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Hi All!

I'm a crazy father of 2 ex-premed who just recently turned down Northwestern to go into a RN program.

I already have an Associate in Science, but I'll be getting another ADN and then go to a 4 yr school.

When I went to an info session about the RN program ill be trying to get into, out of like 70 ppl only 5 were guys.

So I want to know are there any men out there?

i am a male student. i am so exited and happy.I got accepted to a nursing program in a community college in ny. i will start in september for fall. i heard is a tough program . is any one has an advice what to do to keep up in the program and how to study. i am new to this site

good luck for all u male nurse

any male nurse or student in ny city

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hi all i am a male student in a medical assistant program and after i become an MA then ill eather go for my LPN or my RN.

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hey nicemood...i have just completed my 1st year of nursing school, adn program in nh, and my best advice is that i hope you got your all prereqs done and that your life is in order. if your working close to 40 hours a week it is going to be a struggle. as far as keeping up in the class each and every week do all the readings, review the notes, and master it as if you had a weekly test. reread your notes every night so that it becomes almost second nature...doing so will only give you the basic factual information that will aid in you in critical thinking that will require all the information you leanred to make the appropriate intervention, diagnoses, assessment, lab value check, or med during the test. i had a hard time but after developing the discipline midway through the second semester my first test scores 80 and 71.2 were enhanced by an 85, 94.2, and a 90 on the final for a final grade of 84. shedule weekly office visits with your clinical instructor whenever possible so that you may ask him/her what exactly they want for paperwork, (care plans, fhps, and process recordings) and how to do them correctly. all this may sound a little intimidating but i was a 4.0 student going into the program, working full-time, and i needed to cut my hours to less than 20 hrs per week, if that, just to keep up with the hours of needed studying, paperwork, clinicals, lectures, homework, and life). i wish you the best...the hardest thing about 1st semester is getting over the shock of realizing what you have just commited yourself to for the next 2 grueling years.:monkeydance: don't forget to party hard after taking a test to keep your sanity intact and to remind yourself self that life in nursing school isn't all hell:angryfire !!!

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...my best advice is that i hope you got your all prereqs done...

i've got most of my pre-reqs done. everything except for a&p (i finishing now and ii is early summer '06), chemistry (taking fall '06 in my 1st semester of nursing school) and micro (targeted for summer '07) transferred from my previous bs. i've been thinking about seeing if i could take micro during the spring '07 semester so as to free the entire '07 summer up for an externship. don't have to work so all my time will go toward class, studying and clinicals. and oh yeah, driving to and from school....

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Nicemood,

If you can do it than your stronger than most. I would advise that you only take easy electives, if any, during nursing school. Some are corequisite meaning that you have to have it done before Nursing 1,2,3, or 4 or you must take it while taking Nursing. If you don't or you fail and it is a prerequisite for another corequsite than you can't take the next nursing course until next year, after you complete the prereqs/coreqs. I'm a natural in science but there is only so much information you brain can take in especially in A & P and chemistry where the material is a mile deep and a couple miles long. I would try to complete A & P II and chem over the summer. Everyone I know who has taken Micro, A & P, or Chem while taking nursing have either outright failed or passed by the very skin of their teeth. You need all the time possible to dedicate to nursing school. The 1st semester is the hardest because you truly have no idea what is headed your way and you don't want the commitment of another class to breathe down the back of your neck while nursing school had you pinned up against a wall. Think of nursing as taking A & P I, II, Chem, English, and Psych all at the same time. It is no joke it truly is that challenging and it will be a struggle. Best of luck and kill your prereqs (which are some pretty dire ones to have left) over the summer. Trust me when I say you will thank me after two months of nursing school and your ready to lose it...even with no job.

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Hey yall. 28 yr old here going for BSN. I'm finishing my Junior yr at a 3 year clinical college in Atlanta, GA. ALso one of the few in my class. 6 out of 136.

The odds are great but I've been with the same females for 2 years now...I can't wait to get done and find fresh faces. No one loves women like I love women.... :cheers:

I absolutely love the 20:1 ratio female:male that I've experienced in my pre-requs. Always makes it a bit easier to get motivated to attend class!:monkeydance:

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I absolutely love the 20:1 ratio female:male that I've experienced in my pre-requs. Always makes it a bit easier to get motivated to attend class!:monkeydance:

I'd like to get your opinion about working with women; once you get your first or second nursing job.

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....or working for women....:uhoh3:

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i'd like to get your opinion about working with women; once you get your first or second nursing job.

i have a fair amount of working with and for women. as a supervisor who has had a team that was 50% women, i kinda know what i'm getting into regarding that. women tend to like working with and for me too.. and being my classmate. treat women (goes for men too) the way they want to be treated ad usually things go smoothly.

part of loving women is being able to respect them for who they are. i do, unapologetically. fascinating creatures indeed.

it will be interesting though... i still have much to learn... and i know i'm going to hear long heated conversations on shoes and who's wearing too much make up... goes with the territory.

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it will be interesting though... i still have much to learn... and i know i'm going to hear long heated conversations on shoes and who's wearing too much make up... goes with the territory.

:lol2:

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Nicemood,

If you can do it than your stronger than most. I would advise that you only take easy electives, if any, during nursing school. Some are corequisite meaning that you have to have it done before Nursing 1,2,3, or 4 or you must take it while taking Nursing. If you don't or you fail and it is a prerequisite for another corequsite than you can't take the next nursing course until next year, after you complete the prereqs/coreqs. I'm a natural in science but there is only so much information you brain can take in especially in A & P and chemistry where the material is a mile deep and a couple miles long. I would try to complete A & P II and chem over the summer. Everyone I know who has taken Micro, A & P, or Chem while taking nursing have either outright failed or passed by the very skin of their teeth. You need all the time possible to dedicate to nursing school. The 1st semester is the hardest because you truly have no idea what is headed your way and you don't want the commitment of another class to breathe down the back of your neck while nursing school had you pinned up against a wall. Think of nursing as taking A & P I, II, Chem, English, and Psych all at the same time. It is no joke it truly is that challenging and it will be a struggle. Best of luck and kill your prereqs (which are some pretty dire ones to have left) over the summer. Trust me when I say you will thank me after two months of nursing school and your ready to lose it...even with no job.

Interesting (albeit negatively skewed) perspective. The only pre-reqs I have left are chem & micro which I have to take once in nursing school. Chem is on my schedule along with Nursing 110/111 and clinicals this coming fall. Micro is scheduled for next summer as a stand-alone course (no problem there). I'm finishing A&P I now and will take A&P II in a 6 week summer course starting in 2 weeks.

Regarding the "everyone I know..." comment, how many people are you talking about? That seems like a generalization based on your circle of friends/acquaintances. As it stands now, we gonna have agree to disagree on this one. OTOH, I'll let you know if I still feel the same way in November after a few months of nursing school....

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I think it's comical that when people say...things like this, they immediately do exactly what say they don't mean to do. Apparently you care enough to point it out and get on a high horse telling me it's not something I should mention....so you tell me. Heterosexual is the default assumption, if you are straight you don't have to mention it. But several men here have mentioned their wives and kids. ( personally glad to hear it ) If I had instead just mentioned my husband would that have been better? ( guess some might have even thought I was a woman...( no insult to the fairer sex ) Perhaps instead of trying to make everyone conform to your sensibilities, It would serve you better to keeping your own side of the street clean. But that's my advice, take what you want and leave the rest.

Just a suggestion...

Ricky

As per Malenurse1:

I think its great that you are proud enough to announce who you are, just like the straight guys are proud enough to announce their families

And, I think so too.

Great thread guys!!

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