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thank you! you have all made me feel much better now. i agree, part of the reason i haven't tried extremely hard to find a pct position is because of how it works with the school schedule. there are a few techs who will work overnights until 7:30 am and then come to school for a full day on monday at 8am. I would never be able to pay attention in class that way! i also agree about the intimidating each other. I actually had one girl who was is a pct at a hospital that I should have done what she had done. She told me that she is basically already a nurse because she does EVERY THING they do besides pass meds and start IVs and that I am going to have such a hard time because I have no experience at all. That was what was getting me bummed. I was simply asking her how she likes that particular hospital and she basically just brings up me having no experience. I was like well gee thanks! I figure if you're trying really hard to get a job and never give up, you can't go jobless forever!

Hello, I am in my fourth semester of a five semester BSN program. I went straight from pre reqs to nursing school as I was lucky to not be wait listed. I never had an extra semester to get my CNA license. Most hospitals around here will hire nursing students as PCTs after completing Fundamentals, which I did. However, I stayed at my job as a banquet server because it works so extremely well with my schedule and because its a great job. All I have been hearing lately is how stupid I am for not getting a PCT job and how I won't get a job because the hospitals will hire all the students who are already PCTs. Has anyone been in the same boat as me? What were your experiences? Was it difficult finding a job? I have been more stressed about the prospect of being jobless after graduation than nursing school itself. It really is driving me crazy.

As a current student I would have to say that the part of "no advisors or help" is completely false. There is a "peer leader" for every single course in the entire program. They meet once a week and the students who lead the sessions were students who did well in the course the term before. This is just one example of study/tutor help. There are numerous other resources.

Hi, I emailed you because it will not let me private message on here!

I have been told that they will not give the ISBN numbers or titles of textbooks until two weeks prior to our start date. I was wanting to find them cheaper too :/

I know! Only 69 days away! Are you going to the Dec 14 orientation? I've been trying to find more information on what it will actually be like, but haven't found out too much information :/

I am starting for the January 2013 start date. I am so anxious/excited/scared!

Hi. I have been accepted to start at Goldfarb in January 2013. I do know a little bit about the waitlist though. If you meet the criteria for Goldfarb and are wait listed for the term you apply, you will be guaranteed a spot in the following semester. This part is definitely an advantage to the community college RN programs. I was looking into SWIC's nursing program before I looked into Goldfarb as well and the wait is similar to STLCC. It was just too long for me so I decided on Goldfarb. I personally think that it is a good school. It has high NCLEX pass rates and also has one of the top simulation labs in the nation. Also the campus is amazing!! It looks so nice everywhere and everything just looks so high tech. Many people think that it is too expensive to go there. It is around $50,000 for a 20 month program. However you get a BSN instead of just ASN. So, if you are considering going back to get a BSN anyway, this is a good choice. I was hesitant to pay that much at first too, but then I thought about it and decided that I would be completely done with school sooner and that having a better paying job in nursing (I only make min. wage now), would even out the cost (In my mind, anyway.). I also know a girl who graduated from there yesterday!! She had a job interview for the floor she wanted back in March. She got the job and will start in the first week of June. She is starting out at an awesome rate for a new graduate. She has said that it hasn't been very hard for people to find jobs in her class. So that is a little bit of good news as well. I hope that this has helped you!

I applied around October 7th of 2011 and I got an acceptance letter on October 27th 2011. I was going to wait until the end of the semester because on the website it says to apply a year in advance. Then one day at school, there was a representative from Barnes at my school and she said to apply as soon as possible. If you have nine credit hours that count towards the pre-reqs with atleast a 3.0 GPA then you can apply at anytime. It took only about three weeks for my application to be processed. I think this was because I called the representative whom I had seen at my school ( she is also an admissions advisor for Barnes) and she checked everything out and hurried up the process. I think you would be a wonderful canidate. My overall GPA was only a 3.2 so I do not think you should have a problem at all. I am new to this website but I will try to figure out how to send you a private message with the admissions advisor I contacted. Also, I found out through a friend that the days vary by semester. Right now she is in her 4th semester and goes M,T,W,TH. I do not know the hours she goes though. She said that last semester she went Monday through Friday. That is all I have found out so far!

I was wondering if anyone had any information or input about Barnes-Jewish School of Nursing. I am scheduled to begin there for the Spring 2013 semester (Upper Division). I know it is a five-term, full-time program, but other than that there is not much information about typical days there. Do you go every day? 8-3? Can you make your own class schedule? Are there any breaks between classes? I have just been curious about the small little details