Interested in nursing as a second career but previous college grades were not too good then?

I graduated college 15 years ago with a bachelors degree in communication arts. I am currently working with my husband's business. I always had an interest in nursing and I was looking into going back to school and apply under the accelerated program which you can complete in 15 months. The problem is that all nursing type colleges request that you had maintained a GPA of 3.0 or higher with your previous undergraduate school in order to be accepted into the accelerated nursing program. It is a problem for me because my GPA was a 2.5 average. I did not take my studies seriously back then (sorority, partying, boyfriend, you know). Of course I'm older and wiser and I know if given a chance I can do a good job with the studies. What do you do then if that is the case. Does that mean that my hopes to be a nurse is killed or other ways to go around it?

Your best bet would be to contact one of these accelerated programs and speak with their admissions counselor (or similar). I suspect that the age of your last college classes may be a factor, however, as most medical type education requires the science classes to have been in the last 5 years (as technology changes so much). You might also have some difficulty keeping up with the program with such dated knowledge, unfortunately. If you are in a hurry, you might look into starting in a LVN/LPN program and eventually upgrading to RN that way. You also could just get the associate's RN (AA degree) since you have a bachelor's already; which would be fine depending on your goals.
I would start at the community college getting any updated pre-reqs done as fast as possible as well, even while you are trying to decide what nursing route will work.