Santa Rosa Junior College Fall 2020

[VetmedtoRN]

Hello!
I haven’t seen a post yet for anyone applying to SRJC for Fall 2020/Spring 2021. I’m anxiously waiting to hear back, but it’s a long way until June! Any tips from anyone currently in the program on how to focus my “off time” this semester to stay sharp?

[VetmedtoRN]

@grace lewis First semester is nursing fundamentals so it’s kind of all over the place, you learn basic hands on skills and basic care on all types of patients. Clinical is in the long term care/skilled nursing setting and the semester is focused on geriatric patients. If you’re going to study ahead of time, being well versed on the Nursing Process, dosage calculations and medical terminology will help you depending on your background. There is a dosage calculations test at the beginning of the semester that you have to pass with 19/20 points in order to go to clinical, you have to pass it in order to move forward in the program. There is no separate pharmacology class, so pharm will be woven in with each topic. Get familiar with how to find the therapeutic class, pharmacological class and action for medications. The lecture material is delivered by several different instructors and would be hard to study ahead for since they all want different things. 

[grace lewis]

Great to know. Any recommendations on how to prep for dosage calculations? Any book recommendations or do you think the text books listed are all you need to study ahead of time?

[VetmedtoRN]

The dosage calculations book that is on the book list was really confusing for me and I only used it for the questions we needed to do for the skills lab. I signed up for the Straight A Nursing bootcamp and loved it, it’s a self paced prep course for nursing school. There are a few nursing Youtube channels that cover dose calcs that my classmates liked. I had a strong background in dosage calcs coming from veterinary medicine so I honestly just did a few sets of practice problems and was good to go. It’s not meant to be super hard problems but they’re very strict about the required score to pass. There was someone that was dropped from our cohort for this reason. We get three chances to pass the test, but you’ll be so busy with other things that you’ll just want it done with on the first try. Be comfortable converting from household measurements to metric and know things like how many mL are in a Liter, how many mL are in a teaspoon etc. there is a dose calcs test each semester so the problems increase in difficulty as you go along. 

[asanjose]

@VetmedtoRN Thank you so much for taking the time to respond! Much appreciated. This is super helpful since that’s what I’m most concerned about. I’m a dialysis technician, so I have a pretty strong medical background. This information took some weight off my shoulders! I’ve been accepted to Spring 2022 and I have been trying to get my money right for the program! Also, Do they require you to have medical insurance? And if you’ve taken the ATI TEAS, will they ask you to take it again? I’ve sent my transcript that I’ve passed the TEAS but haven’t gotten a response. Thank you so much again and wishing you all the best!! 

 

[VetmedtoRN]

@asanjose you’re going to do great! They don’t specifically require you to have insurance but the titer testing for vaccines and other health requirements might be expensive without it. If you’re looking at losing benefits when you go per diem or part time, get your titers done early. I started in Spring and did titers in august. I ended up having to do my hep B vaccine series again because my titer was negative, but all the others were fine. Plan to get a flu shot in the fall and your Covid vaccine if you haven’t gotten it already. If you’ve already done the TEAS, they won’t make you do it again. They will give you pretty strict deadlines on submitting things, but they don’t want things early. They have 200+ students and the amount of documents and email the admissions coordinator gets is insane. They’ll give you a date to submit things, just get your ducks in a row and keep copies of everything. 

[ptreebranch, BSN, RN]

5 hours ago, asanjose said:

@VetmedtoRN Thank you so much for taking the time to respond! Much appreciated. This is super helpful since that’s what I’m most concerned about. I’m a dialysis technician, so I have a pretty strong medical background. This information took some weight off my shoulders! I’ve been accepted to Spring 2022 and I have been trying to get my money right for the program! Also, Do they require you to have medical insurance? And if you’ve taken the ATI TEAS, will they ask you to take it again? I’ve sent my transcript that I’ve passed the TEAS but haven’t gotten a response. Thank you so much again and wishing you all the best!! 

 

Jewish community free clinic! Though I did not go to the JC's program, they have helped me out immensely with medical clearance, etc. Please do not pay out of pocket for these expenses. There are free services out there to help you. Tell them you are a nursing student, as long as you don't have health insurance, they will WANT to help you.

[Merly Beaumonte, CNA]

For anyone still on the alternate list, there is hope! I just got accepted less than a week ago and I start next month for Fall 21. Can’t wait to meet everyone in my class. 

[Erica Werner]

I received a call two weeks ago that a spot opened for Spring of 22’ for me! Congratulations to you! 

[asanjose]

40 minutes ago, Erica Werner said:

I received a call two weeks ago that a spot opened for Spring of 22’ for me! Congratulations to you! 

Yayy!! We are in the same cohort Congratulations! 

[S.K RN, ASN, BSN]

I also got in last week for the Fall 21 cohort. Lowkey sucks that I missed the orientation. But I’m so excited to see everybody in class. Also best of luck to people on alternate list. I had lost all hope too but they are still offering people spots so don’t lose hope ? 

[VetmedtoRN]

@sksaggu1998 email or canvas message your course coordinator and they should be able to send you the PowerPoint or they may have recorded it! There were people that got into my group less than a week prior and they made it work, congrats! 

[asanjose]

@VetmedtoRN Hi there! One last question: You are in the Spring ‘21 cohort right? I’m going to be in the Spring ‘22 group and jw when we should expect to hear from the coordinator about TEAS, background check, etc?