Who else is excited about starting grad school?!!

LBH32C · May 16, 2006

Haha OOPs. :selfbonk: Yes that is what I meant... OBVIOUSLY have not started nursing school yet. Hopefully I would have eventually learned that!! But that is what this site is also good for I guess!!

Angie O'Plasty · May 16, 2006

Haha OOPs. :selfbonk: Yes that is what I meant... OBVIOUSLY have not started nursing school yet. Hopefully I would have eventually learned that!! But that is what this site is also good for I guess!!

Don't sweat it--we all have the occasional cerebral flatulation!

yellow finch, BSN, RN · May 16, 2006

I just completed my first course in graduate school. It was a theory course, and I loved it. The reading and posting was so interesting. We worked in small internet groups. It was a lot of work, and sometimes I felt that I couldn't keep up, but I did. The best part is that I was able to focus the course to my own specialty. We had to write a concept analysis, and I wrote it on my specialization. I loved doing it and learned an amazing amount. I am just sad that I have to wait so long to work with patients. I have to take a lot of courses first in this program, and we have to find our own practicals. I am quite nervous about that. I have no idea how to go about it. I just loved it so much that, even though there were many times I felt overwhelmed, I didn't really mind, because I was enjoying what I was learning so much. I was able to apply mostly every theory to my specialty and found them well worth it. Krisssy

Which school are you attending? I just finished Theory at Indiana State University and had similar assignments. :)

yellow finch, BSN, RN · May 16, 2006

Now that my first semester of grad school (FNP track) is over, I feel very excited about starting back up in the Fall. I'm kinda upset that the school doesn't offer many Summer courses. :sniff:

krisssy · May 17, 2006

Which school are you attending? I just finished Theory at Indiana State University and had similar assignments. :)

I am attending Missouri University at Columbia Krisssy

wildmountainchild · May 17, 2006

I start an entry level MSN FNP program in August. I can't wait to be "On my way" after a year and a half of pre-reqs. I'll spend the first 15 months getting a BSN and then begin working on the FNP part. What I really want is acute care NP, so I may look into transferring after I get my BSN.

Regardless, I'm excited. Once it starts I know it will go fast.....and whoops! Before you know it I'll be a nurse. I really hope it's everything I think it is. I'll be 30 by the time classes start and I must admit to felling a little old, I wish I'd figured everything out sooner. But I'm blessed, actually, to have figured it out at all. I'm really passionate about caring for people.

Best of luck to all of us. Keep us updated on what the first month is like!

christvs, DNP, RN, NP · May 24, 2006

Ok so I'm well into my advanced oncology nursing class and it's really very interesting. There is so much work to do; I feel like all I do now is read, read, read....then run to work, come home and read, read, read....go to bed. Wake up, do it again...yet I'm still behind! How did that happen? But I was proud of myself today because I spoke up several times, asked questions, etc. It is a bit intimidating because I'm a med/surg/tele nurse in class with 9 oncology nurses with a lot of oncology experience. So that is a little hard. While I don't think I want to be an oncology NP, I'm still glad I'm taking this elective because I'm really absorbing a lot of this material that I thought was impossible to comprehend.