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You can put your name on the waiting list at any of the campuses, but you have to stick with the same campus once in the nursing program. Sometimes people transfer from one campus to another, but you can sign up for flo valley classes if you're in at forest park. Classes usually end before 3:00, but clinical is a whole other story.

From what I've heard, there were a lot of names on the list, but a lot of those people had moved, changed their minds, or whatever.

No, it's in the lab at school. They teach the skills in there, and once you've mastered them, you can do the skills on a real patient in clinical. The lab is taken in the first and second semesters, worth one credit hour.

With scheduling, in first semester, you have lecture two days a week (I think Monday is noon to 3pm and Thursday is sometime in the afternoon) with a skills lab on one of those days, along with one clinical day (Tuesday or Wednesday) that is 7am-1pm. For the skills lab, you have to also set up a day and time when you go back and show them that you can do a certain skill that you were just taught (and practiced in lab) so that you can do that skill in clinical. Let me know if you have other questions.

I am at the FP campus and about to start third semester. So far, I have had a good experience and have had good luck with instructors and that sort of thing. i don't work, but that is a big issue with some students. Working full-time in first semester is probably fine, but second semester is very busy. By the time you get to third, they tell you not to work more than 16 hours per week. Some still work full time and can pull it off, but I really don't know how they juggle it all. As as far as the wait list goes, I know that it was recently "cleaned up" at FP. They might tell you the wait is a couple of years, but it wasn't that long for me because I had all of the other classes out of the way.

When you are doing a skills check off and you make a mistake, don't come off as defensive if an instructor points out your error. Ask questions if you need something clarified, but don't act defensive, and try to learn from what they are saying. Be prepared. Read ahead of time and be familiar with the lecture material before class.

It might seem like a lot, but it will go by quickly. I had to take two years of prereqs/coreqs before I started nursing school.

Cool story, bro.

I know that you cannot use a medical diagnosis in the r/t part of a nursing diagnosis, but is it generally okay to use the medical diagnosis if you say "secondary to"? For example, is it a valid nursing diagnosis to say something like, "Risk for injury related to right-sided weakness secondary to recent CVA."? I just pulled that out of the air, but I ask because we are told over and over not to mention the medical diagnosis, but I sometimes see nursing diagnoses written like that. Just curious if it's just my instructor's preference.

This is really creepy. I wouldn't like knowing that my nurse was a nurse only because of something like this.

If they are cheaters, then they're not going to pass the NCLEX, assuming they graduate from nursing school, which I doubt. At my school, when you take a test in the nursing program, they treat you like you're taking the NCLEX (no jackets, no shirts with pockets, turn in your phone, etc) and watch closely. The people who might be cheating in the prereqs won't do well in nursing school anyway.

I'm just starting school, but I ordered Crocs Chelsea work shoes from 6pm.com. They are very comfortable and lightweight. They are made of leather and are non-slip. The great thing is that they were only $28.

I'm curious as to when the average ADN program starts their clinicals. A few weeks in? No syllabus yet, and I can't recall them telling us at the orientation. My program starts after MLK day. I'm just wondering what everyone else did.

I think it will be worth it. It's great that you have delayed taking out loans. Also, I'm about to start an ADN program, and most of the people at my school will have been there 3-4 years by the time they finish.. It often takes a couple of years to get pre-reqs and co-reqs out of the way, along with getting through a waiting list, if your school has one. Another thing, I wish I had started at your age. Suddenly, I'm 34 and have two kids.

I live in the St. Louis, MO area. My kids' school had a policy that it had to be above 20 for outdoor recess. They changed it to 32 because some kids don't show up with a coat. I would say it should depend on how it feels and the windchill. There was a day last year, with lots of sun, and it was 29. It felt nice, but they wouldn't have gone outside because of that number.

Hello- I am starting in an ADN program next month. I had some credits transfer over from when I was in college a long time ago...back in 1998. They accepted my general psychology class, so I didn't have to retake it. The other day, I bought a fundamentals book with sample test questions, and there were quite a few things that pertained to what is taught in general psychology. Since I took this class so many years ago, I don't really remember anything from it. I'm wondering if anyone else has been in this situation and had any difficulties in fundamentals because of this. Maybe I should just read a "psychology for dummies" sort of book, just to brush up on basics, like the hierarchy of needs?

If you earned an 'A' in A&P 2, even with bad instruction, then you can get an 'A' in micro. I'm finishing up micro right now and should be studying for my final. It's not difficult to understand, but it can be time consuming. I wouldn't want to take it with anything else that would take a lot of studying.

Just curious about something. I've seen pictures of nursing students practicing injections (and other things) on each other. Does your school do that? I think it's a bit odd...like it would be too much of a liability.

Someone at American Databank told me that STLCC does not require fingerprints at this point in the program. I would still ask, in case someone gave me the wrong info. It's confusing because their site mentions fingerprinting. I've submitted all of the background check stuff and did my drug screen. I'm still in the process of getting my TB tests, vaccines, titers, etc. I saw that in order to be compliant, the flu shot has to be sometime between Oct 1 and Nov 1, which I didn't find out until 10/30! I keep thinking I'm going to forget to do something important and get kicked out.

Do you know if we have to do the fingerprinting now, or does that come later, in the 3rd semester? I think the website where we have to do all of the background check stuff is a little unclear on that.

For those of you who are almost finished with nursing school, how many of your original classmates are still around?

If only I could find my shot records. I love how I saw them around when I didn't need them.

I know everyone's case is different, but I just wanted a general idea. If you have health insurance, did they cover your physical exam, titers, vaccines if needed, and the TB test?

It's great that you have a supportive family. You'll find a way to make it work if you manage your time well. I have similar worries, but my kids are older (in elementary school). I think a good percentage of parents who go into nursing school have this guilt and worry about starting.

It depends on the courses. I went to a university in the late 90s, and now I'm going to a community college. The CC accepted my psych, eng 101, and that sort of thing, but they made me retake bio and chem because they require that those classes were taken within the past 5 years. just have the new school do an audit of your transcripts.