NCCC students help!! Radiology and Nursing

U.S.A. New York

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I've been researching schools in New York for radiology and nursing and I was looking to get advice from people who may know about this school. First off, for both of these programs, do they have entry to the professional program for both fall and spring? How many students does each program take and how competitive is it? Also, according to their website, it seems like they accept credits from almost any school! Thats impressive but I might be wrong. I'm thinking about transferring from Trocaire college to here. The radiology program here is super competitive and only takes students in the fall. If you are an NCCC student, what advice do you have for me?.....P.S. I've already taken my anatomy classes, micro., and a bunch of other classes including physics and ethics, would these classes transfer?

Oh wow yeah ours is really tough lol. We had 3 exams for it already.

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I am in nursing 2 now..any advice on studying and such? And what did you find harder maternity or med surg? Thanks.

Sorry this is so late! you're probably almost done by now! allnurses never alerts me when people reply to my posts.. =[

One tip I would give you is to study in groups. At least that worked for me. myself and 2 or 3 other students would get a group study room and go over content. we would use the chalkboard and write down all the info in bulleted points and quizzed each other. this worked especially well for me as I learn best by writing things down and listening to other people read notes. When cramming for tests before class, just listening to students reading their notes really helped me. When I was studying for my nursing 2 final, my study group would meet out in the garden area (the big square in the middle of the school) and we would go over maternity and med surg questions from NCLEX review books. We used Kaplan, lippincotts, and I think saunders. We'd take turns reading questions from our books and answer them and discuss why we thought our answer was correct. Then we'd read the rationales.

I personally thought maternity was more difficult but I enjoyed that rotation a lot more than med surg. it was way more interesting. It may also have to do with the fact that I have an interest in neonatal and pediatric nursing so I gravitated more towards that rotation

My maternity clinical rotation was really lame though. I went to MSMH and there were hardly any patients. and what patients there were, they didn't want students caring for them or their babies. I pretty much just watched my instructor do all the newborn assessments and copied down the findings. our last day on the floor we had a hypothetical patient because there werent any on the floor! but it made for a really easy rotation haha

I hope this helps! I agree that I think nursing 2 is really difficult compared to nursing 1. you really hit the ground running and nursing 2 is when they start hitting you with the heavy paperwork.... but just wait for nursing 3 and 4!

you know those partially completed care plans you had to fill in for med surg and maternity? well in nursing 3 and 4 you have to do those FROM SCRATCH on an actual patient you will be assigned in clinical. you have to do 1 seven need care plan and 1 three need care plan per rotation. mine ranged from 7-22 pages long depending if it was a 3 or 7 need. And the other crappy part is that you may get your patient assignment at noon or later the day before clinical. so you have less than 24 hours to crank it out. Sometimes i didn't get my assignment until 4 PM. I know some students that would stay up until 1 or 2 on clinical nights trying to finish them.

However, once you get a couple under your belt they get easier. All the basic interventions you would do for every patient can just be copy and pasted to your new one and all you would have left to do is to fill out the diagnosis specific interventions. it got to the point where I could have one done in 6 hours or less. What I did to get them done so fast was to use my care plan books and look up their diagnoses and copy all the interventions that applied.

Good luck!

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Hi, thanks for the reply. I just finished my first semester of the LPN program. I still don't know if I want to go to NCCC. It looks hard as hell but I'll keep my options open. I'm just waiting on my med suge grade, I still havn't gotten the results.

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Thanks Daynuh! I passed semester 2, found out today and actually did really well!! ☺️ I went to suburban for maternity and it was awesome, so many patients but I loved med surg. As for care plans we did have a blank one this semester..mine came out to be 22 pages. I'm thankful they gave us one because I feel more prepared for 3. As for studying habits me and my group of friends actually did that and it was super helpful! Well thank you..nursing 3 here I come! :)

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Was there a lot of maternity questions on level two final exam

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