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nope at north, sorry!

You're welcome, if you plan well you will do fine, but with a schedule like that you cannot afford to fall behind! It's too hard to play catch up as this work isn't easy stuff. It's tedious for sure, just the weekends should be fine, but stay on track! Best advice I could give. Congrats on being accepted! It's going to be a wild ride!

just replied to your comment, check above :)

I don't think they let you know if you didn't make it, I would call the health sciences admission department to be sure

Hey there, im in the program, I started May of last year, hopefully will graduate in December. Most people usually work part time in the program IF absolutely necessary. Never heard of anyone doing more than 20-25 hrs a week. I couldn't do it because the program IS a full time job and requires your strict time and devotion. I suggest if you plan to still work full time to create a time schedule to try and fit your studies in. See what you're headed into ahead of time so you can brace yourself. Best of luck!

Hi there, I'm currently in the program at North Campus, I just passed my second specialty (OB) and will be headed to peds after spring break before getting toward home stretch for December graduation (Gods willing). All of what you've heard of been told this far is true! This program is the hardest thing I've ever endured school wise in my life. The instructors so far have been great, just tough and know what they expect in their students/future nurses. So with high expectation, they expect high results so if you aren't willing to put in the hard work of studying, reading and critical thinking all while tying together your skills and rationale, then this isn't the program for you. Test taking will be a slap in the face at first due to different structuring so be sure to master your critical thinking skills. Classes go EXTREMELY fast running on an 8 week sometimes 6 week track so you MUST be ready to hit the ground running. Read everything twice-three times to fully get a beneficial understanding and practice NCLEX questions to make sure your reading can be applied to the scenario. Most of all, never give up! If I tell you the number that my class started with compared to what we have now you will get discouraged but please keep pushing no matter what! After your first test in process I you will see your class thin out, as well as the second test, don't freak out. Only the strong survive. You want it, keep pushing for it. Tears, anxiety and heart palpitations are all normal :) let me know if you have any other questions

Nope they actually encourage using CEU fast :) you should be good

Found out today I Passed GI/GU! Difficult journey but so worth it! On to psych next week! :)

Awesome congrats on passing!! That's ok passing is an achievement now you can move on and focus on your next test!

How did you do Arielle?

After you pass the first math test you move on to going to the hospital during clinicals. The retakes happen before you guys start clinicals whomever doesn't pass the retake doesn't go to clinicals

Hey Acintrone you can wear any shoes for lecture, clinicals MUST be all white. Also the Cox book you don't have to haul around until you guys start care plans so don't worry about that too much. Your first day be prepared like you would any other lecture class and include the fundamentals book if you want to verify concrete info. Just a word of advice once this program starts all nurses will be at the back of your minds I PROMISE you. Lol our May board slowed down TREMENDOUSLY once we've started.

Lol I guess it felt like repeating twice! Lol and thank you so much for your kind words!

So sorry Jenny! But it's ok because you will knock it out the park next time! You can do this! I'm nervous as hell to start GI/GU but I'm excited at the same time. Sometimes I can't even believe I made it through a whole semester already...

For north campus they don't play about portfolios, they check them ASAP so be prepared. Don't remember which day exactly it was but trust me they start checking them once you hand it in so that you're cleared for clinicals

Yep that's it

Definetly beneficial! The reading ahead will help solidify the material taught in lecture so you go girl! Keep doing what you're doing

Valorebooks.com is a great cheap site where I used to get all my books before I got financial aid. So if you can't find it on Amazon check there or half.com

Well for north campus anyway. Not sure if the other campuses are that anal, but north had no issues with backpacks or stethoscopes

Backpack and stethoscope color doesn't matter guys lol they aren't that strict. Put it the work, and you'll be fine.

No math test the first week so you guys can take a deep breath. Your math test will be on the 4th week. You must learn and master the math before you can be tested on it :) no problem roxy

Nope it's true they are different prices at different stores and it's fine. South has diff logos then us at north do so I think that's the reason why. You dont need the pharmacology book I got a B in the class just fine by him lecturing off the powerpoints. I was just a few points shy of an A. Med/surg book I just bought because we didn't need it for our first semester, but I will be needing it now that I'm going to GI/GU. You do need your stethoscope, watch with second hand, bandage scissors and pen light for your clinical days. Don't give them a reason to make you an example, please be prepared. You don't need the perry potter study guide I know a lot of people said it was a waste of money, but if you want to, ask your teacher if it will be beneficial to you before going out and purchasing it. Your certifications : make several copies and keep your originals! Just in case you have to hand any over, give them the copies UNLESS indicated otherwise. Keep your copies in a portfolio for yourself in case any get lost in translation you have backup. Roller backpacks are your best friend in this program, with the book load and the future of nurses, you're gonna need to save your backs :)

Hey Lou I stated how I studied a few comments back its no problem and not a dumb question. I asked that question my whole entire first half of the program until I found what works for me. Read/skim ahead, highlight what you think is important, (usually it's the modules that is put on d2l to guide you on what to study) those will be your life saver because the book tends to have a lot of redundant info. You have to learn how to weed out what's important from what isn't. Record lecture and take notes based on it, majority of the lecture tests come from lecture. But reading is supplemental to the info given in lecture so you can't do one and not the other. Keep the questions coming if you don't understand :)

I'm not sure if there is still openings then possibly but I'm honestly not sure if thats even a possibility if fola's class is filled already

No problem Arielle :)