Broward College May 2010 Acceptance

U.S.A. Florida

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Hello all so I am very excited and happy because I was accepted to the RN program for May. I wanted to start a new thread for those who got accpeted to communicate with each other....feel free to leave any comments,advice, or questions.

Specializes in ED.

Drug test- added to your BC acct, you just show up to the testing center and hand them your lab form

Background check- you pay upfront....you go to the website, pay and answer some questions and the result is sent to school

Fingerprint- you also pay upfront, you go to the fingerprint place and pay, then they take your prints

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Thank you so much

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Hi Shescoolie,

Thank you for your response. It's great to hear that for the most part this 100hr rule is Not the norm. Like I said earlier, I'll do whatever it takes, but 100hrs a week better equate to more than a "C".

I started reading the Vital Signs chapter, which seems pretty clear cut and more interesting than the first time I picked up my micro or anatomy book. Not to mention having time to read really helps. And it's great that there is a day off following clinical to prepare for tests. In our first semester we have on-site lab (not sure that's the correct word) on Tuesdays and Wednesdays (7:30a to 5p), but from what I gather in your post once clinicals actually start they are only once a week, right? And if so, is that the way it is up until graduation--just once a week clinical?

Anyway, off to work. Good luck with your studies and thank you for all of your replies.

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Romano,

Thank you!!! I'm so excited, happy, (nervous, ugh), and proud. So many emotions, lol. I just can't wait to begin this "roller coaster of a ride" and hope that I make it to the end.

Very best!

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Sunray,

Sorry to hear you missed that "B" by two points. Drives me nuts to know I'm that close. I guess the good thing is that there is not a lot of time to beat yourself up about it in nursing school, lol.

For pharm, can you PM me with any recommended pharm (and MTB) professors at North? Not sure how to do PM's, but I'll figure it out.

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Sorry to hear about your accident DawnSue and hope you're feeling better. Good luck in August!

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Specializes in ED.

For North, there was only one pharm and one MTB instructor. However, it looks like there are 2 MTB instructors for summer. One of them is the process instructor, but that class is online. I would prefer that instructor over the other, but its an online class, so I'm not sure how people feel about that because usually everyone gets freaked out about math before actually taking the math class, lol.

Also, clinicals actually are different at north then they are at south and central. I believe those campuses have one day a week clinicals, and at north during nursing process 1 and 2, they are not. They are both Tues and Wed. The days are shorter at north, which I guess is why they have them twice a week. The first 5 or 6 weeks are all campus labs, then you have return demo and then the hospital starts. Campus lab days at north are 7:30-3, however she usually just told us to be there by 7:45 or 8. Clinical days are 6:30-2 but since the hospitals don't want us in the cafeterias for lunch until about 1, we usually just left at 1:30 and in process 2 my instructor said to be at the hospital by 7. So things just vary a little on the time, but generally its 6:30-2 for hospital days.

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Sunray is right about lab days. I'm at South so our scheduled are structured to have 1 lab day a week. 2 lab days a week sounds like it takes away too much of my study time. I'm usually beat after clinicals and just want to take a long nap but usually spend the other non clinical day strictly for studying.

BTW-Sorry about your accident DawnSue.:hug: I hope you feel better.

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Dawnsue! sorry to hear about the accident! that really stinks but God willing you will make it in the fall and accomplish your dreams. Keep trying, and God willing things will work out for you.

On the other hand, I am happy that they let you defer until the following semester, so it's not biggie a few months back.

To everyone else, I'm not sure how much I studied, probably they all added up to 100hrs. Pharm was kinda easy because the teacher hinted on what was going to be on the test. Process is A LOT of reading, and it took me 1hr to do 5 pages because the way I read them was that I disected each word by word, and read every box and every word, and wrote the answers to the objectives from that huge packet they make you buy at the beginning of process1. so of course it took a long time, and PLUS I did the questions in the elsevier.com site, and on my saunders nclex book.... AND I practiced my math when I had the math class, AND I read the clinical lab book.

So basically my schedule went like this: 8-12 school (I got there 1hr early to chat with other early birds), got home by 2 or 3 (yes, that long to travel because of the traffic). then I took a nap for an hour, then I got up and studied studied studied until about 12 or 1 am. and that was on the first semester.

The following semesters after that one were not that intense per say, they were more like studying 4 hrs a day, always reading a lecture ahead before the teacher went over things, and then going over my notes and practice the saunders book, but after that, besides saunders I started collecting others, such as lippincots, and when I studied with classmates, I looked and studied their books also.

and yes, with all that studying I should of been making A's but the way the questions are worded they seemed pretty tricky to me. Reminds me of what I am going through right now with statistics when he asks definitions & T or F questions.

Anyways, when you get there to the first test of the first semester you will see how much more you need to study.

I remember when I got my grade, it was a 30/40 I was dissapointed that it was a C, but when I turned around (I sat up front) I saw my other class mates faces--- and they were not looks of happiness, and when I started asking the scores were in their 20s and then after much asking, there were not many 30s.

So my advice to everyone, is just study and get well prepared, and get that saunders book, it's really a live saver after you study your huge lecture book.

good luck!

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Thank you all (again) for all of the tips and advice. You are all Awesome!!!

As far as the online math--I definitely do better with face to face classes. Not to mention the workload (at least for me) has always been much heavier with on-line classes.

Speaking of math---has anyone taken the CAE 0612 math before actually beginning MTB class??? It's actually called Introduction to Math for Nurses which is to be taken prior to beginning the nursing program (May) and starts sometime in April. If so, what was your experience? Did it really prepare you for the MTB class???

And one other thing...Do we have to wear the blue scrub bottoms that they sell in the bookstore or can we purchase same color, different brand/fit somewhere else? The elastic band seems to be very restricting...don't want to cut off the cicrulation to my brain, lol. Are any of the girls wearing the drawstring bottoms?

I'm going to pick up the Saunder's book today to prep ahead. Sounds like a life-saver...

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You can buy blue bottoms from other places as long as they match. Thats what I did and thats what a lot of other people did, too.

I did not take the CAE math course but I had friends who did. Not really sure if it prepared them more. It was the same exact class, except it was taught by a different teacher @ central.

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Guys i feel nervous....i have soooo much going on at home that i dont think i will be ready to start may....guys please remind me that its ok to defer and i will get back my seat in august...i would feel better because im scared to do it :(

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