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Yeah, I have 90 credits. I saved my sciences for last before I go into the nursing program. Before this C+, the lowest grade I ever received was a B+ in my first semester of college after I had been out of school for about a decade, so my GPA is only going to go down a little bit thankfully. Great point about finding out if they accept retakes. Unfortunately there are only 2 BSN programs in my area and one of them requires that all sciences have to be taken at a 4 year university and at least a B, and the other states they want at least a 3.2 overall GPA (which really boils down to much higher than that to be competitive) and at least a B in all sciences. I appreciate your input!

Hi everyone, I just got my final grade for A&P I this morning after taking my final last night. Needless to say, I am very disappointed. My final grade is 79.2%. I am 0.08 points away from a B. Where I live, B's are the lowest grade accepted for BSN programs, so although it isn't a problem with my ADN program, it's definitely going to be one when I'm looking to get into a RN to BSN program. I'm confident in my understanding of the subject, but my professor's exams were killer and the only people who got B's were the ones who got A's in lab. I had a B in the class until I got a low C on my final last night. I can't repeat the class this coming semester because all of the classes are closed now, but I am registered for A&P II and I guess I'll just take that and then have to retake A&P I the following semester. Anyone have any similar experiences? This is my lowest grade ever... prior to this my lowest grade was a B+ and my GPA is now going to be about a 3.8 with the C+ factored in, so that is something positive. I'm just feeling down and looking for advice/to hear from others who've had to repeat the class as well. I appreciate it in advance!

Oh boy. Well, first of all, I wasn't even the one who asked about a Trump presidency, and I made that very clear in the original post. Second of all, it wasn't his opinion. He stated that there is no future for NPs as if he was an expert on the subject. There was no, "in my opinion..." But thanks for the advice! Much appreciated.

This is the impression that I was under... that there will always be a place for NPs, but like you said, a job crunch is possible because so many RNs are deciding to pursue that path. I was really taken aback by how dismissive he was.

Hi everyone, I'm just starting out in nursing school. I'm in my first semester, and currently at the tail-end of A&P I. On Tuesday night, one of my classmates asked our professor, who spent the bulk of his career prior to teaching as a scientist for Schering-Plough Research Institute, what a Trump presidency could possibly mean for the future of healthcare professionals. My classmate went on further to ask our professor what he thought a job market in the future would look like for NP's. Before answering the question, our professor went on and on about how MDs and PAs will always be needed, and he finally said that he doesn't see a job market for NP's other than as nursing instructors. He was even pretty much shrugging his shoulders and rolling his eyes! This immediately raised a huge red flag for me. I was pretty horrified by how dismissive he was of this career path. He actually said, "yeah, that's an avenue a lot of nurses are taking these days, mainly because it's the only way to advance their careers. Most of the time, nurses can further their careers by becoming charge nurses and things like that, but no, I don't see a job market for NPs as care providers. As nurses become more in demand, there will be more programs for nurses and nursing instructors will be needed, so NPs will likely just end up as instructors." I still can't wrap my head around what a stupid and dismissive remark that was considering that nursing is so frequently regarded as a career with so many options, so for him to write it off as either we can do beside care and as he put it, become charge nurses if we want to progress, or get higher degrees only to find we can't get work as anything more than instructors just seems SO out of touch to me! Can he possibly be serious?! And furthermore, is there any truth to his assumption? I personally know two women who were nurses for 20+ years who recently went back to school to pursue DNPs and are currently working in their specialized fields as NPs alongside a group of doctors, and they're very happy and successful. I follow multiple nurses on Instagram who have large social media followings who are recent grads/current NP students and none of them have been relegated to teaching because there is "no job market for NPs." I felt so strongly about it that I actually looked up information about NPs in the job market today and the field only as a 1% unemployment rate. My lab instructor is a highly respected doctor and I plan on discussing this with him tonight, since I'm sure he knows a lot more about this sort of thing than my lecture instructor seems to think he does. I would love to "hear" your thoughts on this. Personally, I was horrified and quite offended.

Hi everyone, I'm just starting out in nursing school. I'm in my first semester, and currently at the tail-end of A&P I. On Tuesday night, one of my classmates asked our professor, who spent the bulk of his career prior to teaching as a scientist for Schering-Plough Research Institute, what a Trump presidency could possibly mean for the future of healthcare professionals. My classmate went on further to ask our professor what he thought a job market in the future would look like for NP's. Before answering the question, our professor went on and on about how MDs and PAs will always be needed, but that he doesn't see a job market for NP's other than as nursing instructors. He was even pretty much shrugging his shoulders and rolling his eyes! This immediately raised a huge red flag for me. I was pretty horrified by how dismissive he was of this career path. He actually said, "yeah, that's an avenue a lot of nurses are taking these days, mainly because it's the only way to advance their careers." Can he possibly be serious?! And furthermore, is there any truth to his assumption? I personally know two women who were nurses for 20+ years who recently went back to school to pursue DNPs and are currently working in their specialized fields alongside a group of doctors, and they're very happy and successful. I follow multiple nurses on Instagram who have large social media followings who are recent grads/current NP students and none of them have been relegated to teaching because there is "no job market for NPs." My lab instructor is a highly respected doctor and I plan on discussing this with him tonight, since I'm sure he knows a lot more about this sort of thing than my lecture instructor seems to think he does. I would love to "hear" your thoughts on this. Personally, I was horrified and quite offended.

Thank you so much!

Hi everyone, I'm pre-nursing, and I'm taking A&P 1 at the moment and I am completely drowning in this class. My GPA is high, my study skills are normally great... but this class is killing me and I don't even know why I can't get into the swing of things. I already know that nursing school only gets harder and I believe I can do it, I'm just in a pathetic rut right now. I got a C on my first quiz and had a pop quiz on Thursday that I know I probably did even worse on and my confidence is destroyed. What was your experience in A&P like? I have a 3 hour lecture and a 3 hour lab both once a week that involve our professor going over some topics, occasionally telling us we need to know something for a test, and our only assignments are Mastering A&P online, which I hate and don't find helpful in the least. Occasionally, he assigns us a video as well. If I'm going to learn this stuff, I need to be able to practice it more. Can anyone maybe suggest some kind of workbook, or really anything at all that helped you? I really would love and could desperately use some tips, and also would love to know what your experience was like in class. Did you have more assignments than I'm having? Did you work with Mastering A&P? What was your lecture like? Thank you so much in advance.

Hi everyone, This coming fall semester, I will be taking A&P I. The books are extremely expensive and I'm not in a great place financially right now. I decided to spend on the lecture book, which cost me around $275, and I still have to purchase an access code for around $140. I figured that this might be a good book to have for future reference, perhaps even next semester for A&P II. My question is whether or not I can get away with just renting the lab manual for the lab portion of A&P I? This would save me greatly, but if I will somehow need this book for future reference, I'll suck it up and spend the money. Any heads up would be a huge help to me as this is my first class with a lab involved and I'm pretty clueless. Thanks so much in advance.