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Ofcourse!
Get some tutoring help and stuff!
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I’m not sure im afraid, but take a look here! I think it tells you the qualifications you need!

http://www.planitplus.net/careerzone/…

I also agree with Keckers on the tutoring part. If you are struggling a bit, get some help! Dont give up on being a nurse, just because your teacher told you that you wouldnt make it! Prove him wrong!

Good luck

Find nursing programs at universities/colleges
Find out what they require

What a nurse says she does in her daily work doesn’t mean as much as what the degree program requires of you wherever you want to apply.

as a vet student i had to take a prereq chemistry course as well. there are two reasons for this. One is because being a nurse requires a certain amount of academic intelligence. if you can understand basic chemistry, you will most likely understand the material required for nurse school. if you cant…you will probably struggle a lot. they dont want to let you in, and set you up to fail.

the second:
yes you do use chemistry. every day. as a nurse you will be administering different drugs to different people, all of whom have different needs and different interactions.
to understand how drugs interact you need to understand the chemistry behind them. you need to know what effect that will have on a patient, and how it will exhibit.

but on the bright side, youve said you cant do them *well*, which means that you CAN do them. which means that you understand the chemistry behind it. all you need is some more practise and tutoring.

…are you kidding me? if i had the choice between a nurse who has not a clue how drugs or chemistry interacts, and one who does, i know who im gonna go with.
playing the violin makes you musical, not intelligent.
im not saying be up to date with every single drug interaction, that would be rather impossible as new drugs are put out every day. but understanding HOW drugs interact, what brings about those reactions and what side effects can result absolutely will make you a better nurse.
as a student in the medical field, i gave my opinion. apologies if it does not measure up to your standards, but its what i have experienced, and so i shared that with another medical student.

chemistry is a PART of nursing, is the point.
i never said it was ALL of it.
call it crap all you want, the plain and simple truth is that medical schools require you to pass a chemistry course to continue.
im fairly sure theyre a tad more up to speed on what is required in a medical degree than you are, so well just go with them shall we?

hmm. reading your reply again, youve pretty much just said exactly the same as you did in your last reply. which i anwered with mine. did you read it at all? or just pick out the words which you could twist around to make yourself sound smart?
you know nothing of you education, so i would stop criticizing it before you dig yourself further into that hole.

now, this is a forum where people are invited to give their opinions. you gave yours, and i gave mine. it is up to the poster to decide what she wants to take from it, not you.
o how bout you get over yourself, accept that people have different views and experiences, and move to actually helping someone, yes?

how many medical schools have you graduated from, just out of interest….

Well, if you were in UK, there would be no compulsion to study chemistry specifically unless the institution demanded it (most merely specify a “science” which could be biology or physics, combined sciences…) eg. http://www.nhsjobs.com/nurse/entry/en…

Why don’t you contact a few US institutions and ask what their specific entry requirements are or try to find a similar US site like the one I linked above?

I think that’s probably the best advice I can give since I am not in the US and I daresay things are different over there than they are over here, or indeed anywhere else for that matter!

Good luck. Don’t give up on your dream, work at it!

youwantlexie wrote:
Well I certainly didn’t mean to cause an argument. haha. Thank you for both of your opinions, I greatly appreciate it. It was to my knowledge that of course nurses need to be taught basic chemistry so that they have a more in depth understanding but isn’t it the doctors who TELL the nurses “give this patient blah blah cc’s every blah hours”. And the nurse obliges and measures the dose at the correct time for the patient. Don’t eat me alive.. if I’m incorrect, for I’m not a nurse, I NEED TO KNOW. Thank you.

not necessarily. generally in a hospital, drugs are charted for the patients, and the nurses must be capable of drawing them up and administering them without checking with a doctor every single time. obviously junior nurses get checked off by more senior nurses, but doctors definitely dont have the time to run round checking every single nurses work. also, you MUST be capable of recognising if a mistake has been made, or if a patient reacts to a drug you MUST be capable of dealing with that alone till help arrives.
its a massive job with huge amounts of responsibility.
if you wanted some help with chem, id be happy to give you some if youd like, or could point you in the direction of some websites that really helped me out.

michaelangelic wrote:
As a vet you would need to be your own pharmacist and would need an excellent grasp of chemistry. It is a harder profession than people-medicine - tasks are delineated in a hospital.
A nurse does not need a lot of chemisty -some yes but far more importantly she needs some people skills like observation, communication, ability to be proactive and not be intimidated by the dreadful hospital system. So an awareness of the potential signs and symptoms of and ADR is all that is needed not a pharmacy degree or being a walking MIMs
My qualifications?
I am CEO of WHO.

sure you are ;)

I would be a she, not a he.
your incredible retardedness is quite stunning.
i already asked elsewhere where you spent the entire post just picking apart other peoples advice rather than giving your own, but surely your job keeps you far too busy to give you the time to come here and speak to us lowly students thus

michaelangelic, READ more, type less.
its courtybubble, not countybubble, nor countrybubble as you called me in another post.

If it’s in a hospital it need medicines.
Or a waiting room.
Unless it’s dead.
We bury it then.
Or flame it.

michaelangelic wrote:
courtybubble
So feisty
I like you
Will you bee my friend or can’t you cope with my ruse feedback and strange Australian sense of humour?

surely you could shout that to me? leave the post on topic, yes?

I am irrelevant and giggling.