mono2010

Craiglist in the city is cyclical. The most apartments are available in the spring/early summer. I would recommend checking with an apartment hunter. They usually see updates the same day. I just moved to West Town/Uk village. It has alot of restaurants, reasonable rent, great trans and only 5 mins to St. Marys (this came in handy last term, i rolled out of bed and made it to clinic super quick).

I do. Its hard but you just do it and try not to think about it. I'm in the E/W cohort. So far we typically have class 3 nights a week from 5-8 or 9, clinical 10hr on saturday (last term it was sunday). PM if you have questions and I'll give you my resu email

Hi there. I am a Senior. The number of days changes every 8 weeks and depends on whether or not your clinical site has enough space for a full shift or they need to break it into 2- 4hr days. Some students prefer the 1 day (get it out of the way) and others like the shorter shift. I prefer to do the 1 day.

I'm in an accel. bsn program (eve/wknd) and working full time. Its brutal but it can be done. If there's a way to work less hours I would recommend it. Its hard to balance the amazing amount of reading, care plans, papers and clinical. I have started taking off the day of or day before exams to have time to study (i never take vacation so i have plenty accrued to use). It has helped me maintain a little bit of sanity. The real key is being super organized and using every possible minute to review/study (bus ride to work, doing laundry at the laundrymat). Best of luck to you!

I am starting my second year/final year of my BSN. I don't know that there's necessarily a book that will help you prepare. I would recommend getting a good hard copy or electronic planner to keep you assignments, etc organized. Also brush up on your math for Pharm. There's lots of conversions to remember grams, microgram, milligrams, oz, millileters, liters, etc. Practice converting between them. The most important thing is to spend as much time as you can with friends and family having fun. You wont have time once school starts. Remeber it will be rough but you can do it. E

I am in my second semester of an Acc. BSN at a Private school. It is more expensive ($50k) but it was the only option for a Evening and Weekend program . It is a BEAST! Lots of reading (100+ pgs a week), very fast pace (classes are only 8wks), very little time for life outside of work and school. An accelerated program is a commitment of time, money, resources and you have to be willing to make those sacrifices while you are in school. It tough but doable if you are focused and stay on track. Best of luck to you!

I agree with with what the others have said as well. The first semester was the hardest. I felt like I could never keep on top of all the reading and so forth but have to remember that you can do it! Try as hard as you can to read all of the text they give you for the week and take notes. Find a group of students who has a similar study style and schedule to you and form a study group. This saved my life in Path and Pharm! To be honest now that I look back that first semester flew by and I'm ready to start back next week with Clinic. Best of Luck

You don't have to wait. You can log into the portal and click on academics. There's a link that says online registration or something like that. It will allow you to see the available classes/sections and register. I just did it on my own. I signed up for classes Monday (6pm start), Wed & Thur nite 5pm start. My employer is pretty flexible so I will start an hour earlier than usual so i can leave, go home to change and get to class on time. PM-me if you have other questions. Hope this helps!

I would recommend looking into an Accelerated BSN program which is what I'm doing. I already have a BS and the better part of a MS. The program is only 20 months and it will be all nursing instead of the gen eds that you usually have to face with a standard BSN program. Accl BSN programs are geared toward career changes so its less time but that being said...they are expensive.

alycat30- I am starting in the fall for the ev/wknd program. They are a bit slow with information. You have to keep following up with them KKat- I think 6/16 but they havent sent my confirmation. that was my first choice date.

Go for it! If this is your passion, finish your RN and go for the MSN. It's never too late

Mine is a 5 semester Accl BSN

Ours are terrible. White pants, shoes, socks, underwear (cant show thru see thru white pants) and a maroon polo

I did that last term and it was alot of work. It can be done but you have to be focused. Its also alot of information to take in at once. As the the others mentioned parts of the classes do overlap. Good luck

Congrats KKat! I just got my call last week. I'm scrambling to get all of the forms completed. I'm excited to get started. Did you go to orientation yet?

CCOC is so ridiculous! I will be so happy when i finish my prereqs and can go elsewhere for my BSN. I hope that the increased class size doesn't have a negative effect on the cohort but its hard to see how it couldn't

Does anyone have the skinny why they dropped the Spring start date for the evening and weekend program and bumped all of the accepted people to the fall of 2011?

There's also Resurrection in Oak Park (Resurrection University)

How many students left the program during this last year? Were they first or second year students?

congrats!

congrats!

Have you tried Indian Health Service (Usajobs.gov) ?

I'm going to CCC-Olive Harvey and applying to West Sub/Resurrection for next fall. A lot of my current classmates in Chem 201 were hoping to go to OH but since it closed are trying to decide between Truman/Daley. glad its going well!

I'm about to enter my third term of pre reqs. So ready for it to be over. By the time I enter my BSN program I will have been in school a year. It's worth it though, I finished my BS a long time ago and its helping me get back into the swing of studying, etc. As one of the other posters said, I work full time and its hard...but I figure its practice for the program since I will work FT during it as well.

I'm in the same position and in my region..most of the hospitals want BSN prepared nurses. In doing my research about programs close to me, the ADNs took 2 years and the accelerated programs took 21months. Even though it costs more in the short term, it will prevent me having to do another 2 years after earning an ADN to get my bachelors.