<p>I go to a pretty competitive nursing program in the midwest, but for my program, you need a 3.7 to even have a chance of getting in. To put this in perspective, when we registered before freshmen year, there were 400 people (guys and girls) trying to get in (not including transfers). The program only accepts 50.</p>
<p>As far as it being easy… there is no harder program on campus (including engineering and business).</p>
<p>^ I thought that is was slightly easier to get into Nursing now cause of the Nursing shortage in the US? But I guess the demand led to more applicants meaning more competition again…nursing is one of those fields where you don’t want dumb unqualified people coming in lol. :p</p>
<p>Too bad there’s actually so many dumb, unqualified nurses out there, though. You’d be surprised. XD</p>
<p>the thing about competitive nursing programs is that because there’s a nursing shortage in the U.S., there’s also a shortage of qualified nursing TEACHERS, so a lot of programs have to be really competitive because they don’t have the resources to support hundreds of students.</p>
<p>at least, that’s what people in the nursing school at my school have told me.</p>
<p>^Yes to both responses. There is a major shortage on qualified (DNP or PhD in Nursing) faculty, which leads programs to be competitive. Also, if people really understood the amount of medicine practiced by RN’s, they would be shocked. Most people think of nurses as the ones who get my blood pressure when i get a check up, but in the hospital, you are lucky to see a doctor for 5 minutes a day, where as nurses are the ones who actually assess the patients. MD’s rely on nurses for an incredible amount of functions that few people (including myself, before I started to get my BSN). </p>
<p>Are there some very dumb nurses out there, of course (* dont forget, “nurse” describes many different levels of education as well*). But I dont think any more so then “dumb” people in other professions.</p>
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Yes, a nurse’s job is patientcare, they are the ones constantly interacting with the patient, giving shots, administering medicine, cleaning up after them…people watch medical TV shows and often think that’s the doctor’s job, but it’s not. That’s why doctors will step in and see the patient for like 5 minutes; that type of care is the nurse’s job. And there’s different types of nurses with different qualifications so that varies as well I guess.</p>
<p>does anyone watch House MD? those docs are always doing the nurse’s job on that show…i guess that’s because the patient is an important part of the plot, but still.</p>