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Esme, thank you soooooo so much for the input. It's truly invaluable. very good point about LPNs. I'm not certain our budget is unlimited. I will ask my prof. This project is one of those all semester long things. It'll be due sometime in mid-to late-April. I have encouraged my team mates to register on allnurses and come have a look at this thread. Thanks again.

Moonchild, yes, we have freedom to do non-profit or stand alone ER or whatever. It's a little overwhelming not having written guidelines to at least have some sort of framework to start with! I like your non-profit idea and also the LVNs and PCTs.

Hahahahaah! Those are somel things I hadn't even thought about, november and science!! Esme, to be honest we also have to create our own budget. Our professor hasn't given us anywhere to start from so we feel a little lost. We have to decide what kind of unit to build and go from there I guess. We do have to set our own staffing guidelines. We are basically starting from nothing.

Hi there. I am in my last semester!! (cue hallelujah chorus) For my Leadership class our professor has asked us to design our very own patient care unit. We have to come up with a budget and staffing and decide what type of unit, i.e. ER, ICU, Med Surg floor....etc. Thankfully it's a group project and we've begun to try and start gathering information from the TX Nurse Practice Act & just searching journals for info on budget (crossing my fingers). I just thought I'd come here and see if anyone had any bright ideas as well. Thanks!

Just wanted to update you guys...I GOT IN!!!! Class of 2014!! Our first orientation is set for this Thursday. Classes start August 27th. We still don't know what our schedules will be...maybe they will let us register at our second orientation? Which is August 8th..... CareAngel? Hopeful_2013? any insights? I know the emails haven't been going out to anyone on this thread. Just thought I'd try and revive it. :)

I know how you feel. I hate not knowing what to plan for. I hadn't heard that about orientation. So there's something new for me. Haha. I am watching my mail like a hawk now too. Now that it's June. Watch, they won't send them till June 30th!

I haven't yet. Someone told me they were told hcc is mailing them "sometime in June". Did you get yours?

Hello! I am currently taking my last semester of pre-reqs at HCC. Nursing school starts August 2012. Times are tough (as in, hubs' paycheck just went down and our mortgage just went up) and I need to get a part time job. Having 4 kids and a hubby and house to take care of makes me think I need a night shift for a couple nights a week. I prefer something that is in a hospital or nursing home or just anything that has anything to do with healthcare so I can gain some experience. My problem is that I have been a stay at home mommy for 10 years and have now been taking my pre-reqs for a year to get into the program. I don't really know how to go about getting a job like that. Two or maybe three nights a week would be enough to help us get by. Can any of you offer any advice on how I should go about looking for a job? I am willing to do the grunt work! :) Thanks!

I am in Pharm on Thursday mornings at HCC. Got a B on our first lecture exam. I am looking forward to our math exam this Thursday because to me, the math is easy. Hope to see y'all in Fall 2012!!!

Just to update: I took the TEAS V on November 18th and got an 83 overall! I only had the ATI book I got off Amazon, studied for about two weeks solid, focused mainly on math because it's been 15 years since I was in school. I wish I had studied more on the science...I only did bad on the chemistry/physics part. I did great on everything else..only miss ONE math question! I am so excited and Ihope HCC likes my scores when I apply in January. :) Good luck!

Another question: I am going to take my TEAS friday morning...yikes! and I plan on going to Coleman to apply for the ADN program for August of 2012, so I am hoping I can get that letter for approval to take Pharm in the Spring of 2012....does anyone know if that's possible? How long after you took your TEAS or HESI did they send you a letter? I'd like to hurry up and register for it. If I have to wait and take it in the fall, that's fine, then I'd just apply for the spring 2013 ADN program.

naushk, I am not 100% certain on the answer to your question. All I know is when I attended the ER meeting recently, the counselor there told me that just having taken College Algebra shows that I am eligible to be in a college level math course and that's what they're looking for. However, I am still almost expecting to have to take at least 0312 and am planning my schedule around it if I have to. I just don't know for sure. Sorry!

I don't really know for sure, but it was my impression that you do the fingerprinting and background check when you get accepted into the ADN program. Invitation to take Pharm is just one step before that one. Because acceptance into the ADN program is contingent on you passing Pharm and getting an A on the math portion of the Pharm test. I may be wrong though. Hopefully someone who knows for sure will respond! I am taking my TEAS Friday! How did you do on yours? When did you take it??

What are the titles of the McGraw-Hill and Kaplan books? I searched on amazon for McGraw-Hill and it brought up a Nursing School Entrance Exam book, JUst wanna make sure I get the right items! My test is next friday and I already have tthe ATI book. I am terrified!

Does anyone know how quickly (or slowly!) we get our TEAS results? Is this something we are given as we are leaving the testing site, or does it take more time for the grade to be calculated?