Info. About Which Direction to Take for Nursing Degree

Updated on November 10, 2008
R.J. asks from Euless, TX
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I am considering going to Tarrant County College NE for two years, and then taking the nurse exam to become and RN. Has anyone taken this route or some other route recently?

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M.M.

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I am not familiar with Tarrant County College. I am a Nurse Practitioner; I graduated with my Bachelor's in 2000 and went on to get my Master's degree in 2005. I know getting into Nursing school is very competitive, so make sure you have excellent grades. You may also want to apply to several schools to increase your odds of acceptance. There are lots of benefits of going into nursing- job security, good pay, schedule flexibility to name a few.

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M.

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R.,

My hubby is at Texas Woman's (TWU) in Dallas and is finishing his BSN. He has met people from the community colleges during clinicals. I'm sure the 2 year route would be fine. It really depends on what you want and if you will do the bridge program later. To get into management/clinical ladder or grad school, you'll need your BSN at some point. But, if you do the 2 year plan, then you can get the hospital to pay for the bridge. Just depends. My hubby already had almost all of the core classes for the BSN done so it didn't make any sense for him to do the two year. But if you are just starting out and can take the one or two semesters of prereqs rather than the 4 semesters and get it done, then that might be better for ya. Good luck!!! Oh, and one other thing...the grades do matter. My hubby's entering Junior II class at TWU...the cutoff GPA was a 3.70 to get in (if you had really good nurse entrance test scores) but my hubby had a 3.88 and very high test scores on the NET. However, he told me that this semester for the upcoming spring, the cutoff was a 3.88 and there were people with a 3.9 and average NET scores that were turned away or waitlisted. It is very competitve now because of the stability and the economy. Good luck!!!

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L.V.

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It sounds good to me!! =) I was considering doing that but it seems like it is taking me forever to get all of the prereq classes so I'm just going lvn then bridge over to RN. But I will tell you that it is very hard to get into the RN program at TCC you have to make very high grades and you can get extra points if you get a cpr certification or if your a nurse's aid.

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S.S.

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I am currently in Vernon College's ADN program. It is a 3 year program, though - given the fact that it takes a year to get the pre-reqs done. I then plan to do Midwestern State's RN-MSN bridge program, since I already have a Bachelor's degree.

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