Teeanne

Personally I picked NIU. For me, a lot was financial - the transfer scholarships brought the price of NIU to about $1k/semester less, but the program is 1 semester longer, so it still kinda tips in Aurora's favor. But I worried if I had a bad semeste...

93-100 = A 85-92 = B 77-84 = C (No rounding, so a 92.9999 is a B) Below 77 is failing. Also getting below a 77 average on exams is failing, even if the overall class grade is higher.

I just finished mine earlier today, it went well. For the second half of the semester, occasionally I did some practice HESI quizzes for fundamentals on the Evolve accounts the school had set up. The Saunders formerly-yellow-now-blue book is nice too...

I have not taken the PAX-RN, I did take the TEAS for Aurora earlier this year and didn't think the test was bad at all. The science was a little hard if I remember right. People I've talked to that have taken both have said the PAX is more challengi...

I'm using an full size ipad with a bluetooth keyboard and the Notability app (recommended to me by a friend that was already in a different nursing program). My profs generally put up lecture notes online so I export them from there into Notability t...

Med/Surg I Med/Surg I clinical Mental health Mental health clinical Research Second semester of the program, looking forward to it!

My fundamentals, health assessment, and patho classes all go out of order in the book. It hasn't really been bad to jump around so far and the material hasn't felt hard, I'm just getting used to the trying to soak in massive amounts material in a sho...

I'm a student right now, but I work at a nursing home as a CNA that's pretty highly regarded, more rehab and acute care than long term. The turnover is pretty low, for my shift anyway. A lot of people don't quit, they just cut their hours or go to PR...

My comm college required having a recent reading placement test on file or any associate degree (or higher). My placement test was 5 years old or something so didn't count, but fortunately I had the associate's degree. I took ENG 101 and 102 through...

My school requires health insurance for all FT students regardless of major anyway - but it offers a plan for $500/semester if you don't have your own. They auto-bill for insurance, which makes it easy to throw into financial aid and loans, then peop...

It seems like the programs that require TEAS score and designate it to certain days will use the paper and pencil version. When I applied to Aurora this year, I took the paper and pencil version in January. They only offer it around that time of year...

I work evenings and it's LTC and rehab, about 2/3 rehab 1/3 LTC, but all but one wing have a mix of both. It's up to 8 per CNAs usually depending on room occupancy, isolation, etc. Though one assignment can get up to 10 residents. Sometimes they cut ...

I took the CNA class in the spring semester and applied to work at the place I did my clinicals because I thought the staff was so terrific. Having good people with you really makes a difference, and if you have a better relationship with the people ...

I'm doing the BSN because I had an associate's degree (not nursing) already so it would take 4 semesters for an ADN, or 4/5 semesters for BSN depending on the program I chose. So for me it would take me the same amount of time for an ADN as a BSN bas...

I don't know, around here anyway, I think 4 weeks is the shortest I've seen, and that's basically 8-5 M-F. Usually my comm college does it in 8 or 16 week formats. We were told the mandate was 40 hours of clinicals, so our class had 44 hours built in...

The learning center can set students up with an online tutoring program called Plato to help folks study for the PAX-RN. Not sure how helpful it is since I didn't take it, but I don't think it costs anything to give it a shot.

Got my letter today! Fall 2013. I figured with so many applicants, because I am doing 2 prereqs now and still have a&p 2 in the summer, that if I did get in, I'd probably get pushed off until spring. So definitely very surprised. Good luck to eve...

Mine says the same thing. I noticed one of the nursing prereqs is coming up as needed that I already completed, though maybe that isn't all finalized yet. Hopefully, anyway!

Oops typo with the labs above with clinical - late afternoon/early evening Monday, Weds morning, Weds afternoon, Fri morning, or Fri afternoon.

For the first semester of nursing classes, in the fall 2013 anyway, it looks like a majority of the lectures are offered Tuesday or Thursday, besides a couple of Monday afternoon options. And then the clinical choices are late afternoon/early evening...

Hi! I applied to NIU too. They send their letters out in April. Last year it was about mid-April. I just looked at the calendar, can't believe we only have one week left of March! I am not done with my pre-reqs and it sounds like in last year's threa...

I tried sending you a pm with the fb link in it, if you are still having trouble. Hopefully that works!

The deadline is May 1st. The acceptance letter says the deposit is non-refundable, the yellow reply card sounds like it's saying it's refundable before May 1st. No idea there. What other school are you looking at? (If you don't mind me asking!)

Woo! Got my letter today too!

Congrats to those that heard! I'm glad I'm on spring break next week, this whole waiting, knowing the news is impending, is distracting. :)