Southwest Tennessee Community College

Oh I am confused about where to look on the website for this that and the other. I am concerned about what is due when...The information you get those first few days is a lot. I think I am getting a better handle on it already. If I can just get my APA formatting down I will be in business.

While I am thinking about it, in D & S there are days were it says we are 'off-ground.' Those days we do not come to class at all right? We just work from home?

I just started the Spring 2010 semester. I was able to take A&P 2 and Micro over the summer. A&P2 was the short first summer term (class everyday for 5 weeks) and Micro was the entire summer (both terms 3x/week). It wasn't easy. I don't work and it was intense those first 5 weeks with both classes going on. I did make an A in both. It's worth it to try so you can start next Spring.

As far as admission - they only count your GPA for classes the past 5 years. So if you took it in the past 5 years, it counts in your GPA whether it's pertinent to nursing or not.

For admission, I had a 4.0 GPA, A's in A&P 1/2 and Micro, and a 159 on the NLN exam. I thought the test was pretty easy.

@ jennshort568 and scifihippie

i am wondering just how the semesters work in the actual nursing program. according to the curriculum, the 1st semester there is dosages and solutions, foundations of nursing and the foundations of nursing clinical. are there any other classes that you are taking along with those? i'm just curious as to how what your schedules look like.

@ nikkih901

Those are the only three classes that I'm taking. - Dosage, Foundations and Clinical. You have to pass all three before you can move on. If you pass Foundations and not Dosages, you can't move on to the next semester - Adult Health I until you retake Dosages.

My schedule is M/Tu 7pm to 9pm Foundations, Th 7pm to 9pm Dosages (hybrid) and Saturday 6a until 3pm (or 8am to 5p) for Clinical. Dosages is a hybrid course, so some weeks you only have to do assignments at home and not come to class. Clinical is 6 weeks on campus starting at 8am for learning skills and then the last 7 weeks are at the hospital starting at 6am.

I know you can take other classes towards your degree each semester like math or english or humanities, but not any other nursing classes. Frankly, I wouldn't try to take anything else but those nursing classes. I don't work, but I have two small children (4 and 2), I'm sending them to daycare some days so I can study. It's a lot of work. I've probably studied about 45 hours in the past week.

hi ladies and/or gents..

quick question, i just got my nln pre admission results...i plan to apply at stcc, i now you have to make at least a hundred, but there's so many numbers and scores on this sheet that i'm not sure what is the actual score that stcc is gonna be looking at, i just know it has to be over 100...is it the "composite score"?...pleassssse help

thx

are you sure about - "As far as admission - they only count your GPA for classes the past 5 years. So if you took it in the past 5 years, it counts in your GPA whether it's pertinent to nursing or not" ?

I know your science classes can't be older than 5 years, but that's completely different...

the admission info on stcc's page says that is your overall gpa on any college course attempted...

can anyone shed any light?

thanks

hi ladies and/or gents..

quick question, i just got my nln pre admission results...i plan to apply at stcc, i now you have to make at least a hundred, but there's so many numbers and scores on this sheet that i'm not sure what is the actual score that stcc is gonna be looking at, i just know it has to be over 100...is it the "composite score"?...pleassssse help

thx

Yes, that's the score.

Okay we have only been in school 2 weeks and I am exhausted, worried, stressed and completely overwhelmed, and my teacher talks way to fast for us to take notes ( who writes that fast, I wish I knew shorthand). I thought we had to learn a lot of information in Microbiology short term summer session (HAH!) nothing compares to how much material we have to go over in Foundations I. I am determined to make it through though. I can be sleep deprived until summer. I would greatly appreciate any advice 2nd year or 2nd semester students could share. Good Luck everybody.

I am in OB right now, took foundations last semester and the only way I made the grade I did was by recording class and taking the notes I could during class. Then after class,I would go home and listen to my recording and type up notes. It worked super well for me. Other ppl brought their computers to class and could type faster than they could write. It gets easier as you go through. After your first test ( which will be the easiest one all year so do well to pad your grade) you will know what to look for information wise. Good luck, you get through this you get to do OB and OB is SOOOO much fun and they are nicer to you cause youve earned their respect. Keep drudging through, its so very frustrating I know... but you can do it. Good LUCK!

@katarerodz

I called the nursing dept about the GPA and they told me only classes 5 years back count towards your STCC GPA that is used for nursing admittance. Yes, they will accept transfer credits older than that for non-science courses, but they don't count in your GPA. I have classes from 1990-94 from my first degree that were accepted (econ, calculus, english, art, music, history, etc.), but none of those grades are calculated in my GPA.

@ BluffcityTn

I'm also first semester and I realized that following along in the book and highlighting as she goes along worked much better than trying to take notes on everything. She goes so fast and I can't write that fast either.

@ TN Nursestudent21

I'm wondering if anyone gets As and Bs? LOL. They talk all this stuff about C=continue. I don't want a C, I want an A. I've been reading, writing out all the unit objectives, studying, meeting with a study group, etc. I'm also a good standardized test taker. Is there any NCLEX review that you found helpful? A book? What about the mynursinglab? I haven't bought it yet, but feel like it might be helpful. Thanks!

STCC took all of my classes that could be applied to a degree program (sciences, humanities, math) from my first degree 1993-1998. They are on my transcript and calculated into my GPA. I even called to get some taken off that did not apply to my nursing degree directly and was told no because at the time my transcript was evaluated, I had not been accepted into the nursing program yet. (I retook A&P and Micro at STCC so that is what she means.)

As for A's or it getting better, I really don't mean to be negative, but the answer is no. OB and D&S is the only class I know that someone got an A in. A few people have gotten B's. So far, and I am in my 3rd semester, we have lost half each time (Not always b/c of failing, some dropped for personal reasons. I would say that there is ~20 of us who have moved through without having to repeat.) . I was told Mental Health is the easiest class. We had our first test last night and I bet at least half the class did not pass (me included!!)!!! At least half of my ADH1 class did not pass the class. Once you move through you only have class for 7 weeks, so that means that you have an exam every other week. The comprehensive final is 2 days from exam #3, plus the HESI. That is a lot to study in a very short time. Some sage advice: Do really well on exams 1-3, b/c from here on out you will see that the finals are impossible!!! I had 90's on all three ADH1 exams, 1100 on the HESI, then a 74 on my final. In OB I had 96 on all 3 exams, 1000 on the HESI, and an 82 on the final!! How does that happen? Simple, there were things, like drugs, on the final that we were not asked to know and that was not in the objectives!!

Our Foundations teacher told us that in her 20 years of teaching, she has only known one person who got an A in ADH2. Personally, if there is not 1 single person in a class who gets an A, then something is wrong.

I use the Reviews and Rationales books and love them. It simplifies everything in outline form. I also use the Saunders NCLEX review book. I don't find this to be helpful because the questions in there are way too easy. That is sad to say but true!!