El Centro/NLC ADN Spring 2020

MP99, CNA · Oct 15, 2019

2 hours ago, Success_Driven said:
I got my acceptance letter for MVC so if I get into El Centro I’ll be turning it down. Also I have a white coat from El Centro for clinicals that a former student gave me. If anybody want to buy it let me know.

How many points did you apply with it you don't mind me asking ?

babysplash, ADN, RN · Oct 15, 2019

6 hours ago, Colleeng16 said:
Thank you very much!!
Can you tell me a little bit about your schedule? Clinical days and lecture days?

For first semester I had Lecture and PNC/HCC class on Wednesday from 7:30a-12p. On days we had a demonstration of a skill - like med administration, foley cath insertion, we had class on Wed from 7:30 to 3pm. There is a break between PNC/HH and Lecture. I had skills on Thursday from 7:00a-5:00pm and Friday was my clincial day from 6:30a- 5:00pm. I think there has been changes, and it's possible your skills and clincial days could be switched. That was my schedule for Spring 19 though

babysplash, ADN, RN · Oct 15, 2019

1 hour ago, MP99 said:
How many points did you apply with it you don't mind me asking ?

I had 31 but lots of people decline their spot since they apply multiple places, so i know of quite a few people who said they got a denial letter but got a call from Jesse saying to come to orientation because a spot opened up

4 hours ago, SKS0426 said:
I would like to know more about first semester schedule as well! Also the end of semester hesi, do y'all get to retake it once if you don't pass the first time? Or is it only once and if you don't pass then you have to have your exit interview?

You get 1 retake if you don't score a 900. If you fail the second one you have an exit interview

SKS0426 · Oct 15, 2019

3 minutes ago, babysplash said:
I had 31 but lots of people decline their spot since they apply multiple places, so i know of quite a few people who said they got a denial letter but got a call from Jesse saying to come to orientation because a spot opened up
You get 1 retake if you don't score a 900. If you fail the second one you have an exit interview

Okay, thank you, i wanted to make sure because at BHC you don't get to retake it and if you don't get a 76 for the semester then you have to have your exit interview. I didn't make first semester there, sadly I got a 75.89 and they do not round up, but its ok because it makes me want it so much more!

Also what is PNC/HCC? I am on the FB page for other semesters and the S1 and S2 are confusing me Lol! I have to learn the abbreviations haha!

GOAL_DIGGER, BSN · Oct 15, 2019

1 hour ago, MP99 said:
How many points did you apply with it you don't mind me asking ?

I have 32 points

babysplash, ADN, RN · Oct 15, 2019

1 minute ago, SKS0426 said:
Okay, thank you, i wanted to make sure because at BHC you don't get to retake it and if you don't get a 76 for the semester then you have to have your exit interview. I didn't make first semester there, sadly I got a 75.89 and they do not round up, but its ok because it makes me want it so much more!
Also what is PNC/HCC? I am on the FB page for other semesters and the S1 and S2 are confusing me Lol! I have to learn the abbreviations haha!

At El Centro you have to make a 78 in lecture to move on to the HESI. If you don't have a 78 average at the end of the semester in the lecture course, you have an exit interview, since you aren't eligible to take the HESI, so they are similar in that way. Just keep your drive up! The fight is just starting once you get that acceptance letter!

PNC is Professional Nursing Concepts and HCC is Health Care Concepts. They are classes that you take during first semester. For us they alternated, so we would have HCC week 1 and lecture then week 2 we would have PNC and lecture and so on and so on. Lol ok no problem! It is super confusing! so J1 - junior 1 (first semester) J2 - junior 2 (second semester) s1 - senior 1 (third semester) s2 - senior 2 (fourth semester) Hope that helps!

CharityL · Oct 15, 2019

Babysplash, I appreciate all your information. My biggest question...I understand that we take the HESI, is it a different version of the test? I hope my question makes sense.

SKS0426 · Oct 15, 2019

3 minutes ago, babysplash said:
At El Centro you have to make a 78 in lecture to move on to the HESI. If you don't have a 78 average at the end of the semester in the lecture course, you have an exit interview, since you aren't eligible to take the HESI, so they are similar in that way. Just keep your drive up! The fight is just starting once you get that acceptance letter!
PNC is Professional Nursing Concepts and HCC is Health Care Concepts. They are classes that you take during first semester. For us they alternated, so we would have HCC week 1 and lecture then week 2 we would have PNC and lecture and so on and so on. Lol ok no problem! It is super confusing! so J1 - junior 1 (first semester) J2 - junior 2 (second semester) s1 - senior 1 (third semester) s2 - senior 2 (fourth semester) Hope that helps!

Yes, that helps so much! lol!

The 78 is scary. I did really well in Clinical and skills, but lecture is the worst for me..maybe because the system between the teachers were not so good. hopefully this is a different experience. How do you study for tests? I know its pretty much all self taught, and nothing they teach is related to the hesi (or it somewhat is). My friend found some great books that saved her from failing the hesi but the tests are what gets me. ?

babysplash, ADN, RN · Oct 15, 2019

3 minutes ago, CharityL said:
Babysplash, I appreciate all your information. My biggest question...I understand that we take the HESI, is it a different version of the test? I hope my question makes sense.

No problem! Yes, so the HESI you take for the application is a test of basic concepts of the subjects - like math, A&P and so on. The end of semester is only over the material you learn in the first semester of all your classes. The questions cover everything you leanr from lecture, PNC and HCC. The curriculum is concept based. Each concept will have exemplars. The concepts and exemplars will be what your HESI is over.

babysplash, ADN, RN · Oct 15, 2019

14 minutes ago, SKS0426 said:
Yes, that helps so much! lol!
The 78 is scary. I did really well in Clinical and skills, but lecture is the worst for me..maybe because the system between the teachers were not so good. hopefully this is a different experience. How do you study for tests? I know its pretty much all self taught, and nothing they teach is related to the hesi (or it somewhat is). My friend found some great books that saved her from failing the hesi but the tests are what gets me. ?

It's possible! So the book El Centro requires us to buy is all i used to study for the lecture exams and for the HESI - our book package includes a quizzing platform so I took lots of practice questions from that platform. There's also a red HESI book everyone talks about but I didn't look at anything other than the books we were required to buy and I passed the HESI on the first try and passed all the lecture tests. It's really about testing your knowledge by practicing taking NCLEX and HESI style questions. You can know the info backwards and forward, signs and symptoms and drugs but if you don't know the priority when you see the patient then you could pick the wrong answer. Its those tricky application based questions!

4 minutes ago, babysplash said:

SKS0426 · Oct 15, 2019

1 minute ago, babysplash said:
It's possible! So the book El Centro requires us to buy is all i used to study for the lecture exams and for the HESI - our book package includes a quizzing platform so I took lots of practice questions from that platform. There's also a red HESI book everyone talks about but I didn't look at anything other than the books we were required to buy and I passed the HESI on the first try and passed all the lecture tests. It's really about testing your knowledge by practicing taking NCLEX and HESI style questions. You can know the info backwards and forward, signs and symptoms and drugs but if you don't know the priority when you see the patient then you could pick the wrong answer.

Yes, that red book is what my friend got. lol! But i am glad they give you more resources to use for the hesi and lecture tests. Priority is hard sometimes, because the first test i took it was all about ABC and then the second test, that is what everyone did, and everyone failed. It is confusing sometimes. You have ABC and then Maslows. Which one comes before the other, haha! Those practice questions should help though.

Do you know the difference, if any, between el centro and north lake?

babysplash, ADN, RN · Oct 15, 2019

1 minute ago, SKS0426 said:
Yes, that red book is what my friend got. lol! But i am glad they give you more resources to use for the hesi and lecture tests. Priority is hard sometimes, because the first test i took it was all about ABC and then the second test, that is what everyone did, and everyone failed. It is confusing sometimes. You have ABC and then Maslows. Which one comes before the other, haha! Those practice questions should help though.
Do you know the difference, if any, between el centro and north lake?

Yup! and that never ends. It;s the internal battle of every test question lmao. When you look at the question think "what will keep my patient alive?" then "what will keep my patient safe?"

There's not really a difference. I mean they have lecture at NLC, but we have orientation together, we take the HESI together and last semester their testing center was messed up so we took all of our lecture exams together. Oh and they have different lecture instructors but the same concepts and exemplars. the NLC people will have clincials together and the ECC people will have clincials together so kind of found our study groups and friends by which campus we're on