Merritt College Fall 2016 Reviews

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Hi everyone, I applied to Merritt College for the fall of 2016 and unfortunately I did not see the previous posts about the program's issues until recently. However, the negative reviews about the school are well over 5 years old. If you are currently in the program or a recent graduate, what is your opinion about the program and professors? Have they improved over the last few years or do they still have students failing/dropping left and right? Any information and advice would be greatly appreciated :)

I received email informing that I was admitted into the program for fall 2016. I am going to have an orientation the coming Tuesday . Anyone here is coming ?

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I appreciated for your comment on the program. If possible , could i ask u for more information ??? Thanks thanks

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See you there!! :)

Did they respond when you emailed them saying that you were coming? Im not sure if we were suppose to receive a confirmation email.

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No I don't receive any response after the acceptance letter ? I'll see u tomorrow

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Hi

I know I'm late, but I got in the program as well. Did you decide to stick with Merritt?

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I emailed the program director with a few questions about the program, the recent rise in retention as reported on their program review, asked if there were any information sessions, if the new lab was in use, if they got the funding they said they needed for new teachers, etc.

I got back this email from the director "As I advise all students, please apply to many nursing programs. You especially may want to do this if you have the time to read a program review, are concerned about our ‘negative reputation”, Sim Lab usage, retention and other information. This program may not be a fit for you." I would not be surprised if the ADN program goes the way of their LVN program.

The program review is http://www.merritt.edu/wp/institutional-research/wp-content/uploads/sites/362/2016/07/NURS-Program-Review-2015-2016.pdf

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mamasang7, how did you manage to pass all tests, skills lab, and clinical rotation & finish the program?

Did any teacher offer study guides for the exams, and were they similar to the study guide?

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Just got through the first semester and it was so difficult with 4 days of skills lab for the first 8 weeks. I recommend doing outlines or at least saving all of your study aides for the Fundamentals final since it's cumlative. I also recommend Quizlet and the Fundamentals Success book from Amazon that has a ton of questions.

For the first semester the professor for Drug Dose Calculation offers study aides which are extremely helpful and straight forward, everyone passes that class. Everyone also passes Physical Assessment and Law and Ethics because you don't really need to study for those two. If you dont need to do the reading, dont do it instead spend that time on Fundamentals. But if you think you have the time to read it then by all means do so! Do as many practice questions as you can possibly can for Fundamentals. Clinicals is pretty manageable, it's actually fun cause you get to see a ton of stuff and actual see what you'll be doing as an RN :)

Hope that helps, let me know if you have any more questions!

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Would you mind privately messaging me with more info? It was my number one choice due to NCLEX pass rates and location, but I'm so scared now.....

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Aliciaariane..... Would you mind givig me with more info? It was my number one choice due to NCLEX pass rates and location, but I'm so scared now.....

Like is it true you just watched videos for skills lab? Is the Sim lab still not in use? Did you find the teachers hard to approach and talk to? Was it all mostly power points? Were you at all hands on during vlincals? Or at least were the second year students?

Thanks so much in advance!

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Aliciaariane..... Would you mind givig me with more info? It was my number one choice due to NCLEX pass rates and location, but I'm so scared now.....

Like is it true you just watched videos for skills lab? Is the Sim lab still not in use? Did you find the teachers hard to approach and talk to? Was it all mostly power points? Were you at all hands on during vlincals? Or at least were the second year students?

Thanks so much in advance!

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Aliciaariane..... Would you mind givig me with more info? It was my number one choice due to NCLEX pass rates and location, but I'm so scared now.....

Like is it true you just watched videos for skills lab? Is the Sim lab still not in use? Did you find the teachers hard to approach and talk to? Was it all mostly power points? Were you at all hands on during vlincals? Or at least were the second year students?

Thanks so much in advance!

Hey!

I am unable to use PM, since i am not on this site that much i don't have PM activated:(

I'll just say that i don't think you should add this school at the top of your list solely based on NCLEX pass rates because if you look at how many people actually took the NCLEX that should say a lot since about 40 people are admitted to the program each year. The drop out rate is pretty high in this school, even if you came in as a straight A or B student.

Skills lab is not just watching videos. The videos are an aide. The professor for that class is good and she will help you, she's one of the most down to earth professors in the program. You'll learn a lot in skills lab but there's a lot of "pretending" when it came down to scenarios and making it feel like a real hospital. The Sims lab is currently not in much use. We've been in there and was tested for skills once or twice. It's up and running but they still have to tweak it a bit, maybe for the next class it will be used more.

The rest of what you said is mostly true. Some of the professors are not approachable. That's all i have to say about that haha. Yes it is just all powerpoints from most of the professors. Some of them will tell stories, ask questions and engage. Others will read straight from the PowerPoint then expect the class to know 80% of the material that wasn't introduced in class, but all of them do that since most of what you learn is by yourself from the reading. They start you right off the bat with NCLEX style questioning which is really tough so make sure you get a little familiar with how those questions are set up. You can get books with practice questions for that.

We're hands on during clinicals but if you're rotated to a nursing home you won't get as much out of it. In the rotation I'm in now I'm not doing anything medical related, not even a little blood pressure test. Everyone will eventually get rotated to a hospital though so everyone gets the hands on experience you're thinking of. Just not that much, but we're still expected to know all of our skills no matter what rotation we're in.

Let me know if you have anymore questions, and i hope you applied to other schools! Lol

Best of luck:)

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