ladyjo

I'm there with everyone else who has to work. I have two children, 2 and 7, and we live in California where it is highly difficult to make it on one income unless you are super blessed. I'll be starting an ADN program at SRJC in the spring of 2016, and I am hoping that with my extensive pre-reqs (I prepared for an entry-level masters, which wasn't possible due to where we moved) and professional experience as a medical malpractice investigator, I will know enough to not struggle too much through the program. I will have to work at least 20 hours a week during these next 2 years. The hardest thing is knowing how much I will miss my children and how little time I will have to take care of myself. And the tiredness--I am a bear without my sleep. But I will take the ring to Mordor, although I do not know the way!

I received notification of a slot for Spring 2016 last week and am scrambling to get the paperwork done in the next 3 days. Already trying to figure out the bridge path from ADN to BSN to MSN to NP!

Greetings, I just wanted to start a thread for those of us who feel lost after not getting into nursing school. I live in a rural area where there are two options to go to school--get a secondary BSN through a competitive state school program (which I did not make the cut for this year) or go through the local JC (which picks qualified students through lottery, which I was not chosen through). I have a 4.0 in all of my prereqs and have been taking well over the required classes needed over the past 3 years because I love science and medicine so much. I went to a great school for undergrad and have a decent GPA from then. I scored 89% on my TEAS test. My current career is in medical malpractice research and consultation. I have given up time with my kids and not pursued other avenues because this is what I wanted to do. I realize that my living in an area where I have 2 school options is the main problem. And I have a young family and just can't commute 90 minutes to school each way, each day. I'm 44 years old, and I feel like this was my last shot at jumping on the path I discovered I love so late in life. And I'm very, very sad right now. I'm not writing to complain that I deserve something more than others. I just want to know if there are others out there who feel as down as I do.

The requirements to accept students based on anything other than their proven qualifications is such a shame. I did 3 years of prereqs with many, many pre-nursing students who were motivated by getting through the class as easily as possible with the minimum grade required for their program. Lottery systems at local JCs--where many of us end up applying because it is so difficult to get into a state program--are very frustrating for those of us with 4.0s, who have high TEAS test scores, and are very ready to succeed in a program. To accept someone with lower grades and scores, I believe, to be educated for a career as critically important to human health is very hard to excuse. I am a medical malpractice investigator who spends all day looking at cases that hinge upon common-sense mistakes and lack-of-critical-thinking-skills by nurses. Why aren't standards, even if for legal/insurance/risk management purposes, as high as those to get into a competitive undergraduate college?

The reason why we are all spring alternates is this: if someone already accepted for fall declines that spot, then they offer a spring acceptance the fall slot, and a spring slot then opens for an alternate.

I was also told I was high on the alternate list for Spring.

I am so sorry! I know how hard we've all worked for this. I really wish you luck. I haven't heard ftom SSU yet.

I know--the CNA class! Working days and taking the class at nights for almost 2K...School would start mid-summer....If I could go back and talk to my 21-year-old childless unmarried self, I would certainly shake her for choosing fine art photography and housekeeping as careers and not figuring out what I really wanted to do AND would be a sensible choice sooner.

They did not tell me when decisions will be made. I am guessing with the late deadline and the huge number of applicants that it will be later this month or next month. I so, so don't want to have to do SRJC and then bridge to BSN for 3 years (considering I even get into the JC). With a family and being located remotely in Healdsburg and having spent years doing prereqs that are about to time-out for most programs, this is really my last shot at nursing school while I'm still in my 40s!

I found NursingCAS to be a total nightmare to navigate. I carefully filled in my entire application for SSU and it somehow was never "submitted" due to a glitch in the payment option. The problem was fixed with the help of the SSU nursing office, and now I'm waiting to hear back. I know there were at least 300 applicants to the pre-licensure BSN program this year. I am praying my stats (89% TEAS, 4.0 prereqs, 3.6 undergrad, local Sonoma County resident) will get me in. I did not think of mentioning my volunteer work or EMT certification in my essays (1 page each? It was really difficult to limit the essays to that). I am curious if my professional history as a medical malpractice investigator will help boost my desirability for the program.