Nurse2bNichol

Hi! My name is Nichol and I am entering my last two semesters of nursing pre-reqs at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. I will be apply to nursing programs next summer to begin in late summer/fall of 09. I wanted to know for those of ...

I most certainly helps you get into nursing school to have any kind of healthcare experience, especially working as a CNA. I don't think I would call it "easy" to get a CNA job in Colorado, but it depends on what kind of nurse assisting you want to d...

Lutheran has a great New Grad program in July, November and usually in March or April. It is somewhat competitive but not totally impossible and much more likely than getting in at University.

I took my course at Red Rocks Community College, and I have also heard that Ann Rose has great pass rates. I took my test at PearsonVue in Aurora.

I really think it depends on the program you are in, I did have some previous health care experience but I got a CNA job before I had even graduated from my NA program at a major hospital. Although they told me in the interview it was because the hos...

University hospital has a great burn unit, I know a nurse working there now and although it's very difficult work she says it has changed her life forever. I would check there first.

I see Denver School of Nursing on the website, but I still do not see Platt college.

I was on Exempla's site this weekend looking at jobs and they now say that they require nurses to have graduated from accredited program as well, so that eliminates several more hospitals in addition to Children's and University if you are going to a...

I went to Red Rocks for my CNA and it was phenomenal. We got to do clinicals at a great hospital and LTC facility and the professors got to know all of us very personally. In addition, they allowed us to complete clinicals at night and on the weekend...

CSU Pueblo is a program I hadn't considered before, and may do so now if I don't get in this admissions round to other schools. I am curious though, what did you all take to fulfill their nursing pathophysiology prerequisite requirement?

The Anschutz campus is beautiful, but the 4mile radius around the college is not a good neighborhood. I just left my job there in October to be an LPN in Boulder. For the few years I worked there, it was not uncommon to hear about students getting mu...

I'm not totally sold on DSN, but my old college roommate graduated from CU Colorado Springs Beth-El nursing school, she now works at Saint Joseph's and said that she works with many DSN nurses. Therefore I don't know how much truth there is in "many ...

A rubric or a syllabus is a document teachers give you to tell you what their expectations are of you for an assignment/test/quiz. It basically details all the requirements and such for whatever task you are completing.

I called today and got some verification on the process. Even though they don't start signing students up until after 9 a.m. you are allowed to call before then. If hundreds of people are calling, it would make sense to start calling at about 7 a.m. ...

You need the BLS for Health Care Providers, make sure it includes, adult, child, and infant as well as AED training. The American Heart Association's program is the best because most rotational sites require the AHA's cert, so it's easier just to go ...

I just spoke with Connie, the S-Z advisor at the College of Nursing at CU Denver and she said they do take the CCC online courses. I am so glad we have this clear now! And I really wish I would have taken some of my pre-reqs online now instead of kil...

Additionally, I was only referring to the classes with labs. It was my understanding that CU Denver does not accept Biology, Chemistry or A & P I or II online.

I was never talking about UNC, Regis, U of WY or U of SD, I was only referring to CU Denver at Anchutz as not accepting online classes.

I have applied to the program, I also applied to Regis, Metro, DSN, UNC, University of South Dakota and University of Wyoming. In all of my advising meetings...they've always said online classes weren't accepted so I really want to know what they say...

As an advisor you have to look at every single one of the 1,000+ transcripts you receive every year, that's on top of the transcripts that you read from people who don't apply and just want you to look over their grades. You get to intricately know w...

Your transcripts clearly show if the class is online, it is coded as OL, as an advisor I had to do all of the transcript evaluations for pre-pharmacy students and I could always tell if it was an online class.

I am attending CU right now, and every online science class that they have which requires a lab is a hybrid course, meaning that the lecture is online, lab is on campus. Colorado Community Colleges have the lab kit, but CU does not currently work wit...

SandDollar, which info session? I am referring to CU, Metro, and Regis...DSN, Platte and some of the community colleges may be different.

I would be careful about taking online Biology courses, many of the Nursing programs will not accept online science classes unless they were a hybrid course meaning you did the lecture online but the lab on campus. I used to be an adviser for the CU ...

I am completing my pre-nursing pre-reqs at UCHSC, I only have three semesters left and have a previous BS and BA, I'm hoping to go to UCHSC's program in Spring of '10. My previous degrees are from CU Boulder and I am hoping my performance in UCHSC's ...