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IMO, you have a very long time ahead of you on this earth and many of those years you will be working. If you think nursing is where you need to be, do it! Srs, its only 1 year after prereq's.... What do you have to lose?

Hello, I recently finished my ADN and I have several paths ahead of me. The issue, I'm having trouble weighing the pros and cons. Hopefully one of you with experience may chime in. To begin, I plan on continuing my education. I would like to earn a BSN, then progress to an MSN in leadership followed by certification with FNP. Where I'm having a complication is where to work. Currently, I work as a PDN. I get paid very little in comparison to what I would be earning at a hospital. But, I have a great deal of down time in which I can study while having the opportunity of overtime. My greatest fear is that I may become unmarketable in an acute setting after working so long in the PDN field. On the other hand, Working 3 12's at a hospital, I will make a bit more money, maintain more of my nursing skills and possibly have a greater opportunity to obtain FNP clinical sites when that time comes. But I will not have as much study time. To note Education is online I am the main source of income in a family of 4 Thoughts? Thanks in advance

Just hit 35 and I graduate in 22 days. I started the program back when I was 32. I don't regret my decisions... yet, lol

Made an A! Congrats! That really is quite an accomplishment. Keep up the good work and dont give up!

A great place to start with Pharm is memorizing the suffixes. Heres a couple my school made us memorize. After you have that down, start relating common effects(ie side effects) to those medications. Remember that even though they are "side effects" they are still an effect, albeit not its desired intention. Biggest of all, take hundreds of practice question.. After you take those questions.. take them again. Categorize_to_organize_-_pharm.docx Hints-for-Remembering-Medication-Classifications.pdf

I'm in a similar position. It is a pud class (Interpersonal communication), but I will not be allowed to graduate and/or take my boards until its completed.

Just finished my ATI pharm final today with a Tier III. What I did was take tons (and I mean tons) of practice question. I used saunders pn test bank from evolve, pharmacology success, and the ATI practice exams along with the unit exams. In total, I probably took around 500 questions, then repeated those questions until it started making sense.

I'm a non-traditional student and Im also a father of two. Before nursing school, I was a 4.0 student. I had a natural ability to with memorizing things, as im sure most nursing students have. When it came to nursing school, I was thrown out of my game. The biggest shocker was the first test I took. New students will study for HOURS memorizing facts, and are dumbfounded when the test comes around. What i've done so far to be successful is focus my energy on practice questions (saunders,success series, etc) and watching lecture videos on youtube when something doesn't make sense. Good luck man, Don't give up. Fight through this. Ask why, don't memorize.

ATI fundamentals and Saunders PN. I scored Tier III. Personally, I had more NG tube questions than i expected, lol.

I CRAMMED for 2 weeks prior to the exam. I purchased the TEAS ATI study guide book and the Mcgraw-hill book for practice questions. Get used to the format of the ATI book, it closely resemble all the primary "go to" info for many nursing programs. A side note, your TEAS score makes you competitive, so you want to shoot for a high score!

Make a point to spend time together, and when you do, keep school talk to a minimum. Give compliments and thanks for all the patience they have. I also randomly bring home flowers. But a biggie... Communicate!

Im in Unit 2 of my program, and currently I have 35 chapters to read for next weeks exam. Heres my breakdown... [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Linton: Ch. 5,12 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Potter/Perry: Ch. 6, 11,16, 24, 25, 29, 30 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Pagana: Pulse Oximetry [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Jarvis: Ch. 1-21 Giddens: Ch. 1,2,36, 41 Now, Jarvis is a pocket companion... but still.....200 little pages, lol. What is the best way to approach this? [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

One of my instructors HIGHLY recommended The RN and PN mastery apps for androids and apples. Also, she recommended the ATI RN Mentor app. The combo is about 50 bucks,she said it was completely worth it.

I think the certification of a CPR license is only 2 years. Funny thing,My schools nursing program has the American heart association CPR as a pre-req for clinicals, but they don't even offer it. I have to go elsewhere to get certified.

Heres a great post from this site that I referenced a ton while studying for the TEAS. https://allnurses.com/teas-exam-help/how-i-passed-804222.html Good luck on your test!