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___________________________________ hey pinklady, i was going to text you this but i spoke with someone from our block but morning, and she said that if you take your nclex and pass, you can go back to campus and take the hesi exit pn again right after. she also said they may be opening another advanced placement in march, maybe others on this board, know more about this. so if that's true and you get to retake it, maybe you can bridge over for the new march one, you know if that's true.

i am going into block 3 (got bridged over, yay!). i have orientation thursday for the rn program. c

i bought the book box, yes it’s expensive but it literally had everything you could possibly need to succeed in the lpn program, cd's were in the back of all the books. these are the books that came in my book box (the ones in bold are the ones i mainly used-the others were for clinicals and brushing up on skills, etc). not sure if these will be the same books for the fall 2011 block 1 class. textbooks: christensen & kockrow: foundations and adult health nursing, 6th edition clayton & stock: basic pharmacology for nurses, 15th edition elsevier, hesi evolve apply: complete pn online case studies pagana: mosby’s manual of diagnostic and laboratory tests, 4th edition potter & perry: mosby’s nursing skills cd – student version 3.0 silvestri: saunders comprehensive review for nclex-pn, 4th edition skidmore-roth: mosbys 2010 nursing drug reference also, i noticed that a lot of important questions were discussed on some of the nclex question from evolve online, so definitely get familiar with this site. it has many practice nclex questions and other helpful tips, etc. https://evolve.elsevier.com/cs/satellite/studenthome?audience=student

my advice for anyone starting block 1, is to do the nclex cd questions that come in the nclex pn book. once i started doing that, everything just started clicking. it gives you rationales and test taking strategies to help you determine the answer when you may not completely know it. it's gold! also, buy a recorder; you can listen to this while in the car or at work etc. it helps to listen to your lecture again on off days just in case you might have forgot to write something down or the instructor might have mentioned to not waste your time on a certain subject and you missed that and wasted precious study time. the hardest thing to grasp is test taking so do as many nclex cd questions as you can, i also would do nxclex questions from the books (pharm and lecture book), as many as i possibly could. in the beginning i would read so much and couldn't retain anything because it was so much information, once i just started focusing on each subject and doing the nclex cd questions, i started really getting it. this helped way more than constantly reading! everyone is different but constantly reading did not work for me, the nclex questions gave me what were the most important things i should know for each procedure/subject. hope this helps you!

I start block 2 this fall.

Good luck Miteacher, I hope they call you since those other people didn’t even bother to show up when there are people like you who obviously really want to get into this program. It’s unfortunate.

congratulations, i am in the day cohort as well. while i was at the orientation --- said there were supposed to be 90 people there and if you looked around there was definitely not 90 people there. i emailed --- to see if maybe i can switch to the evening if possible since my employer hasn’t said anything to me about my reduced hours but haven’t heard from her since i am sure that she is super busy grabbing people from that wait list. if you have any questions let me know since i will be right there in the day time with you unless she responds to me about the evening.

Thanks everyone for answering my questions, I really appreciate it. I am really anxious and nervous to start the program but am excited at the same time. Everyone here is so helpful.

Hey Lucky 14, I just received my letter in the mail stating I too was accepted to the day program for spring 2011. Are you going to the mandatory orientation on January 5th?

i just received my letter in the mail stating i was accepted to the day cohort for spring 2011. i actually didn't have to wait at all. i applied in october and was notified in november that i didn't get in but i checked my po box yesterday and there sat a letter from gateway stating i got in for the day program, which was my second choice. anyone else out there starting the day program at gcc? i have some questions about the schedule. it looks like tues, is 12-430pm and thursday and friday are from 8-4pm. then i see clinicals starting in february on wed, thur, and friday but no times. i’m just concerned about the times since i need to work to make a living somehow in between this program.

hi jason, i too applied to the traditional pathway for fall 2010 and like you right before the april 1st deadline. i also sent in my prereq sheet to see if maybe i had a chance to get into the accelerated program as well since it didn't give me an option to select both so in the application i put down traditional. don't know how that is going to work...lol. i hope it doesn’t slow down my application somehow. well unfortunately i haven’t heard anything yet either the last email i received from them was april 7th. it’s always in the back of my mind and i am constantly checking the mail. hopefully, we’ll hear something soon. i’ve read other threads too and i can’t find anyone else who is in our situation.