NOVA EMT

To Summer03, I would like your opinion regarding whether to take the on-line courses. I am spending alot of time sitting in class for courses which I could be taking on-line instead. Every three hours sitting in class represents an investment of five...

To all, I came up with those statistics by looking at the lists of the names of the nursing program students posted on the bulletin board at the Medical Education Campus. However, it is not clear from those lists which students are traditional nursin...

To all, For your information, there are 142 first-year students in my 2013-2015 class at the NVCC traditional nursing program, of which 17 (12%) are men. There are 190 second-year students in the 2012-2014 class, of which 19 (10%) are men. The reason...

To all, I made a mistake in my previous post. CHM-101 is Inorganic Chemistry and CHM-102 is Organic Chemistry.

To Massage2bRN and Sambreen, I decided to take A&P 1 (BIO-141), A&P 2 (BIO-142), and General Microbiology (BIO-205) because NAS 161 and 162 will not be accepted if I want to apply to a BSN degree program later on. You are wasting your time an...

To all accepted NVCC traditional nursing program students, I tried to access the traditional nursing program information on Blackboard in accordance with [moderator edit of name]'s mass email to all of the accepted nursing program students, but neith...

I just received an email from [moderator edit of name] indicating that the Nursing Orientation Blackboard is available, but I could not find it. Does anyone know how to access the Nursing Orientation Blackboard on the NVCC website?

Is it a test of basic math skills or a test of drug dosage calculation skills? There is a big difference.

ETrips or anyone else, It appears that we have to take an initial drug dosage calculations test in order to determine whether we will have to take NUR 135 (Drug Dosage Calculation). Is that correct? If so, then does that mean that a student does NOT...

Tricia328, To the best of my knowledge the background check and drug test results only need to be uploaded to the CertifiedBackground.com website. "Complete" means that the requirement has been satisfied.

Everyone, The Bloodborne Pathogens training slides on the NVCC website also identify who the completed quiz needs to be sent to for grading. I emailed mine last night.

To all traditional nursing program students, I have sent several emails to Mr. Shaw asking for more guidance and he has sent me several replies asking me to be patient and to wait until the Nursing Blackboard is up and running. Since we do not have a...

Tricia328, Yes. You then have to upload the pages to your profile on CertifiedBackground.com for them to be shown as completed. Also get all incompleted immunizations done.

Tricia328, So far the only things that you can begin are the background investigation, drug test, and immunizations tracker because NVCC has not provided any more guidance regarding the other requirements.

I submitted the request for the background investigation yesterday. I have had a background investigation done through this service three years ago and it only consists of validation of your social security number, your residential addresses for the ...

I just came across this thread and I have to say that it is one of the most interesting and informative threads that I have ever read on this website. I am adding my "two cents worth" since I am one of those older, "over educated" students who has de...

Based upon my research, each entering traditional nursing class has a maximum of 200 seats. However, the nursing program usually only accepts about 150 new students because it has to provide seats for the LPNs who join the program later on and to acc...

To Summer03, It appears that clinicals are scheduled on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Is that correct? Also, what is the first date of the NUR 111 class? It appears that the class is on Mondays from 1:00 to 3:30 PM and the laboratory is on Fridays from ...

Then I suggest that you name it "NOVA Nursing Program", since NVCC is commonly referred to as "Nova".

I also received an email from [moderator edit of name] stating that the correct mandatory orientation date is Monday, July 22nd, 2013, from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM.

FYI I also received an email today stating that I have been provisionally accepted to the traditional nursing program. The mandatory student orientation session on Wednesday, July 22nd must be a mistake. They probably meant Wednesday, July 24th since...

I have not heard anything yet, and I did not receive any letter stating that applicants would not hear from the nursing program until four weeks after May 21st, 2013. However, the traditional nursing program application instructions stated that "Allo...

There are usually about 150 seats available to be filled in each new nursing student class, so if the traditional nursing program received 200 applications then that means that the overall acceptance rate will be 75%. In the past the overall acceptan...

The NVCC nursing program does not have to notify applicants whether they have been accepted or not until June 21st, 2013. Those who have been accepted will then have to attend a student orientation session this summer. Last year it was held on June 2...

Summer03, Thanks for your insight. I do live in NVCC's service area, which I know will improve my chances for acceptance. FYI, I am 59 years old, so if I am accepted I will be 60 years old when I begin the program and I will be 61 years old when I gr...