Lizardqueen13

If you’ve met the requirements, then why not apply and see what happens? You’ll have to get your BSN eventually regardless if you want to become/stay employed at a hospital (and many other facilities) in CT, and if you could jump right into doing that then you’d say yourself time and money in the end. Why are you having reservations about it? If you don’t get into their program, you have NVCC as a back-up.

That’s great! I’m sure they’ll call you off the list. Congrats!

I got the email at 9:37

Just found out I’m 60 out of 222 on gateway’s waitlist. Probably too high. I got into St. Vincent’s and am waiting to hear from U of Bridgeport.

I just submitted mine to Gateway too. I have all my prereqs and coreqs done except for AP2 and sociology which I'll be taking in the Spring. 3.41 GPA, 74.7 TEAS score. Good luck to you!

I decided against it. It would be online; everything is online currently. Thanks for responding though

I have a 3.37 nursing GPA and all A’s and B’s except for my math. I took intermediate algebra 3 times and never got above a D, I took intro to stats and got a C+. If I could pull an A in stats that would bring me to a 3.55. But this would also be an accelerated 2 week Winter class... should I bother?

I am not sure how the transcripts situation works, but you could email someone in admissions or nursing dept. to see. I’m applying this round too. Good luck!

Hi! I’m considering applying to U of B this next application cycle and I’d love to know stats of people who have gotten in, if you don’t mind sharing. Thanks!

Well, I can say the people I know who did Yale’s program have paid off their debt. Those who did Uconn’s have not. Don’t know why exactly or if that even holds value to say LOL, just something I’ve noticed.

I’m in Southern CT. We did really well (compared to most) with PPE throughout the pandemic despite having 400 Covid cases in the hospital at one point. We’re back to using PPE as normal and have been for a few months.

Yeah, all around the state (CT) it’s around $110-120. I assume the price is jacked up because it’s being proctored remotely via Proctorio. Until recently, only testing centers have had available exam dates and they all cost $117. My school just put up 2 dates (which sold out immediately) and they were $70, if I’m not mistaken. Still more than the $50 my school’s website states it would be. One of my coworkers was telling me last night she only had to pay $35 to take hers there a few years ago. Crazy.

I think the problem might be that it’s not allowing me to enter my institution like it has in the past. It shows me exam dates in different towns, but none are at any of the colleges.

Can anyone tell me how much it cost for them to take the TEAS? I went to sign up and the price is $117. On Gateway’s website, they claim it’s only $50. Did the price increase due to the pandemic, or does Gateway offer some sort of discount or something? It’s odd to me that the price is more than double what they tell us it is.

Does anyone know if the price for the ATI TEAS increased? My school claimed it would only cost $50, but when I go to sign up, they want at least 100, I think it’s $117 exactly. Is this due to Covid or was my school just wrong? I was so shocked to see that it’s double the price I thought it was because I was considering taking it soon and then possibly taking it again later on after improving in whatever areas the first score would show I’m lacking in.

By which school?

OMG. I knew I should’ve signed up really early.... That’s crazy. I’m gonna call them because if a lack of TEAS tests means I can’t apply for nursing school this year, we’re gonna have a big problem.

I said “if you’re working on the floor.” The vast majority of new grads are on the floor. And I apologized for coming off rude before anyone could say I am. It does not make sense to me to aim to become a nurse, yet be in terrible fear of a virus, so much so that you’d jump to not accepting your seat in the program before considering more rational options. Best of luck to you and your family.

I think you’re being a bit dramatic. Sorry if that comes off rude. I understand why you’re panicking, but I think it’s a little unwarranted. I’m immunocompromised and work at the hospital. I highly doubt they will give you Covid positive patients as a student. I haven’t seen it happen and it wouldn’t be wise on the facility’s part. Even if they for some reason tried to pull that, you can get out of it with a note from your doctor. They put me on the Covid floor (I have respiratory and heart problems) and after one shift wearing that N95, I called my doctor and said I didn’t feel comfortable working there because 1. The exposure and 2. The mask was making me feel really weak and wheeze/cough for days after wearing it. The hospital had no choice but to relocate me. They can’t discriminate. And think of it this way — if you were already a nurse, you’d have no choice but to be working around it. That’s the reality of this field and there are always going to be patients with airborne and droplet spread illnesses if you’re working on the floor.

However, if you work in a hospital as w PCA/PCT, we do labs. I work night shift and have to collect everyone’s 4am labs and I’m a pro at this rate. We aren’t allowed to do IVs, just the nurses are (same for the phlebotomists – they strictly do blood). But I know, at least at my hospital, if you’re in nursing school you get some extra privileges and the nurses will let you practice or at least assist with certain things.

I am only a PCA currently so my screw ups generally aren’t as dangerous as the nurse’s can be, but I want to share something. I collect labs and just last week somehow screwed them up. I truly cannot tell you what went wrong, but the fact is something did and I’m responsible for it. I had gone into a patient’s room to get their labs, scanned them and printed out the labels, then the patient refused. So I moved onto the next patient, who did allow me to get their labs. Same procedure. I still had that past patient’s labels on my computer and I “made sure” (I put this in air quotes because I must not have really made sure despite looking) that I had the correct person’s labels. Well, I’m sure you can guess how this ended. I had two tubes of blood for the second patient. One was sent with their label, one was sent with the first patient’s label. I have no clue how this was even possible given that if you scan the wrong person’s label, the computer is supposed to reject it and tell you that you have the wrong label. Maybe I DID scan the right labels, but put the wrong ones on the tubes. Probably. I had 4 labels altogether. It’s not a med error. But it can lead to further complications if the incorrect lab is received and indicates something crucial and then the patient is treated for an issue they do not have, or rejected a surgery due to it, etc. You NEED to slow down. You need to go through the motions every single time. Do not take a chance because you’re confident. I knew I should have shredded the first patient’s labels to avoid any possibility of a mix up, yet I didn’t. Just be smart. You know how bad it feels to mess up like that and only you can change it.

Interesting. Mine had us cutting into pigs and human cadavers and I think those experiences benefitted me greatly. But if you’re able to learn with the lab kit, so be it. Good luck!

The lab part LOL

I agree with the above comment. I’m a PCA and they trained me to do phlebotomy on the job (along with EKGs and other fun stuff). Being a PCA/PCT seems much more exciting to me than a phlebotomist, and it’s the best job someone interested in nursing could have prior to becoming one.

Online A&P??? I can’t imagine.