FCCJ/FSCJ Fall 2010 Hopefuls

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I know it is kind of early to start this thread but I thought maybe there were some others out there who are planning on applying for fccj/fscj fall 2010 RN program. Hope you will post on this thread!

Specializes in Med/ Surg.

I am a term two student in the Nursing program. Judging from the previous terms you guys can pretty much anticipate waiting until the 8th week for your letters. Also, we DID recieve emails to our FSCJ accounts letting us know if we had been accepted.

I have all of my term 1 books for sale if anyone is interested. You will need to buy the care plan book, the Lab & Diagnostics Tests, Davis Drug Guide, Tabers (which I haven't even unwrapped), the NCLEX review, and the I-clicker.

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Don't worry, I'm sure you will get it :) This is my 3rd time applying so I feel like i've btdt. I had to decline my seat the past two semesters :(

You and I are in the same boat! I had to decline my seat the past two semesters as well! I'm sure we will both have better luck this time :yeah:

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I am a term 4 student. We were the first to have the full wait and the first to get email notifications, so it is true.

@LovinmyLayla.....I wouldn't sell those right now....you are still going to need them!

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Marina - Are you hoping for days or nights?

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I am a term 4 student. We were the first to have the full wait and the first to get email notifications, so it is true.

@LovinmyLayla.....I wouldn't sell those right now....you are still going to need them!

I think I speak for all of us when I say thanks to those of you who are already going through the nursing program for following the newbie/hopeful thread and satisfying some of our curiosities with your comments about your experiences. FLmomof5, I'm sure being in the 4th term and having 5 kids, your plate is plenty full. We appreciate you taking the time to help us know what to expect. Waiting so long to find out about something so important is bad enough without having a million unanswered questions, too.

I'm also glad you confirmed that it's good to keep your books. I kept my A&P book because I figured it would be a handy reference. If someone were to sell theirs and then realize they still needed them, they'd have to buy them again, and books are expensive enough as it is.

Thanks again for the heads-up!!! :yeah:

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Marina - Are you hoping for days or nights?

I'm only applying for the nights program, since I will also have to work full time at my current position. And you?

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We got our letters in less than 8 weeks. It was e-mailed the same day the packet was mailed. For summer term, we got our e-mails on March 10th, so less than 6 weeks from the application deadline. Our orientation was earlier than in some of the past semesters. Obviously it varies each term, and they're not exactly what I'd call organized, so who knows, but my guess is you won't be waiting the full 8 weeks. So check your fscj email often... one more thing to stalk other than your mailbox. :)

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We got our letters in less than 8 weeks. It was e-mailed the same day the packet was mailed. For summer term, we got our e-mails on March 10th, so less than 6 weeks from the application deadline. Our orientation was earlier than in some of the past semesters. Obviously it varies each term, and they're not exactly what I'd call organized, so who knows, but my guess is you won't be waiting the full 8 weeks. So check your fscj email often... one more thing to stalk other than your mailbox. :)

Haha, I am soooo stalking the mail lady. I do medical transcription from home, and the window at my desk gives me a clear view of the mailbox. Every day when I see her pull up, I go flying out the door. She's pretty fast, so by time I get out the door, she is already pulling up to the next house. I can't even imagine what she thinks when she sees me running to the mailbox everyday the second she pulls off. Probably that I'm waiting on a $1,000,000 check or something. I don't know, but I'm sure she thinks I have a case of the crazies, lol :lol2:

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I can't see our mailbox at all, we have a long driveway. Somedays the mail will be in as early as 11:30, most days it doesn't run til 4:00. I keep my eye on my inbox instead. Tuesday will be 6 weeks... With all the things that have happened in the 9 weeks since I submitted my application, you'd think time would have flown by but it hasn't. Everyday makes me a little more anxious than the one before it.

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Specializes in Travel L&D/ Hospice.

I am a second term nursing student, it took Spring term 2010 exactly 6 weeks to receive our letters, we got an email and reg mail of the acceptance letter! Good luck everyone!

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I have applied for the fall term. I work at home also and watch right out the window at 4 every afternoon waiting on my mail man. :)

Hopefully it won't be too much longer!!

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So I've been pouring through several hundred posts in the "Summer 2010 Hopefuls" thread, and I found a few tidbits that might be helpful or interesting to us soon. It looks like the acceptance e-mails went out throughout the course of the day on 03/10, and no one reported receiving a rejection letter with their score rank until 03/26. But then later six people declined their seats, so the next six in rank got in and were notified by phone call 4-6 days after rejection letters.

Also, all the medical clearance stuff the accepted will have to do before orientation can be done at the Northside Clinic which is about 10 minutes from North Campus. This will be helpful for those who do not have insurance or want to minimize their driving. Apparently, you have to pick up paperwork from campus, go have the tests, physical, etc., and then bring back carbon copies to campus. However, there were multiple people complaining of horrible blood draw experiences there (e.g. being stuck multiple times, people not wearing gloves and touching the skin after the alcohol swab, waiting a long time for the doctor to do the physical). One poor fella even had to be stuck 7 times, and they still didn't get enough blood for the test.

Orientation seems to be the first day that books are purchasable via financial aid, and you don't have to have all your results back by that day, just the proof that you've had everything done. Some people were really freaking out about having results back in time because there is very little time to get all these things done between the time you are accepted and orientation day. That day, there will also be used white uniforms available if you make a "donation?", but they have the FCCJ logo. But you can purchase an FSCJ patch from Meridy's or just buy new uniforms. We will also have to have blue polo nursing student shirts and khakis. There was also mention that these shirts do not have to be tucked in, since that will affect some people's choice of pants.

I also saw recommendations for the teacher Ms. Keister whose clinicals would be at Memorial (at least for their first term groups anyways) and for Burns who teaches Pharm and writes the tests. Someone said that there's a sheet which lists the different groupings of teachers and clinical locations available at the communication board when you pick up your papers after acceptance. People also seemed to be very open to switching groups to get the hospital they wanted for clinicals.

A lot of people were paying $50+ for CPR certification for healthcare providers, but St. Vincent's Advanced Patient Transport program does it for $25. Several people were told it would be $30 or $35 there, but they all agreed that when you got there, it was only $25. And they said it only took 2 hours. Other classes were as long as from 8:30-1:00. One girl who had not received an acceptance e-mail/packet went ahead and got her CPR cert out of the way because she figured she'd need it for the next term anyway. Then she got her rejection letter. Then she got the call that she was one of the 6 people who got in by default. So it's a good thing she did that, because they had zero time to get all their clearance stuff done. I think I'm going to go ahead and get mine out of the way.

Well, sorry about the super long post, but I didn't want to have to go searching through all those posts again later if I forgot the details. Now it's all in one post, and I know exactly where to find it. ;)

Hope thinking about some of these things will get some of your minds off of your inbox/mailbox for a while. It helped distract me for a little while from the fact that it's Saturday and there definitely won't be any acceptance e-mails today. /cry

Here's to us all being :nurse: :nurse: :nurse: :nurse: :nurse: :nurse: :nurse: :nurse: :nurse: :nurse: :nurse: :nurse:

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