Entering Trident Technical College Nursing Program Spring 2012

Tiger95 · Jan 29, 2011

I am in my 2nd semester at Trident (Nur158/159). I can tell you that there isn't much you can do AHEAD of time because the info comes at you all at one time once you start. I would tell you to make sure your home life is stable...good support system, flexibility with your schedule, and possibly a cleaning service to come mop your floors for you - you won't have time. In most classes, you will have 2-3 tests, each covering approx 7-8 chapters - 2 weeks apart from eachother. It's just so much info at a very faced pace. You have to be able to put personal stuff on the back burner. I see this being a problem for alot of the folks that are in my classes. It will be MORE than worth it in the end! Good luck!! Hope this helps a little.

leeae85 · Sep 18, 2011

I am currently in the LPN to RN program @ Trident. I started this past summer (which was just transition classes since I already have my LPN) and this fall is when our "real classes" started. Try your best to keep not only up with the reading, but AHEAD. I dont know how the beginning classes were since I did my LPN at OCtech. Do you have any experience at all in the health care field (CNA or something?) that would be beneficial just to get you used to the whole nurse/healthcare setting which some people actually have a harder time with that than actual disease processes/ nursing interventions. I would suggest going ahead and trying to learn about the nursing process and care plans and learning your basic lab values and what they mean ahead of time if you havent already done so just to give you a leg up. Good luck to you! And you are right, anything worth having is hard, so you have the right idea and I think you will do just fine.

bobs201 · Sep 26, 2011

I just completed the LPN-ADN transition program @ Trident this past summer. It was challenging @ times but most definately do-able. The most challenging classes for me were Nur207(psych) & Nur219(management). Ironically I was told at these would be the two easiest classes, boy were they WRONG!!! But all the hard work definately pays off & i can finally breathe now as a R.N.! Goodluck guys!

goldilockz · Sep 26, 2011

Congrats and good luck to you :) I'm currently in my last semester, so here are somethings I did/have done to survive. BE PREPARED to have your clinical day/site changed within 72 hours of clinical day, do weekday, night (Yes 2-11 pm), weekend (Sat/Sun) clinicals twice a week, and class/test the next day at 8 AM. Preplanning the clinical day before & completing a clinical worksheet (before the clinical day begins) usually take anywhere from 8 to 12 hours. NO you don't get to pick your clinical site or day, you have to go where assigned, no you can't switch with someone else, they do not care you are a single mom, work, dying, spouse deployed, pregnant, do not have sitter/daycare ect. for clinical (I'm not kidding). Best plan of attack for 158 and beyond go to class/seminar, GET A REVIEW & RATIONAL book, study your powerpoints, BUY several NCLEX review books and study the rationals to the questions so you understand what they are asking. There is always 2 right answers, but one is more correct and so is the answer no matter what you say! When a question says "so and so needs further education when..." THEY WANT THE WRONG ANSWER. Pass a Test...Study your Interventions! Know Safety and what will Kill the patient! Get plenty of sleep, you can't think clearly if you are tired. DO NOT put your self down for making in the low 70's on a test/class, you passed (AND everyone who has gone through this program is laughing, nodding, ect knows what I'm talking about. FYI, until Nursing school at TTC I had honors/4.0 and so did everyone else!). Each nursing class is crammed into 7 weeks, and some have papers/projects/ATI exams. Pick and choose your battles. This is the best plan of attack I can give you. I added the extra info. not to scare, but to prepare you and all others who are considering this program who read this.

bonedog1 · Sep 16, 2012

Theprogram sucks, if you are going to enroll here learn to suck it up, it is cheap,and however, you get what you pay for. It’s run by a bunch of armatures whothink they know they‘re doing, but they don’t. Every time you try to address aprogram deficiency, they tell you it’s your responsibility. Nothing in theprogram helps you but everything hurts you, i.e. clinicals, if you don’t attend,you fail, if a get 71% or a 99% your grade is the same, P vs. F no real reasonfor the extra effort. The course is not set up to be self-taught however theypick and choose what they want to teach, if you don’t get it, too bad the info.is out there, it’s your responsibility to get the info. I actually had a 15min. lecture on what amounted to 40% of the test. Most of the class failed, toobad suck it up the information is out there. If you plan to work or have afamily forget it, everything and anything can change at the instructor’s whim.I know there limited opportunities to go RN school in this area so consider youchoice carefully

kristen312 · Mar 22, 2016

I completely disagree. Clinical is pass /fail but everything else is graded normally. It's hard, but doable. I just happened upon this whole searching for ttc but hopefully the op has passed school. I think ttc is a wonderful school, which is why our Nclex pass rate is so high.