I am also applying for FIU-- I was accepted last year to MDC but for financial and personal reasons could not attend. :'( Who else will be applying to Generic FT? Please state what program you will be applying to!
I will be taking the TEAS sometime in March, in which I will also be taking the HESI A2 for FIU. So I might as well be studying for both, lol. Anybody taken the TEAS at MDC? Share your experiences here! :) I will be using a general book for nursing school entrance exams... it's by Barron... and I will be studying my math from a nursing calculation book, and my sciences from my anatomy, biology, and other notes. Is it true there is geology on the exam? How irrelevant... lol
What I do is I go to faculty.mdc.edu and look up the nursing professors. There they have their syllibi which includes the books :) :) Marah, not a bad idea... i'm going to google it right now.
Great info on this site. Thanks everyone. I was trying to search for the books the other day too. I found some stuff (from 2009 or 2010 I think) but I don't remember the link. I found them on Amazon, but some have newer editions than the ones listed on the syllabus.
The ones I saw were:
Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
Dosage Calculations (Pickar)
One was listed as "Basic Fundamentals of Nursing" (Potter) but I found "Fundamentals of Nursing" and "Basic Nursing" so not sure which one they are referring to. I'm afraid to purchase any of them because as expected they are ultra expensive.
Yes I wouldn't buy any of the books on a old syllabus unless you happen to find a really old version for very very cheap schools change things way to frequently....what I have bought so far have been the reviews and rationals books for fundmentals, pharm, med-surg, fluids and electorlytes, and I got the NCLEX review book, and a critical thinking test taking strategies for fundamentals book and one for pharm (these books are all great because they give you ALOT of practice questions and you can start to get a feel for the format of the tests we will be taking) etc...this way I know I will be able to use them once school starts and it gives me a bit to look at over the summer to get a head start and to satisfy my intense need to already be in nursing school HAHA!! =)
Marah1984, I'm so jealous of your motivation. It is really great to see someone who is so excited about learning. Sometimes I feel so burned out from taking classes. To what do you attribute your great attitude?
HAHA...right now I would attribute it to being 26 and I have had to move back in with my parents (luckily my longterm boyfriend and dog came with me) to make ends meet so I am not forced to work or take out loans(atleast hopefully not) during nursing school.
Also, I really want to try and keep my grades up so I have more options in the future to continue onto graduate school and the grading scale scares the heck outta me.
I would love to be able to get through with school already and have my RN so I can get a good paying job and move outta here!! I have not been living with them since I was 17 but luckily I have very cool and understanding old hippy parents =)
Also, I transferred down from IvyTech CC in Indiana to do this and if I had stayed up there I would have already of started their program and my friends up there have started so I think that adds to my anxiousness. But moving down here I have gotten a lot more classes done that I need for the BSN anyways so it has all worked out.
I think more than being excited though...I am just sooo nervous that I might fail (if I do get in) out of nursing school that it is a major motivator to begin getting familiar with some of the material =)
Unfortunantly taking three classes this summer I won't have too much time to focus on nursing material yet...but I am looking over some of the books now while I have time off and then I will again when summer classes are over...It is actually nice to be able to just leisurly (don't think i spelled that right??) read the books without the pressure to have to memorize it all right now.
If you ask my family they will tell you though that as much studying I do, I do even more complaining about it HAHA!! It's been too long since I have had the time to read a novel or something nonschool related but I think it will pay off =)I feel like I have been in school forever already working my butt off, it is so hard to believe that this has all just been the beginning and we still have so much farther to go...I just try to keep in mind the unbelievably fullfilling, although stressful, career I hope that Nursing will provide me =)
LOL I was reading that in Pollo Tropical yesterday! WOO MDC :) :redbeathe
I had to laugh because its so true how MDC gives chances to borderlines--that is my case! I graduated highschool with a 2.0 and had no motivation to go back to school
Marah, if you stick to that attitude, you won't fail out. :-) Ahhh I really hope we all get accepted, we'd all make a great study group lol
Hello all!! So I called MDC today and asked them about how many people apply every application period and he said that he wasn't sure but he would estimate in the thousands...he said like 5000!!! He didn't sound too sure though..what do you guys think?? That sounds like an awful lot. I also asked him about how many people are accepted..he didn't know..I said that I had heard about 150 people and he said that sounds about right. If this is true then one would have to be in the top 1% to be accepted. Comments anyone???
I wish that I could figure out for sure the books that we'll be using! I would like to purchase them in time for classes to start. I wouldn't mind getting a head start in one or two of the books too (or leaving the book open on my kitchen table, so I feel like I'm getting a head start, lol).
I would have to imagine that if there are truly 5,000 applicants and only 1% get in, that at least some of the applicants do not even qualify because of pre-req's, or GPA. . . and even more applicants received scores in the 60's and 70's on the TEAS. I also believe that MDC is vague as a CYA mechanism- like they don't want to get anyone's hopes up just in case. I know someone who's application score is 98, and they wouldn't even hint to her whether or not she would be accepted.
This article states many of the reasons why I Love MDC 
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What I do is I go to faculty.mdc.edu and look up the nursing professors. There they have their syllibi which includes the books :) :) Marah, not a bad idea... i'm going to google it right now.