Calhoun Community College 2016

lwk1982 · Apr 19, 2016

I plan to go tonight to the 5:30 session. I have a few questions and just want to make sure I understand what I'm hopefully getting into.

Mimicats · Apr 19, 2016

I haven't heard anything about the info session. Are those invitations sent out to evening program applicants only? I applied to ADN with no second choice.

lwk1982 · Apr 19, 2016

If you applied for the part time evening program they sent an email stating the changes that are coming. The info session is for questions and to give more detail. If you applied for the day program you are fine.

hc287 · Apr 19, 2016

Yeah they sent it to evening applicants only

Mimicats · Apr 19, 2016

Thank you:)

BRing914 · Apr 19, 2016

Is there more than one session tonight? I thought it was from 4:30-5:30. Am I mistaken?

BRing914 · Apr 20, 2016

So at my session they said that they made most of the changes because of a state wide change that nursing programs at community colleges were making to the curriculum they all use. The change in starting the evening in the spring is because going forward that's when they'll admit for that and the LPN program, while the daytime will only start in the fall. Evening will meet 2 nights a week (tue/thurs), daytime will meet 3 or 4 days a week. If you are in the evening program medical forms and the orientati on won't happen until later in the year. Also she said she couldn't say for 100%,but she thought the cut off was something like a 160 or around there.

futurenurse1028 · Apr 20, 2016

Is that cut off just for the evening or day and evening?

Cessnan95556 · Apr 20, 2016

Went to the info session. Basically classes for the evening program will be Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-9pm. Still will be weekend clinicals, but clinicals during the week will be 7am-3pm. There will be no more evening clinicals during the week. There will be 5 semesters. Clinical hours for each semester is as follows based upon 15 week semesters:

Semester 1 - 45 clinical hours

Semester 2 - 135 clinical hours

Semester 3 -180 clinical hours

Semester 4 - 135 clinical hours

Semester 5 - 180 clinical hours

Doing the math, there will be a good amount of daytime clinical hours. This begs the question, why even have an evening program if it really isn't going accommodate those who work full time on weekdays?

BRing914 · Apr 20, 2016

that's interesting, I didn't get that sense at my session. She made it sound like for the evening program clinicals would still be on the weekends with the exceptionn of psych which has to be mid week. She said they typically poll the evening class to see ho can do week day and who can only do weekend. Also I never thought the clnicals were in the evenings, even before the change. I always thought lecture/labs were week nights and clinicals were weekends, but maybe I'm wrong.

lwk1982 · Apr 20, 2016

She said that they had tried evening clinicals and they did not work. They will have weekend clinicals for the evening program but some of the groups may end up with daytime clinicals. She said they would do their best to accommodate the evening program with weekend clinicals so we don't have to miss work but she cannot promise that we won't have days during some semesters.

hc287 · Apr 20, 2016

Wow thanks for the info y'all. That answered pretty much all of my questions! So the ~160 point cut off, did anyone say if that was for daytime or evening specifically or just a generalization for both?