pricanlady

Peace River Center will train you for psych. Bartow, FL.

Hello everyone, as of yesterday I officially graduated the HCC nursing program, our pinning is Tuesday. I just want to say best of luck going into the program. You can make it a stress-free, happy one with due diligence. Don't allow yourself to jump on the anxiety feeding anxiety wagon. Also, sometimes I get alerts here and sometimes I don't. So whenever yal create a FB group and you all want me to join to potentially answer questions, I'll be more than happy to, just send me a PM here and hopefully I'll get the alert. Also, never forget to mentor the people coming behind you, we are the new millennium nurses that refuse to eat our young. Guide, help and mentor, its what we are meant to do. Much love to everyone!

lol not sure about being hypochondriac being that I'm fairly healthy (other than my hypothyroidsm) and hope it stays that way. I can only hypothesize that it has to do with the fact that english is my second language and I hyper-focus on the spelling of words. I can't pronounce them well half of the time, but I do remember them :)

I did not take neither of those classes. But throughout the program i realized that I have a thing for memorizing medications so it's very easy for me to remember them. Its really odd but I happened to remember a very very old med and what it did, I heard about when I was 19 yrs old and my mom was taking it, I'm 43 now. How I remember them, not really sure but I do. However, some people in my class struggled with meds and did take the class.....On assessment, you will learn that in the program.

1 regular clinical day and 1 mental health clinical day weekly, for the duration of mental health which is not the full semester. There are two days of lecture class (one of those days having mental health lecture, so its a full day) , the clinicals or classes might be back to back. During my mental health clinical I was at the hospital til 930 or 10pm. Get home after 11pm. Then had to be at the hospital for regular clinical the next day at 630am. Other people that had another day or hospital didn't get the crummy schedule. But I had to make it happen.

Yes, once a week except for the third semester where you will have regular clinicals and mental health clinicals.

You're welcome. The benefit of study group has variables. One, depends on your learning style. Some people do really good and even need study groups. I have ADD (unmedicated) so I need breaks often when I'm studying, so I always did my studying on my own. Two, alot of times study groups ends up turning into a get together and group looses focus of what they're there for. Study time is so so precious to be wasting it. Although I did observe in my class a study group of 3 that did well, but they were very focused and wouldn't talk about anything except study material. So, I'd say if you must use a study group, make it small and have someone in charge to redirect any side conversations.

If you can afford it, I would highly recommend not working. I didn't work but I did see the exhaustion, frustration, anxiety and lower grades from some of the working ones (not all but most). Not because they were not capable but because there is only so many hours in the day.

I passed my TEAS with a 61. I'm finishing my last semester of nursing with a 95%. TEAS doesn't determine the kind of nurse you will become. 13 people in my class with higher TEAS scores than me, did not make it until the end. Please do not be ashamed of it.

You need enc1102 to get the ADN. Alot of people had to take it during their Christmas break because they weren't going to be able to graduate without it.

Yes, enc1102 I took before the program. Its ALOT of writing. Would highly recommend it gets done before the program. If the other class you're talking about is Mental Health, you have to take it within the program.

Ok, so I decided to sell my books and just posted them on craigslist. I'll post the link here in case anyone is interested, before I cross post it. They're in pretty good condition, especially the Med Surge book, as I'm more of a ebook reader. And yes, for the people here I would hold (in order of request) them until you get the acceptance letter. I'm in no hurry to sell. Nursing School Books

That's very nice!

Is this for fall? I got my acceptance in april, this of course was in 2015. We had a deadline of Jan 10th i think, for the fall.

That is accurate. Mine did not change to "received" until the same day I got my acceptance packet. Not sure why, but they ended up calling me and emailing the packet, instead of mailing it regularly. I know that the wait sucks, I've been there. The only thing I can tell you is, visit with family, share time with them, go places, call them, email them, because before you know it, your focus will be shifted, and that will be for a full two years, for most. So try and take advantage of the time you have now.