So Nursing ISN'T a Science????

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Yup. That's what I was just told. Imagine that!!

I applied for a scholarship that you had to be in a science related field or math or engineering, or teaching. Got a letter back saying I did not qualify!

Funny, if I go on to get my Bachelors it WOULD BE A BSN- Bachelors of SCIENCE!! Hello!!

Never mind that I have taken EVERY science course offered at this school!

I think I am going to shoot off a letter to the committee and let them know, yes, nursing is a science!! I wonder where they were educated!

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Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

i call it an art and a science

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Specializes in Peds, Geri.

That is crazy - not a science.

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Specializes in Emergency.

I'd fight it, especially because there could be some money in it for you.

Have you thought about trying to get a letter from the director of the nsg program to explain that nursing is a Science based program? Even if its already too late for you to be considered for the scholarship, maybe someone behind you will benefit from being included for scholarship.

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That's nuts!

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Specializes in Nothing but ER.

Hmm what are A&P, chemistry, and Microbiology?

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

That's maddening.

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

Totally agree with all of the above...

Of course, it's a science. And an art. Makes you wonder what the committee believes nursing to be...

I hope you fight this.

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Oh, boy.

I think that nursing is a discipline that uses the sciences but is not, in and of itself, "a" science.

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Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.

I wonder if you are referring to the new Federal grant program for some science majors. If so - it's not that nursing isn't a science; it is that nursing isn't a science with a shortage of students. Nursing shortage, yes. Shortage of nursing students, NO.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Cardiac.
Oh, boy.

I think that nursing is a discipline that uses the sciences but is not, in and of itself, "a" science.

Yes. It seems more like a social science or a service profession that uses biological and chemical science.

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Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.

Is this the program you are talking about?

http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/SmartGrants.jsp?tab=funding

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