Lehman College Fall 2020 Admissions

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This thread is for people who plan to apply to the Lehman nursing program of accelerated (Summer 2020) or generic (Fall 2020) Wish you all the best of luck! Let's keep us all motivated!

1 hour ago, kil park said:

Can u choose all or none? I heard that you have an opportunity to do it , it may boost your GPA .

They can add to your overall GPA but it’s not added into your science GPA.

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9 hours ago, Julia A said:

They can add to your overall GPA but it’s not added into your science GPA.

Oh, I see. thx.

I thought it includes prerequisites too. I should read the grading policies again.

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11 minutes ago, kil park said:

Oh, I see. thx.

I thought it includes prerequisites too. I should read the grading policies again.

No, remember earlier we talked about it in this forum and we realized that it wasn’t.

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2 minutes ago, Julia A said:

No, remember earlier we talked about it in this forum and we realized that it wasn’t.

yea, I can recall it now.

thx

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I wish you all the best as you inch your way closer to entering Lehman's nursing program. I am currently a student and we all just finished our finals this past Friday. I remember last year at this time I had many of the same concerns/questions that you all have. Even though Covid certainly wasn't on the radar in the Spring of 2019 I can somewhat understand the stress levels that you're all experiencing. If you have any questions feel free to ask me. The one great quality about the nursing students in general is that they (for the most part) truly care about their classmates and will generously share and provide any pertinent material necessary to survive the program. So...my door is always open for assistance.

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11 minutes ago, Buckhill said:

I wish you all the best as you inch your way closer to entering Lehman's nursing program. I am currently a student and we all just finished our finals this past Friday. I remember last year at this time I had many of the same concerns/questions that you all have. Even though Covid certainly wasn't on the radar in the Spring of 2019 I can somewhat understand the stress levels that you're all experiencing. If you have any questions feel free to ask me. The one great quality about the nursing students in general is that they (for the most part) truly care about their classmates and will generously share and provide any pertinent material necessary to survive the program. So...my door is always open for assistance.

Hello, I have a few questions. If you don’t mind would you share your prerequisites GPA and your HESI score? I messed up and got a C in organic chem and now my science GPA is 3.51 so my chances of getting in are really slim but Im still being hopeful. What’s the scheduling like? I think In a past thread somebody said they break up the batch into two groups, one that takes classes in the morning and the other in the afternoon and selection for a group is random? How many days are lectures, lab and clinical? Also, congratulations on completing your first year of nursing school!!

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17 minutes ago, Buckhill said:

I wish you all the best as you inch your way closer to entering Lehman's nursing program. I am currently a student and we all just finished our finals this past Friday. I remember last year at this time I had many of the same concerns/questions that you all have. Even though Covid certainly wasn't on the radar in the Spring of 2019 I can somewhat understand the stress levels that you're all experiencing. If you have any questions feel free to ask me. The one great quality about the nursing students in general is that they (for the most part) truly care about their classmates and will generously share and provide any pertinent material necessary to survive the program. So...my door is always open for assistance.

This is highly I appreciated. I wanted to know what some of our expenses would be before starting nursing school? Like the list of things such as drug test, stethoscope maybe. If you could provide would be amazing to start saving money

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11 minutes ago, Buckhill said:

I wish you all the best as you inch your way closer to entering Lehman's nursing program. I am currently a student and we all just finished our finals this past Friday. I remember last year at this time I had many of the same concerns/questions that you all have. Even though Covid certainly wasn't on the radar in the Spring of 2019 I can somewhat understand the stress levels that you're all experiencing. If you have any questions feel free to ask me. The one great quality about the nursing students in general is that they (for the most part) truly care about their classmates and will generously share and provide any pertinent material necessary to survive the program. So...my door is always open for assistance.

Hi Buckhill

Thank you so much. very kind of you.

I took the a & p 7years ago so I mostly forgot.

I should read again to refresh but I know how much I closely study it.

if I do not know A&P details, is it hard to follow the program?

How is the drug dosage test? what kind of questions? if you can give me an example?

How do you study nursing, should I have to memorize the whole book?

how the exam styles? writing mostly or multiple choices or research paper?

do I really need a group study? if I don't, is really affect my study ? in the pandemic, we should avoid gatherings

English is a second language for me, so I may put my time or efforts twice or three times more than students who speak mother languages.

When you have spare time, please

thanks and be safe

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48 minutes ago, Buckhill said:

I wish you all the best as you inch your way closer to entering Lehman's nursing program. I am currently a student and we all just finished our finals this past Friday. I remember last year at this time I had many of the same concerns/questions that you all have. Even though Covid certainly wasn't on the radar in the Spring of 2019 I can somewhat understand the stress levels that you're all experiencing. If you have any questions feel free to ask me.

CONGRATS on finishing your first semester!✨ I know a lot of questions just got posted for you, but I have one or two if you don’t mind answering?. 1) Do accepted students get a One priced package of all the materials we need or do we need to buy our own before the semester?

2) Scheduling wise, I know we can’t pick our own classes on CUNY First RN, but once we’re accepted then we can schedule ourselves or is a schedule made for us?

Thank you✨

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In response to Chickenwings questions:

Hello, I have a few questions. If you don’t mind would you share your prerequisites GPA and your HESI score? I messed up and got a C in organic chem and now my science GPA is 3.51 so my chances of getting in are really slim but Im still being hopeful. What’s the scheduling like? I think In a past thread somebody said they break up the batch into two groups, one that takes classes in the morning and the other in the afternoon and selection for a group is random? How many days are lectures, lab and clinical? Also, congratulations on completing your first year of nursing school!!

My overall GPA was around a 3.58 but my Science prerequisite GPA was 4.0. I actually have another bachelors degree from waaaaay back in 1995. At that time I wasn't taking school seriously so I ended up with a GPA of 3.27..but...when combined with the 4.0 it came out to (thankfully) a much better GPA. My critical thinking was 820 and my overall HESI was 86%. Yea..I hear you regarding Organic Chemistry...that was one tough class for me. I took it at Hunter College and It was soooo hard. When you get into Nursing school you'll find that two courses...no make that three courses that are on par with ORGO- Fundamentals, Medsurg, and Pharmacology. As you mentioned, you really have no say in your class schedule. For clinicals ...yes they do break you up into an "A" or "B" group and you will likely see many of your clinical classmates in a basic (smaller) class such as NUR 300. For Fundamentals, Medsurg and Pharm you'll all be together as one big group. For the Fall semester I had lecture class three days of the week and then Clinical one day (which is from 7am-7pm...thought the instructor will likely let you go a bit earlier). So....stay positive...I hope you see you in the halls at Lehman Chickenwings.

In response to Angelsangels:

This is highly I appreciated. I wanted to know what some of our expenses would be before starting nursing school? Like the list of things such as drug test, stethoscope maybe. If you could provide would be amazing to start saving money.

Oh...boy...well the Nursing department sends you a pamphlet with everything that you'll need to get started for the Fall semester. The pamphlet they sent is buried somewhere is my office. Now that I have some time to breath I'm going to start getting organized. Everything sort of snowballs once school begins. I just ordered a stethoscope from Amazon (Littman class 3) as well as for the other smaller items like the eye pen. Honestly the bulk of the expenses come from the books. The department will ask you to purchase (or rent) all these books for the courses and honestly for the most part you won't need them....especially for NUR 300. Unless you'd like a hard copy many of the books are available ( and are generously shared) among classmates. I have most of the Ebooks from the whole first year (via Google doc) that I'd be happy to share with you to save you $$$. The only hangup would be of course if they used a different textbook. Your uniform can be ordered online and can get at a reasonable price. The drug tests are a pain in the ##$#&!! but they are a requirement. I cannot recall the exact price but it was less than 100.00. I would recommend to just start putting away what ever you can as far as saving for school. With this whole Covid drama..they may even require a mandatory Covid test as well.

In response to Kil Park:

I should read again to refresh but I know how much I closely study it.

if I do not know A&P details, is it hard to follow the program?

How is the drug dosage test? what kind of questions? if you can give me an example?

How do you study nursing, should I have to memorize the whole book?

how the exam styles? writing mostly or multiple choices or research paper?

do I really need a group study? if I don't, is really affect my study ? in the pandemic, we should avoid gatherings

English is a second language for me, so I may put my time or efforts twice or three times more than students who speak mother languages.

When you have spare time, please

thanks and be safe

So basic A and P knowledge is fundamental ...a real stepping stone from which many of the course draw upon...especially NUR 301 (fundamentals) and NUR 303 (Medsurg) so I would strongly recommend getting very familiar with the different systems of the body...especially cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal. I attached a copy of the dosage calculation tutorial sheet that was provided to us by -----------------...our Medsurg professor. If you how to do the examples you'll be fine. Be forewarned...you're allowed to miss one out of twenty questions. Which is what happened in my case as I made a foolish adding error having rushed through the questions. There were at least 5 ppl during orientation( two of which were good friends of mine) who missed more than one and right at that moment when they got the tests back they knew they weren't going to be in the program...heartbreaking! As far as studying...ugh...well what you definitely should NOT do is study in depth taking long drawn out notes. This was the mistake I made...cause I'm very old school and that was the way we did it back during my undergrad years at Niagara U in the early 90's. But...really what is important is understanding the concepts from each chapter and make notes on those. You'll also get a lot of benefit from the information that you'll be sharing via what's app among your classmates...that's is really the life saver right there! The exams for NUR 300 are fairly easy but...there's a ton of writing assignments...lots of reflection papers, concept papers etc. For Fundamentals, Medsurg and Pharm honestly the tests quite difficult. Again...your really need to know conceptually the information and have a keen sense of critical thinking skills...which takes some time to develop. You will be required to do a fair amount of writing for your clinicals as well....EG...process recording, Shadow Health and care plans. These are very time consuming. My only suggestion is to get them done ASAP and do not wait till just before the due date. There were some classmates who were able to finish most of these assignment with the first two weeks of the courses. I tried but I had to work and I simply had no time. But, this was a great idea and just when everyone else was sweating during test times trying to figure out how to complete all these writing assignment AND study 10-15 chapters for a test in four days (each chapter 20-30 pages) these ppl didn't stress at all and were able to put all their energy into studying for the exams. And, it's no surprise that these were that same students who did exteremely well in their classes. So...lesson to be had...get all those writing and online assignment done ASAP. Now, regarding a "study group"-from day one I was never a study group person myself so I never really formed a group with anyone. But...what is ESSENTIAL...like I mentioned above is forming some sort of What's App group or perhaps a few online groups. There will be MANY TIMES when you'll be so desperate for material and help and it truly is a life saver when your classmates can readily share whatever information they may have to help you survive. As the saying goes....it takes a village!

Hope all this helps!

SLM.Dosage Calculation_MT.7_2018.pdf

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2 hours ago, Buckhill said:

In response to Chickenwings questions:

Hello, I have a few questions. If you don’t mind would you share your prerequisites GPA and your HESI score? I messed up and got a C in organic chem and now my science GPA is 3.51 so my chances of getting in are really slim but Im still being hopeful. What’s the scheduling like? I think In a past thread somebody said they break up the batch into two groups, one that takes classes in the morning and the other in the afternoon and selection for a group is random? How many days are lectures, lab and clinical? Also, congratulations on completing your first year of nursing school!!

My overall GPA was around a 3.58 but my Science prerequisite GPA was 4.0. I actually have another bachelors degree from waaaaay back in 1995. At that time I wasn't taking school seriously so I ended up with a GPA of 3.27..but...when combined with the 4.0 it came out to (thankfully) a much better GPA. My critical thinking was 820 and my overall HESI was 86%. Yea..I hear you regarding Organic Chemistry...that was one tough class for me. I took it at Hunter College and It was soooo hard. When you get into Nursing school you'll find that two courses...no make that three courses that are on par with ORGO- Fundamentals, Medsurg, and Pharmacology. As you mentioned, you really have no say in your class schedule. For clinicals ...yes they do break you up into an "A" or "B" group and you will likely see many of your clinical classmates in a basic (smaller) class such as NUR 300. For Fundamentals, Medsurg and Pharm you'll all be together as one big group. For the Fall semester I had lecture class three days of the week and then Clinical one day (which is from 7am-7pm...thought the instructor will likely let you go a bit earlier). So....stay positive...I hope you see you in the halls at Lehman Chickenwings.

In response to Angelsangels:

This is highly I appreciated. I wanted to know what some of our expenses would be before starting nursing school? Like the list of things such as drug test, stethoscope maybe. If you could provide would be amazing to start saving money.

Oh...boy...well the Nursing department sends you a pamphlet with everything that you'll need to get started for the Fall semester. The pamphlet they sent is buried somewhere is my office. Now that I have some time to breath I'm going to start getting organized. Everything sort of snowballs once school begins. I just ordered a stethoscope from Amazon (Littman class 3) as well as for the other smaller items like the eye pen. Honestly the bulk of the expenses come from the books. The department will ask you to purchase (or rent) all these books for the courses and honestly for the most part you won't need them....especially for NUR 300. Unless you'd like a hard copy many of the books are available ( and are generously shared) among classmates. I have most of the Ebooks from the whole first year (via Google doc) that I'd be happy to share with you to save you $$$. The only hangup would be of course if they used a different textbook. Your uniform can be ordered online and can get at a reasonable price. The drug tests are a pain in the ##$#&!! but they are a requirement. I cannot recall the exact price but it was less than 100.00. I would recommend to just start putting away what ever you can as far as saving for school. With this whole Covid drama..they may even require a mandatory Covid test as well.

In response to Kil Park:

I should read again to refresh but I know how much I closely study it.

if I do not know A&P details, is it hard to follow the program?

How is the drug dosage test? what kind of questions? if you can give me an example?

How do you study nursing, should I have to memorize the whole book?

how the exam styles? writing mostly or multiple choices or research paper?

do I really need a group study? if I don't, is really affect my study ? in the pandemic, we should avoid gatherings

English is a second language for me, so I may put my time or efforts twice or three times more than students who speak mother languages.

When you have spare time, please

thanks and be safe

So basic A and P knowledge is fundamental ...a real stepping stone from which many of the course draw upon...especially NUR 301 (fundamentals) and NUR 303 (Medsurg) so I would strongly recommend getting very familiar with the different systems of the body...especially cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal. I attached a copy of the dosage calculation tutorial sheet that was provided to us by ---------------...our Medsurg professor. If you how to do the examples you'll be fine. Be forewarned...you're allowed to miss one out of twenty questions. Which is what happened in my case as I made a foolish adding error having rushed through the questions. There were at least 5 ppl during orientation( two of which were good friends of mine) who missed more than one and right at that moment when they got the tests back they knew they weren't going to be in the program...heartbreaking! As far as studying...ugh...well what you definitely should NOT do is study in depth taking long drawn out notes. This was the mistake I made...cause I'm very old school and that was the way we did it back during my undergrad years at Niagara U in the early 90's. But...really what is important is understanding the concepts from each chapter and make notes on those. You'll also get a lot of benefit from the information that you'll be sharing via what's app among your classmates...that's is really the life saver right there! The exams for NUR 300 are fairly easy but...there's a ton of writing assignments...lots of reflection papers, concept papers etc. For Fundamentals, Medsurg and Pharm honestly the tests quite difficult. Again...your really need to know conceptually the information and have a keen sense of critical thinking skills...which takes some time to develop. You will be required to do a fair amount of writing for your clinicals as well....EG...process recording, Shadow Health and care plans. These are very time consuming. My only suggestion is to get them done ASAP and do not wait till just before the due date. There were some classmates who were able to finish most of these assignment with the first two weeks of the courses. I tried but I had to work and I simply had no time. But, this was a great idea and just when everyone else was sweating during test times trying to figure out how to complete all these writing assignment AND study 10-15 chapters for a test in four days (each chapter 20-30 pages) these ppl didn't stress at all and were able to put all their energy into studying for the exams. And, it's no surprise that these were that same students who did exteremely well in their classes. So...lesson to be had...get all those writing and online assignment done ASAP. Now, regarding a "study group"-from day one I was never a study group person myself so I never really formed a group with anyone. But...what is ESSENTIAL...like I mentioned above is forming some sort of What's App group or perhaps a few online groups. There will be MANY TIMES when you'll be so desperate for material and help and it truly is a life saver when your classmates can readily share whatever information they may have to help you survive. As the saying goes....it takes a village!

Hope all this helps!

SLM.Dosage Calculation_MT.7_2018.pdf

I really appreciate you, it really helps me how to plan ahead of the program,

I also, one of the old folks who graduated from my college in the back home country in the beginning of the '90sB hesitate to study nursing for 10 years.

so, now I will more focus on A & P and Org Chem.

Thanks Buckhill

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2 hours ago, Buckhill said:

In response to Chickenwings questions:

Hello, I have a few questions. If you don’t mind would you share your prerequisites GPA and your HESI score? I messed up and got a C in organic chem and now my science GPA is 3.51 so my chances of getting in are really slim but Im still being hopeful. What’s the scheduling like? I think In a past thread somebody said they break up the batch into two groups, one that takes classes in the morning and the other in the afternoon and selection for a group is random? How many days are lectures, lab and clinical? Also, congratulations on completing your first year of nursing school!!

My overall GPA was around a 3.58 but my Science prerequisite GPA was 4.0. I actually have another bachelors degree from waaaaay back in 1995. At that time I wasn't taking school seriously so I ended up with a GPA of 3.27..but...when combined with the 4.0 it came out to (thankfully) a much better GPA. My critical thinking was 820 and my overall HESI was 86%. Yea..I hear you regarding Organic Chemistry...that was one tough class for me. I took it at Hunter College and It was soooo hard. When you get into Nursing school you'll find that two courses...no make that three courses that are on par with ORGO- Fundamentals, Medsurg, and Pharmacology. As you mentioned, you really have no say in your class schedule. For clinicals ...yes they do break you up into an "A" or "B" group and you will likely see many of your clinical classmates in a basic (smaller) class such as NUR 300. For Fundamentals, Medsurg and Pharm you'll all be together as one big group. For the Fall semester I had lecture class three days of the week and then Clinical one day (which is from 7am-7pm...thought the instructor will likely let you go a bit earlier). So....stay positive...I hope you see you in the halls at Lehman Chickenwings.

In response to Angelsangels:

This is highly I appreciated. I wanted to know what some of our expenses would be before starting nursing school? Like the list of things such as drug test, stethoscope maybe. If you could provide would be amazing to start saving money.

Oh...boy...well the Nursing department sends you a pamphlet with everything that you'll need to get started for the Fall semester. The pamphlet they sent is buried somewhere is my office. Now that I have some time to breath I'm going to start getting organized. Everything sort of snowballs once school begins. I just ordered a stethoscope from Amazon (Littman class 3) as well as for the other smaller items like the eye pen. Honestly the bulk of the expenses come from the books. The department will ask you to purchase (or rent) all these books for the courses and honestly for the most part you won't need them....especially for NUR 300. Unless you'd like a hard copy many of the books are available ( and are generously shared) among classmates. I have most of the Ebooks from the whole first year (via Google doc) that I'd be happy to share with you to save you $$$. The only hangup would be of course if they used a different textbook. Your uniform can be ordered online and can get at a reasonable price. The drug tests are a pain in the ##$#&!! but they are a requirement. I cannot recall the exact price but it was less than 100.00. I would recommend to just start putting away what ever you can as far as saving for school. With this whole Covid drama..they may even require a mandatory Covid test as well.

In response to Kil Park:

I should read again to refresh but I know how much I closely study it.

if I do not know A&P details, is it hard to follow the program?

How is the drug dosage test? what kind of questions? if you can give me an example?

How do you study nursing, should I have to memorize the whole book?

how the exam styles? writing mostly or multiple choices or research paper?

do I really need a group study? if I don't, is really affect my study ? in the pandemic, we should avoid gatherings

English is a second language for me, so I may put my time or efforts twice or three times more than students who speak mother languages.

When you have spare time, please

thanks and be safe

So basic A and P knowledge is fundamental ...a real stepping stone from which many of the course draw upon...especially NUR 301 (fundamentals) and NUR 303 (Medsurg) so I would strongly recommend getting very familiar with the different systems of the body...especially cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal. I attached a copy of the dosage calculation tutorial sheet that was provided to us by ------------------...our Medsurg professor. If you how to do the examples you'll be fine. Be forewarned...you're allowed to miss one out of twenty questions. Which is what happened in my case as I made a foolish adding error having rushed through the questions. There were at least 5 ppl during orientation( two of which were good friends of mine) who missed more than one and right at that moment when they got the tests back they knew they weren't going to be in the program...heartbreaking! As far as studying...ugh...well what you definitely should NOT do is study in depth taking long drawn out notes. This was the mistake I made...cause I'm very old school and that was the way we did it back during my undergrad years at Niagara U in the early 90's. But...really what is important is understanding the concepts from each chapter and make notes on those. You'll also get a lot of benefit from the information that you'll be sharing via what's app among your classmates...that's is really the life saver right there! The exams for NUR 300 are fairly easy but...there's a ton of writing assignments...lots of reflection papers, concept papers etc. For Fundamentals, Medsurg and Pharm honestly the tests quite difficult. Again...your really need to know conceptually the information and have a keen sense of critical thinking skills...which takes some time to develop. You will be required to do a fair amount of writing for your clinicals as well....EG...process recording, Shadow Health and care plans. These are very time consuming. My only suggestion is to get them done ASAP and do not wait till just before the due date. There were some classmates who were able to finish most of these assignment with the first two weeks of the courses. I tried but I had to work and I simply had no time. But, this was a great idea and just when everyone else was sweating during test times trying to figure out how to complete all these writing assignment AND study 10-15 chapters for a test in four days (each chapter 20-30 pages) these ppl didn't stress at all and were able to put all their energy into studying for the exams. And, it's no surprise that these were that same students who did exteremely well in their classes. So...lesson to be had...get all those writing and online assignment done ASAP. Now, regarding a "study group"-from day one I was never a study group person myself so I never really formed a group with anyone. But...what is ESSENTIAL...like I mentioned above is forming some sort of What's App group or perhaps a few online groups. There will be MANY TIMES when you'll be so desperate for material and help and it truly is a life saver when your classmates can readily share whatever information they may have to help you survive. As the saying goes....it takes a village!

Hope all this helps!

SLM.Dosage Calculation_MT.7_2018.pdf

Is the drug dosage calculation test difficult? I’m no good in math and this makes me nervous ? . Also, what is the program’s policy on hairstyles? Are we allowed to wear our hair out or do we always have to wear a ponytail/bun? I know in clinical settings we have to have our hair tied up but what about on campus? And one last question, do you know anyone who scored below a 75 on a certain portion of the HESI and still got accepted?

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