Gwinnett Tech Gunning for Nursing Fall 2014

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Hey room! My name is Rachel. I am a pre-nursing student attending Gwinnett Technical College. Thus far, I have completed remedial math, Honors Psych, US History, Research Strat, Choices for Life, with strat and choices for GPC pre-reqs, but I transferred. I am currently taking College Algebra(Summer) and will begin science courses this Fall(2012). So the droop and withdraw rate at the college is and est. 50%. Holy guacamole...So, for my situation I am married, living at home with my husband's family and our 8 month old, Kaleb. I can't afford a babysitter so I work to days out of the week, which gives me plenty of time to play with my son :). I stay home during the day and take things slow, maybe to times a week when it comes to my class schedule.

That being said, I will begin Anatomy 1 and Lab. I chose the hybrid class for Tuesdays on campus from 6p-7:20, and then the same instructor for the Lab Tuesdays 7:30p-10:20. I am taking one science course at a time. So I should finish pre-reqs next Fall(2013). I anyone else doing something along those lines who wants a consistent study buddy. My hours are pretty fair and flexible too. I like working together for a common cause. If not, but still you are attending the school, and would like to share, by all means pls do. Thanks for reading and hopefully we can meet!

Have a Blessed week!

Hi, Just wanted to see if you were able to get into the nursing program at GT. I hope you did. How is it going and was it as difficult as they say. Thanks

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Hi, Just wanted to see if you were able to get into the nursing program at GT. I hope you did. How is it going and was it as difficult as they say. Thanks

Hi there. Wow, it sure has been a while since I was on this thread. A lot has passed. Let me update you on what's happened so far. I finished all of my prerequisite courses in fall 2013. I came out of it with a 4.0 gpa so I was really happy about that. We took the Kaplan and I made an 87. I placed in the top 10 of the students accepted for fall of 2014 so I was extatic. I sent in my letter of intent to the program and started getting everything I needed by the deadlines they gave us for our packet. This included vaccines and/or titers of immunity which cost a fortune, cpr certificate that has to last until July 17 of the following year, books and supplies, uniforms, and a few other things like drug and background checks for the clinical sites.

Once classes started I came to realize this was going to be a roller coaster event. 4 of the nursing program staff had left so replacing them on a short notice was tasking for the program. They managed to find instructors which was great, but reading schedules were a bit frustrating in the beginning because they kept changing. Now I think they have it more concrete and know the flow they want to go with for the next time around in 2015. Any who, we took our first exams in both fundamentals and pharmacology. I did well on both. I think I made As in both. Then a couple of weeks went by, that's when it started to get difficult. It became a juggling act to be honest. After the first exams of each course every week would be an alternate exam for each class. That means that one Tuesday would have a fundamental exam, and the next Tuesday would be a pharmacology exam. Before our next fundamental exam, we had to write our first APA formatted paper, have a check off of a head to toe physical assessment, and our next pharmacology exam would be just around the corner of it all. So the paper, the check off, then the next fundamentals exam which was more information to know than the first one, and now our second pharmacology test the next Tuesday. I underestimated that test. I thought I could wait until all of my other ducks were squared away in fundamentals and I would just go back to studying for my second pharm test since I did so well on your last one. Boy was I wrong. Don't make that mistake. Test one was only an introduction of ideas and concepts about the drug specific chapters that would begin after exam 1. Always balance both classes. Our pharmacology tests are comprehensive, so each test has new material, but will also have older material mixed in, around 40 % which is enough to make or break your average and fail you. Study both courses at the same time or passing on and failing the other will only lead you down the same road as failing both. I chose to withdraw and return in 2015. I've already been readmitted and am studying now to get ahead. This was a lesson learned and I hope this information has been helpful. If you have questions specific to what part of a class is like just let me know. Have a great journey!!!

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I have read many of your post, which is really helpful. I was wondering if you can give me any advice on prerequisites A&P 1 N 2 N LABS.

I always try to buy the books in advance and study before the class starts.

It would be great if you can help give me some advice.

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I have read many of your post, which is really helpful. I was wondering if you can give me any advice on prerequisites A&P 1 N 2 N LABS.

I always try to buy the books in advance and study before the class starts.

It would be great if you can help give me some advice.

Hi there. I think you're asking me but if not I can still chime in :). If you are a dependent learner, Tak your classes on campus. If you are an independent learner, take them hybrid so u have more time you can use to your advantage. Micro doesn't have hybrid but there are any good instructors for it.

Make sure you go to open lab for both AnP classes. Try to get the same instructors for your lab as you do for the lecture. That way when they say " remember what we said in class..." you will know what they mean.

Micro has no lecture dvds like anp so do your reading. You don't need the textbook for anp to fill in your lecture notes. Only for hw and for the illustrations of anatomy. Tests come straight from lecture notes, and those answers in your notes are straight from the dvds.

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Hi there. I think you're asking me but if not I can still chime in :). If you are a dependent learner, Tak your classes on campus. If you are an independent learner, take them hybrid so u have more time you can use to your advantage. Micro doesn't have hybrid but there are any good instructors for it.

Make sure you go to open lab for both AnP classes. Try to get the same instructors for your lab as you do for the lecture. That way when they say " remember what we said in class..." you will know what they mean.

Micro has no lecture dvds like anp so do your reading. You don't need the textbook for anp to fill in your lecture notes. Only for hw and for the illustrations of anatomy. Tests come straight from lecture notes, and those answers in your notes are straight from the dvds.

[COLOR=#003366]NeoNatMom[/COLOR], Thank you so much, I have a few more question for you!

I was wondering if AnP 1&2 use the same book?

What would you consider to be the most difficult in class? Which Science Class is the hardest?

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AP uses the same textbook but different DvD, lecture notes, and lab manual.

For me the most "difficult" course was micro. Don't get me wrong, is wasn't really bad at all, but unlike AP, you don't have a DvD that tells you everything to put in lecture notes. You have to read the book to answer and fill in stuff. Make sentences to group your viruses and bacteria. I learned my viruses in one night doing this :). Make drawings of bacteria with a meaning behind it to remember things like of they can be contracted through certain uncooked food or something special for that virus or bacteria. I think I'm rambling now, sorry. Hope this helps though!

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Anyone started received acceptance letters? Anyone care to share their stats?

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Is anyone currently in Gwinnett technical college's rn bridge program? (September 2015) that can elaborate about the program & how hard the selection process is ?

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