College of the Mainland ADN FALL 2019 program

[Shantee]

Hi, I’m applying for the fall at com and wanted to start a post for the upcoming applicants who are also applying. I been following all the other posts from semesters before which makes me pretty nervous about my chances of getting in. Good luck to everyone!

[Coriann]

Hey, no problem I've been there. I'm currently taking mental health and med surg. (common concepts) with the clinicals all that's left is the finals for the semester I will probably end up with B's in both lecture classes and A's in both clinical classes. Which seems to be the norm for me A's in clinicals B's in theory.

[Kiverson001, BSN]

WOW!. CONGRATS!! I’m sure it requires a lot of studying!! Are you currently working?

[Coriann]

I'm down to three days a week with the way it was set up before covid I was getting 24-32 hours of work each week. I do not recommend working that much. Those of us that are working are able to get through it but it's not fun and there is never anytime you can just relax. I had planned on not working in the fall but with Covid, that might not be an option. That said if you don't have to work, don't. You need that time to study and it puts you at a disadvantage and adds to your stress. If you have to work and since the program recommends you don't work you will not get any sympathy for working.

That said, they do there best to give you the dates as far in advance as possible for things like clinicals. If y'all are even allow to go to clinical sites right now all of ours got cancelled when things shutdown over Spring break and we used shadow health to learn what we needed and to make up the time we missed after the break.

[Kiverson001, BSN]

11 minutes ago, Coriann said:

I'm down to three days a week with the way it was set up before covid I was getting 24-32 hours of work each week. I do not recommend working that much. Those of us that are working are able to get through it but it's not fun and there is never anytime you can just relax. I had planned on not working in the fall but with Covid, that might not be an option. That said if you don't have to work, don't. You need that time to study and it puts you at a disadvantage and adds to your stress. If you have to work and since the program recommends you don't work you will not get any sympathy for working.

That said, they do there best to give you the dates as far in advance as possible for things like clinicals. If y'all are even allow to go to clinical sites right now all of ours got cancelled when things shutdown over Spring break and we used shadow health to learn what we needed and to make up the time we missed after the break.

Oh. OK. Sounds stressful but doable. I hope I’m able to get clinical on a weekend. That’ll be nice. Are clinical days 8 or 12 hours

[Coriann]

It depends, we had 8 hours days first semester, 9 hours days for mental health and 12 hour days for med surg. It will all depend oh your course requirements and program they should let you know this fairly quickly.

[Kiverson001, BSN]

Oh OK. Cool. I’m used to 12 so anything under would be a nice change LOL.

How much longer do you have?

[Coriann]

I should finish 05/2021 provided the pandemic doesn't cause any more delays LOL.

[Kiverson001, BSN]

You’re doing the ADN program? Is that 2 years?

[Coriann]

It's 2 years after the prerequisites are complete. So it's not bad Half way done.

[Kiverson001, BSN]

Yes that’s not bad. Almost to the finish line.

[Kiverson001, BSN]

7 hours ago, Coriann said:

It's 2 years after the prerequisites are complete. So it's not bad Half way done.

Can you tell me how long does it take for them to get back to you for the random drug screening? Also called BON and they said they have fingerprints in system for me. Yay don’t have to do that. How long do you think it takes to receive blue card?

[FutureNurse73]

Hi I have a quick question do you guys attend Summer at COM? Im trying to apply for Spring 2021. I was wondering how long is the program. Thank you !