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
im not sure what to think about my critical thinking assessment test. some portions i had a pretty strong score then some others i didnt do so great. does this test have any on where your placed?
Hi Roso614,
Thanks for your input on the "critical thinking assessment". I do not believe this test has any thing to do with "where we are placed".
Anyone with ideas on how to improve my critical thinking scores... your input is much appreciated. I wish I had taken the "critical thinking college class" :smackingf:
Thanks for your input on the "critical thinking assessment". I do not believe this test has any thing to do with "where we are placed".
Anyone with ideas on how to improve my critical thinking scores... your input is much appreciated. I wish I had taken the "critical thinking college class" :smackingf:
fem, I feel the same way about the critical thinking as you, but we can only go on forward . However, I think that maybe our best bet is to now focus on doing nclex review questions, instead of picking up a generic critical thinking book. The nclex question type seem to be rather unique in their wording and format. Even if we don't know the "technical" part of the question yet, we can study how they came to the answer and follow the reasoning as the book takes us through it. As part of our daily study, maybe we should automatically do several nclex questions every day purely to develop our "nclex critical thinking" skills.
I had read the idea about studying NCLEX type questions from the 1st day of RN school. And I posed that idea to my A&PII professor who said NOT to do this. So, then I wasn't all gung-ho about doing it...
Hmmmm... do you find the consensus is that most MDC RN students daily study NCLEX type questions? If most students are doing it, I don't want to be the one NOT doing it.
Is there a dress code for class? I thought I heard them say at orientation we only wear the uniform at clinicals. But how come I see so many people on campus in various uniforms?
PLEASE can people share their "critical thinking" scores? And if they took the "critical thinking college class"
My scores were very average. I did not take the "critical thinking college class".
It is my understanding that RN school is very much about critical thinking.
Wonder how I improve that ability?
I did not take a critical thinking college class (I didn't know they existed!), and I received a 90% on the overall critical thinking test, with results on the second 'test' that were not that surprising to me. I know that I personally need to look at test questions on tests like this as though I have no other information other than what was provided to me within the test. I'm sure we'll all be able to improve our critical thinking skills, particularly where it matters: when dealing with situations that arise from being a nurse.
As for studying board questions starting now... I personally think it's a little premature. I like to tackle one goal at a time though, so that may just be me focusing on our upcoming classes.
Do the sequences, have the same classes, just in a different order? That way it will make it easier to study together?
Both sequences have fundamentals lecture Tues 8am with different professors. Sequence 1 clinicals are Thurs 7am-2:30pm and Sequence 2 clinicals are Fri 7am-2:30pm. I think there is a max of 10 students per clinical site. The other classes are spread out during the week so it just depends how they were scheduled. But yes, mon-wed we will be on campus taking classes at the same time.
Could you guys explain your schedules? I mean, I'm curious about how many classes a day you have, and how long are they? Are the clinicals during the week or on the weekends?
:)
It's 5 classes total for full-time (1st semester) and they are all during the week. I just added it up for you...it's 9 hrs 5 min/week in class & lab plus 7 hrs 30 min in clinicals so 16 hrs 30 min total. They told us during orientation, realistically we need to study 3 hrs for every 1 hr in class. Which means 16 hrs 30 min of class time + 49 hrs 30 min of studying = 66 hrs total per week. Now I didn't account for any 10-15 breaks they may give us in longer classes and during clinicals but that would probably only take off 2 hrs MAX anyway. I'd rather see the worse case scenario so it can only get easier from there.
But technically that hardcore schedule will only be for 1 month because the clinicals don't start until Sept 22 and the Intro to Nur Math & Pharm ends the week of October 24.
I'm so excited for classes to start but I know once they do I'm gonna think back to my summer and wonder "what was I thinking?":uhoh3:
Does anyone know if we are actually only in clinicals one day a week? I need to put in for a change of schedule for work and am just trying to make sure I that I don't have to change it again because of clinicals changing or something.
Does anyone know if we are actually only in clinicals one day a week? I need to put in for a change of schedule for work and am just trying to make sure I that I don't have to change it again because of clinicals changing or something.
Yes, clinicals are only 1 day a week. If you're in sequence 1 it's Thursday, if you're in sequence 2 it's Friday.
i studied for the law school entrance exam with Kaplan a many years ago. They recommended that we do 5-10 questions a day just to get used to and begin to understand the critical thinking used in both the law admissions test (LSAT) and for the boards. Even if you don"t totally understand the technical content - that's not what you're studying for at that time - you are reteaching youself a different way of thinking. I know that I improved greatly and did well and passed the entrance exam to UM. I've read several nursing student blogs, both those in school and graduated who do a few everyday for this reason. After all, you're not using the question right now to study content, which would be confusing now, but you're training your mind to think critically within the nursing context..... Just sharing my experience. :) I'm hoping and praying it will work again!
I think our "critical thinking" scores are similar. Mine was average at best.
Certainly no where near 90!
Yes, I want to study NCLEX type questions from day one. But from what I understand RN school is ALL ABOUT critical thinking. If don't perform adequately on these "critical thinking style" tests throughout RN school, then I'm not eligible to take the NCLEX.
So, I ask all you brilliant minds (and I know there are plenty of you out here blogging)... can you come up with any ideas on how I can improve my critical thinking skills?
on how I can improve my critical thinking skills?
fem
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Hi Roso614,
Thanks for your input on the "critical thinking assessment". I do not believe this test has any thing to do with "where we are placed".
Anyone with ideas on how to improve my critical thinking scores... your input is much appreciated. I wish I had taken the "critical thinking college class" :smackingf: