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I am not a nurse. I'm not even a nursing student; all I've completed are my prereqs and I'm waiting for my answer to come in three weeks. I know jack about being a nurse or working in that kind of environment. I do have experience like this from another line of work, though. I have worked with kids for years. The last daycare I worked for, there was a coworker who hit the children, screamed at the children, and was a downright burnt out bully who legally should have been banned from going within 500 yards of a child about 10 years ago, in my opinion. We are talking BABIES here. Less than 24 months old. By even being in the same building as this foolishness, I felt personally responsible for it's prolonged continuation, and legally I was. I could have reported her to management, but the thing is that everybody already knew she was doing this and chose to ignore it. So i quit, and reported her to DCFS anonymously. Turns out a week later she was fired for smacking a kid in front of the director--kinda hard to ignore it when it happens right in front of your face this time. My point here is that it's better to risk losing your job, or to quit, than to put up with it and continue to align yourself with people like that. I didn't want people to associate my good name and reputation with the same center that employs people who hit babies.

I hope they mail them out during the first week of June this year instead of the second or third. I'm beyond tired of waiting. Still waiting to see what my two science grades are before I go into the final.

The wait sucks. I'm going to be working as much as I can over the summer to get my mind off of it.

Has anyone else taken their HESI yet? I took mine this morning and made a 96.4%. Now it's the 3-month waiting game to find out if we made it in or not :-/

I just passed a biology course in which a good handful of us dropped the class and the majority either passed with barely a C or didn't pass. I made an A. Their biggest mistake was trying to memorize words, in the same way you would for a history class or a vocab test. If all you do is memorize words, then when the tests asks you the same question 6 different ways, the only way you'll know how to answer is by hopefully recognizing the sentences you've memorized. They key to not only passing but acing classes like bio is to understand the concept--if you understand the concept, then you can answer the same question worded 100 different ways and get it right every time. Once my friends asked me for help and I gave them this advice, their own grades really went up as well. I heavily utilized Youtube videos. Hearing the same concept repeated to me from 2 or 3 different youtube channels really solidified that material for me. I also was big on drawing out charts. Staying present and engaged in every single lecture is the one thing though that really boosted my grade. I developed a huge interest in biology that way, which made studying for the tests that much easier.

I'm so glad you told me. I double checked with a nursing director last night and sure enough, I can apply to the school this January. Pretty sweet!

I unfortunately won't be able to apply to the school until 2017 because I'm taking my a&p 1 this semester. I'm taking micro too, maybe we'll be in the same class. I won't publicly disclose the prof's name but she's a highly ranked female teacher and I'll be taking her on tuesdays and thursdays from 12 - 2:45. Yeah, bio 120 content will be in it is what I'm hearing. I loved that class! I do definitely need to brush up on my simple grammar rules like predicates and stuff...it's been about 12 years.

I've heard there's going to be a reading section, grammar/vocab, a math and a biology section

And yes, I hope we all make it! Which classes are you taking this Spring?

For this semester I took 6 classes and ended up with a 3.7. Not sure what that comes out to when combined with last semester's GPA of 3.5. When grades go into LOLA some time this week it will figure everything in and I'll have a better idea. I've decided that I'm taking the HESI in March for sure. A friend of mine specifically asked the BRCC nursing dept what kind of science will be on the test (because there'd be no point in taking it if there was a&p stuff when we both hadn't finished a&p yet). She said they only have stuff from bio 120, so I'm golden. Ordered my practice book today online. Does anyone have any more information about the application process? We can only apply once a year in January??

Next semester I'll be taking A&P I, Micro, intro to phil and a history. It's totally do-able, and I suspect that the two sciences together will be supplemental. I took a bio and a chem with labs last semester along with 2 other courses and they complemented each other. I work part time. Nothing is ever too hard...it's entirely dependent upon how much time you spend on it and how much you want it.

I may. I was told you can only take the HESI in March every year but I won't have my A&P 1 out the way yet. I might take it anyway. Wouldn't hurt. Other than that I will be able to apply after this spring semester.

I know this topic has been talked about to death but most of what I read involves people messing up their pre-nursing classes the first time around. My situation is a little different and I wanted to get y'alls two cents. In 2011 I went fresh out of high school into college as a violin performance/music education major. At that time I had a whole lot on my plate--no car of my own and had major family issues which distracted me. I never studied and ended up dropping out 3 semesters in with something like a completely ridiculous 2.0 GPA. 3 years later I got back on my feet and decided I wanted to be a nurse. I enrolled in a community college and I have finished my 2nd semester on Thursday with a cumulative GPA (for that school and these pre-NS pre-reqs) of 3.75. Did a complete 180 turnaround as far as academic performance goes. Now I am terrified that I won't be considered for nursing school because of my old transcripts. I WILL be submitting my old transcripts because integrity is a huge part of being a good nurse and if you aren't honest with your school from the start well...that says a lot about you as a person. Will the nursing department even consider my 3-year-old grades in classes like Music History and Low Strings?? My new grades from this Fall semester haven't been averaged in yet, but I currently have an overall GPA of 2.4. Not even high enough to get in anywhere. What should I do? It would be a waste of my time to retake any of the failing classes from 3 years ago because I don't need music theory or music history for a nursing degree. I am hoping that my community college will accept me into their ADN program since they ONLY consider your grades from 5 pre-reqs along with your entrance exam scores and other things. It is competitive though. They only take 30 students a semester.

It doesn't matter when I'd be graduating. Its the fact that I'll be graduating as a nurse at all that I care about. And even if I graduate with an associate's and just cannot find work anywhere, that's okay too--that's why I got my DA certification--for this exact scenario. I'll always have that to fall back on as a way to earn money while I'm bridging. I've heard that working as a CNA is a good option too if you can get your certification. I heard that medical jobs like that sometimes offer to pay for your schooling in return for an agreement that you'll work for them for X amount of years. If nothing else, it's experience in the medical field, and an advantage that a lot of your other classmates wouldn't have. That's pretty cool. Another thing to think about.

I know for a fact that here in Louisiana, the DNP rule will be implemented in 2015. My friend will be graduating with an MSN in December. I'm not sure if the classes directly behind his will be grandfathered it, but that only sounds fair! I sure hope they will be! I certainly do not mind taking a couple crappy jobs in the beginning as an ASN. All I want is to be a nurse. That's my goal. I'm not looking for instant gratification or to land my dream job right out of school at some amazing hospital with just an ASN and live happily ever after--I'm looking to work my way up in the most financially responsible way I know how. I do not have much family help at all, so doing this responsibly is very important to me and my future. I do realize that this profession has been romanticized big time, which is why I started myself out as a dental assistant because A) getting my certification in that was 5x cheaper than getting my LPN, and B) to test the waters and make sure I'm comfortable around blood, needles, spit, mucus, vomit, etc. I am. Turns out I love it, and want to go further with serving the public than just working in their mouth. If taking some iffy jobs and bad shifts is how I have to work my way up the ladder and get my experience in while I'm in school doing my bridge, then so be it. But, I have been told by several people in my area that hospitals around here will hire ASN's as well, and start them off at the same pay as BSN's. I'm not expecting that outcome. I'm just looking to make progress.