International College of Health Sciences

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Hi Everyone,

I'm new here and hopefully I'm posting this in the right area. I'm currently an LVN in Ca and looking into a 1 year LVN-RN on-line program based out of Fl. The name of the school is called International College of Health Sciences based out of Boyton Beach, Fl. I was just wondering if anyone here has had some experiences in dealing with this school, currently attending, or could provide any insight into the program. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

12 minutes ago, LPN8686 said:

any questions that you have about the gas I will be happy to answer it because I had many questions and nobody answered it besides saying that it was a Hesis exam

Great can I have your email if you don't mind? thx here is mine [email protected]

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What's the pharmacology test like any notes out there?

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21 minutes ago, Dopamine453 said:

What's the pharmacology test like any notes out there?

I'd recommend studying with the RN NCLEX mastery app. The gap tested on mental health, fundamentals, pharmacology and med surg.... For pharm make sure you study desired over have and have at least some knowledge on drug classifications you'll do fine. Good luck to you

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1 minute ago, RatedR22 said:

I'd recommend studying with the RN NCLEX mastery app. The gap tested on mental health, fundamentals, pharmacology and med surg.... For pharm make sure you study desired over have and have at least some knowledge on drug classifications you'll do fine. Good luck to you

Thx I took a mixed gap exam last week and they said I didn't do well on the math part for the calculations, and they gave me another chance to retake the pharm exam part so its gonna be mainly just pharm but I don't know what to expect again LOL.

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7 hours ago, Dopamine453 said:

Great can I have your email if you don't mind? thx here is mine [email protected]

There was two pharmacology questions..one required a pediatric dosage.... Know how many feet you stand a patient back when doing an eye exam... The rest of the question were basic prioritizing nursing care . It was over 100 questions....

They won't let you see any results afterwards...they verbally tell you..."we'll give you credit for ...xyz"

Honestly...many of my questions were misspelled and used colloquial english like a 7th grader wrote them....I wasn't sure what the hell was going on... I wonder if anyone else test was like this????

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4 hours ago, LPN8686 said:

There was two pharmacology questions..one required a pediatric dosage.... Know how many feet you stand a patient back when doing an eye exam... The rest of the question were basic prioritizing nursing care . It was over 100 questions....

They won't let you see any results afterwards...they verbally tell you..."we'll give you credit for ...xyz"

Honestly...many of my questions were misspelled and used colloquial english like a 7th grader wrote them....I wasn't sure what the hell was going on... I wonder if anyone else test was like this????

Yes same here, I noticed the same thing. I will say that the program itself isn't bad though. There has been a lot of changes due to covid-19, but the instructors have been very helpful as they're dealing with the changes too. I'm actually just finishing up med surg 1 and psych, I want to call the school tomorrow and ask if it's possible to take my capstone along with med surg 2 and maternity/peds for next semester.

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2 hours ago, RatedR22 said:

Yes same here, I noticed the same thing. I will say that the program itself isn't bad though. There has been a lot of changes due to covid-19, but the instructors have been very helpful as they're dealing with the changes too. I'm actually just finishing up med surg 1 and psych, I want to call the school tomorrow and ask if it's possible to take my capstone along with med surg 2 and maternity/peds for next semester.

I'm happy for you, you will be finished before you know it!!

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9 minutes ago, LPN8686 said:

I'm happy for you, you will be finished before you know it!!

Thank you and good luck

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Did anyone take the dosing and calculation 30 question pharmacology exam?

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37 minutes ago, Dopamine453 said:

Did anyone take the dosing and calculation 30 question pharmacology exam?

Not yet

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well the pharm test... its a ATI exam, but there a few so IDK which study guide to buy

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On 5/20/2020 at 8:46 PM, LPN8686 said:

Anyone know of a similar structured online lpn to RN school, that doesn't have a cpne components like Excelsior. ICHS doesn't allow students to see their GAP results, and verbally tell you what you passed or not. I'm beyond skeptical about what they claim my results are, as I have several other degrees two psychology and they expect be to believe I failed that component of the exam. When the exam was very easy, and they won't give me credit. Part of me believes it to get more money for additional classes. If job security wasn't a issue or childcare due to the current pandemic, maybe it wouldn't matter to me..but right now it does! I think of a A-BSN, program that cheaper and ACCEPT FASFA...but if there anyone who know of any other ONLINE ADN programs similar to ICHS ..please let me know. I heard of west palm beach but they currently don't have accreditation.

Hi, how did you study for the gap exam?

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