurse told me while rolling her eyes that I shouldn't have come back and that I needed to try and pass it on my own. I would if I could haha! I waited in the ER waiting room for 3 hours while crying and throwing up because I wasn't taken seriously by that nurse. Turns out I was later admitted to the hospital and I had to have the stone surgically removed and a stent for 10 days because according to the doctor it would never have come out on its own because my left ureter is too small! :angryfire

http://www.njsna.org/schools.html This website lists all Nursing programs in NJ. The schools are grouped according to Degree types. Because you live in North Jersey, you have a lot of options as far as programs right in your area. Check the websites of your local hospitals, they might have Nursing programs. Two programs right near Hackensack are Fairleigh Dickinson for a BSN and Holy Name Hospital for a Diploma in Nursing. A little farther away you have William Patterson University, they have a BSN program. Good luck!!

Nursing Student with a 1985 El Camino. I love my catruck :chuckle