Fall 2020 El Centro Nursing Program Applicants

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Hey Everyone!

I wanted to start a new thread for Fall 2020 applicants at El Centro, since I didn't find one already here. Let's see if we can help eachother out and answer some questions for eachother. Currently, I have 35 points, but will be applying with about 40, I believe. I'm wondering if that is competitive? Also, I need to get my physical, titers, and vaccines, but don't have health insurance. Any ideas where I can get them done at a decent price? I found a website but I am not sure if they will accept stuff from there....

1 hour ago, dbennett30 said:

Hey everyone?? Do yall know if El Centro do interviews for entrance into the nursing program?

No, they do not. Just Brookhaven and Mountain View.

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Oh okay good☺️Thank you! I applied to MVC and El Centro.

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I applied with 33 points ??? first choice School is Northlake ? Good Luck guys.

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Hi. I’m new here and I am trying to decide which school to go to in the fall. I wanted to ask someone who is already in the el centro program about what grades do you have to maintain in order to stay in the nursing program? Also if any body from Mountain View is reading this what grade do you have to maintain in that program too. Thank you.

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1 hour ago, Taylor1990 said:

Hi. I’m new here and I am trying to decide which school to go to in the fall. I wanted to ask someone who is already in the el centro program about what grades do you have to maintain in order to stay in the nursing program? Also if any body from Mountain View is reading this what grade do you have to maintain in that program too. Thank you.

Hello! I am a Northlake student currently in the program. You must make a 78% and above for each course overall. 100% in math competency exams to progress in each semester. Also, end of the semester exit HESI score must be 900 and above! Hope this helps a-little!

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Yes it was. Thank you. Was it hard for you to keep up with that demand? And also what is math competency and how hard is it? Thank you. I promise I will not ask anything else.

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15 hours ago, Taylor1990 said:

Yes it was. Thank you. Was it hard for you to keep up with that demand? And also what is math competency and how hard is it? Thank you. I promise I will not ask anything else.

So math competency exams is dosage calculations. You will need to know metric and house hold conversions. Ex: 1tsp =15ml. Converting grams to mg to mcg. Doing Dimensional analysis on word problems. They will help you and you will get a book called Henkes med math to help prepare. It’s a tough program but if you’re organized and study your concepts and do tons of Nclex style questions over the concepts you will get the hang of things. But it’s not easy to juggle everything! Good luck!

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Thank you. I hope I can.

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Due to transferring to DCCCD, I selected an associates of science for my program of study, but I am wanting to change it to ADN, will this change have to happen now? Should I do it at the end of the semester? Will this change have any implications?

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1 hour ago, Ben251918 said:

Due to transferring to DCCCD, I selected an associates of science for my program of study, but I am wanting to change it to ADN, will this change have to happen now? Should I do it at the end of the semester? Will this change have any implications?

You will want to change your degree to Associate Degree of Nursing if you are applying for financial aid for the program so preferably, you would change it now. But like in my case, I am applying to graduate with my Associate of Science degree in May. Somewhere after graduation, I would change this then to the ADN because I am applying for FA for the nursing program for the Fall.

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Hey everyone,

Is there any current nursing students on here that could give a rough example of how their 1st semester schedule was? How many days in lecture/class and clinicals per week?

Just curious! Thanks in advance!

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3 hours ago, KFaulkner said:

Hey everyone,

Is there any current nursing students on here that could give a rough example of how their 1st semester schedule was? How many days in lecture/class and clinicals per week?

Just curious! Thanks in advance!

Hi! So they actually changed the way they did things this semester for first semester students! It used to be Wednesday’s were for lecture and Thursdays all day 7am-7pm skills lab. Fridays are usually clinicals but now some have it on Thursdays. This semester it’s Tuesdays are lecture (PNC/intro HCC rotate each week) from 7:30-9:30am (1 hour break) then 10:30-5pm is skills lab. Wednesday’s Is your main lecture HCC from 7:30-12:30 then you have skills from 1:30-5pm. Clinical are from 6:30-5pm . In first semester you don’t have many clinical days because of skills which is only in first semester. You have like 5-6 days out of the whole semester depending if you’re NL or ECC.

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