KeekesRenea

Hello, everyone! I am currently a pre-nursing student at Eastern Michigan University. I just recently finished my long and grueling semester. In the semester I just finished, I was taking 6 classes (A&P 1 and 2, Mathematical Reasoning, Life Span, Anthropology, and Writing 2) School was LITERALLY my only priority. Good news, though... I made straight As, 4.0. :) And I hope it will be enough to get me in to the BSN program I am applying to. I only have one choice, it wasn't my initial choice to do it that way, but I found that a lot of the choices I had at the time didn't accept my A&P courses... How convenient. So, that's another reason why it felt like a lot of pressure for me. So, IF I do get that acceptance letter, what should I be looking for, looking out for, etc.? I heard nursing school was hard. Some people believe that it was the hardest thing they ever did in life. Is it really that hard? Were you/are you able to work during the program? Nurses who have already made it through and current nursing students, what was/is your experience?

Keekes is just a play off my first name which is "Kiarra". Renea is my middle name.

The few people I spoke to had close to my score... Which honestly made me nervous. How can that many be close, you know?

To be honest, I think it will. There are more people applying and I've heard that competition was really fierce. I was thinking about not applying at first... I don't think my score it that great... But I worked my butt off to get to this point, so I may as well go through with it and see what happens...

Thank you for your reply. :)

I don't know a fancy way to start this, so I'll just get straight to the point of this post... For as long as I could remember, I've always been well attached to my emotions... I knew what I was feeling at the specific time of that specific situation, and I PROMISE this was me ever since I was really young. I just never knew how to deal with "negative emotions" in the right way... If I was angry, I'd make sure I did things to make sure that the person who pissed me off knew I was angry and that they needed to fix it. If I was sad, depending on how sad I was, I'd just hide away and not do anything until something was done about it or until I felt over it. Growing up, people had a lot of control over my emotions. And I used to be a MAJOR people-pleaser... Around the time I turned 22-23, I started to notice how cruel the world actually was, and as much as I wanted to believe that everyone had good in them, I kept being proven wrong. It got to a point where I would do self-destructing things because I was completely snatched from my false reality that if I was nice enough to people, maybe I wouldn't deal with so many bad things. But as I went on with life, I noticed that it really didn't matter or not in most situations and I kind of developed the mindset that humanity as a whole was bad. So, I started having the attitude of "screw you if you don't like me because I already don't like you." As it is now, I am 24... And now I am completely numb. It completely sucks because I KNOW that I want to be a nurse... But I also know that my feelings and views about people as a whole isn't the best thing? Not saying at all that I'd walk up to someone and be a complete... Rude person... to them. But it seems like I am definitely on the defense and unless I've known someone for a long time and I can trust them, they are guilty until proven innocent... Instead of how I saw everyone before my complete emotional change, "innocent until proven guilty"... There could be some benefits to not being as emotionally affected... But isn't there a balance? I thought that by 24 I'd have all of this down... But in all honesty, I'm not even close... Now-a-days, it seems as if I'm just emotionally disconnected... Which is what I'm feeling more and more like everyday, the more I deal with people who I perceive as "bad"... Or I am lashing out, trying to do whatever I can to get back at someone who I felt crossed the line. Some people who I know (also healthcare providers), think that some of this is needed to protect myself... In parts I can agree... Especially, when it comes to just being disconnected and not caring so much that it ruins you... But, to be a nurse, you still have to have some form of emotion. You need to have a heart... And I feel like mine has been almost destroyed to be honest. How does one actually fix this? How can you keep that emotional balance. I want to be a nurse and I don't want to let this stop me from achieving that goal, seeing as I worked so hard. Sorry, this post is long... Really needed to just get this off my chest. Hopefully, no one will be offended.

What section did you miss?

I applied and I had a few more points than I thought. I am up to 478.92 points. What about you? Did you pass the TEAS? How many points do you have?

Well, that's fine, I guess. I was able to say what I had to say. If they're determined to stay ignorant, it is no longer my problem.

Just like you are speaking from experience, I am also speaking on experience. And what I have seen from the healthcare field, in general, seems pretty valid. Am I denying that there are medics like the ones you described? No. Me being a paramedic had to deal with a medic or two who were like that. A lot of us aren't. I know I don't do that. It would be nice to see more healthcare providers act as a team instead of playing the "my licensure is higher than yours" game. That was the whole point of my post. It wasn't to start a "pissing contest", as I was accused of doing from someone earlier in the conversation, and it wasn't to broad brush all nurses. If you don't do it, there would be no need to defend yourself. *shrugs* My intended audience was for the nurses who actually do what I am talking about.

Have you retaken the TEAS, yet?

Do what you feel will help you. CNA is probably the most traditional in terms of getting experience before becoming and LPN. But you really don't have to. People push becoming a CNA before doing LPN or RN... But, I became a paramedic and I'm aiming to become a nurse. There's really no one way to do it.

Is anyone applying to EMU's traditional BSN program for the Fall 2017? I haven't seen a post for this year yet... So, I am hoping for some responses! I've taken all the prerequisites there except one. I have straight As in every prereq except for Organic Chemistry... I earned a B+ Could have done better in that class, but it is what it is... It was my fault. I have healthcare experience. I scored all 20 points for the Teas. I took the nursing 110 course, and my science prereq gpa will be a 3.72 once I complete my A&P courses with an A. I started filling out my application for the program and it calculated my points being 472.92/500. I feel like I am safe... But, at the same time, I don't know what everyone else is applying with. Hopefully, it'll be enough...

You are very right and I agree 100% with this. Maybe I shouldn't care as much... I just feel like people stereotype each other over dumb things all the time... I wish more people in healthcare, despite their licensure level, could work as a team instead of having the attitude of who's better than who. But you are right about me needing thick skin. I'm working on that. :)

I understand what you are saying. I am definitely not dissatisfied with my job, though. I used paramedicine as a stepping stone and I am quite proud of my choice. It just gets annoying with people invalidating medics all the time and a lot of the time, these people speak without doing any research whatsoever. They speak out of brainwashed bias. That's what irritating about that. Medics already have a lot to deal with as far as not being paid what they are worth, dealing with the worse of the worse prehospital, even the politics of EMS is a struggle... The last thing that needs to happen is medics being talked down to because they didn't become nurses like the 3 million + Americans who did.