Indiana State University BSN students

chaxanmom · Feb 29, 2008

I had no idea the clinical set-ups could possibly result in an one-one clinical situation. I could see where that would beneficial. Thanks, and best wishes.
One more question are using a program for the classwork portion? Like TCN?

The classwork portion is online at ISU. Same content as the on campus students but you have power point with audio presentations for lecture and you have supplemental websites to read in addition to your textbooks, you have projects and papers to do just like the on campus students, etc.

lvnandmomx3 · Feb 29, 2008

Chaxanmom when did you start the program, I hear everyone saying that it is 3 full years. Fome the list that I have of the nursing classes there are only 12 or so on there. How many can you take at a time?That is great that you will be done May 09.

chaxanmom · Feb 29, 2008

Chaxanmom when did you start the program, I hear everyone saying that it is 3 full years. Fome the list that I have of the nursing classes there are only 12 or so on there. How many can you take at a time?That is great that you will be done May 09.

Totally depends on you. I started this January but I'm taking 4 classes each semester (1 of which is PE so I think there must only be 11 nursing courses?), doing pre-req/co-reqs/phase 2 at the same time and finishing those up this summer. I had a lot of my pre-reqs before I started. I think most people only take one or two classes at a time. I'm taking the transition class, health assessment, nursing research, and mental health nursing now and I also took my mental health module test a couple of days before class started (when I discovered it was a pre-req to psych and I was gonna get dropped if I didn't take it within a week...eek!), took nursing care of adults a few weeks ago and am working on patho right now. As long as you are succeeding I don't think they care. I accidentally ended up in an email conversation with the dean and she knows how many I'm taking and didn't say anything other than "That's quite a load." so I feel pretty safe with this many. I am barely *barely* keeping an A average in them though so it's a little stressful. :bugeyes: :uhoh3:

lvnandmomx3 · Feb 29, 2008

Wow you have a full load........lol How many hours a week are you doing for clinical, are you taking more than one class that required clinincals at a time? I dont think I could hadle a load like that.....lol I want to shoot for 4-5 semesters 2-2.5 yrs.

chaxanmom · Feb 29, 2008

Wow you have a full load........lol How many hours a week are you doing for clinical, are you taking more than one class that required clinincals at a time? I dont think I could hadle a load like that.....lol I want to shoot for 4-5 semesters 2-2.5 yrs.

Two of them have clinicals but only 45 hours each. Fall semester also has 2 classes with clinical but those are 90 each. Then next spring is another 90 hour one and the practicum which is 130-something but it's *only* clinical. I'm so gonna get my butt kicked. Oh well, I want to get in and get out and get back to working! :nurse: If by some slim chance I keep my 4.0 it will be nothing short of the grace of God. :bowingpur I reeeally want to get into the CCNS master's program at Georgetown though and they look at both GPA *and* courseload so I do want to challenge myself.

lvnandmomx3 · Feb 29, 2008

Two of them have clinicals but only 45 hours each. Fall semester also has 2 classes with clinical but those are 90 each. Then next spring is another 90 hour one and the practicum which is 130-something but it's *only* clinical. I'm so gonna get my butt kicked. Oh well, I want to get in and get out and get back to working! If by some slim chance I keep my 4.0 it will be nothing short of the grace of God. :bowingpur I reeeally want to get into the CCNS master's program at Georgetown though and they look at both GPA *and* courseload so I do want to challenge myself.

Keep up the good work, I know you can do it. You will get into the program you want. Are you working now? I wish I could scale back on work and take a full class load but unfortunitly I can't. I have to work full time, so only part time school for me. I did LVN school F/T and work P/T.

For the clinical hours does it matter how and when you do them or just as long as they are done by the end of the semester? Are they picky about x amount every week?

chaxanmom · Feb 29, 2008

Keep up the good work, I know you can do it. You will get into the program you want. Are you working now? I wish I could scale back on work and take a full class load but unfortunitly I can't. I have to work full time, so only part time school for me. I did LVN school F/T and work P/T.
For the clinical hours does it matter how and when you do them or just as long as they are done by the end of the semester? Are they picky about x amount every week?

I'm not working at all which is why I can do this full-time. I'd have to take a refresher course to transfer my license from VA to MD so it didn't seem worth it. I'd rather be broke for one more year then work as an RN, yk?

For clinical hours they aren't too picky about how many per week but there's limits to how many you can do per day and they don't want you finishing clinical hours like 3 weeks into the semester or anything. From what I've read so far, community health nursing is pickier than the mental health and assessment ones I'm doing now.

lvnandmomx3 · Feb 29, 2008

What do they want your average to be for the week or day? Say for the courses that have 45clinical hours would you do 5 hour clinical days then another day with a few less hours? or like 9 5hr days? If the semesters are 20 weeks how do you spread it out. I know for the ones that are 90 or 100+ hours it may be easier.

chaxanmom · Feb 29, 2008

What do they want your average to be for the week or day? Say for the courses that have 45clinical hours would you do 5 hour clinical days then another day with a few less hours? or like 9 5hr days? If the semesters are 20 weeks how do you spread it out. I know for the ones that are 90 or 100+ hours it may be easier.

The basic guideline is 3 hours a week for 45 hour courses and 6 hours a week for 90 hour courses. But it is *very* flexible.

lvnandmomx3 · Feb 29, 2008

Ok wow. I was dreading the clinical portion not because I don't want to learn, I do. But I got so burnt out in LVN school 3days a week for 8 hours a day(seemed like a full time job....lol). Those hours seem perfect. ISU option is looking better and better by the day.....lol I know traditional will be the about the same as LVN.......

Iluvnrsing · Mar 2, 2008

Ok. So I don't quite fit into this thread, but I'm a grad student at ISU. If anybody is looking for someone to talk to I'm here!

hi ..i was wondering what the online classes consist of...

are they difficult? does it require you to write essays? im not really good at writing essays and got mostly C's in my english class so thats basically the main thing holding me back from going to ISU...thanks!

chaxanmom · Mar 2, 2008

hi ..i was wondering what the online classes consist of...
are they difficult? does it require you to write essays? im not really good at writing essays and got mostly C's in my english class so thats basically the main thing holding me back from going to ISU...thanks!

ISU may not be for you then. The expectations for distance students are just like on campus students and yes you are required to write essays, do research papers, write critiques of research reports, very detailed care plans (as in use references for your rationales and include an APA format reference page),etc. And a passing score for your classes is 79% and you are out if you fail two classes.