Now the waiting begins.....

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So, yesterday was the deadline for applying to the Ivy Tech RN program. NOW THE WAITING BEGINS! In my understanding, it will be late may before we hear anything. Yikes! I don't think I'll have any fingernails left by then...I'll bite them all off! (Maybe I'll have to go buy some). I gues now I just have to focus all my energy on maintaining my A in ANP 102 to be sure I get in. Anyone else a bit nervous?

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In the new regestration system on campus connect I was able to look at what the nursing schedule will look like for the first semester in Richmond. It is all day classes except the Pharmacology, which is in the evening. There are classes for all 90 people. For the First month we would be going like three days a week, and for the rest of the semester 4 days a week. At the nursing session they made it sound like there would be day and evening classes but the schedule does not show anything in the evening. Most of the classes start at 8:00 A.M. and are over by 3:00. Some of them only go to 11 or 12.

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Do you have a link to look at this info????

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Just go to the student services in campus connect and click on fall 2008. Then click on financial aid and then regestration I think it is and it will ask you if you want to look up classes. I picked nursing and then picked Richmond as the school. I left all the other boxes alone. What you see on the schedule is first semeter classes for first year nursing students and first semester classes for the second year nursing students. It looks like for the first month we will be taking like 7 credit hours and for the rest of the semester 9 credit hours. For some reason two of the classes only last a month and then we start different classes. Below is what the schedule looks like. They have all 90 students split up between different classes but they are all at the same time. They have lunch breaks worked into each schedule.

Fundamentals of nursing 8/25-9/28

Monday: 8-11 and 12-2 and Tues: 8-11 and 12-2

Fundamentals of nursing lab 8/25-9/28

Wed: 8-11 and 12-3:30

or

Thurs: 8-11 and 12:30-3:30 (This one is either day)

Medical Surgical Nursing I 9/29-12/20

Wed: 8-11

Medical surgery Nursing lab 9/29-12/20

Thurs: 8-11 or 12-3:30

or (This one is either day and time)

Friday: 8-11 or 12-3:30

Medical Surgical Nursing Clinical 9/29-12/20

Mon: 8-4:30

Tues: 8-12

Pharmacology 8/25-12/20

Tues or Thurs. 4-7

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For some reason two of the classes only last a month and then we start different classes. :

Fund you take the first five weeks of the program M & T and Lab is one day. The M & T is lecture this is where you learn the material, basics of nursing and CNA. Lab where you perform the skills you have learn on either W or T. If you are already a CNA cerification you can show that your cerification has been active + 2 yrs and you have worked 8 hrs within this time period, you can opt out of the lab, not the lecture of course. Thats what I did.

At the end of the five weeks, you start med surg one and pharm. Med surg clinicals is Mon and Tues. This your experience out in the community ie at the hospital , LTC, etc. Lecture is on wed. for everyone. And med surg lab is either thurs or frid. this is your learn skills, caths, ng tubes, hang blood, iv and tubing, etc. Pharm is for some ppll will be after clinicals tues or after lab on thursday. This schedule aspect of the program is diff from this year d/t we had med surg lecture and pharm same day which was hell on test days. so this should be pretty nice for yall.

Med surg one for us we had three tests, so each test was worth 33% of your grade = 100%. Hopefully they will change that next year because that was Hell !!!!!!!!!!!! Also a 75% is passing. One must have a 75 % in the class to remain in the program, if not you fail out.

Hope that helps to explain the schedule.

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Thanks for the info! Now I know what to expect. So they have us out in the community right away then? What do we do at these places? It just seems like we wouldn't know much yet. I have not been trained as a CNA so I guess I won't be opting out of any lab time. I am a certified pharmacy technician so I don't know if that will come in handy later or not. I was hoping pharmacology would be offered online but it isn't on the schedule yet anyways. Do you know if we get to pick our class or do they just automatically place us in one?

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Yea you are out there soon! LTC you learn the basics, how to feed someone, use hoyers, ADL's, charting ( BP , temp, HR, O2) you learn how to obtain these in lab then apply your knowledge on the floor, etc. Then in med surg you will learn ng tubes, caths, etc and get to do those. Being a pharmacy tech will help a bunch in pharm and med surg II (medical management and nursing management) and III . You wont pass meds until you pass pharm. No you dont choose your classes, they are assigned. No nusing class is available online, believe you want lecture. Second semester everyone will take a online health concept class. there are evening classes (20 students )also. Not sure completely on the time b/c i have never been in them but theory is like 4pm to 10 pm and clinicals till 10pm. Most students that are in the evening classes loved it however not idea for families cause if you are at clinicals in NC you have to drive home. Most students didnt get home till 11pm if they lived in R- town.

Hope that helps :nurse:

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I wonder if they try to keep students they assign to one class together in the next or if you are with different people in every class. That wouldn't give people much chance to carpool to school. I know three other people from here that are hoping to get in and some of us was hoping to ride together (It is about a 35-40 min drive). It looks like almost all the classes start at the same time but I didn't know if different classes might go to different clinical sites which means we would need our own vehicle.

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Does anyone know if, once accepted into nursing school at Richmond, (I'm trying to think positively!!) we can take CPR online? I really don't want to have to sit through a class if we can take it online!!!

Thanks for any info anyone can give! :mad:

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The American red cross offers advanced CPR for the professional rescuer. Part of it is online and than you just have to attend a two hour skill session within 30 days of completing the online part. That is what I am planning on doing.

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Are you taking it through ARC in Indianapolis? I was also told that I have to pass the proficiency; does that mean attend the skill session and show them we know how to perform CPR?

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I will be taking it through Muncie and he said their would be an online exam to pass and then a skill session to attend to practice the skills we learned. He said we get 14 days to complete online part after signing up and than 30 days after that to attend a skill session. The cost is $60. I decided to wait until this semester was over before signing up.

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Specializes in Dialysis.

You might want to check with the hospitals in your area. I took my BLS Certification class at Memorial in South Bend. It cost $40, and only took about three hours. You can get a book ahead of time and study, but I never got the chance to get it ahead of time and still did fine. I know it counts for Ivy Tech, because others from Ivy were in the same class as me!

-Kate

:)

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