Jefferson college of health sciences

Silverdragon102, BSN · May 23, 2015

Moved to the General Student Discussion forum

AcclrtdBSNstudent · Sep 25, 2015

Congratulations! Are you going there now? I am in the program and my experience has been wonderful. It is the hardest thing I've done in my life, but failure is not an option so I'm really loving it. The professors are extremely knowledgeable, supportive and education. Summer semester will be your worst physically and emotionally just because it's so short. I started Jan2015 and we have one semester left. My worst grades were first semester with health assessment, foundations, patho etc. I did fine but now I have over a 3.0 cumulative and it's a 7 point (87%-100% avg on all work is a gpa over 3.0). There is no average for exams of grades. Each course truly is different and each student is different. I am a good student and I have 'bad' test days usually once per class per semester and I end up doing well. :)

kokoaj · Sep 25, 2015

Thanks for your comment, I was told I have to take an exam before I take my first clinical. What happens if you don't get the accepted grade and is it difficult.

AcclrtdBSNstudent · Sep 28, 2015

Its easy! Its the dosage calculation exam. It is basic math and about 30 questions. If you fail the first time, you may take it again. You must score at least an 87% to move on. If you fail the second time you may not continue and they may put you in a cohort behind you. That exam truly is no big deal though. We take it before we begin any clinical semester :)

hopeful_2016 · Dec 15, 2015

Question: how strict are they on the required GPA? I know for accelerated it says to have a 2.7 I had an undergrad GPA of 3.144, does that count me out or do I still have a chance? all my prereq courses had mostly A's with only a B in Anatomy 1 and English elective.

mwiechert · Dec 9, 2018

So I have a question then.

What happens if you don't pass any of your classes in a semester? For example, I'm a nursing student, and let's say I passed all but one of my classes by the end of the Fall semester. I've heard that you can ONLY take that class in the following Spring semester, and that you MUST pass it before you can get back on track. Is that true? I'd be prepared to take the class again of course, but to be forced to be held back by a whole semester, just to take one class, not to mention I'd have to either pay out of pocket or rely on loans since I wouldn't be able to qualify for grants or anything.

If so, is there a way to negotiate and ask to take the class that needs to be re-taken, as well as other classes so that I can become full-time? Or even better, take the class that I failed in the Summer of the upcoming year, and instead just take the other classes I was planning on originally taking for the upcoming Spring as normal?