Brookhaven College Nursing Program Fall 2014

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Hi everyone, I haven't seen any thread about BHC Fall '14 so I made one! I am applying this February at Brookhaven community college for Fall 2014. I took Hesi last year for trial and I will be taking the Hesi for real again this February and I have been studying really hard this Winter break! Goodluck everyone, if I do not get accepted I have plan B which to go ahead and try to apply in UTA.

Almost finished in all precourses needed just Micro and death dying this Spring but they are not counted this application so I am hoping to do well in Hesi!

Does anyone know the set hours for classes?

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I don't remember off the top of my head but I'm pretty sure if you go into econnect and search on the courses you can see what they are.

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Looks like clinical is M T or W 7am-7pm, I only see one foundations class 9am-2pm on Friday, and skills lab 9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm on Thursday.

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I went to the bookstore the other day to see about the scrubs and the cashier told me you have to order them at least a month in advance. Considering they put your name on them, which can take up to 6 weeks to do, and the company that does this, is also doing this for El Centro and Northlake. I'm glad that the classes are a set time.

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Do they let you try them on to see what size you need before ordering?

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I was told by someone in the bookstore that the ones on display are for trying on and we just fill out an order form.

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I wonder if we actually pick our times and which instructor we would like or if they pick for us. Does anyone know how that works?

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Specializes in NICU Nurse.

This is how my schedule was for my first semester of nursing school at Brookhaven. This was back in August 2012 though so please remember that they could have changed how they do things since then ;)

For the first 6 weeks we didn't go to the hospital for clinicals, instead we have 2 days of clinical lab at the school where we learned basic nursing skills.

Monday: 9am-12pm Clinical Lab

Tuesday: 9am-12pm Clinical Lab

Wednesday: 8am-1pm Open lab (this was not mandatory but I highly suggest that you attend if you can. It is just a time where the lab is open for you to come in to practice your skills. you can show up and leave anytime between those hours).

Thursday: 1pm-4pm Skills Lab (similar to clinical lab - you learn more skills and do check offs)

Friday: 9am-2pm Foundations lecture

After the first 6 weeks we started going to the hospital so our schedule changed to whatever day you had clinical. I had my clinical on Mondays, so:

Monday: 7am-7pm Clinical

Tuesday: OFF!

Wednesday: Open Lab

Thursday: 1pm-4pm Skills Lab

Friday: 9am-2pm Foundations Lecture

You do not get to pick which hospital you are assigned to for clinical nor do you get to choose who you have for instructors. They randomly place you into clinical groups and each semester you will be switched to a new group randomly.

Hope this helps. Remember, this was my schedule from a few years ago so they might be doing things differently now :) If you have anymore questions, please feel free to ask :)

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Specializes in NICU Nurse.

Also, I would like to add that when you start clinical, you are required to go the day before your clinical day to the hospital and pick a patient/patients that you will be working with on your clinical day. There is paperwork that will be due the morning of clinical and you basically spend all day the day before clinical getting all the info you need on your patient and typing up this paperwork. It is a pain but almost all nursing schools do this. It's a great way for you to be prepared for clinical and a great way to get to know your patient/their conditions.

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Thanks Preemie 2 RN for the information!

When your describing about gathering information on the patients we work with, is that the same as writing a care plan, or is that a separate thing?

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Specializes in NICU Nurse.

It's the same thing. You usually have to write 1-3 care plans, 1-3 pathology statements and look up/write up all the medications the patient is on. Overtime, the more you practice doing this paperwork the faster at it you will become but at first it will take you hours.

The day before my first clinical I showed up at the hospital at 9am to pick a patient, spent a few hours at the hospital writing down all the information I needed from my patient's chart for my care plans/pathostatements/med list, got home around 1pm and was up until 2am typing up everything. Had to be back up at 5am to get back to the hospital for clinical by 6:30am.

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^ouch! Glad I went to el Centro. I def needed more sleep then that before clinical.

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