PrettyPlease88

I would advise u get a binder. Something u can keep adding to. If you are taking therapeutic communications with Dr.D your first term, you can get away with a spiral notebook with her. She literally gives you everything you need to know for her exam in handouts.

Finals mode all the way right now. Our last final is monday for Med-surg. Say a little prayer for all of us!

Bkmom, we don't have a spring break i can't remember If we have Good Friday off. They gave us quite a few snow days in the beginning of the spring semester so there were days we were suppose to be off that we didn't get because we had to make up class hours....something about financial aid being effected if we didnt make it up. So we will either be in class extra days or classes may end later to make up for the shortage

All the students were complaining. Granted, you change answers on the exam, but when you go over it and you KNOW you put down one answer and your scantron is given to you with another. Something is wrong! With St. Pauls, there is strength in numbers so when people complain they listen! Whenever it's time to elect your student council officials, make sure you pick people who will be a voice for your class. I'm on the council myself and it was our class who complained about how our skills lab exams were being executed and guess what? All the classes after mine do not have to worry about having skills lab exams. Ironically, the same teacher who got the boot over the exams was creating havoc in our skills lab. How are u suppose to learn how to administer injections or perform wound care when a teacher is constantly belittling you! So we got together and wrote a nice letter to the president. She was gone before the end of the semester.. Don't be afraid to voice your opinion, you pay good money to learn what u need to pass the NCLEX and if that requires getting your hands a little dirty then so be it! Do whatever u have to do to REACH THAT GRADUATION STAGE!

We just got rid of a teacher last semester who was changing answers on her students exams. Some of those students who "failed" her class are retaking medsurg and peds with me so i beg to differ. Some faculty are rotten but thats with every school. But like she mentioned above just do your best and find a study method that works for you. Some students learn by reading the chapters. Me personally, I learn by doing Nclex questions and reading the rationale. I work full-time at a hospital as a patient care tech from mid-nights to 8 am 5 nights a week, plus classes full time with having clinicals in the bronx and in flushing so i try to find the best way to get stuff to stick with the least amount of effort. Try to stay disciplined and find a classmate or two to take this journey with you. Can't tell u how many times my classmates have come through for me and vice versa. Take all the help and tutoring u can get too!

Okay I see what you're saying. Nvm..

Wait, you guys have to take classes in the summer????

Your books and uniform are not included in your tuition. If you get money left over from your award through fafsa then the school may cut u a book voucher from it if you wish. If that isn't the case, you pay for your books and uniform

I will be honest with you, If I applied to another school and got accepted, I would've chosen the other. But every school is different and has their own headaches. How I see it now is that i'm here to get my education so I can sit for the Nclex and begin my career. None of the crap we endure with St. Pauls administration is going to keep me from my diploma, especially because Sallie Mae is going to want her money reguardless if I graduate or not! ? They are completely revamping their policies for the incoming class which is awesome, one thing I can say about the staff there now is that if you go to them with a complaint (professionally) they LISTEN and MAKE CHANGES. Hence, the incoming classes are benefiting the most.

If you can't make those times they will work with you and put you with another group of students. We just Got the short end of the stick because out clinical instructor quit and they had trouble finding someone to replace at the last minute. But if you attend St. Pauls, clinicals will be the lease of your worries.

To be honest it was quite rough because the school made us retake our first exam half way through the semester and clinicals got messed up too. So instead of doing peds and medsurg clinicals on wed and thursday at Brookdale, we ended up doing 12 hr medsurg clinicals on saturdays at flushing and peds on wednesday at Lincoln in the Bronx. On top of that we have to come back after school is over to finish making up clinical hours. Other than that its fine. Next semester will be a little harder for you guys because they are treating Peds and medsurg as two separate classes (hence two exams) with our class the medsurg and peds professors came together and combined the info to make one exam. make sure you're comfortable with ADPIE because you will use it for ever disease you're taught. And PLEASE understand the pathophysiology behind each disease, it will make answering the questions sooo much easier.

Which campus are u all attending? I'm in my second semester at the Rego Park campus. If you're attending the campus in queens, i look forward to meeting all of you.

Hello, i'm currently attending St. Pauls. Have any of you applied/been accepted to other schools? If so, I strongly advise you to consider attending one of those nursing programs.

Do you attend St. Pauls? If so inbox me.

I am a PCT and i can related to this shirt so much. So many times i've witness safety not being a priority or number one!!!