Merritt College ADN 2011

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Hello All,

I was accepted to Merritt College's ADN program starting Fall/11 and wanted to know who else may be attending. Im really nervous about their program because of all the bad reviews. Is it just a matter of unhappy people are more likely to complain and there are people out there who are happy with the program? If anyone in the program has any advice id surely appreciate it. Thanks!

No, no vaccinations yet, I will call on monday to schedule a physical exam as well as immunizatios, TB test. What about you?

I did some. I need to leave a city for a while, so I'm trying to finish everything as as possible

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well, whatever you get for admission is not your schedule, it is, but it isn't.

the semester is split up into 9 weeks. first 9 weeks will be fundamentals, drug dosage, and some skills lab. There will be no clinical until the second half of the semester you have to get a certain amount of points and pass the skills lab to get into clinical. Skills lab was hard because it's the unknown. There is a list of skills, so look at the list, and watch the dvd's, practice, practice, practice in the lab. practice talking to the dummies as if they're your patients, do not be shy in front of others, and if you talk it out it, that helps them see what you're thinking is like.

The schedule is not 9-5 or 8-5 everyday, this is just to tell you, that you will have to clean your schedule and dedicate your time like it's a fulltime job. Be FLEXIBLE! You will have changes on the spur of the moment, so LISTEN!

everyone will have a different schedule depending on there clinical, we were split up into I think 3 different hospitals, some had morning shifts, other's day shifts. They were all different so I can't tell you what yours will be, just know that you have to be flexible, talk to your supervisor, you will get a schedule in the beginning on your first day, you can then try to work on the weekends or 1 day a week. I worked 1 day a week every week, on the same day that I had off from everything, if this fall is no different, you will have 1 day a week free.

Second nine weeks consist of clinicals (2 days a week), physical assesment class (great great class, we all learned a ton on an important aspect of nursing care) and law and ethics (we all passed)

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Thanks. but can u tell me what was you schedule for example. What is going on every day in morning?Lecture?Or they change it all the time? I know about clinic. I have some experience in med field, I just to want to know what were the neccessary hours to be on campus. I don't mean self-studying

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Honestly I can't remember the specifics of that Fall schedule. You can understand, so much has happened in the last 2 semesters, so many changes. I am probably mixing up some weeks in my head so I don't want you to get wrong information. I think to keep it simple is to just go in thinking it will be 8-5 at least mon-wed for the first few weeks, then add thur and fri for either skills lab, physical assesment, law and ethics and your clinicals.

So when they simply say 8-5 mon-fri it's an easier way to say look everyone, the schedule will change but clean up yuor week, dedicate your time.

work on the weekend if you have to work.

It does change, as I've stated on an earlier post, so be flexible.

we all need our schedules but sometimes we just have to deal with not knowing until the last minute, if your the type of person that gets upset or irritated that things change last minute, and change is hard for you with short-notice, then you may have to work on that, or this program, and this career may be a difficult one for this type of person.

working well under high stress, and adapting to change quickly without having emotions involved is huge.

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I just want to figure out can I have a free time from 3 till 6 ,for example. I took a look at the class schedule and didn't find that some classes run at this time. That's it. And another question-have you been asked to have vaccination against Hepatatis A?[not B] Thanks that you share your experience with me:)

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hello,

I am just wondering, as I am trying to determine which books to tackle over the summer, which course is GERENTOLOGICAL NURSING 2nd Ed (Tabloski) for? Anybody catch what it was for during the orientation?

thanks!

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About the forms, for those who registered with certified background over the weekend, the forms did not get attached to your account. You will have to call certified background and get the forms e-mailed to you. I just did. hope this helps

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Did they send you the email regarding the drug test location?

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Did they send you the email regarding the drug test location?

No, not yet and didn't think to ask

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Guys, have anybody tried already to upload medical forms-history,exam, acknowledgment. Finally, i've got these forms from the sait. But now I have another question-how to submit them to the sait? i can't even click on them

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hello,

I am just wondering, as I am trying to determine which books to tackle over the summer, which course is GERENTOLOGICAL NURSING 2nd Ed (Tabloski) for? Anybody catch what it was for during the orientation?

thanks!

I think that you should start better from fundamentals and calculation. as I remember she told that we would use this book additionally during the course

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Those who have downloaded forms from the Certified Profile website, can you tell me which forms exactly you downloaded? I am still confused whether we are supposed to use the green medical history forms we got at orientation or if there are different forms from the Certified Profile website that we're supposed to use.

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