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Ms. Koyote got accepted to her top choice nursing school, also the most competitive locally. :D

So I've just spent all my money on supplies and have to spend more! :jerkit: Damned expensive stuff.

So for the next 18 months or so I'm gonna have less time for knifemangling, and less money, while spending more money.... But hey, she'll be a fine nurse when she's done, and a fine midwife when she does the CNM program.
 
Good news. All the best to you two. Help her study. Do more of the house work to take some load off her,too. Give her all the time and space she needs.

Back in the late 60's, I used to tutor nursing students in chemistry. The school was very competitive,and had a no second chance policy. Fail a class during the first year and you were out of the school.

Stacy
 
Stacy- That's what's probably going to cut into my shop time the most. We've got a 5 and 2 year old in here. I love to cook, too. As long as the money rolls in....

Personally, I think she'll do great. She's smart, pulled a 3.8 gpa on her prereqs without a single repeat (repeating courses until you get the gpa you need is pretty common, and nothing wrong with doing so, but not needing to is cool), and she got into the program almost certainly because of her history.

Jess had 18 months of births as one of the hospital's volunteer doulas (birth assistants) before deciding she wanted to do nursing badly enough to start taking the prerequisites and working on applications. She was very worried a month ago when everyone in the valley was turning in their 8 or 9 applications for the various programs (multiple thousands of applications for a few hundred total slots) and it turned out that a 3.8 GPA and a 94th percentile on the assessment test were merely middlin good for the top hundred odd applicants.

Turns out, as I suggested, that 3 years of birthing cetner volunteer work and a half gross of babies under her belt- and getting the nod from all the nurses she's worked under- mattered a lot.

I'm really really proud, she's beat out a couple thousand people to get this one. (Okay, granted, half of those are mouth breathers who think that charts don't matter, nursing is about paychecks)


Just as long as I can keep us from having to forage hackberries for food and hunt the suburban squirrels, we'll be fine.
 
I'm returning to college after nearly 18 years..... the difference in quality of students is mind boggling. I don't know how most of my classmates graduated junior high school much less high school.

Scores are nice but recommendations carry the real weight of getting into courses. She must be very talented.
 
Happy to see her get accepted at the top nursing school. It is expensive but it will pay itself off in the long run. --------:thumbup:-
 
Will Leavitt said:
I'm returning to college after nearly 18 years..... the difference in quality of students is mind boggling. I don't know how most of my classmates graduated junior high school much less high school.

Scores are nice but recommendations carry the real weight of getting into courses. She must be very talented.
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you should hear HER rants about some of her classmates. The mandatory essay in the application packet probably gave her a leg up. Bluntly, half her classmates cannot write a complete sentence reliably!

She is talented, and has done a bang up job with some of the more difficult birthing patients- non english speakers, overcontrolling parents and spouses, hypochondriacs...
 
Nursing takes a special kind of human being, and my hand goes up for your wife. Congratulations! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

My wife was a nurse, and a fine one, until she got sick. She still aches to take care of patients, and is a fantastic resource and advocate whenever one of our family or friends has an illness or is in the hospital. I honestly don't know what we'd do without her.

There are a few good nurses out there. I'm always impressed and thankful if Jeanie gets one of the good ones when she's in the hospital. Having a skilled and caring nurse can make all the difference in the outcomes from a stay in the hospital, regardless how long it is. Nurses get a top slot in my heart, that's for sure.
 
koyote said:
Ms. Koyote got accepted to her top choice nursing school, also the most competitive locally. :D

So I've just spent all my money on supplies and have to spend more! :jerkit: Damned expensive stuff.

So for the next 18 months or so I'm gonna have less time for knifemangling, and less money, while spending more money.... But hey, she'll be a fine nurse when she's done, and a fine midwife when she does the CNM program.
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It is one of the foundations of a good relationship; being able to support each other as we reach for our dreams.

Go for it, Fred
 
She was worried about being selected for the program- there are lottery based nursing programs and competitive ones. And for competitie ones a 3.8 GPA and a 93rd percentile (!!!) on the assessment test are but middle of the road. Enough to get you onto the list of applicants they'll look at, but not way out there.

Her 3 years of volunteering as a doula in the local hospital's birthing center probably made the decision- she's done over 4 dozen births and has developed an ability to deal with not only the laboring mothers, but the associated family members, that gets her called in to deal with special cases. She's apparently got a fantastic ability to deal with the patients, and she sre has commitment. I remember one birth she did when *she* was 7.5 months pregnant with Astrid, and several times after Astrid was born where I'd cart Astrid in for nursing breaks during birthings.

She's going to be amazing. I just worry about selling the knives and keeping the children going.
 
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