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Honestly, just stay optimistic and I think having a few good friends in the course is what helps to keep each other going as students. It is going to be anxiety inducing unfortunately, especially because many nursing professors want to tell you exactly how challenging the nursing environment is, and they will claim a lot that they are only stressing students out to prepare them for "the real world". It is good to stay calm under pressure but the anxiety gets to everyone for sure. The trauma-bonding is real. I like to hope the program will improve in coming years and I do believe that many of the problems were also post-Covid related. The a**busting definitely won't stop. My recommendation is to take a look in coursehero and prepare a week before the semesters start to help get a small advance in studying. But as far as working in the real world it's not as bad as nursing school in my personal opinion but again I think it depends where you work and who you are working with 100%. When you get to clinical sites, this is the time to take notes of how many patients the nurses are getting and how the floor seems to be running.

Hey, I actually took most of my prerequisites during Covid so it was converted to online. I remember I had an older male professor for micro in the Summer who was super tough but actually very good. I'm so sorry but I cannot remember his name. For Anatomy 2, I took it at the Boca Raton campus in the Spring of 2020 so it started in person but was converted to online which made the experience not so normal. I had a young female professor who I really liked, I think the last name was Volpe. Some people found her class really difficult but I think if you put the time in an A is totally possible with her. Also, I took the wrong chemistry for the prereqs and I'll never forget that (and it is worth double checking) but I believe the correct one they accept is CHM1032. I took CHM1045 and CHM1045L, only to find out it was not needed ?.

Hi, thanks for your message! I am definitely not doing my bachelors with pbsc although I do know a few people who are currently enrolled for the BSN and they have said it is somewhat better than our previous experience. I've applied to 2 other programs and still waiting to hear back from 1. PBSC is hard to get into as many of the students who were able to get in had previous bachelors degrees. I believe that gives you 4.0 points on the application as opposed to an associates which gives 2.0 I believe. I did get just over a 90% on my entrance HESI and I feel like that helped and I used a HESI book from amazon to prepare. The clinical sites we had for school (there were around 8-10) were JFK main and JFK north, Delray medical, Boca Regional, West Boca Medical, Palms West and then the Belle Glade cohort had different hospitals I think. Dr. Joseph is absolutely amazing and by far one of the better teachers! Hope this helps ?

So I wanted to share my experience after going through the whole nursing school process of the last 3 years with Palm Beach State College. I'm very proud to be an RN and as a student I was always looking for information on the school with minimal resources. After the program I added up the total cost and for me it came to about $5,000 for the 2-year program (not including pre-requisites). You can't beat the price but trust me when I say you get what you pay for. The program used to be held in much higher regard and has been on somewhat of a decline. I am basing this opinion of my own experiences and from talking with students in other semesters as well. The teachers are overworked and stressed out and it definitely shows. There is not much in terms of organization. I would have reading assignments that didn't correlate with the editions of the books we were told to buy, teachers who were dismissive of student's concerns and who could not get along with the other teachers in front of the students. Needless to say it was a mess. I hate that the light of the few good teachers there is darkened out by the negativity of others but it is quite obvious to everyone who attended the classes. Our class group chat would be blowing up during most presentations. The program is anxiety inducing and poorly presented. I only hope that things are changing for the better. The program is tough to get into and at least it is accredited but just a fair warning, you will not get bang for your buck with PBSC's nursing program. If anyone has specific questions I can try to answer them here. Otherwise, good luck with your nursing endeavors, it is absolutely still possible to be an exceptional nurse through tough programs as long as you are ready to do double up the work to make up for others. Take care of your mental health and stay positive!

Hi Susana, Good luck with your big move! My family moved from the UK in 1994 and my mom who is an RN made the transition as well to nursing in America. I'm currently a nursing student but I've worked for a few years at our local hospital in various jobs. We live right next door to Pompano Beach so I hope something helps! Moving to a new area can be a lot. So basically, theres a couple big companies in the area who own the major hospitals. You have Tenet, Baptist Health, HCA, Cleveland Clinic. Most hospitals will be a drive from Pompano & the traffic in South Florida is great in the Summer, terrible in the Winter. Broward Health is probably your closest hospital system and they are tough. The turnover of nurses there is high. If you can go for a job at a Baptist hospital (Boca Regional), they staff very well and are one of the top companies to work for in the US. Tenet is 50/50. They are who I have the most experience with. The staffing is not great, corporate is all about the money, but some hospitals are better than others. I would steer clear of Delray medical which is known as Hell-ray. Again, this is subjective. You never know where you will find a niche or fall into the right position. Definitely shop around, every hospital is desperately hiring nurses right now so make it work for you. Good Luck!