july06

Just to let you guys know, as the former employee of a CTCC, they do not have to let you know before registration starts. This is because if you get accepted and confirm your acceptance, your seat is guaranteed. No one can just swoop in out of no where and take your spot.

I thought I didn't receive it, but they had sent it to my school email. I had it set up so that it would forward things to my regular email, but it didn't do it with this one. So I'm getting everything a month late. I just sent an email asking if I had to bring everything in again. Hopefully they'll respond soon. And yes, I am attending Norwalk this year.

Ok nevermind. They sent it to my school email.

Norwalk never sent me ANY email. I had to have a friend forward me hers. But I wonder if that was because I did all that last year because I was in the program but didn't pass. So I emailed them last week but they never responded.

Ask the Admissions Office

I got in!

I'm so worried now because my nursing GPA is slightly lower than it was last year.

I had lecture on Mondays and Tuesdays from 8:30 to 10:30. Then I would have lab from 7:30 to 1:30on Thursdays and Fridays. In lab we learned different things about nursing and had validations (lab tests). We're validated on PPE, Vital signs, and Physical assessments at first. Then we went to a nursing home for 3 weeks where we basically did CNA work. I would have clinical from 6:45 to 1:00. Then we went back to lab. This time we were validated on giving an injection, spiking and priming an IV, and wound dressings. I have clinical on Thursdays and Fridays. I was at the Nathaniel Witherral Nursing Home in Greenwich and then Norwalk Hospital. The night before clinical, my instructor would email us our patient assignment, their room number, their medical diagnosis, their medical history, their medications, and their medical record number. Then the next day at the hospital, we would get report on the phone about our patient. We would get their vitals and then record them on the charting system. Then we would do our physical assessments and chart whatever we found. The patients would have breakfast and get washed up if they wanted to. Or if they're a total care, you would have to do a bed bath. If my instructor assigned us to do a med pass, then we would also be giving our patient their medication as long as it wasn't an IV push. Then around 10:30, my instructor would call us individually to check our charting. Then we would do noon vitals and after have post conference where we talked about our patients and what we did.

It was really good. At least I know how much I need to study. I had underestimated it. And now I won't make the same clinical mistakes again.

No, I can't just take it again. If you don't get a 74 in your first semester then you have to reapply. I'm at NCC.

So I was in nursing school and FAILED! I'm so mad at myself right now. So I'm reapplying. Hopefully I get in. I didn't think I was going to get in the first time...

Lol I'm lucky for now. But when I go for my bachelors, I'm probably going to have to take it.

I didn't have to retake chemistry. My school takes high school chemistry as long as you got a C and if you took it within 5 years.

There is a woman in my program who is 61.

My school uses it too. I haven't started school yet, but now I'm worried I'll have problems with it.