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1. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

   NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

   To Summer03, I would like your opinion regarding whether to take the on-line courses. I am spending alot of time sitting in class for courses which I could be taking on-line instead. Every three hours sitting in class represents an investment of five...

2. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

   NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

   To all, I came up with those statistics by looking at the lists of the names of the nursing program students posted on the bulletin board at the Medical Education Campus. However, it is not clear from those lists which students are traditional nursin...

3. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

   NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

   To all, For your information, there are 142 first-year students in my 2013-2015 class at the NVCC traditional nursing program, of which 17 (12%) are men. There are 190 second-year students in the 2012-2014 class, of which 19 (10%) are men. The reason...

4. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

   NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

   To all, I made a mistake in my previous post. CHM-101 is Inorganic Chemistry and CHM-102 is Organic Chemistry.

5. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

   NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

   To Massage2bRN and Sambreen, I decided to take A&P 1 (BIO-141), A&P 2 (BIO-142), and General Microbiology (BIO-205) because NAS 161 and 162 will not be accepted if I want to apply to a BSN degree program later on. You are wasting your time an...

6. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

   NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

   To all accepted NVCC traditional nursing program students, I tried to access the traditional nursing program information on Blackboard in accordance with [moderator edit of name]'s mass email to all of the accepted nursing program students, but neith...

7. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

   NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

   I just received an email from [moderator edit of name] indicating that the Nursing Orientation Blackboard is available, but I could not find it. Does anyone know how to access the Nursing Orientation Blackboard on the NVCC website?

8. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

   NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

   Is it a test of basic math skills or a test of drug dosage calculation skills? There is a big difference.

9. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

   NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

   ETrips or anyone else, It appears that we have to take an initial drug dosage calculations test in order to determine whether we will have to take NUR 135 (Drug Dosage Calculation). Is that correct? If so, then does that mean that a student does NOT...

10. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

    NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

    Tricia328, To the best of my knowledge the background check and drug test results only need to be uploaded to the CertifiedBackground.com website. "Complete" means that the requirement has been satisfied.

11. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

    NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

    Everyone, The Bloodborne Pathogens training slides on the NVCC website also identify who the completed quiz needs to be sent to for grading. I emailed mine last night.

12. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

    NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

    To all traditional nursing program students, I have sent several emails to Mr. Shaw asking for more guidance and he has sent me several replies asking me to be patient and to wait until the Nursing Blackboard is up and running. Since we do not have a...

13. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

    NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

    Tricia328, Yes. You then have to upload the pages to your profile on CertifiedBackground.com for them to be shown as completed. Also get all incompleted immunizations done.

14. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

    NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

    Tricia328, So far the only things that you can begin are the background investigation, drug test, and immunizations tracker because NVCC has not provided any more guidance regarding the other requirements.

15. Student Applying to NVCC For Nursing Program Starting in Fall 2013

    NOVA EMT replied to Tricia328's topic in Virginia

    I submitted the request for the background investigation yesterday. I have had a background investigation done through this service three years ago and it only consists of validation of your social security number, your residential addresses for the ...