Prairie View Nursing Fall 2014

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Anyone out there applying to Prairie View for entrance in the Fall 2014 semester?! The deadline is soon approaching! How far along are you in the application process? Feel free to post any questions, comments, or concerns you may have. Good luck to all!

I received an acceptance packet from pv but im confused on when everything is due. Does anybody know when everything is due?

ZamudioIsaid, it should say on your packet when everything is due. Mine says April 28th.

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I accepted an offer at UTHSC and we have until August to get everything done. However, it does say on our to-do list that it is due May 8th. (The admissions people said to ignore that due date.)

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Hello, I am a current Sem 1 student (soon to be 2nd sem! whoo hoo) at PV...sunshine, what would you like to know?

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Hello, I am a current Sem 1 student (soon to be 2nd sem! whoo hoo) at PV...sunshine, what would you like to know?

what color are the scrubs? ;)

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So the application packet said that we would be the graduating class of fall 2016! What? Why is it so long? Do they break for summer?

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I hope they do! But I guess they probably don't because few of these courses are going to be pre-requisites for further courses that will be offered at certain times only. Hey if you find out otherwise lemme know :)

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Every other nursing school is only 15 months. Not 2 years!

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Specializes in Urology, ENT.

I'm a PV grad (December 2012). We didn't like that the program was 2 1/2 years so if they got it down to 2 years, I'm jealous (huh, I guess enough of us complained that they made it shorter since the rest of the nursing programs -- UT, UTMB and TWU -- were all 2 years, so if they shortened theirs too, wow).

Yes, we broke for summer, and honestly, it was probably a good idea compared to UTHSC and TTUHSC (but hey, whatever floats your boat). With how some of the teachers were when it came it came to running some of the semesters, it was great to not have to worry about school. Some of my classmates who started out with me got ahead (they got OB/Pedi out of the way one summer), and graduated a semester ahead.

I hated our scrubs until the last semester. I hope they've changed it since -- when I went, we had 3 sets of scrubs. Those hideous white ones that made us look like we worked on a psych unit (which may I add were more expensive than the scrubs I've bought since I started working), a set for OB/Pedi that were different because the different hospital sites required something else (I don't know why we couldn't just wear those for the whole program), and semester 5, we wore purple scrubs.

Congratulations on getting in, andgood luck. You'll probably hate PV while you're in (a lot of people in my class did; I didn't think it was as bad as they made it), but you'll appreciate it after you graduate.

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Each semester wears different scrubs. Depending on your semester, the scrubs vary in colors of white and purple. Although, they said they may be changing the scrubs to be purple and white for all semesters. Yes, the program is 5 semesters...2 and half years, and we do break for the summer (trust me, you will want to break for the summer). But keep in mind PV offers summer courses. You can take your electives, clinicals, etc. in the summer if you choose to, but again, it is optional. I personally like the program is 5 semesters...once you start, you'll understand why. What we do in 5 semesters, other programs do in 4 which is great in the long run.

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ZamudioIsaid, it should say on your packet when everything is due. Mine says April 28th.

Yeah mine says April 28th also but it also says i should be receiving a fast pass on the mail to go get the fingerprinting done but i havent received that yet. So how is it that theyre expecting everything to be turned in by that date?

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Hey guys!!!! I have gotten everything done thus far. I have no health insurance but I called H, and she said that I can just write a memo explaining my situation which is that getting insurance through the marketplace has been a pain in the butt. Anywho just wanted to let anyone who might have this situation know it's no big deal. However you do need titers, physical, and vacs by may 28 deadline which is Monday coming up in 3 days. Whhhooooo!!! So excited!!!!

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Do you get your titers & vacs done the same day you go to the doctors office or is it a long process? And can we go directly to the school & drop our packet off on Monday or does it have to be mailed does anybody know?

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