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Hey sorry I haven’t been on here in a while. I’m sure by now they’ve probably mentioned stuff and I’m betting there might be some changes from what’s usually done due to Covid. In the past we had 3 weeks of community and 6 weeks of acute care. good luck this semester!

@MarieKuhn you get points based on GPA, TEAS, if you’ve been at UMHB or transferred for the program, if you maintained the 3.0 in the selected courses, and there are some points for the responses on the applications but not a ton.

@MarieKuhn I had about 3.9 GPA and a 82% on TEAS. My friend who got in the same time I did had a slightly lower TEAS and I think closer to a 3.5-3.7. It’s a competitive program because of the sheer volume of people that apply, but it’s all based on a points system and you’re checking off a lot of boxes. So long as you meet the minimum GPA requirements overall and for the certain core classes, I would be very surprised if you didn’t get in with that GPA and TEAS.

@Rose_Queen Thank you! That helps a lot!

Hello, I've been interested in the operating room since beginning nursing school but we don't rotate there for clinical. I have heard of circulating nurses and peri-op nurses but I haven't been able to find any articles that list all the roles that nurses can fill in the OR. I was wondering if anyone could explain the different roles and their responsibilities (or share a link)? Also, are most ORs specialized in the types of surgeries they perform? If so, which specialties of surgeries are the most interesting or best to work during in your opinion? Thank you!

Check offs are the first week but N1 gets to go last which I believe is Thursday. Practicing depends on what they do about open lab this Summer. If we start opening stuff back up I would assume they will have the lab open for the 1-2 weeks leading up to school starting. I would definitely go if you can just so that way you don’t have to fight for a spot in the lab that first week when it’s flooded with people before check offs and remediating. I think even one day would be helpful so you at least have a couple hours under your belt and it’s not a big deal if you can only work in 1 hour on Tuesday or Wednesday the first week. Basically how they do it is you will get assigned a time to come perform your skill and a time to come do med admin. If I remember correctly and they haven’t changed it, in N1 your med admin is an I'm injection into a large muscle mass and your skill can be either an in and out cath or a foley on a male or female. You show up 15 min early, draw your skill/med, and go. Review the skills sheet beforehand so you know what you absolutely must do to pass (critical components) and what parts you won’t fail for if you miss. Of course you want to check every box, but there are some skills that have parts you can miss and still pass it. you’re good! Sorry my answers are always novels ?

Personally, I thought it was easier than intro. I think it really depends on the person and if you’ve found a way of studying that works for you. The information itself isn’t that hard at all. The exemplars they give you build a great foundation as far as what are the main things you need to know for an exemplar in any concept. For example, the interventions you learn to maximize oxygenation in the exemplar of pneumonia are basically the same for any respiratory exemplar plus or minus a few depending on severity. The Patho teacher Mrs. Andrews is amazing. The biggest hurdle for me was check offs. I don’t know what the deal was that semester but I felt like there was some miscommunication on what you could fail for. After that it was smooth sailing. I was nervous too because it was my first full semester of nursing school but I was pleasantly surprised on the degree of difficulty.

It is 5. You have intro first, then N1, N2, AB1, AB2

I wouldn’t be surprised if the dorms are full too. UMHB has been growing every year and housing has been difficult. If all else fails, there are affordable apartments in the area that are not too far from campus. You could always call residence life and see what they have to say.

Hey! Every semester there are quite a few transfer students. You should be able to sign up for transfer connection through UMHB which should help you meet a few people. I don’t know how they’re doing it this year because of the coronavirus. Even if you can’t/don’t sign up for transfer connection you will get to know people quickly through the program. There is a lot of partnering in intro which will give you the chance to meet people. As far as on campus housing goes, most open roommates have bios that you can see through the roommate page on the housing portal. Most put their major so you could always look for the nursing ones and message on FB? I don’t know about any group chats though. Usually in intro someone starts a facebook page but that’s mostly after classes start and everyone gets to know each other. Please let me know if I can answer any more questions. Congratulations on your acceptance!! ?

Of course! Best of luck to you!

Head to toe assessment is at the end of the semester. They break up the assessment class into systems. I think module A is like taking a health history, basics of assessment, and HEENT. B for us was cardiovascular, respiratory, and GI. C I think is musculoskeletal and integumentary? Neuro is in there somewhere too. I’m probably missing some and they may have revised it since I’ve done it. Basically you learn for 3 weeksish, then the fourth week you take a module exam in the lecture portion and then you have a practical in the lab portion. The practical is where you do assessments on one of your peers. It’s a focused assessment of whatever systems you learned about that module. Then you do a head to toe assessment sometime at the end. There is also Hospital sim which is your cumulative experience combining what you’ve learned in assessment and essentials in a 4 hour-ish sim. You demonstrate a focused assessment of your patient, med admin I think, and then an assigned skill you learned throughout the semester in essentials. that was a very long answer sorry ?

The first semester isn’t too bad, but there is a lot of lab time. Some people pay less attention/don’t take the lab time seriously but it’s a huge part of your learning in the first semester. Essentials is fairly easy so long as you watch her voiceovers and take notes. Assessment is the harder course, but it’s easier if you read the book and take practice quizzes/tests. The biggest thing you can do for yourself is do a lot of practice questions because that’s how you will be showing what you know (tests in assessment and quizzes in essentials will be the majority of your grade and passing the class will be dependent on you maintaining a 75 exam/critical component average). RegisteredNurseRN has a lot of good quizzes and videos over all kinds of stuff. The Evolve online resources also has test banks by chapter for most of the books you will be required to buy that are good too.

Lol I just happened to find this site and I was interested to see if there was anything about UMHB. I’ll be in AB1 next semester