Hi everyone! Okay so I decided to make a seperate thread for those of us seeing what our options are because we got the dreaded letter from OCC. It was getting hard to filter out the information pertinent to us in the general OCC thread.
I just want to tell everyone not to give up.
I had a meeting with a counselor yesterday, who basically assured me that any drastic changes made to OCC nursing admission policy could NOT be implemented in the very next admission cycle. He said that he had been a counselor for over 16 years, and the last time they made a drastic change (like from waitlist to gpa based) they grandfathered in everybody who would have been 'caught up' in the transition.
I had a 3.824 gpa. I had three classes that were not straight A's (An A- in both american government and english composition two, as well as the dreaded B in A&P 1). I am retaking all three and am going to seriousely aim for all A's. The gpa cutoff is gonna be a 3.9 something and I don't want to have to worry about not getting in again. I am going to do my best to get all A's.
I met with the counselor to discuss my options and see what to do at this point. I was considering going LPN but I don't think i'm going to do that anymore because my biggest aim is to get my RN as soon as possible. The LPN to RN transition program is only offerred every even year. What this means for us? If I were, for example to start the LPN program in January of 2012, it would be over in like March of 2013. Then I couldn't start the transition program until like July of 2014. Then I wouldn't be done with the transition program and have my RN until December of 2015! This versus the ADN RN program, which would start in the Fall of 2012 and finish in like early May of 2014.
Good luck to all of those still trying! We can't give up!!!!!
Pretty sure it's individual. I know it looks like a lot, (and it is, I studied all day everyday when I had pharm, from one test til the next!), but if you know it, the questions will be a piece of cake.
Just looked through my old pharm syllabus: Some are listed in classes. Learn those classes and their SE, NI, and so on. A few are by themselves, learn them as individuals.
I think you only have to know up to the iv calculations. however, the questions on the units, they are basic dd/dh... But number 50 for sure is not a level 1, it's a 2nd year problem. Focus on the conversion chart that's in the front page of the pharm book, know the tsp, tbs, oz, and l to ml e.t.c... And practice the pharm questions xpt 50, and u will b fine
Go to Blackboard and under the nursing department tab, find 'course materials.' Scroll down and you'll find a practice test for level two nursing course (1510, 1520, and 1530). Practice those. That's pretty much what your test will be like, and even slightly easier IMO. Appendix D is an overload. Ignore it.
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Pretty sure it's individual. I know it looks like a lot, (and it is, I studied all day everyday when I had pharm, from one test til the next!), but if you know it, the questions will be a piece of cake.
Just looked through my old pharm syllabus: Some are listed in classes. Learn those classes and their SE, NI, and so on. A few are by themselves, learn them as individuals.
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