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oh yeah, since it was a summer semester, i had mental health and adult health together, so for half the semester i had class 1 day a week from 8am-4:30pm, then clinicals 3 days a week, and sim labs every so many weeks on a friday. once mental health clinicals were done, i had a tuesday free from school, then i failed and had to withdraw. the class i would have been in has 12 hr clinical days for some of their clinicals, and i hear once you get into your 4th semester, you have whatever schedule the nurse you are following has, including weekends if she works weekends. i dont know how true that part is. I dont know if you have children, but i do and to work out daycare (800$ a month for me btw) school, clinicals, and the times im required to be at school which can change. even though they say to be at clinicals for 7:00 am, thats really like 6:30, and it depends what hospital you choose, and daycare generally dont open until 6:30, so i had to pay an extra few hundren dollars a month to put my kids in a daycare that opened at 6:00am. i know when we become nurses we will have to make these same arrangements, but im just trying to show you exactly what school is like. Atleast when your done with school, things are a little more flexible adn dependsing on the place you work, you wont have to rearrange your childcare and life as much. not for the type of nursing i wanted to do anyways. There is so many oportunities out there. chances are you will work weekends, some holidays, some extra shifts here and there, but when you are being paid, a few extra hundred dollors isnt so bad for daycare. i had no financial assistance for school wither until last semester (thank god) and only 1 income. i couldnt get a job because my schedule changed so often every semester. It was said to us before we even started our classes " if you have a job you will not make it through this program" there are a few who did work, and they really struggled through, so just prepare yourself. im not trying to scare you, just trying to give you what ive seen, heard, and experienced. i am definitely willing to have my life be upside down for 18 months, and i did for 7 months, but then to have the door slammed in your face after youve worked so hard, its pretty depressing. ive been going to school since 2002, sometimes part time, sometimes full time, and had 2 babies in between, a deployment, and a move across the country, and i never let it be my excuse for not going to school, so to hear someone say "maybe i cant handle this school at this time in my life" is complete BS. i can handle it, the school just sucked in my opinion lol. eventually i will be done though :)

i was in my second semester. REALLY consider your options. if you fail out of intro, you can not get back into pjc for 3 years. if you fail any other semester, you wait 6 months, which, most likely, you will fail out of one of your semesters. the class starts with about 140 students. after our first semester, about 40 fialed, and about that same number after the second semester as well. do your research very carefully. also, if you take classes at pjc ten transfer to JD lets say, the classes in the RN program can not transfer. its such a mess for me right now. i seriously seriously wish someone had told me all the things i am learning for myself. I have had several people email me with similar horror stories i have had and seen others go through. Also, if you do decide to go to PJC, i strongly recommend you take pharmacology before getting into the program. Theres a lot of drugs on the tests, or things you need to know about drugs to answer a question, so you have basically pharmacology, nursing, and clinicals, plus sim labs all rolled into 1... if you fail the class you fail clinicals and vice verca. email me if you have any other questions. i dont get on here all that often. [email protected]

Laylani, omg, i wish there were more people liek you, i have had the SAME problemwith them and had been just devastated. i felt liek a nut because i had always been in the nursing department office, trying to defend us students, and well, i could go on and on really... please email me, i would really like to try to do something about this college as well, i have been searching for something..or someone to take a closer look at these teachers...something is SO not right.

you will self study, and probably still not do so great on the test. intro wasnt a problem, its the classes after that. the summer courses are smooshed together, making it almost impossible to do anything outside of school other than school work. i was actually told to get tested to see if i had a dissability because i wasnt getting good grades on the test, well, neither was atleast half the class... the last class average was a 62. i guess we all have a dissability just search your options. i may be transferring to jeff davis, i have heard good thigns about that college from others who have transferred.

pjc is a horrible school for RN. believe what you hear, things are pretty bad there...you will teach yourself. graduation rate is really low compared to the amount of students who start.

its really tough, prepare to basically self study. intro really isnt bad, but yes, the summer semester, and 2nd semester are pretty bad, this last test we took, the class average was a 62 i was told. JD offers associates in nursing. i would consider weighing your options wth both schools. ive had great experience clinical wise though, its just the lecture part of it all that is pretty bad. it doesnt matter how mjuch you study, its how well you can TEST. the testing style is very different the second, 3rd semester etc... in intro, its all pretty much knowledge base. the 2nd semester is application, and so even if you read one thing in the book, you could have that exact question on the test, but still get the answer wrong even if the situation is similar. also, weve had problems getting books in on time for several semesters. and with the military, if you dont pass a class, and you withdraw, you have to pay for that out of pocket. i know this because my friend who just dropped is in that boat right now. just be careful if you do go to pjc, i wish i knew what i know now about the school and the people who work there. ms young is a great instructer for intro, and dr thomas in the nursing department office is also great to talk to.

2nd semester. a lot of it is basically self study. theres a few other things i dont agree about the school.

im going to pjc and whateve ryou hear about the school is probably right. i haev a friend who will eb going to JD and she seems happy. i WISH i never started at pjc.

im in my 2nd semester there and i wish i never started to be honest. the lectures have been pretty rough, its basically a self study, about half my class is failing. i think the teachers who are the coordinators are probably your best bet though...their tests seem to be a bit more fair from what i hear. im so discouraged right now.