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Gotcha, well talk your advisor and see if they've printed the ID yet. If not, you can get the picture retaken. Yes, I've gotten all the books back :)

Within the first month of classes. There should've been an item on the checklist from when you got accepted into the program, and that item would tell you by what day you needed to have a BUC ID done. They print the badges right after that day, so your nursing student ID may be ready at this point. That being said, you will most likely get a new set of IDs for the hospitals where you do clinicals for Level 2 and beyond. Your best bet is to check with your advisor for your specific campus and see if the student IDs were printed or not.

Wear your scrubs. Clinical orientation counts as a clinical experience. You should be getting more information from your instructor closer to the start of classes.

We're all in the process of exchanging our books for the revised edition, because some had it from the beginning and others had the older version. So, yes you do need the revised edition of the books.

Email Chris ([email protected]) about it and see if they have spots open in the traditional group. You can't switch once the final acceptance packets are sent out, which happens after you clear the background check.

Just saw this. What questions do you guys have?

Congratulations to everyone who was accepted into the nursing program! You guys did it!

ANEW is not new to the Collier campus, I know a couple of people that just finished the first semester from that group (Spring 2018). Welcome to the Collier campus crew though!

You should be hearing back from them in the next few days, if they're following the same routine like the last few application cycles. You can always call or email and ask when they're anticipating releasing the decisions. :)

You're pretty much accepted, but it depends on the number of applicants versus spaces available.I haven't really heard of anyone being denied admission after they passed the background check and drug test.

They didn't send them out early. That was about 2 weeks after the applications closed. When you get through Level 1 of the application, they send an email letting you know that you made it to Level 2. At that point, they give you instructions for how to register for CastleBranch so you can submit your immunizations, CPR card, and other paperwork.

Hey guys! Now second semester nursing student, so I definitely survived the first semester. My group filled out all the necessary orientation forms for our next clinical site, which is another hospital in the area. We're still waiting to hear who is teaching our semester, because the Level II professor retired. Some of us are finishing up our pre-reqs. I'm pretty sure my entire 24 person class made it through the first semester (and pharm), so you guys can too. My guess is if your application pool is anything like ours, you might be hearing back from the admissions committee around next Tuesday. They normally send out emails around 3pm, so just a heads up. If you guys have any questions, y'all have access to now two Level II nursing students. I'm from the Collier traditional group and I know a little bit about the Collier ANEW program, because their instructor works closely with my instructors. Good luck everyone!

I'd suggest getting the MNL codes and using the books from there, because it's easier to search and find things online, and you'll do a lot of activities during lectures that have you looking up things. I just carry my laptop to lectures, which is much lighter than carrying even one of the nursing books. See if the application let's you submit it as "in progress." If it doesn't, then go ahead and put in that you've completed it. Grades are going to be released for this semester hopefully before the application closes, but they'll still verify that you've taken each course and that's done using your transcript. Your grades will post to the transcript as soon as they are released by the instructor. So, you should be fine either way. They won't deny admission just because you were finishing a required pre-req the semester before you actually start the program. :)

Wait to do the background check, because they run a specific one and CastleBranch will give you that information once you make it through Phase 1 of the application process. There is a way to get around the $1500 or so that the books cost. People have gotten used copies or just bought the MyNursingLab codes, which have the ebook version of all the texts you're going to use throughout the program. Personally, I use the MNL codes and have the physical pharm book as well (just because it came bundled with the code when I bought it), and that saved me about $500. If you guys need the ISBNs for those codes let me know, I still have the actual cards for them. There's no way around the ATI code cost, that's around $600, because the school requests a specific set of programs from ATI. You'll use a small portion of the ATI programs during Level I. For Level II, you'll need three more codes (2 are virtual simulation and 1 is an electronic medical record; these codes together will probably run about another $500) and a book on how to write care plans (this book is about $20). So plan for that as well. The kit is not optional, it comes from your lab fees for the first semester and has all the equipment to do a full head to toe assessment: stethoscope, BP cuff, tuning fork, reflex hammer, and pen light. That being said, a lot of us ended up getting either a Littmann or MDF stethoscope, because the school ones don't work for everyone. So, just keep that in mind. If you do use a different stethoscope, make sure you know everything about it, because the instructors may not be able to tell you if you have a tunable diaphragm or not (which controls whether you need to use the bell side or not or if you can adjust pressure on it to hear different sounds). Nurses stick together, that's something you guys will pick up as you progress through clinicals and the program. Someone always knows something that may be useful to you, and it's just best to help each other in the long run. One more month for you guys, that a long wait just to have the application looked at, but don't stress about it. Give them a couple of weeks once the application closes and then you can annoy them. Definitely stay excited and I hope you guys get in!

Pharm on that scale would be about an 8, just because what you need to know for the drug categories is a little bit different and there are a lot sound alike drugs. IVs and medication administration is all second semester, so I'm not doing that until Fall of this year. I think I'll learn how to do IVs in the first month or so in that semester. Between the time that I applied and when I got accepted, it was 4 weeks. They gave us about 2 weeks out of those 4 to get the background check / drug testing done and the results to return. GPA: 3.25 8 out of 9 pre-reqs. TEAS: 86.7% Total points: 73 The program is a lot of fun and a lot of work, but the professors are awesome and so are the clinical instructors. You'll learn pretty quickly that there several ways to get certain tasks done, so as long as your facility doesn't have a protocol saying you can't do it that way, you have options. At this point in the semester, we've applied everything from lecture and lab to the clinical setting. I do head to toe assessments on at least one person, lots of interviewing people to get their background information, and basic nursing skills including vitals, since I can't do medication administration. The clinicals for us are now 10 hours on the floor with the nurse or a tech, or both if both are assigned to the same rooms, and the paperwork (clinical report) is about 6 or so pages long, and it kind of looks like the medical record for the person. So, if you truly believe you want to be a nurse and you know what that involves, then you're going to have a lot of fun throughout the program, because if you're not in the actual clinical setting then you're practicing a skill in an environment that very much resembles that setting. :) Quick breakdown of the 4 semesters just for reference: Level I: fundamentals / healthy people (basic nursing care: baths, oral care, transferring a patient, code of ethics, nursing laws, healthcare laws, who makes up the care team, review from A&P, nutrition, psych / development when it comes to normal, healthy people, head to toe assessment) Level II: acute illnesses/ medication administration (start administering certain meds by mid semester) Level III: medical-surgical / maternity and pediatrics (medication administration except for IV bolus and cardiac drugs (students can't give these in any program due to side effects). Level IV: complex problems / preceptorship (continuation of medical-surgical but now you're managing people that have several diseases / comorbidities and different drug combinations and a larger care team). At this point, you're going to be handling several patients and keeping track of them. Last month of the program you're going to be assigned to a nurse, who will assign you at least one patient that you're going to be the nurse for and they're going to be there just to advise you, but not necessarily monitor you at all times. The purpose of that preceptorship is to verify that you can be a safe and effective nurse once you get licensed.