ImNotWitty

Hi there! I will be with you! Starting December 2017 as well. I graduated with my ASN in 2012. I actually am a readmission. I failed miserably before with WGU but my life was a bit different so this time should be much different. I did just read that they changed Biochem to Competwncy so you can just take the test instead of doing tasks and making models. That and the 8 live web classes you have to attend at a specified time for another class. Unsure which it is. I'm accepted and paid up but have no access to anything and haven't talked to any one yet. They had a cool orientation last time and I'm going to call to see if there is still something like that to explain everything. Good Luck all!!

Thank you so much for that! Alot of my nursing school peeps are getting their results this weekend and so far we're at a 100%. I KNOW my school prepared us OVERLY well! It's just so scary! I have seven full days left to study. I am doing nothing but CHILLING on the day before. Tomorrow is DD 15 Bday and we're going to the beach but I am going to do questions a little of that time while she is hanging with her friends. I did HUrst so I don't even know why I am freaking. Thank you for the reality check. Also CONGRATS to you, Patientlywaiting2008 RN!!!!!

The New Yorker article was really good. Thank you. Long but I highly recommend.

Hey J. I just saw this message sorry! I haven't been on here much....end of semester and all. so what questions do you have about TCL? I will try to answer them as best I can.

Good Luck WDW! I have my first Hospital Orientation tomorrow. I am fairly nervous. This is my first semester in Nursing school. The first half we were in an LTC. I felt like I finally knew what was expected of me and now I am going somewhere else. But I am just nervous b/c the hospital will obviously be a much different patient/setting/diagnoses than LTC. I am trying to prepare today and I just don't know what else to do to get ready. I guess I will go iron my WHITE scrubs. Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb!

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HI, I attend The Technical College of the Lowcountry in Beaufort,SC to get my ADN. You would get instate tuition if you're in Effingham or Chatham Counties. I am in my first semester right now. I enjoy the program so far, the teachers are organized and good. I know that on paper they have a really good NCLEX pass rate. We were just told a few days ago that once we are done with our first half semester that we can be a Student Nurse Intern at Beaufort Memorial. You can also get your CNA. If you are not familiar with the area, it takes roughly an hour from Downtown Savannah to get to Beaufort. I hope this helps you.

Hey Helpingothers, are you the previous CS? Just wonderin, I recognized your pic. Not to mention the good advice.

Hi Lexi. You really hit the nail on the head! For myself it REALLY hit me a few days ago after orientation and after I received my schedule. I am finally there! The last two years of waiting and prereqs is over. I start in January. BUt, uh-oh! Can I actually do this? What was I thinking? NUrsing? Let me pick one of the hardest, most important professions in the world. Yes, I am scared but I am also motivated, intelligent, and very excited to join the profession. Thank you for such a great question and post, to remind me I am not alone. Thanks for the tips, helpingothers.

Just so you guys know.........I went through NSNA then to United Healthcare. For people over 30 (Im 32) in the stae of SC (don't know if it varies state to state but she asked me age and state) I was quoted a quaterly (every 3 mos.) amount of $100. That is $1200 a year. Just so if I get sick, which I rarely do, I can go pay a copay of $20 bucks. This didn't include checkups ONLY injury and sickness. I am sorry I take precaustions and I have gotten all my vaccines (H1N1 and seasonal flu last month). I guess it burns me up that all of a sudden the day before orientation I get printouts that say I need insurance. They have told me NOT to work during school. I am NOT married. So what am I to do? I am an out of state student til Summer Semester and I am JUMPING to get all my Dental, Vision and Exams/required titers out of the way. Now this? Just another reason to lump in the pile as to why there is a Nursing shortage! /Rant. Orientation is Tomorrow. Hopefully I will have some suggestions that are affordable from the school. Good Luck all.

Hey Goodnursingstudent! How are you doing? Oh, and thank you!

Weirdest thing is I thought this school didn't offer Associates degrees. I mean it has "Technical" in the title. They do offer Associates which is what I am doing. They work closely with the University of South Carolina in Beaufort and all credits do transfer, at least to SC Schools. I will say I ran into alot of issues when I tried to transfer credits. I was in school at a community college in Florida for 2 years and this school only took 6 classes. It was a real bummer. Oh, also for others info, this "tech" school also allows you to get Stafford for the Ass. degrees, obviously not for cert. Thanks for the Congrats! It feels really good to know I am back on track. It was a scary time when my plans were disrupted.

So I had to leave Florida before I started at my First nursing school. Came to SC in March and Just got my NEW acceptance letter from the Technical College of the Lowcountry! Woot! I am so excited. I will be starting in January 2010. If there is anyone else that get an acceptance from TCL, please post and let me know you are here! Everyone else............Let's enjoy this ride! ~Benya

Hi, Everyone! It has been a while. I have a little issue I have been going over and over with and I just wanted to get some other peoples input on it. I left a nursing program before I got started in Florida because I had to move back to SC, thanks recession! I had to essentially start from scratch somewhat at a new school. At TCL in Beaufort, SC they use the TEAS in helping determine who gets in. They only take 40 people twice a year and there is no waitlist you just have to keep applying. I took the TEAS and made a very good score, well above the required score. I thought I would take it again, but the advisor told me that they average it if you take it twice. SO if I got lower, I'd be in trouble. Everyone keeps saying my score is great (administrators...not advisor she keeps her opinions to herself and tells you that you have to make your own decision). What would you guys do? The deadline is October 15th, I have turned in my application but I do have one more shot. Oh FYI, I have taken things they do w/in the program. So all I have is clinicals while others have the entire program to finish. In Florida I completed (and more that wasnt transferred) A&P I and II, Micro, Psych, English I and II, and Pre Algebra. However they have no GPA to go by because when they transfer credits they dont give you your actual grade, just the credit. I am in the first teir for the local area they pick from. It is our tri county area, then statewide, then out of state. I believe those are their only three criteria. They don't even interview. TIA

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Absolutely. The amount I was drinking equated to alot of peoples weekend drinking It was just for me that was not the norm, I don't really go out drinking or drink at home much. That wasn't hard at all, nor was the smoking, I just stopped! I mean I do still have the occasional glass of wine with dinner, but not everynight. I believe the last glass I had was two weeks ago at Outback. I do love a good Shiraz!

Thank you so much! So did you start in May? How is it going for you? I would love to hear all about it. I may go look for your past posts to see whats up with you!

Oh absolutely not! Though he had a hand in my moving away, I made that ultimate decision with him begging me not to. I do feel like it's on hold but oly due to myself. I will also say however that Ben had always refused to move away from Florida. So I would have never lived near my family again. When I moved he rethought that decision. So I can say that good things did come out of my moving. I didnt even mention that my ex husband and his girlfriend, along with my childrens paternal grandparents live just 25 miles away. So my kids are beyond happy that we are here, Ben actually found a job (after struggling in Orlando for almost 6 months and only getting 2 interviews), and though my relationship is strained with my sister (though she is oblivious to her because I guess it doesnt bother her that she owes me so much money), I do get to see my neices and nephew ALOT now. Also my Mom is right down the road. So even though noone will be volunteering to help with my kids, I have way more support that the NOONE I had in Orlando. So there are tons of positives. It is just that I MISS so badly Nursing school, and I didnt even start yet! I think about school so much. I have to start clean at Tech College of the Lowcountry and I just pray I get a spot there for next spring. I now have to take the TEAS and it's just sad after I was already there in Orlando, all I had to do was start! I kick myself daily. BUT I also know that good came out of this. Thanks for the response!

Maybe you shouldnt go off of caffeine and nicotie at the same time?! Good luck in the AM, girl! You are doing sooo good!

Good luck to you!

Actually the drinking water is good because it could probably keep you from over eating. Seven hours is so awesome. Keep going you got it! Put a straw or toothpick (faux redneck) in your mouth or in between your fingers! You got this!

i recently started then quit smoking after a month and a half. before i quit 4 years ago, i smoked for quite a few years. it is def a hard thing to stop, but it souds like you are sincerely at that point where you want to. i have not read all the responses so i am sorry if i repeat what anyone else has said. 1. don't buy them, cause they cost a ton! buy a pack of gum instead and while you are at the gas station getting that grab a straw to hold in your fingers or put in your mouth. smoking very much has to do with keeping your hands busy! 2. brush your teeth when you get the urge. you won't want to mess up your delicious breath, now would ya? 3. tell the people around you to jump your shiznit if they see you smoking or buying cigs. i swear it works. my fiance, when we first started dating told me he wouldn't talk to me for 24 hours if he caught me smoking. oh and he crushed any packs he found. it really worked for me! 4. get nicotine gum. i never used it but it could take the edge off! 5. if you have to wean yourself. go to lights, then ultra lights. smoke less and less everyday. 6. there are websites to help for free.........visit them! www.smokefree.gov www.anti-smoking.org/ www.cdc.gov/tobacco/how2quit.htm good luck! you can do it. remember as a nurse you will be so happy you did this for yourself! i promise.

on my journey through prerequs and admissions, i always had a gnawing concern. i always thought that this whole nursing dream was too good to be true. just as i suspected a bomb dropped on my life and i did not start nursing school this spring semester. the day everyone started and the day of orientation i cried my eyes out. i haven't even been able to visit allnurses because it depressed me too much. as some of you may recall my then boyfriend had lost his job, in the software industry (software for auto dealerships!) back in december. it was a huge blow but i just knew we'd get through and keep trucking along. we lived in orlado, he has a college degree from uf and is super smart so who would have thought he would go almost a half of a year before securig employment again? well, things got more and more stressed. we were both in school full time, he paid out of pocket for his. i also have two kids 8 and almost 12. needless to say our relationship became very strained. we had been together for 4 years and i missed home and family back in sc. everything all together at once just imploded and i found myself packing my kids and moving back to sc to be on my own. during this time my orientation came up, talk about pain! so a month went by where i barely spoke to my ex, ben. it was so hard, but i made a decision and i was going to stick to it. there were obviously other issues that i will not state here because they are very private, just know everything was compounded by him losing his job. i started smoking also and was down from 122 lbs to 105. i had stopped smoking when ben and i got together (best decision i ever made!). so i actually started to realize being home wasnt all it was cracked up to be. my sister and i got a place together but she stopped working and i had to pull all the weight, i even paid her car insurance which was behind 300 bucks. when i say i paid for everything i mean everything for her and her son. so curretly she owes me around $1000 which i know i will never ever see again. so i realized being close to my sisters kinda wasnt the same as oly seeing them once a year and things got strained. one night ben and i started im'ing then talked on the phone. i heard our dog scrappy bark in the background and went to pieces. how weird is that? i forgot to mention ben called my daughter every single day so he knew exactly what was going on with me. especially the smoking because my daughter was none too thrilled. so back to the story. we decided at about 2:30 am that we would meet up the next day in jacksonville and stay at the mariott. just so we could go to dinner and talk, we had been best friends for 4 years. at this point though we thought too much had happened for us to get back together. we thought it would be harmless. when i saw him pull into the burger king where i was waiting on him my whole body just went numb, i started smiling so much i couldn't keep a straight face. i ran to him and swirled me around like a movie and we just hugged forever it felt like. we had a great time that weekend and spent time at the beach which we had never done before. we talked alot. which brings us to today. a few weeks later he proposed, moved to sc, and within a week of being here landed a new job! we are renting a lovely townhome in a great neighborhood. the kids are happy we are all where we should be and i am looking forward to writing my name followed by rn one day...............there's just one thing i am no longer in a nursing school! with all that happened i have been laying low with the nursing stuff. i know i cant go to school til spring 2010. it made me so upset that i just haven't touched it. which is sad because like most of you it is my future, my passion and my new lease on life (money wise). i went to an open house at tcl which is the tech college of the low country in beaufort. i have purchased my teas study guide, stinks cause i did so well on the net. i just haven"t really done anything else. i haven't even finished unpacking the house yet. sure most is done but there's still alot more. i really think i have gotten a case of the blues. i have been sleeping too much since ben started work. i think i am just sad that my life is essentially on hold right now. i decided to write my thoughts here because i haven't expressed them anywhere else not even to my fiance. i think this will motivate me, just coming here to allnurses again. i am so glad to be back, world watch out!

CSantos, I am sooo proud of you! Sounds like somebody better watch out cause they might not keep their job if they don't start actually DOING it! I am so glad you were able to make such a difference in these folks lives! See you are already getting good karma returns?! Keep up the good work. BTW it amazes me that things like that happen.

There is a place where you can watch reality type nurse stuff. It is nursetv.com, it's a pretty cool site!