Spring 2015 ASU TCPN

jlozo · Nov 8, 2014

I would think if you already had one you would be good. It is $75 for the drug test as well.

MissCassie · Nov 13, 2014

Sooooo how's everyone paying for this program? Loans? Scholarships? Grants? ect.

MissCassie · Nov 16, 2014

Did you guys enroll yet?

jlozo · Nov 16, 2014

Did you guys enroll yet?

I enrolled on Thursday.

MissCassie · Nov 24, 2014

Did anyone receive the third email about the Jr. Welcome Event? Or the Candle Lighting Ceremony? The last email I got was the signature forms and enrolling for classes....

Egaddy · Oct 3, 2015

Hi I am applying for Spring 2016 I was just wondering if you guys know what your cut off score was for acceptance and also if you know how many people applied. Thank you in advance!

Atherishispida · Oct 3, 2015

Egaddy, I will post this info for you and anyone else who is following this thread. As far as cutoff scores are considered they change dramatically every semester. The semester we got in I think people applied with 1.78 and still got in. However, let me just give you a quick heads up... This program is a mess and is SUPER heavy on theory.. It seems that skills have taken a back seat to theory due to some push by society to try and make nursing a "respected science". Not that this is a bad thing but don't expect to learn how to perform your duties extremely efficiently through practice and reinforcement by the teaching staff. I feel like if I spent 6 months to a year, not knowing anything about nursing, in a nursing environment I would be a better nurse than if I came out of school after 4 years with a BSN from ASU. Staffing changes frequently and I no longer believe that this is the best program in the state. Most of your instructors are usually old and have been in a lot of different nursing fields so they can do their jobs extremely well but they absolutely blow at teaching and don't fully put in the effort to understand the books information and present it to you in an easy to understand fashion. In hind site I wish I would have just received my RN through a community college and then taken the theory courses online with asu to get the BSN. The first semester is a joke and feels like community college then the second semester is a million times harder and you are being taught by people who are currently in school for their Masters/PHD which, I personally feel, takes away from their time and ability to dedicate themselves to teaching the students to the best of their abilities. So to sum it all up.... **** is a mess... Do not expect the teachers to care about you, your efforts to get into the program, your dedication, the money you spent, and your thirst for knowledge.. Expect them to just sit in front of the class bulllshitting about personal experiences that they have had which have a tiny bit to do with the information you are learning and then setting you up for failure by looking for weaknesses in what people are and aren't studying and testing you on those aspects. I know this seems like I'm just hatting hardcore but in all reality I worked my ******* ass off to get into this program thinking it was the best possible option only to find out that the staff and the program are EXTREMELY unorganized, staff changes frequently, most of the teachers don't know how to teach effectively but are just experts in their fields. All in all, I know nursing school is supposed to be difficult, which I expected, but I also expected with the amount of money we all pay and the effort we all put in to get into this program that they would have at least made sure they had the best teaching staff possible. This is not the case though unfortunately. My advice would be to take the easy route cause a BSN is a BSN in my personal opinion now.... This coming from a straight A student who easily passed the first semester and is in the process of passing the second semester as well. I am just extremely unsatisfied with the program.

Egaddy · Oct 3, 2015

Omg I am so nervous now. I want to be able to enjoy my education. I applied to the community college way also, but I always thought it was better to go straight to the university!

inxdisgust · Oct 3, 2015

To be fair this pretty much sounds like every nursing program everywhere. So don't worry too much. You basically learn how to pass the NCLEX in your nursing program, and then learn how to be an actually effective nurse in your first job or two.

Maycation · Oct 4, 2015

@Atherishispida,

I am sorry you feel that way about the program. I applied to begin the post-bacc program in January. I looked into a lot of schools and talked to a lot of students, and basically heard that same thing: Nursing school prepares you to pass the NCLEX, being a nurse prepares you to be a nurse. But I think the science and theory is a really important part of nursing in that it will prepare you to think critically and know how to apply science based knowledge to situations. Although the staff changes and disorganization may not be helping with that. What semester are you in? I have heard from people who went through the program they you really don't get to practice clinical skills until the last semester. You are placed with nurses and they pretty much allow you to take care of the patients, whereas before you were just kinda following people around.

Also, hospitals expect you to not know things. They know how the nursing curriculum works. That is why they provide new grad programs. I have heard that a lot of hospitals actually prefer students who have a "fresh slate" so to speak because every hospital is different in the way they do things. I would look into those programs after you graduate.

Additionally, I do not think it is possible for ASU to be any more disorganized than ASU. A poster just said on another thread that they have students who have to finish clinicals after they graduate because they didn't have a clinical spot for them during the program. That sounds like an absolute nightmare.

Maycation · Oct 6, 2015

**ERROR: I meant to say that I don't know how ASU could be anymore disorganized than GCU* as GCU has had all the issues with clinicals and organization listed above. I couldn't edit it when I posted it for some reason, so I wanted to come back and clarify.