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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.

They've changed a lot about the pre-reqs and requirements in the recent past. I have friends who graduated as recently as December of last year, and the program is very different now from what they went through, since the last change occurred in Fall 2016. They do most likely factor in how long ago you took the courses and the TEAS is what matters the most. So, do your best there and see what happens. Your pre-req grades won't matter that much once you get into the program.

It could be, but for the Spring 2018 class that same trend was present and all three campuses are full to capacity, except for one not having ANEW. I think we had maybe 20 people talking on the All Nurses thread. Also, from what the advisors have told my group, the A&P 2 requirement was put in place because 99% of the applicants already had that pre-req done at the time of the application for the last several application cycles. To answer your question about the implications of a smaller applicant pool for your group, they may not have the program on all three campus, especially the ANEW. The way they've filled the program seats in the past was Lee traditional, Collier traditional, and then Charlotte traditional. When the ANEW program was added in, the people who did not get into the traditional program at each campus were placed in the ANEW one unless they specifically applied to ANEW. The other side of it would be a quicker review of all the applications, which means you may hear back from them a little quicker. In the past, they reviewed the applications as quickly as within 7 days of the deadline when they had very few applications. It could also be a little more competitive, so I'd say definitely look at the statistics given for my semester (Spring 2018), because that semester was one of the most competitive ones they've had, so it would give you a good idea of where you'd stack up. As far as your situation about being a pre-nursing student for a while, I have classmates who have been one for like 6 or more years, so when you get in, be sure to review courses that you took a while back, because you will rely on that information throughout the program. They tell you each semester, before it starts, what courses definitely will be used during that semester. I'd say don't worry too much about the math, you'll use algebra for the drug calculations, but that's Level II and beyond. We don't really use math right now as it's all concepts to build a foundation for the later semesters.

I'm excited for you guys! On average, it takes about 4 weeks to know whether you're in the program. It takes them about 2 weeks to decide if you're going to the next stage of the application process, so Step 2 where you do your background check and all that. It takes about a week or so to have your background check come back. Once they have that information from all people that made it through Step 2, it takes them about a week to make the final decision. So, that's about the entire 4 weeks. It'll also depend on how many people apply for Fall semester, which campuses are selected, and whether they're getting applications for both ANEW and traditional or more toward one particular version of the program. :)

Three more weeks until the semester is done! Yay! We've all transferred to a nearby hospital to do clinical, so basically all the skills from lab and concepts from lecture are fair game to use on the clinical floor. The clinical paperwork is getting longer (but next semester we get to use DocuCare to chart so no more physical paperwork unless it's a care plan). For this semester, on the scale of 1 - 10, it'd say overall it's an 8 or 9 as far as being doable. Pharmacology is what brings it down a little bit, because we barely know what to study and there's a lot to study for that class. Otherwise, practice in lab and clinical definitely helps with the skills tests, and the information from the H&W lectures does show up on the tests and again is reinforced in clinical. So, basically you learn it in lab or lecture first, and then you keep using it in lecture, lab, and clinical until it sticks. If you review the material and try to apply it every chance you get, the semester becomes easier as you go further. Also, if you've taken Human Development or Intro Psych you're set for the second part of the semester. If you've taken Nutrition before, you're set for the second part of the semester. That information is basically reviewed. If you've recently taken A&P, you're good to go for this semester, because the physiology of specific systems are included in this semester. If you've taken it a while back, before you begin your first semester, review that material so you have an easier time and don't have to memorize as much. If you want the specifics for that, let me know. In short, the more prepared you are based on your prereqs, the more doable this semester becomes, because you'll focus more on pharmacology and parts of the courses where you're not as familiar with the information. I also now have info about the second semester and what's covered then, just to help you guys see what you need to maybe review since you won't have much time between Level I and Level II (I have a summer between them since I started in the Spring and you'd have maybe 3 or so weeks). Level II is transitioning from a healthy person to one that has an illness like a common cold, bronchitis, things that don't last very long. You will use your pharmacology knowledge from Level I. You will learn for most of the semester how to give medications in every possible way (IV, different types of shots, different pills, that kind of thing). Depending on your clinical site, you may be able to give some oral medications, but no IV or push meds. So, those are things you guys can look forward to as you get ready to start the program! QUOTE=Canegurl07;9794283]I will call and look into it thank you. How's your first semester going? Scale 1-10 was it do able lol

Hey, I applied with several of the pre-reqs being as AP credit. What happens is they count the credit hours, but there's no grade, so your GPA solely depends on the remaining pre-reqs that have an official grade to them at the time of application. For the application itself, just put in "yes" for your composition course and leave the field for the grade blank. If it doesn't let you submit it that way, put in the grade that you had for the AP course itself. The admissions people will actually go back through the transcript and verify which courses you took and the grades you have for those courses. They will recalculate your GPA based on that information, and that will also adjust your overall points. Hope this helps.

Unless they've changed it again, there won't be an interview, so after you clear your background and drug screens, you'll get a letter with the final decision. In the past, the interview was an online, approximately 5 minute video that you recorded with answers to specific questions that they asked. You can ask one of the advisors for the program to see if they'll try doing the interviews again. :)

You can apply for both ANEW and traditional at the same time unless they changed the application. Then, it just depends on where you stack up against the other people trying to get into the same program. If I remember correctly, you rank the three campuses and the two programs by preference. The programs are almost identical and use pretty much the same clinical sites, so just decide whether you want to have your classes during the day vs online, and lab time during the day vs in the evening.

Hey, my program is 24 months since I started in the Spring. It's 20 months if you start in the Fall.

Yup, that sounds exactly like the current ANEW program on my campus. The weekend day is your clinical day, and the 1 or 2 weekdays are your pharmacology review or skills lab day. In case you haven't heard what time the night classes are, they are 5:30pm - 8:30pm or so. You did get the most current information from whoever you spoke to. Hope that helps!

Hey, I don't personally know them, but there are several people who got into the ANEW program from Spring 2018, so try checking the Spring 2018 Allnurses thread and contacting some of them. As far as study guides and being told exactly what to study, really depends on the professors you get. My Health / Wellness professor tells throughout the lectures what she wants us to focus on and then again reviews the material a week before the test. For pharm, we finally received a powerpoint for exam 3 and that's only because we cannot meet with her over Spring Break. I'd suggest asking any students who are in the ANEW program for your particular campus, because professors are very different across the campuses though they teach the exact same material. :)