hokiemama78

i took hurst and failed the nclex the first time. i found the review to be really helpful, but it is just a refresher on information that you should have learned in school (whether your school teachers taught it or not). i don't think the covered application very well and that's what the nclex is about. i did by the review book after failing the exam, and it is similar to the class, but there is so much more content learned in the class than the review book.

i'm in a similar boat. i did reasonably well in school, took hurst and took the exam two months later. i failed after only 100 questions which makes me feel really incompetent. here's the deal, though: i refuse to be depressed anymore. it's been a week and i'm committed to studying smarter. i had a friend who failed the exam 2 times before passing. i got her advice on what she did to pass, which was study questions not content. i also put it on facebook. shockingly, a lot of my friends who have been nurses for a while let me know they failed the first time. lastly, i think the nclex is a flawed exam. we study text, we go to clinicals and preceptorship and learn how things are done in medical setting, then we're told we have to take a test where what you actually do is wrong and they want to know what happens in the IDEAL setting. oh well, enough with my rant. good luck on retaking the exam! you'll do it!

the cheapest one. i got the $150 one that pays for the A and K lot, as well as the lots in PW campus.

i am about to graduate from the program and i believe it was just a little over $15000 (maybe $16000) which isn't that bad, in my opinion. also, it only qualifies as one year in terms of FAFSA, but I don't know how the USAF does it. FYI-We do have a woman in the military (it might be the air force) in our program and she very unsatisified with the program. She hates the disorder and the inconsistencies with the program. I'm a very "go-with-the-flow" type person, so i'm satisified with it.

in preparation to get into the accelerated program, i talked to a counselor last summer for acceptance this fall. you're probably in better shape than i was because my 1st degree was not in nursing. i would advise talking to someone soon to make sure you have all the prereqs. they even have the NVCC equivalents of the prereqs. Good luck!

if you talked to the admissions secretary, apparently she's been giving a lot of incorrect, unsolicited information. She's not the best source of information.

i just checked the website to see if something changed from the last time i researched it (last summer) and it really does start in the summer and the first semester is 15 hours and the second is 14 hours! you can take 2 of those classes (4 credits) prior to acceptance into the nursing program, but i do agree that's a lot of credits in such a short time.

from what i understand, you take your normal first and second semester classes during the summer and start the fall semester as a second year student. i'm not enrolled in the program, but i did research it when i was looking at different programs.

i believe that the schedule is given at orientation.

i got my acceptance letter on saturday, so keep you eyes out!