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yeah, I feel you definitely still get a worth while education. And you learn a whole lot in clinicals!!! At the end of the day, you are there for yourself but sometimes things like that can be very irritating.I can honestly say I did learn a lot there. Oh yeah for the poster who asked about med math. You get 3 to 4 tries at the school.

Heyyy, sorry to get back to you so late. (allnurses won't let me send private messages at the moment) I haven't logged in the site in a while. Thank You, I am so excited to graduate. The summer class is pretty much learning the duties of a CNA and other basic things like taking a manual blood pressure, counting respirations, counting a pulse rate, etc. And I do believe you do become CNAs after that summer class but it was implemented for the class after me so we did not get that opportunity lol.That schedule is 4 days a week. For the fall you will have class Monday from 9-12 fundamentals and tuesday class from 8:00-9:00 Pharmacology than 10-12:00pm Fundamentals. Then you will have one day of skills lab either on Tuesday or Wednesday from 12-4pm and clinical one day a week on either a wednesday thursday, or Friday. And that is just the first semester. After that you have clinical twice a week on back to back days. The uniforms are expensive. I would advise you to just get the tops and buy your scrub pants and shoes elsewhere to save $$$. For Clinicals I personally have been to Mountainside Hospital and Morristown Memorial Hospital. But others have been St joes in paterson and hackensack university medical center. I did work during school. I had a part time job and a per diem job. But good luck with this school. It has changed so much. Administration seems to not really know what they are doing anymore. The school seems more interested in $$$$ than actually educating. I know ppl personally (unless they were lying lol) who told me how much they failed but still were allowed to continue the program. We are graduating and there are people boasting about how they still haven't passed med math. So many people starting having the attitude that you really didn't have to do much and you would still pass....and guess what they all did. such a shame but at least you get to sit for NCLEX.

HI, I am a current student in the program and I will be graduating in just a couple of months. It is a good program and you gets lot of great experience in clinical especially if you have one of the good teachers. As for jobs, Getting a job is hard for EVERYONE right now. Whether you are Diploma, asn, or bsn. It is all in who you know. I know a few personally from the previous class who have gotten jobs at hospitals so it is possible.(Morristown, Robert Wood, etc) I also know BSNs who have graduated more than a year ago still stuck in LTC. From what I was told it is about connections and networking. Me personally I already have a bachelor's Degree and do not want another one. I plan on getting some experience and Going straight to a MSN NP bridge program part time while I work. If you can get into a BSN program GREAT do it, but if you can not afford it a Diploma program like Mountainside is just as good. You can always continue your education and Have an RN while doing so. These days BSN does not even guarantee you a job either. The climate for nursing is just tough right now and you need to network and make connections. That was the advice I am constantly given. If you have any more questions about Mountainside please feel free to ask. Good Luck

Monday and Tuesday lecture days and Wednesday Thursday clinicals!!!

Lol they changed it I went to the school the other day to pay for the summer and was told the faculty decided against Fridays and we all should be getting a letter by Tuesday with the new information. My uniform tops actually came to me through ups 2 days ago. So happy I finally got them

Ok cool since you are doing the July session you will have plenty of time to receive those tops. Since I'm doing the June session I have a week and a half left til the class begins...yikes lol but the summer schedule isn't bad Monday and Tuesday 9-4 and wednesdsy and Thursday 7-3 with Friday off

yes, Me too the organic/biochem is the only thing I am missing, Kind of sucks since I have already taken Gen CHem I and II during my undergrad. everything else I have. I'm doing the June class. Have you gotten your uniform yet?

yes, Me too the organic/biochem is the only thing I am missing, Kind of sucks since I have already taken Gen CHem I and II during my undergrad. everything else I have. I'm doing the June class. Have you gotten your uniform yet?

For everyone accepted, what summer course session are you doing June or July???

I know I'm late but how was the teas for you??? Hope you did well

Yeah that confused me too, when I first applied. I don't know why it's still up there like that. I was told that you had to have all your prerequisites done to begin, the most prereqs they would allow you to not have done by the time you start is only 2.

yes there are 2 sessions one in June and one in July. I am doing the one in June and that begins June 4th and end June 29th

cool i just got accepted too, i took the teas, got an interview and acceptance all on the same day thank god. i am so excited now i just have to get all this paperwork done in time lol for that summer essentials class.

cool I just got accepted too, I took the teas, got an interview and acceptance all on the same day Thank God

Did anyone else apply for the Fall 2012 semester? If so have you taken the TEAS assessment yet?