Anyone attending Palm Beach Atlantic for BSN

cooliegirl · Oct 3, 2008

i attend south university at the moment and many of my friends are thinking about going to PBA but they have to take a few bible courses before they can apply to their nursing curriculum. are you a student there? PBA program is highly rated and as you said they have a 100% passing rate which is wicked awesome.

they guarantee you admission in the nursing program if you've started attending their as a freshman. great school but expensive just like South. i think their BSN program is $50,000 or even higher. as of right now my my heart kind of shifted from my current school to BCC due to the costs and i dont want to end up not finishing becuse i cant get loans.

Sallie Mae changed their student loan criteria (due to the economy and many banks failing) and some of my friend couldnt come back this semester.

BMLEX010 · Oct 5, 2008

No, I don't attend that school but I am trying to apply to two nursing schools just in case I don't gain entry into one my chances would be greater of getting into another. I know the tuition is horribly expensive, but I have a bright futures scholarship and then they offer you a PBA grant or something to that nature that is funded through PBA. Hopefully I am excepted into their program and I will be applying after I meet with them next week. They offer a bible course while you are in the nursing program so I was told by Jennifer the program coordinator that I didn't have to do it until I get into the program. Also, do you like South University and are you in their nursing program currently?

NICUDreamer11 · Oct 21, 2008

Hi BMLEX010

I attend Palm Beach Atlantic and I am prenursing. I'm a sophomore so I don't start officially until next fall (sort of start in the spring). I've taken all my pre-reqs at PBA so I was in the Guaranteed Acceptance program that 2b-nurse mentioned and I just found out last week that I got in the program.

Since I'm not in the nursing program yet, I can't speak from experience on how good it is, but everything I've heard is good. I've met some of the profs and they seem good and you can't complain with the 100% passing rate on NCLEX. It is still a pretty new program (2008 was their 2nd graduating class i think) so they are still working out some of the kinks. They got a lot of new faculty this year and a new dean last year so I don't know a ton about them.

Can't really help you with the Bible class part since I've already taken the classes I need. I know you do need one Bible class as a pre-req, but I don't know it you can take it during the program or not. Your both right that it is a very expensive school because its private. I have bright futures, a PBA scholarship and one or two others and I still pay about $8,000 a year (I live on campus).

I guess you already found out most of this since you were supposed to meet with them last week, but I hope it helps some.

PS - I've never been able to find anyone from PBA or talking about PBA on these boards either...and I've been looking for 6 months!

Gators85 · Oct 22, 2008

Ok I guess I'll be the first actual PBA nursing student to post something lol. I'm in my first year of the program and it is great! All the professors are great and very nice. they try very hard to help you pass. I was a transfer student so im trying to get used to all this chapel stuff, but overall i do recommend it. Im a guy so I definitely recommend it any girls who are thinking of of applying to PBA lol. We need more girls, too many guys in the program jk Any other questions feel free to ask

BMLEX010 · Oct 22, 2008

nicudreamer11 and gators85, thank you both because it is soooo hard to find someone who is even considering this school let alone attending the program. gators85, the first semester that you started, or the first two perhaps, are they hard or intense? also, elaborate a little on the program and did you take their teas test, if so what would you recommend doing to get a great score? also, on the written portion of the entrance exam which topic did you choose to write about and did you do the essay at their location or on you own? how many days per week do you attend classes and do you have a life while in nursing school? thanks in advance and if you have anything to offer please do so.

lex:nurse:

NICUDreamer11 · Oct 23, 2008

I took the TEAS in September and did pretty good. I think the best thing to do is get the guide from ATI cause the questions are just like the real thing (some of them are actually harder). Focus a lot on math and science. The math is basic (but no calculators!), but there is some general science, earth science and physics that you probably learned in like 5th grade so its good to brush up on that :)

About the essay, you are supposed to write it on the day you take the TEAS (wrote mine before I started the test). They give you the question you are to write about, you don't get to choose. But I've heard that some people didn't have to write in then, they wrote it later...

Good luck to you Lex!

Gators85 · Oct 23, 2008

Well it was intense for me and some other students cause we got accepted in the summer so we had to take patho/pharm in the summer and it was a 3 & 1/2 week long class, along with health assessment. So we learned in 3 & 1/2 what the students learned in a semester. But i think they are getting rid of that. As for right now we go to class mon-thurs. Mon and tues are your classes on campus and wed and thurs are your clinical rotation. First part of clinicals are at nursing home and second is hospital for med surg. Thats your fall semester. In regards of a personal life, I personally still try to have one but its hard. Im going to have to cut back alot. But overall you'll get to know and love ur classmates and they become ur personal life. whether it be studying together or going out after class for a drink or food. I didn't take the teas I took the hesi. I was a transfer student and the honor my hesi. I did have to write a essay but it was cake. I dont think they are really picky about the essay.

BMLEX010 · Oct 23, 2008

So which essay topic did they make you write about and were you prepared for all three of them? Also, how long did it take you to write the essay and do they provide paper? It is required to write it in pencil, correct? I thought we didn't have to take the science portion of the exam, do we have to? Oh gosh another problem! Did you schedule your date with PBA to take the test or did they give you the time and day to take it?

Lex

BMLEX010 · Oct 23, 2008

I didn't take the teas I took the hesi. I was a transfer student and the honor my hesi. I did have to write a essay but it was cake. I dont think they are really picky about the essay.

Which topic did you have to write about and where did you take the Hesi exam?

NICUDreamer11 · Oct 23, 2008

I'm not sure if they give the same essay topic to everyone or not, but mine was something about what qualities, background...do you have or went through that made you choose to get a BSN in nursing. They give you a blank piece of paper with the question and instructions at the top and you fill it in. I think it took me like 30-40 minutes to write mine (its supposed to be 250 words but I went over). Yes, you do have to write the essay by hand (they told us this is so they know you can spell and have pretty good grammar without spell check! :chuckle) But I wouldn't worry about it too much, like gators85 said, because I don't think they are too picky about that part. I believe the essay is just to get a more personal side of you than your transcripts, application, gpa...

Yes, you have to take all the parts of the TEAS and they count the average score for the whole test as the entrance score. I wouldn't worry too much about it - a lot of the questions are general "scientific knowledge" stuff like experiments, reading tables and the scientific method - I was just know that I've heard of people who were completely surprised that those things were on there...

When I scheduled the TEAS, there were a lot of other people taking it around the same time so she set up about 8 different times and everyone chose one. But I think she is pretty flexible about scheduling...if you need a specific date or time they will let you choose.

cooliegirl · Oct 23, 2008

i think im going to apply at PBA, but i was reading on the website and it says you need to apply a year before the program starts. i attend South University at the moment , but i like that your school gives a full scholorships from Tenet hospitals. because we alll know attending a pvt school can be expensive but with the scholorship money it would work out perfect for me. they said applications need to be in by Oct. 1st. is this so?