Anyone take Microbiology and A&P 2 same semester?

jdarcy · Apr 11, 2008

. I hope that all goes well for you! By the way were you saying that your program is very hard and that is why they may only graduate 12 nurses this year or what were you getting at?

Well, all Nursing Programs should be "hard". At the very least they should be intense. This La junta program (like most) will require all your time. ALL of it. I only know a few people that worked during the semester and passed. People were driving ungodly hours to attend here...those hours begin to add up and they didnt make it. My experience has been that you need every hour you can get. When we started they told us their philosophy which was they didnt care if they graduated 2 nurses out of 35 as long as the two nurses were going to be good nurses. (thats fine...I hear that.) And that if you do everything you are supposed to do. Know everything you are supposed to know. Do all the things in clinicals you are supposed to do...you will get a 77% (lowest score and still pass). The testing has proven that philosophy holds. We had 5 exams including the final in OB PEDs (9 units). If you scored less than 77 on any one exam you were probably done. Lot's of 4.0 students got C's. Thats the way it is. Is it hard? Yeah, they put the pressure on and you better figure out a way to handle it.

MikeInCO · Apr 12, 2008

Well, all Nursing Programs should be "hard". At the very least they should be intense. This La junta program (like most) will require all your time. ALL of it. I only know a few people that worked during the semester and passed. People were driving ungodly hours to attend here...those hours begin to add up and they didnt make it. My experience has been that you need every hour you can get. When we started they told us their philosophy which was they didnt care if they graduated 2 nurses out of 35 as long as the two nurses were going to be good nurses. (thats fine...I hear that.) And that if you do everything you are supposed to do. Know everything you are supposed to know. Do all the things in clinicals you are supposed to do...you will get a 77% (lowest score and still pass). The testing has proven that philosophy holds. We had 5 exams including the final in OB PEDs (9 units). If you scored less than 77 on any one exam you were probably done. Lot's of 4.0 students got C's. Thats the way it is. Is it hard? Yeah, they put the pressure on and you better figure out a way to handle it.

I hear what you're saying... But I don't know that I agree w/ all of it. Are they only going to pass those who will make 'good' nurses or those who will most likely pass the NCLEX on the first try and make them look good? Also, if less than 10 people test for the NCLEX from a school their scores aren't posted. And frankly 'pressure' or not I don't know that I'd consider going to a school who is only going to pass or think about only passing 2 out of 35 students... As I feel that there may be more than just those 2 who would be 'good' nurses. But please keep in mind that these are just my 2 cents. And that I'm sure that your school/program does produce some good nurses. I am in no way attempting to put them, you or your program down. Just sharing my thoughts on your previous post. Does anyone else have any comments on the post?

-Mike

Sarah Bellum · Apr 12, 2008

I tried taking A&P2 and micro the same term but it didn't work out for me. A&P2 at my school starts right into the nervous system for the first 4 weeks and that was a *lot* of material to learn! I dropped early in the term, as soona s I realized I was going to be in over my head really fast. But then again I have a *lot* of family and personal/work responsibilities so I don't doubt that other folks have been very successful taking them at the same time.

Either way, the best of luck to you! One foot in front of the other, we'll all get there eventually!

HGJ78 · Apr 12, 2008

Well, all Nursing Programs should be "hard". At the very least they should be intense. This La junta program (like most) will require all your time. ALL of it. I only know a few people that worked during the semester and passed. People were driving ungodly hours to attend here...those hours begin to add up and they didnt make it. My experience has been that you need every hour you can get. When we started they told us their philosophy which was they didnt care if they graduated 2 nurses out of 35 as long as the two nurses were going to be good nurses. (thats fine...I hear that.) And that if you do everything you are supposed to do. Know everything you are supposed to know. Do all the things in clinicals you are supposed to do...you will get a 77% (lowest score and still pass). The testing has proven that philosophy holds. We had 5 exams including the final in OB PEDs (9 units). If you scored less than 77 on any one exam you were probably done. Lot's of 4.0 students got C's. Thats the way it is. Is it hard? Yeah, they put the pressure on and you better figure out a way to handle it.

I don't see how it would be in the best interest of the school to only have 2 out of 35 grad/pass. I have been under the impression that schools can lose their accredidation (couldn't spell that to save my life evidently :mad: ) if enough of their student don't pass the NCLEX. With the shortage of programs & long a$$ wait lists around here it seems like La Junta would want to maintain a good balance of passing student v. those that can't handle it.

MikeInCO · Apr 14, 2008

I don't see how it would be in the best interest of the school to only have 2 out of 35 grad/pass. I have been under the impression that schools can lose their accredidation (couldn't spell that to save my life evidently ) if enough of their student don't pass the NCLEX. With the shortage of programs & long a$$ wait lists around here it seems like La Junta would want to maintain a good balance of passing student v. those that can't handle it.

I agree 100%! :wink2: