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.

I have the same book.

I'm 20 and I start September 5. I will finish May 2015 with my ADN at the age of 21, 2 months before my 22nd birthday.

Yea a lot of people do smoke weed. It makes them feel calm. My friend said that when she's high, all she wants is peace and love.

I feel the same way. I just turned 20 in July and I'm starting my nursing program in September. My best friend from high school and I have grown apart. She'd rather smoke weed and party while I study and go to church. I'm not one to party anyway. I'd much rather stay home and read a book or watch a movie. I would hang out with my friends, but I don't have any close by. And none of us have licenses or cars so it takes a lot for us to meet up. I have nursing school friends, but all we talk about is nursing school and studying. My brother is a social butterfly too. Everytime we travel with my church, I watch him meet up with all his friends from different states. I always end up staying with my mom, which makes me look weird. I want more friends but I don't really have anything in common with people my age.

I don't know if this will make you feel better or not, but Norwalk has already pulled 16 people from their waiting list.

I haven't gotten my clinical assignment yet, but I'm hoping it's in town because I don't have my license (I just passed my knowledge test friday). And even when I get my license, I won't have a car. So I'm relying on the bus and rides from my parents. If I get the morning clinical, then I'll have to get a ride there and then take the bus back. If I get the evening clinical, then I'll have to take the bus there and get a ride back. Thank goodness the only hospitals they put us in are pretty close.

I work at my school as a work study. It's really nice being able to go to class, take a 30 min break, then walk on over to work. I only work 10 hours a week. I'm not married and I don't have kids so my grades haven't suffered.

Classes at my school start Sept 4th too. But Nursing 101 is only offered Mondays and Tuesdays. So my first day is that Monday.

I start September 9. Why does everyone else get to go so early?

I have orientation on August 19 and 21. Then my first day of class is September 9. I start late