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How do you edit? But to tell you the truth, I am sure I am a marked man there anyways and feel strongly that my situation is not right. This might alert other potential students what kind of non support they will be given.

I performed it in front of an instructor successfully earlier in the term in a check off, so I was able to do wound care in my clinicals at the hospital. I then went to an instructor 2 days before my CPE, went through it a few times and she said "you will be fine, you got it!" So I have done it twice in front of instructors, at the hospital, but because I stressed out for 20 min in wound care,I am out. This is a public state school. I am trying to get a redo, but the Director denied my request.

I recieved a 91% in NUR 1 with all my exams, simulations and assignments, but was failed in my CPE. Any comments or suggestions? I also recieved excellent feedback from my instructor for my clinicals. How on earth can they make you do the whole semester over after making some alleged mistakes during the 20 min CPE? I know I am venting, but this seems so unfair. I am appealing to the second level after the dean of nursing turned me down. Why could they just make me remediate The wound care I failed? Any suggestions would be appreciated, but no bashing please, I am low enough. Thanks to all

Anyone from Sebring or Highlands County and want to ride share? Our clinicals btw are Mondays at Florida Hospital.

Never got mine either!

Read this on an old blog on all nurses. Not to complimentary on the program. Feel free to look up the whole blog and read on. Hope some things have changed. Comments? by medstudentcutter Mar 31, '09 23,411 Views 25 Comments Topic Closed + Bookmark 1 2 Next » 0 Hello all Nurses and future nurses, I just wanted to give some information on those who may be interested in attending Polk Community College RN program in Winter Haven Florida. As a student of the RN program, I can only speak about what I have seen first hand. If you were considering this community college for your RN program, you may want to read this before you apply. 1. Polk community college accepts about 100 new RN students each term. That is the best part of the program. 2. Passing any class in the RN program is 80 percent, which is a C. The RN program has modified the grading scale to cut out any students who would have normally made a 70 and passed. They state that the reasoning for this change is that the State RN test is 80 percent. Many other nursing programs now require an 80 in all their classes also. For those who have gotten in life with a 70, you will not make it in nursing unless you change your ways. 3. I would estimate the number of students who retake Nursing I is about 15 to 20 percent. Retaking Nursing I is no easy task as you will have to pass all new test material, and repeat your nursing home clinicals and hospital clinicals. You will also have to submit new written material, as you cannot reuse any material already submitted. 4. You can only repeat one nursing class out of 5. After you have used up your magic wish, you will be dropped from the program and only allowed entrance after two years later. 5. In review of the policies of this RN program and many like it in the state, you can come to the conclusion, that of the 100 students who start, each term you will lose about 10-20 percent of the original class. In the final term, of the original class, you will graduate about 25 originals and another 15 from other classes who joined your class after failing one of the 5 classes. As you can see, there is still a nursing shortage, which is not being helped by many RN schools including Polk Community College. In an effort to keep their image of being in the top 5 state RN NCLEX exam results, they are failing dedicated and sincere students. Nursing schools should teach students how to perform skills. The NCLEX is what makes you a RN, not the diploma from a nursing school. You can take NCLEX review courses to brush up on your testing skills. A student should not be failed on tricky NCLEX style questions in Nursing I, but that is what is happining at Polk Community College, and perhaps other institutions. Some may say that others lives are in your hands and an 80% should be expected, becasue you only killed 20% of your patients. If you are able to memorize vast amounts of information, some usefull, some just poliically correct, then you will do fine in this nursing program. If you are one who questions why nurses do the things they do, and likes to analyze, and see a larger picture, then medical school may be your calling. Statistics show that 33 percent of RN's in their first year will quit, even after making it through RN school. This truly is a thankless job, and at present, a pretty hard occupation to get into due to the burdens placed on the current RN student population. I wish each and every one of you good luck in your nursing or medical careers, and good luck in getting in, and staying in your RN progams. Like?

Roger that!

Last year they got their letters on the 28th. This translates into this Wednesday, 4 Oct. for us with the hurricane delay.

That is not great news that more applicants than usual applied. I took advantage of the extension and rewrote my teas and bumped it up 3.4, now I am glad I did. One question, I am still doing my stats at SFSC. Do they accept conditional on the math being a sufficient score? Good luck to all.

Hey, where did everyone go?