I realized the other day if I had the choice to go back to school and do it all over again I would stay far away from finance.

Tell me the worst parts about nursing and what traits you wish you had to succeed even more in this role. Or just outline your career progression and what you would have done differently.

I've been keeping an eye on this group for a while and it's really refreshing to see that it's not unusual for people my age (early 30s) to pursue this career. But at the same time I yearn to know the worst parts of the job so I really know what I'm getting into

Doing my BSN. Don't think more needs to be said.

I just entered nursing school, I'm 19 and just very unfit in general.

We got told we have internships starting mid November, probably in retirement homes. I don't know if it will be very physical but I assume so, and if not this time probably later on.

At the moment I have to limit myself to 5kg's of groceries max when I run errands cause I genuinely can't carry more than that home. If it's over 10kg I cannot lift it from the ground. I know this is going to be a problem very soon and I want to fix it.

Does anyone have any advice on exercises to do that help with lifting stuff?

In my last pre req semester now. My last subjects include a math 150 college algebra and while I’m succeeding in much of everything else, this class I’m worried I will fail. My GPA at this moment is a 3.5 and I haven’t yet taken the TEAS test to see if I can even be accepted into the program.

The program starts in spring and I’m worried I won’t be accepted. This is stressing me out to the core cause I’ve put so much time and energy this far and my vision is to be a nurse no matter what.

I currently work in healthcare and my knowledge is good. I want this so bad but I know there is always someone else far more smarter and capable. A lot of girls in my classes are passing with As in math and XYZ so I’m just worried. Need encouragement.

I’m also doing this while working full time 2 jobs and with 3 kids as a single mother. I don’t even know how I’m making it but I’m doing my best

For context, I am in the process of applying to nursing schools (ASN programs) right now—I am likely going to go through a community college to save money. My end goal is to get my BSN.

I currently work full time as an MA and I hear that LPN schools often have flexible schedules that allow you to keep working while in school. There are quite a few LPN to RN bridge programs in my area (Denver, CO) and I’m wondering if it’s worth it to go that route.

Up until now I’ve been planning on going to community college to get my ASN, start working, and then later be a part of a bridge program to get my BSN. However, the main school I am looking into requires you to be a CNA before starting the ASN program—unfortunately being an MA doesn’t count.

Since I’m already planning on taking this extra step of becoming a CNA before starting school, I’m wondering if it would be more beneficial to go the LPN route instead. Granted the CNA program is only a semester long, about 15 weeks, and becoming an LPN takes about 1 year, but I do know that LPN to RN bridge programs are typically 1 year long and a traditional ASN program would be two years. So would they total about the same amount of time invested in the end?

Which route should I go? LPN —> ASN, or CNA —> ASN.

​I failed my exam. In my eyes, it's a failure—a 78.73, leaving me with a 79.79 overall grade average right now. I have never received an exam grade below 86 in my LPN program or my bridge program so far. For my exams, this is the lowest of the low. I feel like I deserve it, and that it was my own fault. I was on the verge of dropping out last week, unsure if I could make my schedule work between financial logistics, childcare logistics, missing a class, squeezing in appointments, and working as a nurse while exhausted, which threw off my homework time at night. I crammed homework in the last few days. Sleep wasn't as bad last night—I managed to get 6 hours, which actually would have been my second night of getting 6 hours of sleep in the last few weeks. Normally, I go to bed at midnight and wake up around 4:00 or 4:30 AM on the days I work, and 5:00 AM for schoolwork on the days I don't work. I have every Thursday off this semester planned out to do homework, but having to make up a clinical two Thursdays ago threw everything completely out of whack. I hope to bounce back, but I am nervous that my instructor wants to talk to me after class.

​I am also really worried about my grade for the group project. I started research, but I can't do anything else until I have a free Thursday to work on it, and I can't meet up with my group due to intense time constraints.

​Last week, I felt like it was the end. Babysitting options ended, financial options ended, and I was expecting my mom to go through 5 days of radiation therapy for 10 weeks max during the fall semester while trying to figure out how to repay my work the money back. Then I reached out to them to see if they could make any changes. I don't know.

​I figured it out today. At the moment, I may need to miss one clinical and one more class this semester, but outside of that, finances are in order. Tentatively, I need to get some permanent childcare set up by November, but I have time on the waitlist for a few daycare centers and found a drop-in daycare center I can use in the interim for four hours a day if I need to.

​If I try to switch clinical dates now, can it really mess things up financially because I have to drop work hours? Furthermore, changing my clinical dates will affect my study time. At the moment, having clinicals on Wednesday this semester and next semester is the best option with my childcare lining up. Outside of reducing my hours, I would almost have no days off to catch up on homework and would be cramming homework in at odd hours of the early morning and late nights. I am not sure what to do if they are okay to switch my clinical date. Do I accept it after causing such a fuss—wondering if this can even be changed—or should I explain my current situation?

I currently have all pre requisites to apply for nursing to be a rn minus the 4U math. And I am not able to take it because I only have as far as a 3C math. So I decided I’m gonna apply for practical nursing and then bridge. Is this the smartest way?

I recently just graduated in may and I’m willing to take any route that can make me an RN. I’m really motivated to make this change due to the fact I’ve always wanted to be in the medical field and realized I’m more extroverted and can’t handle isolation for long periods of time.

In engineering I’ve always been told GPA doesn’t matter so now I’m dealing with this stain on my transcript of having a 3.05 GPA.

When my girlfriend got into her nursing program she roughly had a 3.9+ GPA. So that just makes my 3.05 feel so embarrassingly low.

What route would you suggest I do if it’s possible to get into a nursing program with this GPA? I really am open to anything.

So I'm starting my final year of nursing school and entering what every person and professor has said to be the most academically challenging semester of nursing school. I'm trying to get myself organized and do prep work before classes start but I also feel like I spend a lot of time doing things like carefully organizing my schedule and planner and binders and whatnot (pretty type A about it honestly which is weird because most of the time I have generally a type B personality). Anyway to the point, I'm going to be in clinical 2 days a week, lecture 2 days a week and working 3 days (one of the work days is after lecture so I at least have one full dedicated study day and I may scale back my work hours more). This semester I'm going to be more crunched for time so I'm curious if other people have found the whole planning and organizing phase to just be too time consuming? I feel like skipping it all together will lead me to forget stuff.

Sorry for the panicky rant school starts soon and my anxiety is through the roof

Hello everyone! I work as a senior admin for a orthopedic surgeon at a well known hospital on the east coast. I have been back and forth with the idea to start nursing school, but given the current state of things in the healthcare system, I’m extremely hesitant.

First, I’m 35. That’s older, I’m aware. I’ve been in healthcare roles, mainly administrative for 10 years now so most of my adult life. Is that too old?

I’m really concerned about staffing (I know it’s abysmal across the board), pay, and quality of life. It’s a fact of life and even in admin roles I’ve seen that patients act up so much more than they did pre-COVID. Maybe it’s just the constant stream of negative media, but the abuse, pay, and staffing seems like it would be a deterrent. I do and have always been interested in advancing my career into nursing though. Now I’m just in a financial position to do so.

Thoughts? Advice? Thanks in advance!

Hey friends. It that time again where I ask my dear fellow redditors for your best dosage calculation and conversion study guides, favorite social media RN YouTube break down. I have access to ATI but I need more to really grasp this. Im slightly terrified and naturally need to get a 100 to be signed off !

I’m in prerequisites and i haven’t been to school since i graduated highschool , i have two children 6 months and 6 years old im not a single mom but my partner also works and is in school too! I am taking bio 101 math 106 and psych 145 did i over do it or is any of these classes super hard or should i be just fine

Hello everyone! I just wanted to share my thoughts and experience with the 4-week crash course in preparation for the NCLEX exam with the Alpha Slice Family.

Moe and his team are truly amazing people. The knowledge and guidance I received from them are invaluable. I especially liked the way they break everything down and make difficult concepts much easier to understand.

I’m so grateful that I decided to join this program. It has been an incredible learning experience, and I would highly recommend it to anyone preparing for the NCLEX!

Thank you for taking the time to read my post. Wishing everyone success on their NCLEX journey. Blessings

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I need help deciding between Chamberlain Online BSN and Nightingale.

Chamberlain: more confidence with California licensure, but more expensive and the grading policy worries me — around a 76% core/exam average, no rounding, and I’ve seen people say they failed by fractions of a percent.

Nightingale: cheaper and seems more forgiving academically, but the current California BRN/licensure situation makes me nervous.

If you were a California student choosing between these two right now, which would you choose and why?

Hi! I wanted to start off saying I finished my prereqs last spring for ASN program and decided to take a couple computer classes last fall (I didn’t get accepted into the ultrasound tech program and was pushed by my advisor to take the rest of the classes for ASN, but felt really confused because of not getting into the program I actually wanted to get in.) so I decided to take a couple computer classes to see if I’d be interested in that. Turns out I am not. So I figured I’d just go ahead and get my ASN I had pretty decent grades overall with prereq classes. I’m now working on applying for the nursing program in my town, I found out I was pregnant at the end of January and decided to take the entire year off baby will be born in Oct. So it’s been awhile since taking A&P I think I took those summer and fall of 24 actually along with micro biology last spring + all the other classes. So I’ve been accepted into the school of choice and have about 6 months until spring semester starts. I am trying to refresh on A/P topics and med term but struggling with where to start (so far I’ve been working on cardiac system and figured I’d go system per system and work on med term as I go). I am working on applying for the nursing program, when I spoke to them in May they made out like I would get into the program my GPA is 3.4 or 3.5 and have mostly As a couple Bs and 1 C just for reference. I’ve been stressing about not remembering anything from my prereq classes and just don’t really know where to begin. Any help would be appreciated.