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If you've never taken a college class before start with lifespan and comp1, comp1 is a writing class so you'll get used to the work load and lifespan has a similar format as the science classes to get you used to the pace. YOU NEED TO GET AN A IN A&P. This is the weed out class they use to decrease the number of applicants (because so many people drop out and fail) and often they will only concider your first grade in A&P. If you fail it you can of course re-take it for your transcripts, but the nursing program is still going to concider you as if you failed it. If you are really in no hurry take A&P by itself, or with dosage calculations (you'll ace it if you know how to cross multiply it's like 5th grade math). I had friends who had better GPA's than me who got waitlisted because they had a C in A&P and I got an A. Humanities are good classes to pair with labs too. I recommend sociology over philosophy. If you've got a "nursing mind" the crap they sell you in philosophy is going to drive you nuts. My school offered classes like swing dance and bowling for PE I took so I could bring my family with me and make if a weekly activity. Don't let the name fool you. Nutrition is not the food pyramid and papers on obesity. It was really hard. It is basically the chemistry behind food and goes so far as the chemical bonds and metabolic responses to different diets. Government and history are pretty much the same crap you learned in high school unless you are in a different state now. I know at least in Texas part of the requirement is Texas history which natives have memorized but really annoys imports.

Don't worry about learning skills in nursing school. I know that is the fun part, and that is what you want to be doing in clinicals. But what a lot of new grads have to learn the hard way is you don't learn how to be a nurse in nursing school. You learn how to pass NCLEX... if you're lucky you get a basic idea of what has to happen next when things go wrong, and prioritize your tasks. We teach you how to be a nurse when you get your first job. You are going to be learning until you retire. Nearly everything I learned in nursing school 10 years ago is obsolete now. Just get through the program and get that degree. Once you have it no one can ever take it from you. Take Kaplan test prep before NCLEX (honestly I thought it would have been helpful before school started since all of our exams were NCLEX style). Don't turn down any learning opportunities in clinicals (I don't care if it is vital signs or bed making) and constantly ask your preceptors "what if this happens" learn to think ahead of the disease. The rest will fall together later. And never stand when you can sit.