What age were you when you went to nursing school?

[Imissthefall]

Curious at what the average age is that people are in nursing school?

I am doing my pre reqs now and will be 28 when I start!

[Teacher2bCRNA]

this is awesome to know. this is my second career and i glad to know i won't be the oldster in the class at age 32

i graduated nursing school when i was 32! our class average age was 30... we had an age span of 20 to 56.

[homeismich]

I was 52 when I started and will be 54 when I graduate in December with my BSN. It's so good to see others my age going through school too.

[MountainMan]

(I'll try this post again.) I am so apprehensive about nursing school! I am 51 and will graduate with a BSN in 2009 (starting in January, like you). We are expected to disrobe for male & female classmates to practice exams. Does your program do this?? I guess we'll see it all anyway, but doing this at my age is enough of a challenge...

Sounds stressful I'm 50 and have been in construction so I am in great shape. None-the-less I would be uncomfortable disrobing in front of the people I share so many other things with. Your school should think about hiring an artists model or get a volunteer an pay them with a professional massage or something. It seems as perhaps they are trying to get you to understand the being a patientaspect of our field. Their exercise,however, does not duplicate the true environmnet. There is no anonimity in this surender of trust. Sounds like your school or your instructor is out of touch.

This sounds like a good separate thread!

Oh, by the way I am 50 and just started LPN gragiate in a year.

[karaswthrt4]

I'm 19 and will be starting nursing school this fall

[karaswthrt4]

I'm 19 but will be starting nursing school in the fall (i'll be 20 then)

[susanmarie]

39. And had my 3rd child the day after finishing my OB rotation (no extra credit, darn).

[mammaoftwo]

I am trying to get into the Fall 2007 LPN class and I am 54, will turn 55 in October. Right now I am in pre-nursing classes.

[Reno1978, BSN, RN]

I am 28.

[luv l&d]

17 when I started and 20 when I took my boards. (a 2 day process in the "old days")

[TsavarenaRN]

I started college when I was 19, I will graduate from the nursing program when I am 24; two semesters to go! (took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do heh heh):biere:

[Ari RN, BSN, RN]

I was 25 when I graduated from Nursing School.

[SaraO'Hara]

CNA at 17; I'll be 18 (nearly 19) when I start LPN school in June, 19 when I finish the next May.

Most of the RN students who came through on clinical in September were in their mid-thirties.