JaimeS

I thought the uniforms at Richmond were very uncomfortable and they do run small.

I actually already sold my book on ebay. The hardest thing you will do in the class is all the formulas for mortgages and interest and trying to memorize them. That was either chapter 7 or 8. Other than that most of the stuff was things we learned in previous math classes.

I just finished Mat 118 and it wasn't to bad. I got an A. I also hardly ever used the textbook. I just used the my math lab and that was it.

Maybe this is a new tactic to test our patience before nursing school and see if we crack...lol. I guess we will just have to keep busy and not think about it. Is anyone taking sumer classes. I am taking Com 102 and ENG 112. They start on June 2nd.

i cannot believe we have to wait so long, that is a bummer. She said we would have ample amount of time to get everything done but the time keeps shrinking.

I know of several people trying to get in at Richmond and we were never told we had to do this so maybe they do it different. All we were told is that Claudia was waiting until spring grades were recorded before she started making selections. So I guess i better find out for sure!

I go to the Richmond campus. So we have to turn our grade in because I did not know that? I have 211 points so i am hoping that is good enough. Too bad I don't get the 3 regional points or I would have 214.

Did you get your A? I finished my ANP 102 Wednesday with an A so that gives me 4 A's in the the main pre-reqs. Now just have to wait for the letter.

I will be taking it through Muncie and he said their would be an online exam to pass and then a skill session to attend to practice the skills we learned. He said we get 14 days to complete online part after signing up and than 30 days after that to attend a skill session. The cost is $60. I decided to wait until this semester was over before signing up.

I was wondering how the COM 102 worked. I am taking it this summer. I thought I had heard something about movies but I wasn't sure. That class doesn't sound too bad now. It will be better than my other class ENG 112, I have never liked English and I don't seee why we need two college level English classes.

The American red cross offers advanced CPR for the professional rescuer. Part of it is online and than you just have to attend a two hour skill session within 30 days of completing the online part. That is what I am planning on doing.

I would rather it come June 1st than any day in the last week of May because I will be on vacation. It was driving me nuts to think my letter could be here in the mailbox and I won't be here to see. At the same time it will help take my mind off of it and I won't be waiting around for the mail everyday.

I don't recall there being any problems like that on the test. There was actually only a couple of algebra problems and a couple of geometry and foil problems. Other than that it was basic math, long addition, fractions, percents, and decimals.

Most of the math is basic math. Brush up on your fractions and percents and decimals. There are a lot of long addition problems. I only remember one geometry problem. Know how many centimeters are in an inch, cups in a gallon and pounds in a kilogram. The reading and English is easy. The science is not really anything you can study for and I don't think the manual is any help there. Know about mass and friction but other than that you can give a good guess by really thinking about the problem. I guess that is why they call it critical thinking. I got a 91.2% overall and that is with only getting an 80% in science. Do good on the other stuff and the science does not have to be as good. Oh and there was only one anatomy problem on the test.

I found a good deqal on a plam tx on ebay the other day. It was brand new and came with a preloaded SD card full of medical software like the Davis drug guide and tabers Medical encyclopedia. There are over 40 programs. I ended up doing a best offer and got it for $325 so that is a heck of a deal considering the palm almost cost that much and then there is almost $1300 in software on the card. Just make sure you go with a trustworthy seller.

I told the guy at the American Red cross that I needed BLS for health care providers for my nursing program and he said I could take the CPR for health professionals with AED and that it was the same thing. It has to be the professional one though and not the regular. At the red cross you can take it part online and than attend a skill session for $65.

The assessment was helpful because it gives you an idea on the kinds of questions and the screen set up is the same. It was good practice for math, reading and English but the science questions really do not compare.

I wonder if they try to keep students they assign to one class together in the next or if you are with different people in every class. That wouldn't give people much chance to carpool to school. I know three other people from here that are hoping to get in and some of us was hoping to ride together (It is about a 35-40 min drive). It looks like almost all the classes start at the same time but I didn't know if different classes might go to different clinical sites which means we would need our own vehicle.

Thanks for the info! Now I know what to expect. So they have us out in the community right away then? What do we do at these places? It just seems like we wouldn't know much yet. I have not been trained as a CNA so I guess I won't be opting out of any lab time. I am a certified pharmacy technician so I don't know if that will come in handy later or not. I was hoping pharmacology would be offered online but it isn't on the schedule yet anyways. Do you know if we get to pick our class or do they just automatically place us in one?

Just go to the student services in campus connect and click on fall 2008. Then click on financial aid and then regestration I think it is and it will ask you if you want to look up classes. I picked nursing and then picked Richmond as the school. I left all the other boxes alone. What you see on the schedule is first semeter classes for first year nursing students and first semester classes for the second year nursing students. It looks like for the first month we will be taking like 7 credit hours and for the rest of the semester 9 credit hours. For some reason two of the classes only last a month and then we start different classes. Below is what the schedule looks like. They have all 90 students split up between different classes but they are all at the same time. They have lunch breaks worked into each schedule. Fundamentals of nursing 8/25-9/28 Monday: 8-11 and 12-2 and Tues: 8-11 and 12-2 Fundamentals of nursing lab 8/25-9/28 Wed: 8-11 and 12-3:30 or Thurs: 8-11 and 12:30-3:30 (This one is either day) Medical Surgical Nursing I 9/29-12/20 Wed: 8-11 Medical surgery Nursing lab 9/29-12/20 Thurs: 8-11 or 12-3:30 or (This one is either day and time) Friday: 8-11 or 12-3:30 Medical Surgical Nursing Clinical 9/29-12/20 Mon: 8-4:30 Tues: 8-12 Pharmacology 8/25-12/20 Tues or Thurs. 4-7

In the new regestration system on campus connect I was able to look at what the nursing schedule will look like for the first semester in Richmond. It is all day classes except the Pharmacology, which is in the evening. There are classes for all 90 people. For the First month we would be going like three days a week, and for the rest of the semester 4 days a week. At the nursing session they made it sound like there would be day and evening classes but the schedule does not show anything in the evening. Most of the classes start at 8:00 A.M. and are over by 3:00. Some of them only go to 11 or 12.

Which Ivy tech do you attend Mrs. Frog? If that is the case with Richmond then there is no reason to buy one.

I was also thinking about getting a PDA. I have read where they can be very beneficial to students and nurses. I am thinking about getting the PALM TX. My parents have one and I have played around with it some. I know the Tabers encyclopedia and Davis drug guide are supposed to be good but I am not sure what else. I know IVY Tech does not require them from what I have heard, but do they mind if students have them? A lot of information can be put into that little machine compared to all the books we would have to carry.

That stinks that we have to wait even longer. I have not talked to her so it is good to have that information. My aunt was told last week that Claudia was taking the whole month of May off by someone at the school. I don't see how she could do that or we will be waiting forever for our letters.

I was under the impression that the classes do count if they are being taken in the spring. I am taking the second antomy and psychology right now. Maybe it is different in Richmond but at the nursing session they said it counted. When they say it doesn't count if it is the semester before I figured they meant the summer semester. I hope they did not tell us all the wrong thing. I was told it would be conditional acceptance based on whatever grade I was receiving at the time of selection.