OCC - 2010 applicants / 2011 ADN prospective students

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Hey everyone! Im back for my second application into the ADN program at OCC ::sigh:: As I did in the thread I created last year, I am creating a new one for all those applying to the nursing progam for next fall. Lets keep in touch and keep one another updated. Good luck guys!!! :)

Specializes in Neuroscience.

Well tomorrow it all begins!

So excited. I know it will be hard as hell. I look forward to being busy though. I was so bored after Pharm ended -- I hate idle time. BRING IT ON!

I have 9-12pm Foundations HOH142 tomorrow. See ya!

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is whosyourdaddy still in the program?

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"Amy", have fun in foundations. I just started back today and already whining about the workload. Med-Surg seems worse than last semester foundations. After next week, it will be an exam every single week, ugh! They also decided to throw in a Sim lab day (supposed to be 'fun') and a project into our clinical to go along with the nursing care plans we already have to do. I cant wait until Nursing school is over. I wish it was part time or we had some time off between these 7 week classes.

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still here, still surviving, i think? for those interested in the death toll, we are now down to 146 original members of our starting 216. anne, med surg only seems like a lot of work :p i mean i must have had 20 to 30 minutes free time everyday. i can still remember the good ole days of foundations, when you had no clinicals till week 6 and then all you had to do is babysit some geezers. hopefully anne you have a good clinical instructor. mine sucked

good luck to all of you.

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I feel silly, but i am not completely clear on where to find the info for the G.A.S. assessments. Can anyone tell me?:confused:

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The Blackboard site has the rubric for us to print out... that should tell you what you will be tested on.

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Thanks :uhoh3:

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whosur, med-surg "seems" hard? I dont know if I am going to make it, if it gets worse than this. I'll tell ya what, we just started and I am barely scraping by. I had my first exam today and did well, but I had 2 weeks to learn it! From now on its an exam every week, this much work seems undoable, Im an emotional wreck. We just lost another student this week, who has actually been in program from previous year and gave it another go. Clinical is very hard for me. Lecture would be okay if I had time for it, but they keep us so busy with clinical work that I have no time for the other classes. Im winging it in Lab. I have new respect for your group, this year they are really bringing it on.

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ok Anne take a deep breath and relax, one lab can be winged, it requires the least amount of work, so spend the least amount of time on it. Med surg is a weeder course plain and simple.they want to see if you will crack. you can talk about but until your in it you dont realize how hard it is. You did good on your first exam so thats great, that gives you a good head start. you only have another 5 weeks. Anne its all about time management and loosing sleep. so what do you do, knock out your 1st care plan and make sure its right, this can alleviate a lot of stress rigtht there. for clinical make sure your there early to look up your meds. bring your drug book and mark each med with a sticky tab, that way when your instructor asks you can flip right too it. if you have it bring your med surg clinical companion with you to look up medical problems quickly, also bring your nanda book so you can quickly look up nursing diagnosis. when your clinical insturctor asks you about a med, rattle off everything you know about that drug before they can ask another question. and last of all know your drugs. med surg is all about meds.

good luck anne you can do it.

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wow. some of you are unreal. crying that nursing school is hard? what did you expect? waaah. get over it. you're lucky you made the cut last year. so many would kill to be in your shoes (myself included, but i only had an unworthy 3.85 gpa).you've all been whining about getting accepted on this board for years. you don't realize how lucky you are. just shut it or drop out. no one wants to hear it.

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery.

:hlk: hahahahha someone seems a little sore...:rolleyes:

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no, *****. just real.

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