FSCJ Summer 2013 Nursing Students

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Hi everyone, well I'm starting this convo so we all can get an idea of who, what, when, and where with FSCJ. Good topics would include testing materials, the average ranking of points for the upcoming term, and any other useful ideas that will help us all get into to this crazy hard nursing program! :) So, lets see if we can help each other out....and it's kinda fun to talk about nursing as well :)

Lucy - My friend is in her second semester so I can tell you what I learned from her. She did not get to pick her classes and she didn't get into a group with people she knows. She also did not get to pick the hospital where she does her clinicals. Seems to me like she had her schedule a week or two before the semester began.

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Do you know anything about how the process goes once we're accepted (being optimistic here)? Do we get to choose our own classes/instructors, etc.? Or are we auto-enrolled by FSCJ? And how soon after acceptance do we get our schedules? So many questions!!!! I like to plan things out so this not knowing is killing me!

I have no idea. Lol. I've read on here and also Facebook students asking which teacher to choose? But that's about it :(

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Lucy - My friend is in her second semester so I can tell you what I learned from her. She did not get to pick her classes and she didn't get into a group with people she knows. She also did not get to pick the hospital where she does her clinicals. Seems to me like she had her schedule a week or two before the semester began.

Wow. That stinks!!! Especially the part about when you get your schedules. I'm a single mom and arranging child care for the semester on such short notice could be problematic. I'll make it work I guess.

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I'm in fourth term right now and throughout the program we've registered for classes using the lottery system. Everyone in your term (excluding nights/weekends I think) lines up outside the auditorium on the scheduled registration date and once the doors open you draw a number out of a hat. Once everyone has picked a number and taken a seat, they'll start calling up people to sign up for classes using the numbers. So, if you've drawn #1 you get to be the first person to enroll in whatever section that you want. Only 12 students can sign up per section. A lot of times students don't get the schedule that they want because they drew a high number and the section they wanted had already filled up by the time it was their turn. At that point you're pretty much stuck with whatever section that nobody wanted/hadn't filled up yet.

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I'm in fourth term right now and throughout the program we've registered for classes using the lottery system. Everyone in your term (excluding nights/weekends I think) lines up outside the auditorium on the scheduled registration date and once the doors open you draw a number out of a hat. Once everyone has picked a number and taken a seat, they'll start calling up people to sign up for classes using the numbers. So, if you've drawn #1 you get to be the first person to enroll in whatever section that you want. Only 12 students can sign up per section. A lot of times students don't get the schedule that they want because they drew a high number and the section they wanted had already filled up by the time it was their turn. At that point you're pretty much stuck with whatever section that nobody wanted/hadn't filled up yet.

Do the students in the bridge program eventually integrate with the students that did the traditional RN route? I"m applying for the LPN to RN bridge and I haven't had as much luck finding fellow hopefuls to bounce questions off of. If you happen to know any insight into the bridge program, any, and can share it would be much appreciated!

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xmyxshell, thanks for the insight. Do you have any recommendations as far as what sections to try and get, etc.?

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Sorry, I don't know anything about the LPN to RN bridge program, but I'm pretty sure that the bridge students do integrate with the other students once they start taking the same classes. Like right now for Adult Health II, ALL the days students (the 96+ of us) have class lecture in the auditorium together at the same time.

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Not really, the instructors and clinical sites are usually different each term. Once you get a copy of the schedule just do a bit of research on which instructors to take or avoid. A lot of students try to choose a section that is associated with a particular hospital that they might want to go to for clinicals. Others choose based on time of day or days of the week of class that best fits their schedule.

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Not really the instructors and clinical sites are usually different each term. Once you get a copy of the schedule just do a bit of research on which instructors to take or avoid. A lot of students try to choose a section that is associated with a particular hospital that they might want to go to for clinicals. Others choose based on time of day or days of the week of class that best fits their schedule.[/quote']

Great. Thanks again for the info!!!!

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Hey I have a total of 188 points which isnt too high. Kinda nervous! How much do yall have?

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Hey I have a total of 188 points which isnt too high. Kinda nervous! How much do yall have?

I have 224 and I think some of the other girls on here have in the 200s as well. You might want to go back and look at the earlier posts to get a better idea. Are you trying to get into days or nights/weekends?

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Not to sound silly but how do you get that many points? I may be adding up my NAT score wrong. You take the raw scores from Academic Aptitude, Reading, and Science, add them up and multiply them by .64? Thanks so much for responding! :)

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