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what everyone always fails to mention is that most hospitals require that you graduate from an accredited school it's not about the money if your willing to pay then your willing to pay I will say though that having to pass an exit exam just to sit for the nclex sounds like a risky proposition especially after paying so much money

brodygirl never trying to discourage anyone. sooooooo glad you passed and now you know you can do it. NEVER doubt yourself. everyone has setbacks. the important thing is that you motivated yourself to pass. remember that moment the next time your doubting yourself, cause believe me once you start clinicals there will be instructors that will try to put doubt back into your head. Congrats again

brodygirl god your so right about the instructors smelling fear. honestly nursing school is nothing but feeling like instructors are looking for any little thing wrong cause they are. its unfortunate but you have to learn to live with it like wendyyvonne said, you will never feel comfortable. i always felt from the day i started to the day i finished i was 1 minute from failing. its not till transitions class that i finally felt comfortable that i was going to pass. Just starting out like you are in foundations you really need to find something or some place or someone that helps you relax. mine was always my friends in class. i loved being able to talk to my friends just about every day and being able to vent about the stress with them really helped. I wish there was something i could tell you that would really make things better for you, but honestly you cant doubt yourself, once you start doubting if you want to be a nurse you wont make it. everyone doubts at some point in time if they are going to fail, thats just nursing school. but everyone i know that said i dont know if nursing school is for me didnt make it. I hate to be that person who gives out the doom and gloom but i try to just be honest. Brodygirl just remember what it took to get where you are now. im sure through 11 prereq courses you had some down times and still you made it through and remember that you will be a great nurse 1 day.

kizeemimi dont worry there are probably a lot more cna's or pca's in your class that just arent saying anything. most instructors are cool, but yes there are some that like to just terrorize students. as long as you dont go around acting like you know every thing they will leave you alone. sorry it took me 10 days to get back to you but ive been very busy. the funny thing is that everyone said once you get a job more will come your way. since starting my new job ive already got an offer to work at a hospital downtown. just waiting for the hospital to contact me to come in and do my paperwork and get a physical. thanks for the best wishes

brodygirl LOL! I always look back and laugh about how naive i was, while I knew school would be hard I was not prepared for the politics of nursing school. you will learn so much over the next year. some of it you will wish you hadnt. especially in lab my best advice to all newbees is study your meds..........find some way to memorize them. Knowing your medications is 1/2 the battle on your tests. not so much in foundations cause you dont get to pass meds in foundations but its never to early to start. right now your life is getting more and more hectic, seems like there isnt even time to breathe, but if you have even a few extra minutes a day take time and study some meds from pharm. Your prof's will expect you to remember everything youve ever studied and it makes all fair game on upcoming tests. You cant say hey thats not fair that was a question from pharm. class of 2014 your time is now good luck

thanks sv99 passing the nclex!........I honestly think everyone who's taken that thing hasn't a clue how they passed it. Its nothing like what they prepare you for, yet if you study your silvestri you will probably pass. I think its something you have to take to really understand. the questions are nothing like whats in the book or what you have on the test. As for foundations...........well foundations isn't very hard, at least it wasnt 2 years ago, but it probably hasnt changed. you need to be prepared for the next 2 years to change your life. social events are going to be out of the question until next summer. you will probably be studying on most holidays. your attitude is going to change towards everyone around you. people are going to become more of a distraction to you. time is going to become a constant battle, there will always seem like something is due and your in danger of falling behind. so keys to passing foundations 1.) become selfish......for the next 2 years your time needs to be your time....this is the hardest thing for any woman who is married, I give all married women credit, bc being a man i know how much of a distraction on your time we and the kids are. 2.) dont freak out if you fail something, in foundations you have time to recover. 3.) if your able to start something early...do it. papers especially, most of the time you can get a head start on them. and honestly, everyone of us as made some stuff up that has gone into those papers. 4.) never put off studying.......every second of free time, should be used for studying. 5.) dont be THAT student......you all have probably seen the one guy or girl who is the know it all already.....its ok to stand out, but know that it puts a target on your back, because if you act like you know more than the instructors, they will put you in your place, and that maybe out of the program. 6.) study..........yes i said it twice.........study,thats the best advice i can give.....if your friends are going to the bar,your at home studying, if your family is driving you nuts, go to your local library or coffee shop and study. study study study. foundations is your first real class and its a test of time management especially once you start clinicals, this class is where you develop the time management and study skills you will need for the rest of your time in school. so why are you reading this blow hards posts....................STUDY:) schools in your already behind on some paper or project anyone who wants some one on one questions answered or advice for what its worth an pm me, Im always willing to give you my time now that I have some to give

so it ends. well I finally got a job. I still have several more interviews to go through to see if i can get the position i really want, but at least i now know i have a job. I will tell you this, and i know you guys have 2 years before you have to worry about it, but whatever you do, do not use the resume OCC has as an example of a good resume. do yourself a favour and get a resume writing and cover letter book. the 1st 2 months I used a resume with OCC's example and could not get a single call back. since i started using my new resume I get a call back from just about every job I apply too. also just to remind everyone in foundations....once you have completed foundations you are able to apply to take the CNA test. Easiest way to get into a hospital. Good luck to everyone starting foundations..............and welcome to hell :uhoh21:.......just kidding......maybe?

the school is still not accredited by the NLNAC or CCNE the only two accreditations that count. if i were you i would look on the hospital web sites under their job listings. everyone of them says graduate of an accredited school of nursing. Nursing homes and home health all require 2 yrs exp now in an acute care setting. So i would ask myself where am I going to get a job if my school is not accredited? Just because you pass the NCLEX doesnt mean you can get a job. I dont know where all these jobs are coming from but as a new graduate from an accredited school its taken me 4 months to get a job. the demand in this state is for nurses with 1 to 3 years of experience. have ITT show you the list of students who have graduated and have jobs from their program. they have job placement assistance so they shouldn't have a problem showing you the list I believe everyone who truly wants to become a nurse is a good person. good people shouldnt be talked out of large sums of money by a school who has the worst reputation in all of organized education.

every teacher should give you power points tips 1) find a study group 2) dont get in a group of people who are failing tests. you are all smart but not all of you are nursing school smart, if your the smartest person in your group that group is not benefiting you, your benefiting the group. so unless your the smartest person in your class, i would find another group. my group worked out great because we all could contribute. each of us learned something from the others. if you find your answering all the questions in your group thats a sign that your pulling the rest of your group along 3) dont get in a group of gossip hounds. time is precious and you cant afford to waste it talking about gossip. before you know it 1 or 2 hours has gone by and youve accomplished nothing. 4) get to know your teachers. you dont have to be the most outgoing person in the world, but you should really stay after class one day or schedule an appt with your teacher to go over a test, even if you got 1 wrong. heres why. if a teacher knows you it makes it a lot harder for them to fail you. yes everything is based on points, but if your teacher likes you its a lot easier to go into their office and try to argue to get a point or 2 back on the test. it happens all the time. if you have a valid point most teachers will give you the point back. some wont and you will know who they are. but most will at least hear you out. also makes it easier for clinicals if you get them in another semester. 5) tape all the lectures, this lets you go back and listen and catch things you may have missed. i cant tell you how many questions i would have gotten wrong if i hadnt taped the lecture because the teacher gave the answer in the lecture but not on the ppt 6) buy the nclex books (saunders and inced easy Q iand A) you will find so many questions from those books are on the tests, and you can almost pass every class just by studying those books. + it gets you use to taking nclex style questions. 7) dont waste time reading all the assigned pages. there is no way in hell you can read all those pages every week and still study, i can honesly say until med surg I i never even opened my text book. this may have changed becuase i had heard that the teachers were kind of upset with our class cause no one ever read the assigned pages, so they were thinking of adding questions to the test that would only be known if you read the book, so take that with a grain of salt. i still dont think you can read that many pages though. 8) dont panic, if you fail a test, you have time to come back, when you panic you lose focus and start thinking of all the bad things that can happen. just talk to the teacher and see what she suggests might help 9) good luck

i do know of one person who failed 3 times and was kicked during the last semester of class. the moral of this stroy is to never take anything for granted even the math tests. she thought that she just blew the 1st chance cause she had a bad day. the 2nd she said she had things going on and didnt study for it. the 3rd she just panicked. so now she wont grad till december. i think we can all imagine how getting to the last semester and failing would feel, make sure you study at least a couple hours for each test.

hey kizeemimi honestly there are struggles for everyone in different subjects. some have problems in OB, some in PEDS, some in psych and most in med surg. there does seem to be some who just dont have any trouble passing every class, but they are few and far between. i personally struggled through pharm but passed. most people have problems in the med surg classes. its a lot of different info in a very short amount of time. usually its the class that gets the med surg classes 1st. not sure why cause whether you get med surg 1st, or 2nd or 3rd its still the same info. some struggle with a certain instructors, different teaching styles throw some people off. with just 3 tests and a final its easy to fail if you screw up on just one test. there is also just getting a clinical instructor that doesnt like you. now i know most would say, well how can an instructor fail you just cause they dont like you. clinical instructors have the ultimate power. a clinical instructor can ride you and make it seem like your not doing well. everyone is going to make mistakes in clinical thats a given, with an instructor who doesnt like you those mistakes can be blown out of proportion. there are some instructors who are notorious for riding students and failing them. it sucks i know, but youll find out that there are some instructors who believe it is there job to determine if a student is worthy of being a nurse.

yes unfortunately MCC has a clinical contract with st Johns Macomb and OCC doesnt so they hire the students from the schools the have a relationship with. i did send in an app there last week, so we will see

check the ITT boards, see if you can find one graduate, let alone one that got a job. ITT always says they are going to be accredited and never are plus $55,000 for nursing school. OMG, my nursing degree cost $3,000

def want to use it. i think its valid for 2 years whether its used or not it wouldnt be easy, but you can do it now or you can wait till after foundations. once you pass foundations you dont have to take the course, you can pay for the exam and just take the exam. pretty easy. as of right now there are no hospitals that i have found that are hiring grad students. hopefully that will change in the near future, but not now. everyone wants 1 year exp. the hospitals hire there own so when you have a job at the hospital and you grad its a whole lot easier

use to be a huge book called foundations in nursing by taylor, damn thing weighed 25lbs, i swear 25lbs. you should be glad you dont have that anymore. my back still isnt the same sorry havent checked in, in a long time, what with my final class and studying for the nclex i just havent had time. looks like you guys have some really great help form quarterlife anyway. hope everyone passed pharm, but heard of a couple who didnt through friends i still talk to in the program. its always hard to see people fail. the one thing about nursing school is gossip sure does spread fast. some final stats for those who are interested: we finished with around 139 students out of 216 that started. some of those were LPN's doing transitions so the number of us that graduated on time was around 110 to 115. so just a little over 50%. scary isnt it. well i hope you all have a great summer. i will post how long it takes me to find a job and what type of facility its in. hopefully by the time you guys graduate the nursing shortage will actually be a shortage, sure isnt right now. plenty of jobs for those with exp, none if you dont. i would do the cna program this summer and get a job at a hosp over the fall if you can its the easiest way to get into a hosp after graduation