Lone Star College 2020 LVN to RN transition

drtt28 · May 13, 2020

Does anyone know what the transition schedule is like for class/clinicals at Montgomery?

HowdyHowdy, LVN · May 13, 2020

18 hours ago, drtt28 said:
Does anyone know what the transition schedule is like for class/clinicals at Montgomery?

Last time I checked, and it's been a few years, they start off in the Summer. Their Summer session runs only 6 weeks, but you go 5 days a week, all day. 3 days of class, 2 days of clinical and you are there full time. Then you get a 6 week break and pick up in the Fall going 2 days a week to class and 1 day a week to clinical. Same for the Spring.

janemal · May 13, 2020

All day? OMG that means quit job.. hope not

also any reviews on this professor: -------------------------

HowdyHowdy, LVN · May 13, 2020

3 hours ago, janemal said:
All day? OMG that means quit job.. hope not
also any reviews on this professor: -------------------

That is correct. The person I knew that went through it worked weekend doubles during the Summer and had zero social life.

And if you want a review on ---------------------, you dont want to ask me. I will let you guys form your own opinions there...LOL

janemal · May 13, 2020

You can give us heads up though LOL

HowdyHowdy, LVN · May 14, 2020

3 hours ago, janemal said:
You can give us heads up though LOL

Ooooooookkkkk!

She lives to make students feel uncomfortable and make their lives difficult. She maintains a smile 99% of the time and she seems very un-assuming when you see her, but she can be very condescending and EXTREMELY nitpicky. You can tell, this lady lives for the moments where she is able to back a student into a corner and make them feel unsure of themselves (stupid). The little mistakes and hiccups that can be the genesis for active learning, serve her only to make students look dumb, especially when it's in front of classmates. For the longest, I thought this to be accidental, or just a flaw in her method of "teaching", but it's not. She has said, out loud, that she likes putting students in these kinds of situations and giving them a hard time. She says it's to prepare them for the real world, which on the surface seems fair, but nothing she does is conducive to that in reality. She takes it way too far. Examples:

1- This past Fall in sim lab- oh don't get me started on sim lab. The most awkward place in the world, and you walk in to find out this lady is filling in.. Anyway, this day was our "code" day where our sim patient came in for a head trauma and crashes and you have to run an ACLS code on her (keep in mind NOBODY in our class outside of me and the paramedics are ACLS certified, much less any of the basic track students). We get our assignments, I am the secondary nurse (helper to primary) and I am the only transition student in the code. All the rest are N3 basic track students who have never ran a code in sim or real life and have no clue what ACLS is. Me, being the ER nurse who does it every day, gets approached beforehand by the rest in my group asking for help. I tell them what to expect and that I will dictate as much as I can to help, without being obvious. The girl who is a primary nurse, during the code, misses what I tell her to do and flubs up while bagging the patient. -------------- stops the Sim and then and there, walks in the room and starts grilling her..and I mean GRILLING her. "You choose to take the patient's blood pressure while they're not breathing rather than continue with bagging them? Do you not understand BLS or your ABCs. This is basic stuff you should know this. You killed your patient. This lady is dead now. Your partner (me) is telling you stuff and you are not listening to him." Blah blah blah. This girl was damn near in tears before I stepped in, and I was pissed off...I literally had to interrupt this lady and tell her "she doesn't understand. She has never done this before. She isn't able to listen to me because you keep talking into the microphone for a patient who is supposedly coding and intubated, and she's trying to focus on you rather than think for herself." The room fell silent and her face went pale..I could tell she was not happy..but she did not respond to me. I honestly think the only reason she didn't attack me was because I'm a guy and about a foot and a half taller than her...LOL..but I had to stand up for this poor girl and I'm glad I did. I could tell she felt completely helpless.... overall the experience was wasted and nobody took anything out of it. In post conference I walked everyone through everything we did and explained to them how it would ACTUALLY go in real life.

Example 2 - week 2 of clinical she lined up her entire group as soon as they got there, made them raise up their pants legs and the people who weren't wearing white socks got sent home for the day. People that didn't have a pen on them, were sent home for the day. If you didn't have a white undershirt, you were sent home for the day. Yes... we have a strict dress code, but this is *** and just being difficult for the sake of being difficult. For context, you're allowed to miss 1 clinical day before failing out of the program. For those students, this was their one day. If for any reason they had an emergency or were running late on another day, that was it. They're out. Because of this.

Needless to say, when they send out the email asking you guys for your clinical site preferences...unless you really, REALLY want Hermann Northeast, which I think is the one she takes for the first 2 semesters...avoid her. I have heard that she can be good in clinical and can help you make connections at that hospital because she worked there for like 25 years...but to me, it just isn't worth it. You guys are on AllNurses, so you're cool, so you get the leg up with insider info. Sorry for everyone else...LOL

Off the soap box. Again.

janemal · May 14, 2020

oh heck! And we are going to have her for lecture ? I’m definitely going to avoid her.

HowdyHowdy, LVN · May 14, 2020

29 minutes ago, janemal said:
oh heck! And we are going to have her for lecture ? I’m definitely going to avoid her.

Yes. She will lecture. Do not put too much thought into it. She reads off the PowerPoint, goes off into a tangent, skips ahead 3 slides and then repeats the process. You will have 3 days of lecture before a test. She will drag her *** through the first 2 days, then rush through the third. Her accent is extremely thick and she is very soft spoken, so it's nearly impossible to follow.

Anticipate lots of online shopping during class. Also play a drinking game with your friends.. everytime ------------- says "as such", take a shot. Trust me.. you'll laugh when you get what I'm saying.

janemal · May 14, 2020

???okkk!

Editorial Team / Admin · May 14, 2020

On 5/12/2020 at 12:12 PM, janemal said:
Can someone make a fb group or a chat so we can communicate and keep updated?

allnurses has a Clubs area, you could create an area for your group:

https://allnurses.com/clubs/

lovetosmile · May 14, 2020

WOW!!, just read the insight.... That is terrible! Appreciate a lot the honesty and depth. So glad didn't hold anything back. Definitely will be mindful with her for lecture. Thank goodness online then.

lovetosmile · May 14, 2020

Just looking through options available and saw the following for clinicals:

Monday 6:30AM to 4:30PM (Health Professions Bldg)
Tuesday 6:30AM to 4:30PM (OFFSITE-In District)

Does this mean, we will have to be available these 2 days? I thought it would be one day clinical and 2 days lecture. Right now our lecture days are Wednesday and Thursday (option time for this is 8AM-12PM/1PM-5PM). Could someone give more information about the clinical set-up? ?