NE1 have any info on broward community college nursing program?

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I just recently learned that a friend and I have both been accepted to broward community college. I wont be attending because i'm already taking classes at Barry and have been accepted into their nursing program. but as for my friend she's torn between going to broward community college and keiser. the reason i ask about BCC is because i've heard terrible things about their program and this seems to be much more than just rumors.

I attended open sessions for other schools nursing programs such as keiser and city college and both programs brought up bcc's program and how they were under scrutiny because a large number of the students were either dropping out of the program or not passing the licensing test. when i asked an advisor about this he said they were changing the admission process because alot of students didnt deserve to be in the program. then during the summer i was taking a class with a rn who graduated from bcc and asked her what was going on with the school. she said the reason why bcc was changing up their admission process was b/c while she was there they were under federal investigation b/c someone who worked in the nursing department(receptionist) was selling papers to students. so far it seems all i'm hearing are negative things.in addition i've also heard they're understaffed, thus overcrowded classes.

Can anyone give any insight into this? my friend is contemplating bcc because it's public therefore alot cheaper while keiser is private.

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I believe you can probably mail your application in. Not sure if you can fax it, but you can always try to get a hold of someone in health science and ask. But, you do have to apply to the college first so that you can be entered into the system as a student. I don't know if you can do that online or not, but you can call admissions and ask. Also, you will have the issue of the health science dept having to validate your transcripts. I am not sure what that entails exactly, or if you can mail them in or what. So I would call them and ask about that as well.

As far as HCP, they usually offer it throughout the semester. However, the course is an 8 wk course and in order to have it completed by the May 15th deadline, you would have had to start in mid-March to be done in time. The next set of classes starts in May, but you would probably need to register for the one that starts mid-June since you won't be here until the end of May. You will finish in time to apply for January, but I'm afraid unless you can get your CNA license in hand before May 15th, you will have to wait for the Jan start date.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

Thank you all for very informative discussions , glad to say that this discussions have helped me a lot.

I am BCC nursing student , I got on Jan 2010 program , but as many of my classmates faced I got low numbers in NP1 exam which lead to me to decide to avoid risk of failure and I ended in withdrawing from the class. I will be readmitted to BCC for May 2010 , but at this point I am a bit wary about BCC because of my daunting experience and some stats like dropout or fail rate of more than 70%. So at this point I have to decide whether I want to continue with BCC or go for other options such as Nova.

If I continue with BCC and incase I fail/ withdraw from one more class that ends my admission chances for Nova as per admissions advisor at Nova. (I have 3.6 GPA and one W on my transcript). This even put my aspiration to be RN in jeopardy as will get only one more chance at BCC. Don’t want to lose both BCC and Nova.

If decide to go drop BCC and go with Nova for Jan 2011, I have to complete one prereq class. Again the dilemma is how is Nova as compared to BCC , from the point of view of successes fully completing the program.

To all experienced and new users please help me decide….thanks a lot again for all your time and help.

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Hi,

Thank you all for very informative discussions , glad to say that this discussions have helped me a lot.

I am BCC nursing student , I got on Jan 2010 program , but as many of my classmates faced I got low numbers in NP1 exam which lead to me to decide to avoid risk of failure and I ended in withdrawing from the class. I will be readmitted to BCC for Fall 2010 , but at this point I am a bit wary about BCC because of my daunting experience and some stats like dropout or fail rate of more than 70%. So at this point I have to decide whether I want to continue with BCC or go for other options such as Nova.

If I continue with BCC and incase I fail/ withdraw from one more class that ends my admission chances for Nova as per admissions advisor at Nova. (I have 3.6 GPA and one W on my transcript). This even put my aspiration to be RN in jeopardy as will get only one more chance at BCC. Don't want to lose both BCC and Nova.

If decide to go drop BCC and go with Nova for Jan 2011, I have to complete one prereq class. Again the dilemma is how is Nova as compared to BCC , from the point of view of successes fully completing the program.

To all experienced and new users please help me decide....thanks a lot again for all your time and help.

Hi,

Just my :twocents::twocents: here.

I am a former BCC student, nursing class '07. Before I went to BCC I was in the 2nd accepted class at Nova Southeastern University.... And let me tell you that BCC is a piece of cake compared to Nova.

I started Nova because as many of you know how difficult it is to get into nursing school, so I applied everywhere I could. The first school that I got accepted to was Nova, and back in the day BCC had a wait list, but I kept my name on the wait list anyway.

Nova is a really good school, but it was tough. The first semester you take 5 classes, and one class called "advanced A&P" is taught by several professors depending on the lesson, and those professors also teach the MD programs. and that class I found to be the most difficult, because the questions were so detailed oriented like as if you were in medical school. I'm not a very good test taker in the first place, but this class was very tough. On top of that class you have an online writing class, one computer class, one theory class, and the A&P lab... which you go to the cadaver lab, to learn the material.

I ended up failing A&P, and passing my other classes. The dean gave me the option of comming back to re-take A&P but I was so lucky enough to be accepted to BCC in the fall semester.

I took the summer off. And started BC in the fall and BC to me was WAYYYYYY easier than NSU. At BC you only take one class with lab each 8 weeks, except the first semester that you have to take pharm & math.

I studied hard for BC, but it paid off.

Nova-- honestly, i did try, I read my book & I spent countless of hours studying in the study rooms in the library, rented books that I thought would help me from the library... all with no avail. So I did not make it.

Once I got to BC I thought of it as my second chance. And I studied and studied, and I tried my best and I did well. I graduated and I did not fail any classes. And Financial Aid paid for a lot of my schooling at BC, and now I can pay out of pocket for FIU's RN-BSN program.

you just really have to study hard and you will make it. Lots of people make it at BC. and don't worry about the numbers of how many people pass or not. you study for yourself, and do your best and you too will pass.

Hi,

Just my :twocents::twocents: here.

I am a former BCC student, nursing class '07. Before I went to BCC I was in the 2nd accepted class at Nova Southeastern University.... And let me tell you that BCC is a piece of cake compared to Nova.

I started Nova because as many of you know how difficult it is to get into nursing school, so I applied everywhere I could. The first school that I got accepted to was Nova, and back in the day BCC had a wait list, but I kept my name on the wait list anyway.

Nova is a really good school, but it was tough. The first semester you take 5 classes, and one class called "advanced A&P" is taught by several professors depending on the lesson, and those professors also teach the MD programs. and that class I found to be the most difficult, because the questions were so detailed oriented like as if you were in medical school. I'm not a very good test taker in the first place, but this class was very tough. On top of that class you have an online writing class, one computer class, one theory class, and the A&P lab... which you go to the cadaver lab, to learn the material.

I ended up failing A&P, and passing my other classes. The dean gave me the option of comming back to re-take A&P but I was so lucky enough to be accepted to BCC in the fall semester.

I took the summer off. And started BC in the fall and BC to me was WAYYYYYY easier than NSU. At BC you only take one class with lab each 8 weeks, except the first semester that you have to take pharm & math.

I studied hard for BC, but it paid off.

Nova-- honestly, i did try, I read my book & I spent countless of hours studying in the study rooms in the library, rented books that I thought would help me from the library... all with no avail. So I did not make it.

Once I got to BC I thought of it as my second chance. And I studied and studied, and I tried my best and I did well. I graduated and I did not fail any classes. And Financial Aid paid for a lot of my schooling at BC, and now I can pay out of pocket for FIU's RN-BSN program.

you just really have to study hard and you will make it. Lots of people make it at BC. and don't worry about the numbers of how many people pass or not. you study for yourself, and do your best and you too will pass.

Thank you so much BumblebeeRN!! you are doing really great job helping and sharing your experience with students like me. God bless you!!! Yes I forgot to mention that actually I am rejoining the program in May2010 and Not August2010, and again I heard that it's even crazier in summer as we get only 6 weeks for NP I and NP II each, but your insight was helpful.

Specializes in ED.

Also, if you just withdraw and not actually fail the course, you can take the course up to 3 times before you are forced to take a grade. Also, the third time you take the course, you will have to pay out of state fees. But I don't know of anyone who has withdrawn more than once from a course. If you fail the course, then you only get one more shot, so withdrawing is definitely the better way to go. At least when you take the course again you won't have pharm and math to deal with on top of everything. And if you read ahead now, since you have the syllabus, and work on your critical thinking skills, things might go a little smoother when you are re-reading things over the summer.

What campus do you attend?

Hello SunraygurlRN2B,

I go to North Campus, Yes U r right I will not have Pharm and Math in summer, but it still so much reading. If I don't have strategic approach, I might be in trouble again. Yes I am reading fundamental book. my approach is that I read chapters before lectures( I read everything in the chapters including all boxes, don't leave any pages) , after lecture I open fundamental book, open objectives, open power point slide for the chapters, and listen to the lecture again if it contains important information about objectives, and then try to answers all objectives by using above sources(book,slides,lecture), and then I have written complete answers to all objectives. However, all these take lot of time, and I feel like I should be more efficient as that's what the program requires.

so r u a nursing student or former nursing student? if so which campus you go/went? and if this is right what is the best way to manipulate required material, take apart information, get to all required reading, and answers to all objectives and finally review at least 7 to 8 times(as they say) to send information into long term memory(so you know material very well). Please hlep me on this. Also BumblebeeRN please give me your insight as well

Specializes in ED.

I attend North and am finishing up my second semester (took NP1 and 2 in Aug-Dec). NP1 and 2 so far have been the most time consuming with the reading. There is a TON of reading, that is for sure. I started out reading everything, and then started getting lazy/trying to save time for my objectives and then I only read the info that was in the objectives. The professor @ north for NP1 and 2 is good about testing to the objectives (but she's probably the only one @ north that is). Once you get to GIGU, the reading is a lot less. I think there was only about 300 pgs total for GIGU.

Anyway, what I did was read the topics before the lectures and start working on answering the objectives with that info and the info that was available in the powerpoints. A lot of people write them down, I however, opened up a word document and typed up all the objectives there and then answered them there. Then I attended lecture and took notes. Then I would finish up the objectives by adding in anything the teacher added to the powerpoints during lecture. I would print them out and re-read them when I could. Yes, it is VERY time consuming, but it helped me learn the info more. I don't think I know anyone that actually had time to re-read everything 7-8 times like they said. It would be nice but I don't think its realistic. Then I would practice taking test questions from blackboard and the book, and from Fundamentals Success book and from Test Taking Success book. Later on, I added in the Saunder's NCLEX book but I don't think I did that until NP2. I stopped doing the book questions and the blackboard question because there were times where there would be the exact same question with one answer on blackboard and a different one in the book and I didn't want to confuse myself with the wrong answers. Also taking that tutorial in the lab helped a little, too. Also, I would totally suggest sitting in with the tutors in the library. They are awesome and they took NP1 and 2 during the summer, so they can probably give you some great advice on how to handle the reading during that time. I would totally take advantage of what time you have now and complete all the reading, so it will just be another review for you once you are in class again. Theres only a few weeks left, so don't waste time.

One last thing I did, because I am a crazy organizer person, is I went a head and broke down all the reading by the amount of pages for each topic. Then I would schedule my reading each day based on how many pages I needed to have done by the next lecture and the amount of days I had to read it in. I did this in advance at the beginning of the course so that I knew what I needed to do and when. Sometimes, I would have not so much to read and some times I had a lot but I always knew ahead of time.

Specializes in ED.

Also, do you have a study group? It might be a good idea to get one going. It might help.

I attend North and am finishing up my second semester (took NP1 and 2 in Aug-Dec). NP1 and 2 so far have been the most time consuming with the reading. There is a TON of reading, that is for sure. I started out reading everything, and then started getting lazy/trying to save time for my objectives and then I only read the info that was in the objectives. The professor @ north for NP1 and 2 is good about testing to the objectives (but she's probably the only one @ north that is). Once you get to GIGU, the reading is a lot less. I think there was only about 300 pgs total for GIGU.

Anyway, what I did was read the topics before the lectures and start working on answering the objectives with that info and the info that was available in the powerpoints. A lot of people write them down, I however, opened up a word document and typed up all the objectives there and then answered them there. Then I attended lecture and took notes. Then I would finish up the objectives by adding in anything the teacher added to the powerpoints during lecture. I would print them out and re-read them when I could. Yes, it is VERY time consuming, but it helped me learn the info more. I don't think I know anyone that actually had time to re-read everything 7-8 times like they said. It would be nice but I don't think its realistic. Then I would practice taking test questions from blackboard and the book, and from Fundamentals Success book and from Test Taking Success book. Later on, I added in the Saunder's NCLEX book but I don't think I did that until NP2. I stopped doing the book questions and the blackboard question because there were times where there would be the exact same question with one answer on blackboard and a different one in the book and I didn't want to confuse myself with the wrong answers. Also taking that tutorial in the lab helped a little, too. Also, I would totally suggest sitting in with the tutors in the library. They are awesome and they took NP1 and 2 during the summer, so they can probably give you some great advice on how to handle the reading during that time. I would totally take advantage of what time you have now and complete all the reading, so it will just be another review for you once you are in class again. Theres only a few weeks left, so don't waste time.

One last thing I did, because I am a crazy organizer person, is I went a head and broke down all the reading by the amount of pages for each topic. Then I would schedule my reading each day based on how many pages I needed to have done by the next lecture and the amount of days I had to read it in. I did this in advance at the beginning of the course so that I knew what I needed to do and when. Sometimes, I would have not so much to read and some times I had a lot but I always knew ahead of time.

wow!! what a great advice. I like the way you divided pages to get to the required reading within time limit so that you know exactly how much more to cover, and have situation under control. I also took the computer course but I did it after first exam n then I had to make decision (drop or stay) but definitely that course was worth taking before. I now have all those books (fundamental success, comprehensive Review guide NCLEX-RN, Test Success), I bought those after wards(I should have before). Thanks a lot there is so much helpful information in this thread.

(answering to your next thread) no I don't have study group, but I am trying to find people who are genuinely interested putting serious efforts toward this. anyways Good luck with the program.

Specializes in ED.

Thanks. Good luck to you, too!

Specializes in Tele.
Hello SunraygurlRN2B,

I go to North Campus, Yes U r right I will not have Pharm and Math in summer, but it still so much reading. If I don't have strategic approach, I might be in trouble again. Yes I am reading fundamental book. my approach is that I read chapters before lectures( I read everything in the chapters including all boxes, don't leave any pages) , after lecture I open fundamental book, open objectives, open power point slide for the chapters, and listen to the lecture again if it contains important information about objectives, and then try to answers all objectives by using above sources(book,slides,lecture), and then I have written complete answers to all objectives. However, all these take lot of time, and I feel like I should be more efficient as that's what the program requires.

so r u a nursing student or former nursing student? if so which campus you go/went? and if this is right what is the best way to manipulate required material, take apart information, get to all required reading, and answers to all objectives and finally review at least 7 to 8 times(as they say) to send information into long term memory(so you know material very well). Please hlep me on this. Also BumblebeeRN please give me your insight as well

I could not agree with you more, it takes HOURS to study for the course, it took me the same amount of time, and back when I was in NP1 & NP2 I studied all day, I took a nap when I got home, like around 1:30-3pm (I live in miami so it took me an hour or so to get home from hollywood/pembroke pines) I took an hour nap, and I woke up ate and did what you are doing for hours until 1am every night. and on my days off school, I would study as well, and there was not a day when I did not read ahead. I couldn't take a chance on failing, so I had to study hard. BCC is not easy, but neither is any school. I am so lucky that I was accepted to BC because then I would of had to go back to nova, and now I would of been in $40K in debt for the same amount of pay I am getting now. plus nova was like a job, it was monday through friday from 9-1pm!! at least at BC it was only 3 days a week!! loll but definitely, i think you have a good plan, and it does take lots of time. Don't let anyone tell you that they don't study, or they don't study enough, because if they don't study, they will fail. And at the end, those are the students that do not make it to graduation. so just study like how you are doing, and it takes time, but that's what you gotta do to make it. best of luck to you!

Specializes in Tele.
wow!! what a great advice. I like the way you divided pages to get to the required reading within time limit so that you know exactly how much more to cover, and have situation under control. I also took the computer course but I did it after first exam n then I had to make decision (drop or stay) but definitely that course was worth taking before. I now have all those books (fundamental success, comprehensive Review guide NCLEX-RN, Test Success), I bought those after wards(I should have before). Thanks a lot there is so much helpful information in this thread.

(answering to your next thread) no I don't have study group, but I am trying to find people who are genuinely interested putting serious efforts toward this. anyways Good luck with the program.

great books to have!! I had test success, which is very good at explaining to you what critical thinking is. Saunder's comprehensive review for nclex rn is the best book because you can read after you read your huge NP book and you can practice questions that way. I love those books. specially that saunder's book that I used throughout the program, and even use the CD today to study for the excelsior exams for FIU's RN-BSN program :)

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