ZombieRain

Hectic. Paperwork on paperwork. Outlines for 3 out of 5 classes for the trimester and what testing is going to be like. Hope we had a nice Monday, first A&P test on Wednesday, first Med-Math on Friday. I think there were two alternates there yesterday.

Ehhhhh our job is enhanced so much more when we engage emotionally with patients, but your fallback for an incorrect worldview is disdain and sarcasm. It all just boils down to I should empathize with the people you would empathize with. And I suspect that will hold true with everyone, including the disdained. I'll likely end up in corrections to start and mental health later on so I can lean more to yes, murder really is wrong and no, there aren't really smurfs in the room rather than trying to wade through who I need to be culturally sensitive to and whose tears I need to wipe away when a medical student realizes there very certainly is a group of people on earth who think they would be better off if he didn't exist.

Her assertion you are not enthusiastic enough and always playing catch up is worth thinking about. Was there any lack of initiative on your part, a disinterest in that particular rotation, or is the subject matter a weak spot for you? Anybody you worked around who you could ask?

Getting into LPN school in a few days, so I have no real dog in the healthcare side of 'isms, but I wonder where the lines for me will be. Can I go ahead and prepare my statement? I am Catholic/Republican/white/a man. But I am also a nurse. I can offer you my skills to the best of my ability, regardless of how you feel about my identity. It's your decision if you're open to working with me. Or maybe I'll just agree with them? I wore many hats waiting tables, earning tips by being whoever the customer wanted me to be. Yup, blacks are stupid and whites are racists and Catholics are pedophiles and Muslims are terrorists and nope, the Holocaust didn't happen and neither did the Armenian genocide and yes, it is a shame Democrats kill babies before Republicans can eat them. The internet is great for exposition. In the real world my mind is preoccupied with school costs and car repair and a new baby and and and.

Had a pre-calculus class in the last semester of an electronics engineering program from a technical college where both the teacher and we-the-students knew there was almost zero reason to have a pre-calculus class, the math was well beyond the scope of anything we were learning on the electronics side and the math was beyond half or more of the class to grasp. Our tests were legitimately the teacher putting equations on the board and we would all do our best to go through them, but the grade was based on us copying the board onto our paper. We all got A's. Context is important and you aren't providing a lot of detail. But I also just finished reading through your "Cheating in Nursing School" thread, and really, you're going to get very tired and very frustrated trying to right all these wrongs. Are you learning? If no, scream. If yes, please, please, please let this stuff go. Some people who don't need to be nurses will fail out of school. Some people who don't need to be nurses will not get passed NCLEX. Some people who don't need to be nurses will not make it in the job market. Some people who don't need to be nurses will have long careers in nursing. It is not your job to figure out who those people are or what to do with them. It MIGHT be some day, but certainly not as a first year student.

6 independent universities in 2 different states with at least 2 different Boards of Regents and 2 different Boards of Nursing... are they offering LPN to ADN bridge, strictly ADN, RN to BSN bridge, accelerated BSN, 4-year BSN, do they allow transfer students... unique faculty, unique clinical sites, serving unique populations... might be why. If I really break down the 10 or so college nursing programs around me I can see why the variations exist.

I want to assume orientation was mandatory, but I don't know for sure. I'm getting the vibe the background check, drug screen and physical are for clinicals rather than TCAT itself. Tuition felt like the only actual mandatory part, and I don't suppose that applies to alternates *shrug*. Uniforms are navy tops and pants for school, white tops for clinicals, and a white lab coat. I'll PM you a copy of the uniform sheet.

Orientation yesterday. Anybody get a call? 40 people in the room, 35 for Practical Nursing, and the Power Point was geared towards the 5 people in other programs. Student services women kept reminding us the information she had up didn't apply to us. It all boiled down to here's the handbook, drug test, uniform fitting and paying tuition. The physical and background check that were supposed to be complete by orientation aren't actually DUE due until the first day of class. And BLS for Healthcare Providers is American Heart Association specifically. My brain skipped over that part and I just renewed my American Red Cross.

Quoting for truth. I've been BLS certified through the Red Cross for years, just recently re-certified, but the school I've applied to requires AHA. I've been going through the online portion of their training and it's a night and day difference. Even the ARC classroom session had an instructor who was diligently teaching what the ARC wanted, then explaining to us why we shouldn't do that using information found nowhere in ARC's information but is plentiful in AHA's. At this point I *think* I've selected the right AHA course, though I'm not sure why they titled the non-professional certifications HeartSaver and the blended-online portion of the professional certifications HeartCode. And why when selecting a specific class am I brought to a website where I have to re-select the correct class but this time without descriptions. A rhetorical questions, because I know you aren't affiliated with the American Heart Association.

I've read through the thread, but I'm confused... in the context of this conversation, what is a study guide? It sounds the question being asked is how much of exams, how many questions from exams, are being handed out by a professor. Is this a thing?

That's kind of why I was asking. By orientation there's the background check ($40), physical with all immunizations ($70 for the physical, gonna be $400 for my immunizations), and be prepared for the drug test ($30) and to purchase uniforms and supplies, cash only if it can't be charged to financial aid (another $350 I think?). By class start BLS/CPR for Healthcare Providers. It's not A LOT, but I submitted the background check the day the letter arrived and it's still not complete despite very seriously having nothing on my background to check. In the information session they mentioned calling alternates even in the first week of class start, but they let you know you're an alternate but not what to get done in case of a call? The letter says anything incomplete will prevent us from continuing, but an alternate in the first week will magically have everything done? I dunno. I'm probably overthinking things.

Thanks t! What info did you get? Just a paper saying you're an alternate, or a packet of stuff you need to do in case you're called?

Is this the Bryant and Stratton ADN from your other thread? Their Licensed Practical Nursing program's tuition is $28,415. I've been accepted into Tennessee College of Applied Technology's LPN program... for $5,967, fully covered by state and federal grants. B&S's ADN program is $49,000. Nashville State Community College's AAS in Nursing is $7,499, and they have a transfer pathway for BSN so all credits are guaranteed to carry over to a 4-year university. I'm sure you are fully aware of the all that... I just needed to type it out. But to answer your question, while the Associates Degree might be recognized as a valid degree, any and all transfer credits will be reviewed by the college you apply to, and there is zero requirement of schools even under the same accrediting body to accept another school's credits for transfer. Back to Tennessee, the Board of Regents has their own handshake deal with specific state and regional schools to guarantee transfer of Associates credits into Bachelors programs, but they specifically limit that to non-profit schools only, and the guarantee only lasts for a specific period of time. It's honestly a $50,000 bet on blackjack with UNO cards, and that applies to any for-profit college you find. If you're willing to swap oceans to go to school, just pick a state with less competitive public programs than California and throw your prereqs at them.

Each nursing school is going to spell out its own admissions policies, so definitely check the websites of the schools you plan on applying to. Many follow a formula of requiring classes A, B, and C to be completed BEFORE applying, but you can be accepted while still needing to finish classes D and E. That might be specific classes, that might be a certain number of hours, that might be within a certain time frame of applying, that might be within a certain time frame of the program starting... a lot of variables specific to each school. Make a list of schools, and as soon as you meet the requirements for applying, apply. It can only help.

I'm reviewing math, anatomy, and physiology, but it's a review of classes I've taken before, a review of things I'm already familiar with. Studying ahead on anything? Nope. If I start looking at all the unfiltered information related to nursing and I'll just have panic attacks.