CCBC Nursing Fall 2015

transferstudent · Jul 20, 2015

Hello,

Can anyone tell me what CCBC's evening/weekend program schedule is like? Do you take the weekend classes during the day or during the evening?

julbar_99 · Jul 22, 2015

The classes are weeknight evenings (4 nights) and then the beginning of the first semester is lab on either Saturday or Sunday (7am-noon'ish) and then further into the first semester you start clinicals which will be both Saturday and Sunday (early morning until noon'ish)

tallMRnurse · Jul 23, 2015

I would not recommend the online program unless you have a good amount of experience in a hospital already, such as a CNA, LPN, Paramedic, ect. I found it difficult, and I have experience in nursing as a CNA (after attending first 2 years of RN school in another state). It leaves you very much on your own, and you must speak up and beg the teachers for help, which is hard because help comes days later most of the time.

Also, the clinicals are face to face, but they are during the day, and the day of the week can change as the courses change! Keep this in mind if you have kids, or a job (even a part time job is NOT recommended for the online program due to its extremely challenging nature!). We had more than half our class quit. Some even quit within the last semester, which was sad to waste all of that time to just quit, but if you have to choose between paying your mortgage and caring for your children or your random clinical schedules, of course you must choose your mortgage/children.

transferstudent · Jul 23, 2015

I didn't realize the online program was back. Didn't they shut that down for non-compliance or something?

Lavern_29 · Jul 29, 2015

Hello all I received my phone call today i am off the waiting list will start Lpn to Rn bridge program at Dundalk this fall yayyy anyone else starting i have a few questions

transferstudent · Jul 30, 2015

Does anyone know how long the traditional RN Associates degree day program is at CCBC? Is it a full 2 years of nursing classes (like fall 2015 through June 2017?)

october39, BSN, RN · Jul 31, 2015

It is two years long. For our class, we start Fall 2015 and finish in May, 2017. You don't take any nursing courses during the summer, unless you are in the associate to bachelor's program.

moonwisper · Jul 31, 2015

Hello all,

Congrats to everyone who has made it in the program. I am about to start my second semester at the CCBC Catonsville campus, and am also part of the ATB program. If anyone has any questions or thoughts I may be able to help with, just let me know. Good luck to everyone!

hotpinkam · Aug 3, 2015

I have a question about how your test are broken up if you only have class one day a week.

Ashleee014 · Aug 3, 2015

Exams take up an entire class. Youll only have class after if there were holidays that interfere with the schedule. Also you get a minute for each question plus 20 minutes

moonwisper · Aug 4, 2015

We technical had lectures classes 3 days a week, Fundamentals Mon Wed, Health assessment Tues, and the one credit nurse professionalism class on Mon after Fundamentals. Thurs and/or Fri you would have lab, then later on clinical. As someone else said if there's was days missed due to things like weather, you may have to make up time in lectures and stay after an exam, but either way on Mondays you would have to stay anyways until the 1 credit lass began.

I took the Nurse Assessment course (the one only on Tuesdays for CCBC also) at Towson, and we did continue lecture and a lab after an exam. I assume they would o the same at CCBC as here was a lab every week after each lecture

I hope I explained it well. The overall key is things can and will change throughout the semester and at times you never know when, so I would never always count on one thing.

amhudson1022 · Aug 4, 2015

Hi!

I'm applying to the Catonsville ATB program for Spring 2016 and I was wondering what a typical weekly schedule looks like for the first semester. After the first semester, I plan on getting into the medical field with my CNA but until then, I want to keep working as a nanny but I wasn't sure if it would be possible with the class schedule. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!