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....

On 2/16/2020 at 2:17 PM, MP99 said:

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.

so you only have school those days of the week in the first semester?

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5 hours ago, AOG said:

so you only have school those days of the week in the first semester?

Yes, Tuesday’s & Wednesday’s and clinical can fall on a Thursday for you or a Friday on the weeks you do have clinicals. They’re all 10 hour days.

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Would you recommend working weekends only (fri-sun) to have some studying tine? I work overnight right now.

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51 minutes ago, AOG said:

Would you recommend working weekends only (fri-sun) to have some studying tine? I work overnight right now.

That's what I'd like to know as well.

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Specializes in NRCMA in MFM, past PCT in Med/Surg.

Hi, everyone! I applied for Fall 2020 at El Centro through the Methodist Cohort program (I work at Methodist Dallas). They take 10 people a semester and if you don't make it, you are then in the running for El Centro's program. My score was 46/ 53. Fingers crossed!

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Hey everyone. I seen where it said that notification letters will be mailed out by April 30th. Do any of you know if they send an email also. For some reason on past forum, I thought I seen where they sent emails as well. I hope we here something before April. Good luck everyone?

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Hey everyone,

We just have a little over a month left before we find out if we’re accepted or not. I was wondering how everyone is doing. I’m getting so anxious and I’m trying to keep my mind off it it but it’s hard! I have set a countdown on my because it’s getting close ?

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5 minutes ago, Getwellsoon_ta said:

Hey everyone,

We just have a little over a month left before we find out if we’re accepted or not. I was wondering how everyone is doing. I’m getting so anxious and I’m trying to keep my mind off it it but it’s hard! I have set a countdown on my because it’s getting close ?

With the way this coronavirus is moving around...who knows when we'll find out? LOL But hopefully it'll be gone so life can be back to normal.

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16 minutes ago, Shauntil07 said:

With the way this coronavirus is moving around...who knows when we'll find out? LOL But hopefully it'll be gone so life can be back to normal.

You must be at work if you’re up LOL and Amen girl. I’m so tired of hearing about it hopefully it won’t affect us finding out I might call to see if it does but who knows if they’ll even be there.

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On 2/5/2020 at 9:45 AM, MP99 said:

So math competency exams is dosage calculations. You will need to know metric and house hold conversions. Ex: 1tsp =5ml. 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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Did anyone get an email from the school today?

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1 hour ago, Getwellsoon_ta said:

Did anyone get an email from the school today?

Concerning what? Coronavirus or updates for getting in?

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