LocoCocoaStudentNurs

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1. Want to keep my pride. . . Please Advise

   LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to SweetBabyLPN's topic in General Nursing

   I think kah5209 makes a really good point. Maybe your DON is testing you to see if you are proactive and will ask for the position. Maybe he totally has you in mind for the position but wants you to take the initiative and not wait for it to be dro...

2. Pinning Ceremony Uniform for Guys??

   LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to gwlarson's topic in Male Students

   If you want to wear "orderly" type clothes (white button down shirt with matching white pants) I can make the following suggestion. I volunteer at the local hospital and our dress code states that we need to wear bright white pants and a matching wh...

3. UCF Cocoa

   LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to KnightRN's topic in Florida

   Well, my good news is that I also got in. Yahoo! I'll be going to UCF Cocoa in January!!! :w00t: :clpty: To everyone else that got in, I congratulate you and I'm looking forward to being a classmate. I'm sure that many of us have met in past class...

4. UCF Cocoa

   LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to KnightRN's topic in Florida

   > that's so funny because i have the same reaction to any new email in my inbox. that instantaneous thought that "this is it", a quick intake of breath, and then the realization that someone wants to sell me male enhancement herbs over the net. ...

5. UCF Cocoa

   LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to KnightRN's topic in Florida

   This is getting ridiculous! I guess they really are going to wait until Sept. 1 to let us know. I just don't get it because last year, everybody would have known two weeks ago (2nd week in August) I've become addicted to my email - can't get withi...

6. UCF Cocoa

   LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to KnightRN's topic in Florida

   Glad at least that I'm not the only one anxiously waiting to hear. I really figured that we'd hear this week. A group of nursing applicants on allnurses last year found out the first week of August so I thought maybe we would too. Plus all of the ...

7. Pt beats another to death at one of our clinical sites - Unsafe for students???

   LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to rad sugar's topic in Florida

   If I were you, I would be skeptical of this facility and always be on your highest alert. What frightens me about this incident is that the facility failed to notify the police that there had been an assault on one of their patients. To me, that gi...

8. UCF students/grads, opinion please?

   LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to displacedfloridian's topic in Florida

   mollyann78920, thanks for providing such good information about your program and the experience so far. I wish more people would provide similar information about the program that they're in so those of us who are getting ready to apply can be prepa...

9. Going to Nursing School at an Older Age

   LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to AmaurosisFugax's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Your coworker is looking at the situation too simplistically! If all things were equal, then her point would be valid - society's investment in a younger nursing student would provide more return than an older nursing student could produce. But as ...

10. UCF Cocoa

    LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to KnightRN's topic in Florida

    Yikes, I can't even imagine going to school full time! I'm worried about where I'm going to find the time to study as it is. I don't know what the schedule is going to be like - I just imagine that it's going to very taxing. What kind of job wou...

11. New Grad in ER with unsafe practice - Advice please?

    LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to R!XTER's topic in Emergency

    My only advice is to be VERY TACTFUL in how you ask your question about unsafe practice. Try to avoid saying that it's heresay and and if necessary reference your research. The last thing you want to do is seem disrespectful and burn a bridge (in t...

12. Did you wait long?

    LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to Lilli-Anna's topic in General Students

    I'm in Florida and the local community college and the nearby state university do not have waiting lists that carry over from semester to semester. If you don't get in this year, then you have to wait another year and try again. I think's it's bec...

13. UCF Cocoa

    LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to KnightRN's topic in Florida

    Hi Nurse2be10, I was told that the last class that will start in Orlando this fall cut off at a number in the 70s. Not very specific. We can't compare to last year's cut-off number for Cocoa because they used a different criteria / formula than is ...

14. UCF Cocoa

    LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to KnightRN's topic in Florida

    Hi Cathkol, How did you do on the TEAS? Talk about waiting till the last minute! I hope you did well. Well, our applications are in and all we can do now is wait for the email. The criteria isn't too hard to figure out. The TEAS is sort of pass/f...

15. UCF Cocoa

    LocoCocoaStudentNurs replied to KnightRN's topic in Florida

    I'm also going to be applying to UCF/ Cocoa this summer for January admission. Does anyone know the latest scoop on how they are going to calculate the admission criteria? I've been to 3 pre-admission seminars in the last year and each time they de...