Fresno City College Fall 2021/Spring 2022

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Starting a thread for applicants in 2021 year. 

12 hours ago, SeeksTruth said:

Awesome thank you so much for sharing! 
 

Did you have class Monday-Friday + clinical in your first semester?

No you only have class like 2-3 times a week maybe like Tuesday Thursday Friday for example. The first 9 weeks you have a skills class which is all day 6:30am-5pm ish. And after the 9 weeks you start your clinicals and you take a medication math test which you have 3 attempts to get 100% or you have to stop taking classes and repeat the semester

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5 minutes ago, blueb-7 said:

No you only have class like 2-3 times a week maybe like Tuesday Thursday Friday for example. The first 9 weeks you have a skills class which is all day 6:30am-5pm ish. And after the 9 weeks you start your clinicals and you take a medication math test which you have 3 attempts to get 100% or you have to stop taking classes and repeat the semester

So for 11 hours 3 days a week you're practicing things like taking manual blood pressure, cath insertion (?) Again thank you! I'm so naive to what goes on!!

8 minutes ago, blueb-7 said:

No you only have class like 2-3 times a week maybe like Tuesday Thursday Friday for example. The first 9 weeks you have a skills class which is all day 6:30am-5pm ish. And after the 9 weeks you start your clinicals and you take a medication math test which you have 3 attempts to get 100% or you have to stop taking classes and repeat the semester

What is the second nine weeks consist of? Pharmacology? Pathophysiology?

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11 minutes ago, SeeksTruth said:

So for 11 hours 3 days a week you're practicing things like taking manual blood pressure, cath insertion (?) Again thank you! I'm so naive to what goes on!!

What is the second nine weeks consist of? Pharmacology? Pathophysiology?

Yes basically. 1st semester skills is a lot of what CNAs do and more. No problem!

After the 9 weeks of skills and if you pass the med math test then you will finish the semester with 9 weeks of clinicals

Also you take a culture class for 9 weeks and then finish with 9 week pharm class.

Another is fundamentals of nursing for the whole semester

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1 hour ago, blueb-7 said:

No you only have class like 2-3 times a week maybe like Tuesday Thursday Friday for example. The first 9 weeks you have a skills class which is all day 6:30am-5pm ish. And after the 9 weeks you start your clinicals and you take a medication math test which you have 3 attempts to get 100% or you have to stop taking classes and repeat the semester

Does anyone work in your cohort? Aside weekends it seems impossible to work. 

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18 minutes ago, Darkascension said:

Does anyone work in your cohort? Aside weekends it seems impossible to work. 

Hmm a few of them work part time jobs (Target, Costco, CNA, ER Registrar) but other than that Im not sure. I think a fulltime job would be extremely hard if not impossible with clinicals, classes, studying, homework

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14 minutes ago, blueb-7 said:

Hmm a few of them work part time jobs (Target, Costco, CNA, ER Registrar) but other than that Im not sure. I think a fulltime job would be extremely hard if not impossible with clinicals, classes, studying, homework

How many hours a day do you study outside of in-class time and clinicals. 

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15 minutes ago, SeeksTruth said:

How many hours a day do you study outside of in-class time and clinicals. 

Depends on the semester and class. The hardest one for me most semesters is the med surg classes. I would say at least  several hours a day with lots of breaks and stuff. It all depends on you though how much you understand the concepts and material.

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1 minute ago, blueb-7 said:

Depends on the semester and class. The hardest one for me most semesters is the med surg classes. I would say at least  several hours a day with lots of breaks and stuff. It all depends on you though how much you understand the concepts and material.

Would you say taking more Chemistry would help make sense of things learned in pharmacology? Did you purchase a Saunders manual to help with learning the information? Have most people in your cohort gone on to next semester or do you lose many people, I guess I'm asking the attrition rate. 

Thanks!

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13 minutes ago, SeeksTruth said:

Would you say taking more Chemistry would help make sense of things learned in pharmacology? Did you purchase a Saunders manual to help with learning the information? Have most people in your cohort gone on to next semester or do you lose many people, I guess I'm asking the attrition rate. 

Thanks!

Hmm not necessarily. A lot of it is memorization and understanding how certain drugs work with your body and what side effects they have. I did not purchase it.

Most people have gone on to next semester. I lost 3 of my classmates first semester - 1 to not passing the med math exam, 1 to not passing fundamentals, and 1 to having too many tardies the teacher subtracted 1% of each one (back when we were in person). 2nd semester was the hardest but everyone in my group passed. I know in other groups some people did not pass. My 3rd semester they moved some people out of my group to restructure it to make the groups even.

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On 1/24/2021 at 8:01 PM, blueb-7 said:

I felt the same way! Hmm well it definitely has gone by fast thats for sure LOL

1st semester- is the easiest but its quite different than pre-reqs so it seems hard in the beginning.

2nd Semester- By far the hardest for me and for a lot of people. This is the semester people often have to repeat due to failing a class.

3rd Semester- Compared to 2nd this one was a sigh of relief. Much more manageable.

4th Semester- Just starting it but it seems like a lot in terms of studying and the work you have to put in especially in these covid times.

I can answer more specific questions if anyone has them here or if you want to send me a message.

How many day is theory and how long is theory.Also for clinical, how long and how many day you guys have to be at the clinical site?

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5 hours ago, blueb-7 said:

No you only have class like 2-3 times a week maybe like Tuesday Thursday Friday for example. The first 9 weeks you have a skills class which is all day 6:30am-5pm ish. And after the 9 weeks you start your clinicals and you take a medication math test which you have 3 attempts to get 100% or you have to stop taking classes and repeat the semester

Im curious on the medication math. How hard is the medication math? How many math class are there? 

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29 minutes ago, tvpy016 said:

How many day is theory and how long is theory.Also for clinical, how long and how many day you guys have to be at the clinical site?

Im curious on the medication math. How hard is the medication math? How many math class are there? 

Usually each class is only 1 day a week. Theory class is probably around 2 hours but depends on the class. Well each semester you will have different clinicals to go to. 1st semester I was there from 6:30am-4ish. 2nd semester you have 2 seperate clinicals. One is for med surg and its roughtly the same time 6:30-4ish and the OB clinical like 6:30-3ish I think. 3rd is for Med Surg 6:30-4ish and the other for peds 6:30-1ish. 4th is Psych 6:30-12:30ish, Critical care 6:30-5ish. Some of these meet every week while some meet every other week.

Med math 1st semester is really easy just if you can remember conversions like kg to lb, ounces, mg, tbs, tsp, and other stuff. But I believe going forward everyone will take the test on a site called safemedicate which gives you practice tests you can practice on and it is exactly like the test just different numbers so it is easy if you practice.

There was an optional math class for me my 1st semester which was a waste of time. Other than that there is no math class. You will learn how to do med math in your fundamentals class leading up to the first test.

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