Hillsborough Community College RN program fall 2013

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Hello,

I plan to attend to HCC's 2013 fall evening nursing program (applying in Jan). I am curious to see what people people's GPA is going in. I hear spring's is lower than fall's.

Thanks!

So I just spent the past couple of hours reading through Spring 2013's page.

DosageHelp.com - Helping Nursing Students Learn Dosage Calculations - Mass for Mass Questions

I've read that that website is really convenient for learning/practicing the calculations.

For whenever we have to take the HESI, I found this post.

https://allnurses.com/hesi-exit-exam/my-study-guide-390611.html

I'm unbelievably nervous! Orientation and campus assignments cannot come soon enough!

My moms friend just finished up her first semester, so I will be asking her just about anything I can think of. If anyone has a question we haven't answered yet, I'll ask her and she what she has to say. Just let me know! :)

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Thank you!

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Hi, I am going to take nursing prerequisite courses from this summer. There are 9 prerequisite course. Do you have any suggestions about those course. Which courses I should take first, and then? Thank you very much.

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I ordered the dosage calculations book they use, Clinical Calculations with Apps, Kee & Marshall from Abe Books for $3.40, free shipping. I'm going to start working on calculations now because that's my weakness. The book is in perfect condition. I also ordered Fundamentals for Nursing from them for $4.00. It's an older version and I know I will need to get the newer version but it's a good start. Can't wait for orientation and finding out if I got Dale Mabry Mornings, keeping my fingers crossed.

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Hi, I am going to take nursing prerequisite courses from this summer. There are 9 prerequisite course. Do you have any suggestions about those course. Which courses I should take first, and then? Thank you very much.

A&PI first obviously, simply because it's two parts. If you can take two sciences at once, then by all means take Micro with it too. That way you only have two semesters of classes. Just know if you do that you have to be able to put the time into both classes to get the grades you want, you'll have to be good at time management. From there it just depends on what you're good at - if you're good at math and can handle that plus your sciences, do the math first; if you're better at English go with that. It really just depends on what you can handle at one time and if you have the time to dedicate to the courses.

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Hi, I am going to take nursing prerequisite courses from this summer. There are 9 prerequisite course. Do you have any suggestions about those course. Which courses I should take first, and then? Thank you very much.

If you are working full time, I suggest you take the sciences one at a time. They are very demanding, and your GPA is of the utmost importance. The higher your GPA, the better your chances of making it into the pgm. GPA's under 3.7 are on the alternate list for this go around. The sciences all come with a lab, and the labs are pretty demanding, so it is like taking 2 classes at a time. If you aren't working, then by all means take other classes with the sciences. I personally do not recommend taking any of the sciences together...just my opinion.

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I agree with lala1717, gap is critical to getting into the program. I wouldn't suggest 2 sciences at once. It will take longer but you will have a better chance at doing well in your classes.

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So I posted not too long ago that I had to go through the appeals process due to a GPA miscalculation. I got the appeal committee's response letter this morning and I'm in for fall! :woot:

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I can tell you my experience with the professors. For AP1 I took the online option and the hybrid class/online lab with Dr. Germroth. Great guy. Very dry humor, very informative and also a very fair man. For AP2 I again took the online lecture with Germroth and the lab with Dr. Bohm. Bohm is awesome. He's very informative, the guy has gone on ride-alongs with paramedics, he's done a lot of work at hospitals and shares his experiences with the class. You will learn a great deal from him. If my work schedule had permitted it, I would have liked to take his lecture instead along with the lab.

For micro I took Bacheller's online lecture and hybrid lab. The lab was fine, but the lecture was probably the toughest one out of the bunch. There is a metric ton of memorization with all the various virus, bacteria, parasites, diseases, testing procedures, etc. and I spent a LOT of time on homework. More so with that than the AP's. I heard from my AP lab partner that Bess's lecture/lab was really good to take for micro.

I can't comment on the other pre-reqs because I got those out of the way years ago when I was doing my gen ed as a freshman my first go around in school.

Some tools that I used that helped out a ton were the anatomy and physiology coloring books. You can find them on amazon.com for about $11 each. Extremely useful if you're a visual learner.

http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Coloring-Book-Wynn-Kapit/dp/0805350861/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_z

http://www.amazon.com/The-Physiology-Coloring-Book-Edition/dp/0321036638/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y

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The package of books to buy at orientation is this for the entire program?

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Does anybody know the cost of the program per semester?

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I haven't received anything either. I imagine they are waiting to assign campuses after they have the final list of those that will be attending (alternates included)?

It would make more sense to send out campus assignments before assigning alternates, because more applicatnts will drop if they don't get their preferred campus. I just wish they would hurry up!

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