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Sounds like you answered your own question. Also depends on the material. Some stuff is more black and white whereas other stuff is abstract. I could personally never take stats online but trig would not be impossible.

Not sure what rio is or math 142...I immediately think of rio Hondo in Whittier, CA and math 142 is trig at my college. It honestly all depends. I personally enjoy math and have thought of taking a few classes just for fun. Algebra 2 and trig were fun in HS and I've considered taking college level just for a fun challenge. If you suck at math, I wouldn't consider an accelerated version. If you enjoy math, it should be a good challenge.

OMG YOURE THE FIRST PERSON TO NOT TEAR INTO ME FOR SAYING THAT. I still want to do healthcare I just don't think I could do nursing where you have the same patients for an entire day for possibly weeks. Also, the politics suck. I worked as a lab tech, lots of politics there and the nurses politics bled in as well since we worked so closely..they were so miserable!!! I'm trying to enjoy my life, not hate it because you inevitably bring work home. Plus, people are gross lol the amount of elderly people who don't trim their nails and have peeling skin amazes me. Where is their family?! I think that's why EMS works so well for me, I have them for maybe 20 minutes tops then I dump them and it's great. On to the next great adventure!! I'm on to see how prosthetics are! [emoji33]

They're...alright. I've only got fundamentals and the labs left. I think I'm going to pull out though and not take a spot from someone who really wants it. I've decided after I saw a real hospital flow working as a lab tech for 3 months that I don't want to do it. Nursing is a lot of ***** work. All respect to nurses because they honestly keep the hospital running, but I think with the hospitals cutting CNAs and LVNs and caring more about patient satisfaction surveys than how they're running the hospital, I just won't be happy. It's not so much nursing anymore, rather it's catering to a patients every whim when you have more important things to be doing as far as paperwork or more critical patients. I'm thinking of going to a masters program for prosthetics and orthotics. I do like helping people and patient care, I just don't think I can be with the same patient for days at a time when their CC is anxiety. I've just been exposed to too many people with BS complaints having been a 911 EMT in LA for over 2 years. Maybe I'm just jaded and jumping the gun...

I suggest a minimum of a 3.0 in all prerequisites and aim for a 3.5 overall for both WGU, states schools and JCs.

No credits for LVN and no LVN to BSN program. If you have your LVN, I suggest either finding an LVN to RN or LVN to BSN then if you wish to continue, going on to WGU for the higher level education such as RN to BSN or BSN to MSN.

I believe they do after 5 years like most schools. Just depends though

Thank you so much. I know I'm only 22 but seeing all my friends graduating college and moving on really makes me think if I should just push through. It was my passion since HS so now thinking about quitting is terrifying me.

Can't accelerate the prelicensure program much since it's blocked out according to clinical schedules. Sure, you can finish all the classes early and either have a break at the end of the term or start the next terms classes maybe a few weeks early but unlike their other programs, there's no possibility of accelerating to only a term or two. 2.5 years is 2.5 years for the prelicensure program.

Yeah no high horse over here. I've had my share of horrific patients and whatnot from EMS. I think I've just been exposed to it already so I'm not quite all rainbows and butterflies like some people who have no idea what nurses really do on a day to day basis. I know what they do, utmost respect. They keep the hospital running but I'm just not sure I can do all the grunt work that should be allocated to CNAs and LVNs but isn't unfortunately. I want to be a nurse, not a glorified CNA especially if I go to school for 2+ years for it. I know there's upward mobility and that's what I'd want but I think just doing the footwork until then might not be what I'm looking for. I know you have to put effort into everything to get a reward, but having veteran family and friends and having gone through surgery and needing advanced knee braces, I think I may have just diverted my healthcare passion to another field.. ....not sure where I was keeping my high horse.

Flight nurse would be fun...but I also see how dangerous it is. I ain't tryin ta die! But it's also one of those jobs everyone wants to do and SO competitive and difficult to even find an opening. I had a friend who just finished nursing school suggest a bunch of other options, specifically clinics. Respect to them but they don't perform their full scope. They mostly do vitals and injections and I'd honestly want to be a nurse to do EVERYTHING. Not get stuck in some clinic performing the same few skills over and over and over. Same reason why I would abhor LTC. I know there are definitely options in nursing but other than getting my MS in education, all the other options don't seem like a solid fit and even then, I'd need so much experience to find a job teaching.

I honestly LOVE my job. I went to work at a hospital for a bit as a phlebotomist and even though it's definitely not nursing, I was somewhat exposed to hospital life. I hated seeing the same people for weeks at a time. I hated that there were so many burnt out nurses super angry at you for asking for help to hold a squirmy patient when the KNOW they're combative/Alzheimer's/etc. This was a trauma center too so you'd figure burn out wouldn't be AS bad as say some little community hospital. I just saw all of the flaws of a hospital, hated it and took a $5 paycut to go back to EMS. Nothing's worth it if you aren't happy. Sure, I roll my eyes at anxiety and toe pain x3 weeks but at the end of the day, I drop them at the ED and my job is over. CCTRN was my end goal after working as an EMT but even having to get 2 years experience sounds off putting to me. I'm imagining me being a nurse like my aunt, very harsh, cut n dry with no sympathy and I never wanted to be a nurse like her so the fact that I can see myself being her is scaring me and telling me that I'm probably salty before I've even started. If I could be a medic without having to be a FF, I would in a heartbeat but going FD is the only way to go since private medics make pennies more than EMTs in the long run unfortunately. I'm going to at least finish the semester and see how fundamentals goes. I'm never one to quit. I know I can DO it I'm just not sure if I want to anymore and that's foreign. I'm one of those "get out of my way or you're getting mowed down" because I'm just so driven and focus when I want something that me putting on the brakes and thinking about a 180 is just kind of strange and alarming but also exciting at the same time.

Well, I'm great friends with the nursing coordinator at a prominent company that I already work for. She would prefer 2 years ICU/CCU but would accept ER since she knows me and knows I can function. I'm not thinking about going into prosthetics..still helping people but in a different way. I'm in the mindset of "holy **** I don't think I could spend a length of time with the same annoying patient" since I get so many of those on the rig. It is all mindset and mines all screwy right now. Idk what happened I'm just scared of staying in and hating it, or getting my RN and never doing anything with it or pulling out and regretting it. IM SO CONFUSED lol

Hey all! So like the title says, somewhat of a midlife crisis going on right now. I'm going to give a bit of background and want your opinion on anything and everything that comes to your mind. I have always thought I wanted to be a nurse. I was always told by family that it is excellent pay and job security. I was great at school, so I went for it. I never really knew what else I should do anyway so I think I just headed to where I was being led. I love psychology but know that it is difficult to make a living with a BA in psych so I think I just defaulted to nursing. I currently work as an EMT running 911 calls and love it. I quit my phlebotomy lab job because I didn't like being cooped up in a hospital and honestly, hated seeing the same patients for weeks at a time and it was so repetitive. I also saw the rude patients that treated their nurses like butlers and it bothered me so much. In EMS, no two calls are the same and it's great and if I didn't have to be a FF to run 911 as a medic, that would've been plan A after gaining the EMS experience that I have. That being said, I'm already in a nursing program and now am suddenly having second thoughts. I'm now thinking I want to make prosthetics and orthotics but that requires a general bachelor's(which I don't have) to enter into a master's program. I don't want to take this clinical spot from someone who really wants it because I really wanted it at one point and would honestly hate to hear someone saying what I am right now. I always said I would get my 2 years experience then head to a CCT transport company because I do like working in a rig but honestly, 2 years doing tele sounds like torture at this point. No offense to tele nurses whatsoever, I have the utmost respect for literally every type of nurse, tele just doesn't seem like my cup of tea but seems like everyone starts there. I have friends who have graduated nursing school and said clinicals were torture. They said you're simply a patient mover and cleaner and you don't actually practice most anything you learn (they were at a Level 1 trauma center so it's not as if they just didn't have opportunities). I don't want to go through nursing school just to be a jaded nurse since I'm already a "salty" EMT. I want to help people but only cleaning and catering to someone all day sounds like torture, it's just not my vision of nursing I once had now that I've been exposed to hospitals throughout a few counties. So here's my question: Am I wrong? Am I missing the entire point of being a nurse? I'm not sure what changed but suddenly, I just don't have the passion I thought I once had. I still have 2 years left in the program because it just started in May. I know there are other options to nursing such as clinics, and informatics and whatnot, but it seems like everyone has to start in Tele for experience(for example). I used to have anxiety about never getting into a program and now that I'm in one, I want to change gears and it's scaring the hell out of me. I don't want to throw away everything I've worked so hard for but I also don't want to push myself through a program that isn't for me. Has anyone else experienced this? Are these doubts and hesitations normal? Did you end up changing gears or sticking it out? Or has anyone started in another field and switched completely? I know everyone has doubts about their abilities and I know I am fully capable of being a nurse but has anyone ever doubted that this is the right career for them? I'm only 22 so I'm still young and have time but it still freaks me out that I have friends with their career set up already and now I'm thinking about changing gears completely. I also don't want to be living at home and practically paycheck to paycheck forever. Sorry for the rambling, I'm just kind of freaking out over here.

I think I'm supposed to be at Mission but my lab isn't until August 22,23 and 30th.