16 year old future Nurse,Help?

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Okay first of all I'd like to say thank you for taking time to read this,my question is will having my AA benefit and speed up getting my BSN? If so how? and if not what are the benefits .

Specializes in Oncology.

Getting an AA first would only makke the progress of getting a BSN longer. My program requires experience before you're allowed to apply to the RN-BSN program. To tell you the truth, just apply to BSN as fast as you can. It's not easy writing papers for 2 years straight. At least in my BSN program, learning Med-surg made having to deal with research and global health feel a little bit less unbearable...

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
For those saying having an AA degree won't help, I disagree; you can have an AA and have all the core req's and pre requisites required for nursing school; I did this and was able to transfer all my classes into the nursing program and all I had to do was do the university's requirements, and that was only 3 classes.

That's kind of what I meant. She will not be able to complete her nursing degree with her AA but she can go most of the way towards completing her prerequisites in a BSN program.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
Getting an AA first would only makke the progress of getting a BSN longer.

How do you figure?

She will be obtaining her AA while still in high school. She will graduate from high school with 1-2 years of her BSN already completed.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Ty,I've been on that site but I have a question regarding what you said earlier what do you mean by "If you have your BSN you will enter a masters program to become a midwife",If I just go straight for my BSN then go for my masters will I be a mid-wife after that,or is a mid-wife program still required? And yes I understand the issue regarding my age I'm a freshman in highschool just thinking ahead.By the time I graduate I'll be 19 with my AA or AS.

YOu will have to go to a masters program that is approved by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME) this will make you eligible to take the examination offered by the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB) and become Certified Nurse-Midwives.

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Per the ACNM position statement, Mandatory Degree Requirements for Entry into Midwifery Practice, a graduate degree is required for entry into midwifery practice. All midwifery education programs accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME) provide the necessary education for graduates to be eligible to take the examination offered by the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB) and become Certified Nurse-Midwives; in addition, two of the education programs provide the necessary education for graduates to be eligible to take the AMCB examination and become Certified Midwives. For a list of all the ACME-accredited midwifery education programs, click here.

I would focus on getting a good GPA in high school....it really won't be a huge advantage getting the AA from the community college but education never hurts.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
How do you figure?

She will be obtaining her AA while still in high school. She will graduate from high school with 1-2 years of her BSN already completed.

Sadly some of those credits won't transfer and she will have to take them again but hey....it's a shoe in for a good grade and the GPA booster

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

And you have to remember that a lot of the time it is a set program these kids are doing. They can't deviate from it and take classes for CNA, etc. They have a certain requirement for not only the college classes but a requirement for high school

graduation. Some of the classes they take may not transfer to their university of choice. Our schools have moved away from AP classes to

college classes. But any college credit is good!

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Quick clarification, please :)

OP, you said you are 16 now....but also in 9th grade (freshman) when the usual age for a 9th grader would be 14, becoming 15 by the end of the year. Unless you have JUST turned 16, you'd actually be 17 by the end of this school year---but still just finishing 9th grade? Have you already needed to repeat classes (you are behind your classmates in academics), or am I getting something wrong? This would be important to know; if your plan is to take college courses when you might be "behind the 8-ball", so to speak, in high school academics....this could be a problem.

Would you please clarify? Thanks :)

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Specializes in Public Health.

Pretty sure OP means that her school offers dual enrollment so the classes she takes will be actual college classes that she will take while finishing high school. So it would be the same classes that she would take of she went to a CC and took nursing school pre-reqs.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Quick clarification, please :)

OP, you said you are 16 now....but also in 9th grade (freshman) when the usual age for a 9th grader would be 14, becoming 15 by the end of the year. Unless you have JUST turned 16, you'd actually be 17 by the end of this school year---but still just finishing 9th grade? Have you already needed to repeat classes (you are behind your classmates in academics), or am I getting something wrong? This would be important to know; if your plan is to take college courses when you might be "behind the 8-ball", so to speak, in high school academics....this could be a problem.

Would you please clarify? Thanks :)

It depends on the school system, when her birthday is and what age she was starting kindergarten.

In our school system if you are 6 when you start kindergarten and you go to the "pre-first" before first grade (meant for children emotionally young or needing extra help adjusting) but still in elementary school it is very possible to be a freshman and 16 years old and not be "behind" or "held back".

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Specializes in Cardiac/Tele.

It is also possible to be held back at some point in one's academic career and also be bright, motivated, and successful at a later point in the academic career. There are way too many variables that affect one's age, being held back or not (early academic reasons? something medical but resolved? family moving/military situations?), etc in schools to automatically assume OP is 'behind the 8-ball'.

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