Polk State College Fall 2020 Hopefuls

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Hello ? I wanted to start a thread for those applying to the fall 2020 ADN nursing program at Polk State College. I know the application period isnt open until May, but I was wondering if anyone on here was planning to apply and what your points are? Best of luck to everyone!

I hope that's not the case but at the same time I'm sure it'll be much tougher if they don't cancel given the circumstances

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I think most of the difficulty rests in providing meaningful clinical experiences. PHSC shared that the FL BON limits the amount of simulated clinical hours in numerous allied health programs. There is a minimum threshold amount we must have with live patients. Maybe the plan is to double up on theory courses and simulations in the Fall and get live clinicals done in the Spring/Summer when things calm down. Gonna be an interesting year for sure.

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1 hour ago, tiasiad97 said:

Oh WOW!!. Did she say when to expect them?

No ?but the cardiologist tech students got theirs today.

1 hour ago, Breezy.33 said:

What does that mean?

We will receive notification if we got into the nursing program via email.

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1 hour ago, nurse_stare_decisis said:

I sent Denise an email to ask when we could expect a response given the scheduled orientation on next Friday. She said "hopefully by Monday." Has anyone else had a nagging feeling the program might get shelved for the Fall? I applied with PHSC to counteract a delay at either program. PHSC canceled the generic RN program and reduced (36 to 20) the number of admits for the LPN Bridge. I'm praying to start in FALL...somewhere. But nothing would surprise me right now. Trying to remain positive

I doubt Polk would close for the fall. They didn’t want to even go online the end of last Spring.

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13 minutes ago, Fdb1106 said:

I doubt Polk would close for the fall. They didn’t want to even go online the end of last Spring.

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16 minutes ago, Fdb1106 said:

I doubt Polk would close for the fall. They didn’t want to even go online the end of last Spring.

I agree, their reopening plan for fall has health sciences and a few other majors in person. I have a feeling they’ll stick to sim labs and smaller class sizes for fall.

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2 minutes ago, sabrinaherex said:

I agree, their reopening plan for fall has health sciences and a few other majors in person. I have a feeling they’ll stick to sim labs and smaller class sizes for fall.

I agree. They mentioned Zoom classes too.

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At this point, I would just like to know something

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5 minutes ago, Amelia24 said:

At this point, I would just like to know something

Me too, the anxiety is killing me ? I applied to Valencia as well, but start dates all got pushed back a semester so I’m keeping my fingers and toes crossed for Polk.

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sabrinaherex, I wanted to do Valencia's hybrid RN Bridge sooo bad. They were the first program in Central Florida to cancel though ?. Just a few more days of waiting. Maybe we'll hear tomorrow!

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So Denise emailed me back and said we should have our emails by the end of this week!!! It’s so close!

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9 hours ago, Fdb1106 said:

So Denise emailed me back and said we should have our emails by the end of this week! It’s so close!

That makes me nervous and excited! Hopefully it's today rather than tomorrow.

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