CarolynNAC1

Honestly, it's just all about time management. For me, being a full time student while trying to study for the Teas and KAT is hard, but not undoable. You could balance studying for the Teas every other day, and vice versa for the Hesi (while balancing your school work on top it). It will be hard and stressful at times, but just try to look at the big picture and to always remind yourself of what you are doing it for. Also I started studying this past July for my exams but I don't have to take neither of my tests until January. Intially, I thought that I couldn't balance school with trying to study for multiple material at the same time. But I found that once you have learned all the material in advanced (5+ months) that your priorities will start to change, because you may feel that since you've already studied and learned one material that you should go on to tthe next material, devoting all your time to that. Hence, studying for the nursing exams would be put on the back burner. So I recommed to start studying 3 months before you take either exam and then the last 3 weeks should be all review.

Living frugal seems to be my only option as of now, so I will definitely keep your words of wisdom in mind.

Yikes!! That is a major gamble...

Ever since my sister defaulted on her college loans, my mother now has to help pay off those loans before her wages get garnished. So I could never ask my mother to co-sign on a loan with me and my father has the worst credit ever. So the only thing I am able to do is work at a minimum wage job (getting payed $150 a week), hoping to still be able to save up enough money for me to get a car.

If you're your going for your ADN you would still need to take all of the prerequisites. And I don't know if that CC is as same as my CC where the same pre-reqs is aim for both BSN and ADN programs (so you'll be able to apply to both when the time comes). So I would look into what cheap University (if you can find any) with a state and regional accreditation (so you can transfer your prerequisites) and apply to Universities + the ADN and see if you could get into either.

Sadly, I have to spend all my money on my last 4 nursing prerequisites (money that I have been saving up for 3 years now to buy my first car with). But now I won't have a car for nursing school for getting to and from clinical sites. My whole point of saving money for a car was so that I could commute the 45 mins to school everyday and not have to pay the 10,000 dorm fee for 3 years. But it looks like I will have to since the school is in a very rural area in Illinois, and it would take a 6 hour commute (in total) everyday with public transit. So my question is how did you guys manage without a car in nursing school? I'm especially worried about the Home Health clinical because it such a rural area that you will have to go very far and wide to get to other people's home. Not to mention that I just counted the school's clinical listing site and there are a total of 59 various clinical sites. Life just got so much harder for me.