Galen January 2013 LPN to RN role call...??

raneedayz · Feb 27, 2014

Wow ! That's awful. I told you my friend had a similar problem with clinicals ! No one would call her back, or give any answers at the school. Our program here our clinicals are on Wednesdays , but they never promised us that we'd have only weekend clinicals . I'm sorry to hear, I hope you've gotten it all straightened out !

shamrokks, ADN, ASN, RN · Feb 28, 2014

We still are jot being offered the promised weekend clinical but instead of making me do Friday clinicals with the rest of my online group they have changed me to a Wednesday because it will be easier for me to get off of work. It still sucks that I will have to lose the pay but it may be good that I will have the extra day off to study.

raneedayz · Mar 2, 2014

It is going to be your last quarter, you got it! Just a minor setback, but will be well worth it. Three months loss of pay will equal to a pay raise in the end! How many times will you be on campus for the 6th/final quarter? Keep me posted. I have been in contact with the school and will be finalizing my transfer in the begin. of May. Also, how have your clinicals been this quarter?

shamrokks, ADN, ASN, RN · Mar 11, 2014

Thank you! I will make it work out to get through this and be done! My clinicals have been great. We ended with three patients total care. It was a crazy whirlwind but I'm better for it. I have one month off of clinicals until my last quarter if them starts.

I will be in campus Monday nights from 5-9 for lab. We will meet a few more times for HESI reviews and exams. I do not know a total yet. When the quarter starts I will know more.

Good luck!

Kaligirl02, ADN, BSN, MSN, LVN, RN, APRN, NP · Apr 6, 2014

Shamrocks,

I was looking back at your past posts and had a question about your Maternal rotation. You stated that it was all sim lab... Does that mean you did 3 12's at Galen doing assessments on the sim? I do not start my mental/maternity till July (I am in the 3rd Q & in San Antonio,Tx), but was wondering how that worked for you. As of right now it looks like we are going to a hospital and doing observation. As always, thank you in advance for your knowledge!

shamrokks, ADN, ASN, RN · Apr 7, 2014

We did two 12's at Sabal Palms which is a peds long term care facility in Largo, FL then two sim lab days that were about 8 hours.

It depends on what's available in your area so hopefully you will get a hospital clinical. That would be more awesome.

I was at a hospital called the baby place for my LPN and it was a great experience.

raneedayz · Apr 16, 2014

Our Quarter 3 classes is what the St. Pete campus does in Quarter 4. They put our mental health/pedes/ and OB all in one class and clinical! Our clinical is at an MRDD facility that has pedes and adult residents. We don't do an OB rotation. We take our pedes/mental health/OB HESI all in one, I have already started preparing for it! How are your clinicals this quarter? How many days are you on campus, etc? They have started my file at that campus, and they told me they will let me know all the details of my transfer by April 23rd. I am guessing that since we do quarter 4 classes here in quarter 3, that I will have to enter into Quarter 3 and then go to quarter 5, but I am not sure! Good luck, you are so close now!

raneedayz · May 4, 2014

POSTED APR 16: Our Quarter 3 classes is what the St. Pete campus does in Quarter 4. They put our mental health/pedes/ and OB all in one class and clinical! Our clinical is at an MRDD facility that has pedes and adult residents. We don't do an OB rotation. We take our pedes/mental health/OB HESI all in one, I have already started preparing for it! How are your clinicals this quarter? How many days are you on campus, etc? They have started my file at that campus, and they told me they will let me know all the details of my transfer by April 23rd. I am guessing that since we do quarter 4 classes here in quarter 3, that I will have to enter into Quarter 3 and then go to quarter 5, but I am not sure! Good luck, you are so close now!

How is the quarter going? I cant believe it is week 5 already!

shamrokks, ADN, ASN, RN · May 4, 2014

So far so good. Just a lot of self studying. Since I am online I continue to do weekly discussion posts and so far there have been two per week. We are doing group projects in lab that are mostly management type things. My first exam isn't until 5/19 and my first exit HESI is 5/13. Clinicals are ok, my group is different so I don't know anyone other than my instructor. I can't wait to be done. 6.5 weeks left!!!

raneedayz · May 5, 2014

Noelle gave birth in our SIM lab on Saturday. That was quite interesting. I got a 90 on my first exam and passed first CPE so I am happy about that. We have two discussions due a week also, and care plans, concept maps, and a clinical teaching project. How many exit HESI's do you have? I hope you don't mind all the questions, my other friend who is in that program is in the 15 month program, so she can not provide all my answers. Will hopefully be transferring after this quarter!! Thank you, and keep up the good work!

shamrokks, ADN, ASN, RN · May 5, 2014

In quarter 6 we have two exit HESI's and 2 comprehensive exams. The first exit hesi is worth 30% of our grade and so is each comprehensive exam. The last exit HESI is worth 10%. All of the other work is worth small percentages. We have management quizzes online in lab that we do from home. They started week 3 I think. These are fairly easy but also not worth much. In clinical we had a large journal paper due and we give verbal care plans every other week. These may depend upon clinical instructors.

raneedayz · May 6, 2014

In our quarter 3, we take maternity pedes and mental health. We have 4 exams and our cumulative hesi is worth 10% of our grade. Our discussion posts, math tests, clinicals and cpes are worth anything they are just pass fail. Is that how it was for you? I touched base with Mr. Bloom today who said he is waiting for the last eval from the registrar and head of nursing to complete my transfer.