[dixm0004]

Thanks Miss Rochelle. It's really nice to have someone around that has gone through all of this, to point us newbies in the right direction. Did the administrators, by any chance, have some of the nursing students or graduates from previous programs years sit in, and give their takes on the program at your orientation?

Marisha

[hawkfdc]

Rochelle, the term 1 schedules weren't there when I looked today...
but like she said, you could go 3 days, with testing on Mondays.

My schedule was

Mon testing 3-5:30
Tues Concepts 8-11, Assessment 1-4
Wed Pharm 9-12
Thurs Techiniques 7-3
off on Friday.......

BUt there are all sorts of schedules available.

[TDA88]

Originally Posted by kellej

TDA88- I'd definitely call there. Did you read my earlier post? They sent me a denial letter last Friday, due to a computational mistake. Yesterday, I received my acceptance packet. I do think there's some issues in that Nursing office- and the staff were incredibly rude!!

The cut-off was 176.72, so if you had more points than that, you made it. (unless they screwed yours up like they did mine...)

I saw a post that mentioned an ins. company that would help pay for shots for nursing students.... do you have any more info on that?

I found my packet! FCCJ called me to tell me that the post office had returned it because of an unknown address error. Who knows. Now that I officially know that I'm in the program.. I can breathe easy!

Thanks to everyone that replied about the reservation date.

I'm not sure about an insurance company that would help pay for shots. I have no medical insurance and my girlfriend who was in the program in '04 paid almost $500 for hers. Yikes! I'm going to contact DCHD (Duval County Health Department) for available clinics. For those of you in Clay visit this site- http://www.doh.state.fl.us/.

For FINANCIAL AID my friend told me that there is a program called WORK FORCE, which pays for some of your expenses..... kind of like a grant I guess bc you don't have to pay it back. I'm not sure if FCCJ still uses it, but many of her classmates used it (she found out too late) and eliminated their costs tremendously! All you have to do is sign up and get a signature from your teacher every week to show proof of attendance. That's it! Sounds easy enough, right? I'm going to look into it further and keep y'all posted on that.

As far as books go I've also received advice on whether or not to buy now or later. For the beginning of the term you would definitely want to buy ALL of your textbooks because we will be using them the first day of class. I guess you could wait on the others until our teachers tell us which ones we could do without.

[This Won't Hurt Much]

CONGRATS TDA88 on your acceptance! Cheers!

[kellej]

It's actually called Worksource. The website is www.worksourcefl.com

I have an appt. to talk with the lady in Clay County next week. Definitely call them!!

And, Congrats!

[s2ndstar]

I just got a call from Deerwood's Financial Aid office- they are reversing their decision and approving me for loans! YAY! I can finally celebrate!

[This Won't Hurt Much]

s2ndstar~

See?! I'm truly so happy for you! Maybe you can use this experience to help you when we're all feeling overwhelmed in the midst of nursing school. You have proof that perserverance pays off. Congrats!

[s2ndstar]

Originally Posted by This Won't Hurt Much

s2ndstar~

See?! I'm truly so happy for you! Maybe you can use this experience to help you when we're all feeling overwhelmed in the midst of nursing school. You have proof that perserverance pays off. Congrats!

This Won't Hurt Much,

You are too right! Each time we hit a rough spot, we all just need to keep pushing through. There is a light at the end of the tunnel! lol!

This is ALL worth it!

[dixm0004]

Does anyone know someone who has taken Pharmacology online that would like to share their expericence? I heard that it's the hardest out of all of our 1st term courses.

[Pinkice2821]

So, I think I'm done or really close to being done with everything. I did my finger printing, drug screen, and physical exam today with all the titers and shots too. I also did the background thing online and faxed in the paper it said to. So, am I done? I'm gonna have to look through it again and just make sure. Now, all I have to do is buy everything! Luckily, I have two credit cards headed my way to help with that! Otherwise, I'd be broke!

BTW, Northside Medical Clinic where you get your drug screen done has special FCCJ pricing for the physical exam, titers, and shots. So, if I were you I'd go there if you don't have insurance. It was much cheaper then the other places I called!