HFCC Nursing 1st Year Description

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hopefully i will be in hfcc program by next year, but can anyone who has taken the program or is in the program, describe how the first year of nursing @ hfcc. i'm trying to get an idea of how many days i'll be at school/clinicals. also is it possible to have a part-time job while in the program at all? (i'm young so i don't have any kids to worry about, or house/apartment.) just to have money on the side.

it will be really helpful.:D

Specializes in ICCU - cardiac.
"There can be like 8-10 chapters on one test, so you're looking at 200+ pages to get through and KNOW in 2 weeks!"

This...This is exactly what I'm ready for.:roll I knew all of the ridiculous amounts of studying 8-9 chapters at 40 pgs a chapter minimum in Micro only to be asked 30 questions would come in handy someday. Not to mention the countless hours and hours I stayed up drinking coffee AND redbull to turn in a no less than perfort research notebook 6 pages long... front and back handwritten for ONE experiment. I guess everything does have purpose.

Are you for real? I don't know if it is just the way things can come across in cyberspace but it seems as though you just don't get it. Please keep us informed of your stellar performance in NS, we will all be waiting to read about how awesome you are. :bowingpur How it is all such a cakewalk, yada yada. This attitude will not go over well with your patients; it is about helping them and NOT you.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

There a few things about people that irritate me...

1. Being an insufferable know-it-all

2. Thinking that any previous coursework in a university is superior to any coursework in a community college.

3. Being condescending.

4. People who brag about previous accomplishments

Trust that if you display any of these behaviours in the program, you WILL be checked.

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I've seen more than a few 4.0 students get tripped up just by the type of testing in NS.

You can know the material like the back of your hand, and then get into the test, and get the stupidest question... you know the answer, but can't figure out which is the best answer out of the choices. Usually, there are more than one right answer, but one is better.

In every class I've taken before NS, I could tell you within a few points how I did on any exam as soon as I finished. In nursing school, sometimes I couldn't even tell you if I passed it.

You really have to be good at taking these types of tests. Your entire grade depends on it. I've seen very intelligent, hard working students fail out of our program because they just couldn't get the hang of it.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.
I've seen more than a few 4.0 students get tripped up just by the type of testing in NS.

You can know the material like the back of your hand, and then get into the test, and get the stupidest question... you know the answer, but can't figure out which is the best answer out of the choices. Usually, there are more than one right answer, but one is better.

In every class I've taken before NS, I could tell you within a few points how I did on any exam as soon as I finished. In nursing school, sometimes I couldn't even tell you if I passed it.

You really have to be good at taking these types of tests. Your entire grade depends on it. I've seen very intelligent, hard working students fail out of our program because they just couldn't get the hang of it.

Excellent point. Testing IS very different in nursing school. They word questions similar to the questions on the NCLEX. So I don't care if you read 8-9 chapters in Micro and then had a 30 question test and did great, nursing school is totally different.

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Are you for real? I don't know if it is just the way things can come across in cyberspace but it seems as though you just don't get it. Please keep us informed of your stellar performance in NS, we will all be waiting to read about how awesome you are. :bowingpur How it is all such a cakewalk, yada yada. This attitude will not go over well with your patients; it is about helping them and NOT you.

I am so glad to hear I am not the only one who feels this way. The original poster with the superior attitude, I think, will have some problems in nursing school. She seems to think she already knows everything. I sure hope that a few years from now, I don't wind up in the hospital and have her for my nurse. From her posts she can't seem to get past all of her accomplishments. I wonder if she has actually thought about what a nurse does. I am not a nurse yet, but I do know you have to put your patients first. It is not about you, it is about them.

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Ok... Ok.... I get it. I'll chill with my posts here because honestly and I'm being competely real here-- I can't help it. :( I seriously think I have Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It's weird because I do recognize it and try to keep it in check so it doesn't or {hasn't thusfar} affected me in real "space" because in person you'd probably "get me" more.

I'm very animated during verbal communication so I don't usually come off so obnoxiously, most people typically find it funny {BUT again this is in person}, so I'm guessing in cyberspace, you can't HEAR the tone behind the words so on a blank canvas it just looks like a bunch of arrogant

bull_ _ _ _.

I am who I am and I won't apologize for that, BUT please know that any advice or feedback given by all was truly appreciated by all means.

NO... NO... don't try to stop me...{dramatic hand over face} I don't want anyone to think I feel exhiled from "the island", because I don't.

I can only be me and I'm being honest in stating that I'm not going to sit here for an hour and review my posts to make sure that I don't offend anyone and discern whether the posts appear too superior, or too arrogant.... because I'm expressing myself impromptu. I'm willing to say I can't control my thinking in this competitive world we live in today... I feel a strong desire to strive for perfection and this aloofness may come out in my form of thought which has been transcripted in these posts.

HOWEVER, with realizing in statements made by many that I come off as superior, condescending or BOTTOM LINE full of myself, I've taken a mental note to be used later in circumstances where my narcissism must be bottled.

Well Wishes, and Good Luck to you all...

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Ok... Ok.... I get it. I'll chill with my posts here because honestly and I'm being competely real here-- I can't help it. :( I seriously think I have Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It's weird because I do recognize it and try to keep it in check so it doesn't or {hasn't thusfar} affected me in real "space" because in person you'd probably "get me" more.

I'm very animated during verbal communication so I don't usually come off so obnoxiously, most people typically find it funny {BUT again this is in person}, so I'm guessing in cyberspace, you can't HEAR the tone behind the words so on a blank canvas it just looks like a bunch of arrogant

bull_ _ _ _.

I am who I am and I won't apologize for that, BUT please know that any advice or feedback given by all was truly appreciated by all means.

NO... NO... don't try to stop me...{dramatic hand over face} I don't want anyone to think I feel exhiled from "the island", because I don't.

I can only be me and I'm being honest in stating that I'm not going to sit here for an hour and review my posts to make sure that I don't offend anyone and discern whether the posts appear too superior, or too arrogant.... because I'm expressing myself impromptu. I'm willing to say I can't control my thinking in this competitive world we live in today... I feel a strong desire to strive for perfection and this aloofness may come out in my form of thought which has been transcripted in these posts.

HOWEVER, with realizing in statements made by many that I come off as superior, condescending or BOTTOM LINE full of myself, I've taken a mental note to be used later in circumstances where my narcissism must be bottled.

Well Wishes, and Good Luck to you all...

Personally, I think you have way too much time on your hands. Maybe you should take up a hobby in addition to nursing school. You seem consumed about what other people think of you. you need something to occupy your time. Maybe you should try studying more.

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Specializes in ICCU - cardiac.
Ok... Ok.... I get it. I'll chill with my posts here because honestly and I'm being competely real here-- I can't help it. :( I seriously think I have Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It's weird because I do recognize it and try to keep it in check so it doesn't or {hasn't thusfar} affected me in real "space" because in person you'd probably "get me" more.

I'm very animated during verbal communication so I don't usually come off so obnoxiously, most people typically find it funny {BUT again this is in person}, so I'm guessing in cyberspace, you can't HEAR the tone behind the words so on a blank canvas it just looks like a bunch of arrogant

bull_ _ _ _.

I am who I am and I won't apologize for that, BUT please know that any advice or feedback given by all was truly appreciated by all means.

NO... NO... don't try to stop me...{dramatic hand over face} I don't want anyone to think I feel exhiled from "the island", because I don't.

I can only be me and I'm being honest in stating that I'm not going to sit here for an hour and review my posts to make sure that I don't offend anyone and discern whether the posts appear too superior, or too arrogant.... because I'm expressing myself impromptu. I'm willing to say I can't control my thinking in this competitive world we live in today... I feel a strong desire to strive for perfection and this aloofness may come out in my form of thought which has been transcripted in these posts.

HOWEVER, with realizing in statements made by many that I come off as superior, condescending or BOTTOM LINE full of myself, I've taken a mental note to be used later in circumstances where my narcissism must be bottled.

Well Wishes, and Good Luck to you all...

Thank you for clearing the air. Thoughts do come across differently when written then in talking. This website is meant, at least to me, to help all of those involved in nursing in whatever capacity to promote a forum in which we can all lean on each other in this journey of achieving the ultimate goal of becoming an RN. I am deeply appreciative of all those who have taken the time to respond to my plethora of questions over the years. And since I have finished my first year, I feel it is important to mentor those who are about to begin their journey into NS. It is my hope that someone can take something from what I've experienced and turn it into something positive for them. Teaching is fundamental to nursing and I feel that I should give back what I have learned to the nursing community. No one can understand the complexities of NS unless they are in the thick of it or whom are already nurses. We are in the profession of caring and that extends to whomever calls upon us.

I met my mentor here on this forum a few years ago and I couldn't have been as successful as I am in NS without this wonderful and special person. We all need to feel understood and validated. We all need to feel that we can do this in spite of all the obstacles in school and at home. And that is what allnurses has done for me and I have never met any of these special souls!:redbeathe

So good luck to everyone in their pursuit and never give up!:clown:

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