Calling all Truman College Nursing Students

U.S.A. Illinois

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Hi,

Are there any nursing students from Truman on here? Past or present. I have some questions that I can't seem to find the answer to on their website.

1. Is the admission still "lottery system" based? How would that exactly work? I saw on their website that they award points on GPA (ex: "4 X 4 = 16 pts for an A in A&P"). If it's a lottery, how come they look at GPA?

2. What GPA did you have when you got in? Are you a current or past student?

3. If it's GPA based, I think I'll have more luck getting in like that than the lottery. One last thing I wanted to ask, would any of you Truman students, past or present, be willing to sell or let me borrow your notes from Truman's Nursing School? I know you might think I'm trying to find an easy way out or cheat or something. What I really want to do, since I have the summer off, is to study ahead. I have done this in the past with Anatomy and Physiology and it has helped me tons. That's just how I learn. When I have free time, I just like to look at things from a non rushed way. Once school starts, I'll have 17 credit hours of classes and plus work. I will also be studying ahead for Microbiology and A&P this summer so I can really have a lot of time to digest the material.

*Please if you know anyone that would let me use their notes, contact me and I'll work someting out with them. :specs:

Thanks

:uhoh3:My god, that was horrible! what I don't understand is: if they have done this program for so many years, why don't they work to make it more organized next time!. What they can do is: at the moment you return your acceptance letter they should give you a number to bring to orientation day, or have someone give out numbers on orientation day first come first served. Something has to be done to avoid this nightmare. I also wonder if we have to go throu this process for the spring as well :eek:

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OK, I am really hoping someone here who is in the program will help me with this. I went to orientation today and got the book list. With the "bundles", the books will cost $833. If I but the exact books at half.com, I will pay $486.

What, if anything, will I risk by buying the books myself? Are there CD-ROM's I absolutely have to have? Codes I need to do online stuff? (Some of the books there are brand new-never opened)

I already bought the "Calculate with Confidence" because I am taking Pharm 103 this summer, and the professor emailed me and told me NOT to buy the code from Becks, she will provide it in class.

College textbooks are one of the biggest rip-offs of all time, and it kills me to spend the money when I don't have to....so please, somebody help.

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@Ruby2623:

That's exactly what I thought. If they've had such a good reputation and passing scores, why couldn't they just compile it in a better way. I mean, we DIDN'T EVEN get the complete book list. What the heck?! You're running this program so long and you can't come up with a COMPLETE book list by Orientation. It seems they don't really care. Also, another major MISTAKE today was them not telling us we didn't need dental, CBC, and urinalysis until someone else pointed it out. She was like, "Oh, yeah...you won't need that." How stupid of them because I would have gotten that done and paid out of pocket.

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@Kmuellfa

You're right. The textbooks are a rip-off. I'm getting them online. I don't really care because the major one we'll be using is the Fundamentals book. The other ones seem somewhat supplementary. I mean, there's no way we can use 15 books. Besides, the fundamentals book is like 1500 pages. I heard you only REALLY HEAVILY use 3-4 books. So, that's why I'll get them online. As long as we have the major ones like fundamentals and med-surg, we'll be fine.

They're trying to scare us with the "access codes". She said 1 or 2 books needs an access code. One of them is the "Calculate with Confidence" which I got online WITH the access code, even though the lady said you can't buy access codes online. Yeah right! She was pushing us so she can get her commission!

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4hana9, I think that the best advice wil be from gonnabenurse11. She already went thru the first year and will be able to give us her input about the books, because the fricken package is so expansive! especially for us paying out of our pocket!:uhoh3:

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Anybody here picked Holly Cross Hospital?

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is anyone taking the not required classes, but "beneficial" (medical terminology and pharmacology)?? i'm wondering if i should still take it or drop it and save me some money for the fall semester expenses. i registered for medical terminology, because it was online and convenient with my schedule. although, i would had rather taken pharmacology because i think it's more useful. also, do you guys think it will be crazy for me to work full time this semester?? i have an office job and can probably make some time to study during work. other than that i probably will be studying in the night after my classes. i'm doing the evening classes?? i would really appreciate your input. thanks guys!!:nurse:

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I asked about the UA/CBC because i am uninsured!

So I was wondering is anyone else here uninsured and or paying out of pocket?

I was wondering if someone knows somewhere cheap to go.

I called the walgreens clinic and they DON'T do titres.

Right now physicals are only 35 at walgreens clinic

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there is a free clinic on Division and Western, you might want to check that too......I never been there , but you can look it up and check out what services they offer...

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4 hana9,

to my understanding,

Urinalysis is Required, they mentioned this to my orientation and specified it is different from the 10 panel urine drug test.....so you might want to call back and check all that again......I know dental is not required as is stated on the handbook...

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4 hana9,

to my understanding,

Urinalysis is Required, they mentioned this in my orientation and specified it is different from the 10 panel urine drug test.....so you might want to call back and check all that again......I know dental is not required as is stated on the handbook...

Did you receive the e-mail? I got an e-mail today at 4:06 p.m. from the nursing secretary and she included the booklist on there and also wrote, "A urinalysis is not a clinical requirement." I attended the morning orientation and they also said this. Were you in the afternoon orientation?

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4hana9, I have problems logging in my student email, how many emails have you received from the Truman nursing program?.

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