RCC Nursing Fall 2020

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Hi, everyone!

Decided to create a forum for Riverside City College SON applicants for Fall 2020!

I submitted my application 2 weeks ago. Where are you all in terms of your application process?

Hey everyone! So the health form should have been attached to the email they sent you with your acceptance into the program. I'm not too sure why it wasn't attached, but you should email someone about that. What it is is basically a form with all the things you must complete for complio. The form has all the immunizations and titers you have to get, and your physical examination. It's basically a check off list. When you receive any of those things it has to be signed off and stamped by your provider in the health form. That is how you will be uploading everything into compilo, by uploading the sections from that form that correspond to the task it's asking for. I hope that made sense? I know complio is very confusing at first! ?

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Does anyone know when ADN notification will be sent out?

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2 hours ago, GoodFortuneToAll said:

Hey everyone! So the health form should have been attached to the email they sent you with your acceptance into the program. I'm not too sure why it wasn't attached, but you should email someone about that. What it is is basically a form with all the things you must complete for complio. The form has all the immunizations and titers you have to get, and your physical examination. It's basically a check off list. When you receive any of those things it has to be signed off and stamped by your provider in the health form. That is how you will be uploading everything into compilo, by uploading the sections from that form that correspond to the task it's asking for. I hope that made sense? I know complio is very confusing at first! ?

Thank you for letting us know! And yes it’s very confusing ?

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14 hours ago, Chanster said:

Yes exactly

Thank you for this information!! ?

The health form was attached to my email in the form of a clickable link. So far I’ve gotten approval of my identification documents and my background check is almost complete. I’m just waiting to get my immunizations approved.

Questions about the immunization form, background check. drug screening, etc will also be answered at intake day. I’m planning to use this opportunity to make any necessary adjustments.

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3 hours ago, Kat Perez said:

Does anyone know when ADN notification will be sent out?

No I dont. Have you checked out the fall 2019 thread on all nurses? The timeline is very similar.

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2 hours ago, 211994ss said:

Thank you for letting us know! And yes it’s very confusing ?

Yes of course! Congratulations btw! Lmk if you ever have any questions ?

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Just now, GoodFortuneToAll said:

Yes of course! Congratulations btw! Lmk if you ever have any questions ?

Do you have any tips for the first semester?

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2 hours ago, Chanster said:

Thank you for this information!! ?

The health form was attached to my email in the form of a clickable link. So far I’ve gotten approval of my identification documents and my background check is almost complete. I’m just waiting to get my immunizations approved.

Questions about the immunization form, background check. drug screening, etc will also be answered at intake day. I’m planning to use this opportunity to make any necessary adjustments.

www.rccnursebackground.com, is this the first link you're referring to? Because I've already purchased both the immunization and screening packages, and it does show a template of what's required as far as immunizations, SSN, Gov. ID, background check, and drug screening.

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Just now, millie.bean said:

www.rccnursebackground.com, is this the first link you're referring to? Because I've already purchased both the immunization and screening packages, and it does show a template of what's required as far as immunizations, SSN, Gov. ID, background check, and drug screening.

The checklist should be on your home tab. My checklist popped up after I watched the video....Did a tutorial video pop up? You have to kind of play around with it.

The tutorial was very helpful...

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56 minutes ago, Chanster said:

Do you have any tips for the first semester?

What everyone says is true, get started on complio immediately! You have to get titers for some of the vaccines so do that if you're unsure of how else to proceed! This is important because there are some vaccines you can't get in the time period between you getting the first & second dose of another vaccine. Also if you're still unsure of how to start on the required vaccinations, spend the time looking for your immunization records! From when you were a baby or if you can't find them, some people were able to get them from their previous school districts. This helps to know where to get started, because if you can't find them then you will have to start from the beginning which will take longer! If you guys don't have the health form, then you cannot really get started on your vaccines, so contact someone about that immediately. The health form should be an actual paper that you print out and take with you to your appointments.

As for your first semester, be prepared to do a lot of reading and try not to get behind because it feels almost impossible to catch up. You will have weekly readings along with homework assignments, it would be best if you finish them all by Monday. I'm in the traditional program so I'm not an expert in the CEP program, but I do know that they have even more workload than us with San Bernardino.

Don't be intimidated by all the readings though, they will tell you they are going to test you on everything so you feel like you HAVE TO know everything the book says, but each teacher only gets a certain amount of questions per test and they usually only cover what they talk about in class. With that said, make sure to know all the objectives for tests. Some objectives are very broad so it's hard to know what to pinpoint, but try to distinguish between what is important and what's not important.

They do not test like your prerequisite courses, so don't expect that. It's all application problems. They're not going to ask you things like "What is the therapeutic INR level for Coumadin?" they'll ask like "Your patient was put on Coumadin and his lab values show his INR level is at 5.5, what would your next step be as the nurse?" And the answer choices all seem reasonable, but you have to know which one is the most reasonable. So be prepared for that.

Also don't put off practicing your skills! It can be easy to do because of all the time you spend reading, but your skills are equally as important! Make use of all your resources! When you get your books, the online tools are very resourceful! They have videos of nurses performing the skills on real life people and that helps a lot when you're not understanding reading the steps for the procedures.

Sorry this was really long, so I'm gonna cut it here! Hope that somewhat helped and congratulations!

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I don't want to post the health form on here, because it's RCC's template, but the health form should have a section of each vaccination and each one has boxes split into left and right columns. For TB testing, for example, the first box should say

this on the left:

Quote

TB Skin Test Step 1 Date: ____(m) ____(d) _____(y)

Induration: ______(mm)
Result:Negative orPositive

& this on the right:

Quote

Healthcare Provider Information:
Name: _________________________ Title: _______________

Signature: ______________________ Stamp:
Signed Date: _________________


All the vaccinations follow that same format. It should be a total of 5 pages (7 if you want to include the first 3 pages that provide you with info on what they expect for each category), with the last page being completely devoted to your physical exam findings.

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3 minutes ago, GoodFortuneToAll said:

What everyone says is true, get started on complio immediately! You have to get titers for some of the vaccines so do that if you're unsure of how else to proceed! This is important because there are some vaccines you can't get in the time period between you getting the first & second dose of another vaccine. Also if you're still unsure of how to start on the required vaccinations, spend the time looking for your immunization records! From when you were a baby or if you can't find them, some people were able to get them from their previous school districts. This helps to know where to get started, because if you can't find them then you will have to start from the beginning which will take longer! If you guys don't have the health form, then you cannot really get started on your vaccines, so contact someone about that immediately. The health form should be an actual paper that you print out and take with you to your appointments.

As for your first semester, be prepared to do a lot of reading and try not to get behind because it feels almost impossible to catch up. You will have weekly readings along with homework assignments, it would be best if you finish them all by Monday. I'm in the traditional program so I'm not an expert in the CEP program, but I do know that they have even more workload than us with San Bernardino.

Don't be intimidated by all the readings though, they will tell you they are going to test you on everything so you feel like you HAVE TO know everything the book says, but each teacher only gets a certain amount of questions per test and they usually only cover what they talk about in class. With that said, make sure to know all the objectives for tests. Some objectives are very broad so it's hard to know what to pinpoint, but try to distinguish between what is important and what's not important.

They do not test like your prerequisite courses, so don't expect that. It's all application problems. They're not going to ask you things like "What is the therapeutic INR level for Coumadin?" they'll ask like "Your patient was put on Coumadin and his lab values show his INR level is at 5.5, what would your next step be as the nurse?" And the answer choices all seem reasonable, but you have to know which one is the most reasonable. So be prepared for that.

Also don't put off practicing your skills! It can be easy to do because of all the time you spend reading, but your skills are equally as important! Make use of all your resources! When you get your books, the online tools are very resourceful! They have videos of nurses performing the skills on real life people and that helps a lot when you're not understanding reading the steps for the procedures.

Sorry this was really long, so I'm gonna cut it here! Hope that somewhat helped and congratulations!

Thank you for the tips!! I will email the department during normal business hours regarding the health form. Given the circumstances of COVID processes might have changed...

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