Teeanne

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1. 2013 NIU nursing students (prospective!)

   Teeanne replied to Meg1992's topic in Illinois

   Personally I picked NIU. For me, a lot was financial - the transfer scholarships brought the price of NIU to about $1k/semester less, but the program is 1 semester longer, so it still kinda tips in Aurora's favor. But I worried if I had a bad semeste...

2. What is your grading scale?

   Teeanne replied to smoup's topic in General Students

   93-100 = A 85-92 = B 77-84 = C (No rounding, so a 92.9999 is a B) Below 77 is failing. Also getting below a 77 average on exams is failing, even if the overall class grade is higher.

3. Fundamentals HESI

   Teeanne replied to Kuriin's topic in HESI

   I just finished mine earlier today, it went well. For the second half of the semester, occasionally I did some practice HESI quizzes for fundamentals on the Evolve accounts the school had set up. The Saunders formerly-yellow-now-blue book is nice too...

4. Waubonsee Community College

   Teeanne replied to tmartin87_05's topic in Illinois

   I have not taken the PAX-RN, I did take the TEAS for Aurora earlier this year and didn't think the test was bad at all. The science was a little hard if I remember right. People I've talked to that have taken both have said the PAX is more challengi...

5. Are any of you using an ipad with stylus to take notes?

   Teeanne replied to pmabraham's topic in General Students

   I'm using an full size ipad with a bluetooth keyboard and the Notability app (recommended to me by a friend that was already in a different nursing program). My profs generally put up lecture notes online so I export them from there into Notability t...

6. Your Spring Schedule

   Teeanne replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

   Med/Surg I Med/Surg I clinical Mental health Mental health clinical Research Second semester of the program, looking forward to it!

7. Starting 1st semester on Chapters 17, 20-22 & 34 in Fund. book?

   Teeanne replied to danedsel's topic in General Students

   My fundamentals, health assessment, and patho classes all go out of order in the book. It hasn't really been bad to jump around so far and the material hasn't felt hard, I'm just getting used to the trying to soak in massive amounts material in a sho...

8. Wow so i won't find a job?!

   Teeanne replied to Marsha238612's topic in Illinois

   I'm a student right now, but I work at a nursing home as a CNA that's pretty highly regarded, more rehab and acute care than long term. The turnover is pretty low, for my shift anyway. A lot of people don't quit, they just cut their hours or go to PR...

9. CNA pre-admissions test?

   Teeanne replied to Godislove11's topic in CNA/MA

   My comm college required having a recent reading placement test on file or any associate degree (or higher). My placement test was 5 years old or something so didn't count, but fortunately I had the associate's degree. I took ENG 101 and 102 through...

10. Health Insurance for nursing school?

    Teeanne replied to PhillippaX50's topic in General Students

    My school requires health insurance for all FT students regardless of major anyway - but it offers a plan for $500/semester if you don't have your own. They auto-bill for insurance, which makes it easy to throw into financial aid and loans, then peop...

11. Paper and Pencil tea-v il?

    Teeanne replied to futuremalenurse24-7's topic in TEAS

    It seems like the programs that require TEAS score and designate it to certain days will use the paper and pencil version. When I applied to Aurora this year, I took the paper and pencil version in January. They only offer it around that time of year...

12. Workload @ your facility

    Teeanne replied to TurtleCat's topic in CNA/MA

    I work evenings and it's LTC and rehab, about 2/3 rehab 1/3 LTC, but all but one wing have a mix of both. It's up to 8 per CNAs usually depending on room occupancy, isolation, etc. Though one assignment can get up to 10 residents. Sometimes they cut ...

13. Hate being a CNA

    Teeanne replied to LadyLeo75's topic in CNA/MA

    I took the CNA class in the spring semester and applied to work at the place I did my clinicals because I thought the staff was so terrific. Having good people with you really makes a difference, and if you have a better relationship with the people ...

14. ADN BSN

    Teeanne replied to TexRN's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I'm doing the BSN because I had an associate's degree (not nursing) already so it would take 4 semesters for an ADN, or 4/5 semesters for BSN depending on the program I chose. So for me it would take me the same amount of time for an ADN as a BSN bas...

15. CNA Advice?

    Teeanne replied to laurenswindell1201's topic in CNA/MA

    I don't know, around here anyway, I think 4 weeks is the shortest I've seen, and that's basically 8-5 M-F. Usually my comm college does it in 8 or 16 week formats. We were told the mandate was 40 hours of clinicals, so our class had 44 hours built in...