St. Clair County Community College

Hello hoping09. I am a student at SC4 as well. I was in the program that started fall 08. I missed staying in it by 4 stinking points in my skills class. I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason, so I am sure that everything will work out the way it is suppose to for me.

I re-applied for fall 09. I will wait and see if I get in again.

When do you have patho? I am taking that right now as well. I have it tomorrow morn actually with Ms. Till. I should be studying fluid/lytes right now, but i will wait for the kiddies to go to bed b4 i do that. How did you do on your first test? (Assuming you had yours already).

Hope to hear back from ya-

Good luck to you-

Were you actually in the program, left, and now have to reapply all over again? That's awful, I'm sorry that happened to you Best of luck to you!

Angelgreg,

Did you get in for fall 2009? I did and would like to network with others. Also pass on any info you have about clinical as to what hosp they are and what times they are held. Best wishes for Till's final :)

HOPING09

HELLO-

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I have not been on this site lately.

As far as having to aply again, yes i had to do it all over again. I did get in luckily so I will be starting all over again in the fall. At least this time all i have to take is principles and skills, and redo the clinicals. (only because they are connected). I only failed skills, but they are connected so i have to take them both again.

My clinicals were at an extended care facility for the first 8 weeks, and then at PHH for the last eight weeks. I loved being at the hopsital. The extended care facility I did not really care for. (just me thou).

The first semester was killer. I have NEVER in my life gone thru anything so stressful. I had Pharm, and then all the other classes too. It was so fast passed, and so much to learn. I remember at one point we had 4 or 5 test in one week. It was crazy. I heard from my friends that are in the second semester now that it is much more laid back, and calm. I am not looking forward to all the stress again however, it is something that I really want, so I will endure it. lol.

I did not tell you all of that to scare you, i just wish that when I was going into it I had someone to really lay it all out on the line for me, and tell me exactly what to expect. I was clueless.

I live in Macomb twp. Where abouts are you?

If you have anymore questions I would be more than happy to answer any that I can. I know how nerve wracking it is guessing, and not really knowing what to expect. One word of advice get ahead in the summer, and stay ahead, and review, review, review.

Don't be to nervous or get to frustrated. You will beable to do it!! It is just planning, and organizing. I wish I would have studied harder for skills. It was the class that I had a 90 percent in so I did'nt focus to much on it going into the final. I was at a 79 in pharm going into the final and was freaking out about failing that. So, I focused alot of time on that. Oh- well. I will get it right this time around. lol

Good Luck to you-

OH- and CONGRATS!!

Angel

Your welcome. My first schedule was Mondays I had skills lab from 9-12 then starting mid way thru the first semester I had nursing process which was from 1-2:50 on mondays (ibelieve), Tues were my study days (off), Wed I had pharm, principles, and assessment/lab. The assessment class and the lab class for it alternates everyother week. I think I had about an hour or so in between each class. Pharm was about 2 hours, and principles was three loooonnnnng boring hours (lol) and assessment was about an hour and half or so. Then Thurs/Fri I had clinical. My hours for the first half was 7am-12 i believe, then our second half was suppose to be from 1-9pm, but my instructor had a scheduling conflict so we had clinical from 10-6pm which worked out nicely.

Lots of books are needed for your first sem. They have some pretty good recs for what types of book bags to get. A bunch of us went to JoAnn Fabrics and got the scrap booking bags on wheels. It worked out nicely. They fit all the books in there.

Weds were my long day like I mentioned, so I would bring my bag with wheels on those days, you use your nursing fundamentals book for skills and principles, then your assessment book for both lab and assessment class, and clinicals to help you along with your assessment profiles on your clients.

I hope this helps ya, if you have anymore questions i will be glad to help ya out...if i can.:)

In Michigan?

:redpinkhe Sarah Hay, SN

yup, Michigan:)

I was accepted into sc4 for fall 09