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Has anyone applied at SC4 or is in SC4's nursing program right now? I am hoping to be accepted for this fall. I am working on my last prereq right now, pathophysiology. Other than that, I have everything else done.

Hi 4treasures,

I would enjoy and appreciate to be able to have someone I could call on. Please write to me at [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you.

CONGRATULATION on graduating and best wishes on passing the boards.

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:yeah: congrats to all sc4 incoming students. i am an sc4 09 grad. the program is very tough. the whole first year is rough, although if you don't need patho, the second semester is 3 days. i took it in class. i know you are overwhelmed, but stick together, and you will be ok. i agree that the first semester i did very little but read and study. the house is a mess, and you need to get help from family as much as possible. i am the mom of 4 kids who were 2, 5, 7, and 9 when i started, and i managed to be one of the few who got all a's the first semester, and graduated with a 3.56 gpa. so, it can be done! (although i have gained about 30 lbs from sitting on my butt studying for hours at a time:crying2:) if i can help, let me know!

congrats on graduating! how awesome to have had all a's your first semester and such a great gpa in the end.

i also have small children, and i'd have to say that not having time for them is what makes me the most nervous about starting this fall. do you remember how many hours per day you studied (on average) the first semester? i'm trying to get a sense of what i'm in for. i want to be prepared emotionally and mentally, as well as prepare my husband. i don't have a lot of family support, so i 'm really going to have to depend on him to take care of the kids. i don't want it to sound like my family doesn't support me in going to school because they do, i just mean that everybody works, so as far as the kids go, they can't really help me out too much with them.

i know that i've heard from many people that it does get a little less stressful after the first semester, so i just have to keep reminding myself of that. and yes i'm sure that i will be counting down the days until the first semester is over.

did you already take the nclex? how'd you do?

anyways, any advice or tips would be wonderful.

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Make sure you have several options for childcare, especially in case of snow days (SC4 never cancels- we got 8 inches of snow, and still had to go in, I got stuck 3 times that day!!!!) or if the kids are sick. (I know its hard to find someone to take a vomiting kid, but if you miss a day, you miss a lot, and it could make the difference between passing, and not) Do you have a church family? I had to ask them to help me out a few times, and they were always awesome about it. I also thought is was horrible that we lost our house in Peck, but we are renting from a family inour church, and we are 3 miles from both my mother -in- law, and my brother in Law. Both have been amazingly helpful. God sometimes takes the most horrible things, and turns them into exactly what we need.

I would say that I probably studied about 20 hours a week. usually I studied with a couple of gals from my first clinical group on the weekends, mostly for tests, so sometimes it was way more then that. I liked to take notes and record lecture, then at home I would re-read the sections covered one at a time, then summarize it on a notecard, which I would take with me to study if I was away from home. However, everyone is different. I have to work really hard at my grades. I would also suggest that you pick up an NCLEX review CD, and do those questions as you go through them in class. It really helped me to understand how to answer the questions, and i even saw a few on tests. I would also recommend the Evolve website that comes with most of our books. They also have review questions taylored to that specific book.

I would definatly say after the first, you know more what to expect, and have a better idea of what works for you, and what doesn't. The whole first year is hard. Spring is short, but very intense.

One thing I learned that I wish I had done from the beginning is as you are doing your head to toe assessment, incorperate the questions from your assessment sheets into your physical assessment. For instance as you are looking at the persons eye's ask have you ever had any problems or surgeries with your eyes? With that simple question you knocked out several of the ones on your assessment sheet! Then you can follow up with just a handful at the end, instead of a hour long interview that we all hate.

I just took the NCLEX and passed! I must have done well, as it stopped at 75 questions, and that is the minimum you can get. I was a little anxious! I have done very well on the HESI's and the last 2 have gotten over 96%, so I knew if that was an predictor of NCLEX sucess, I should have done well.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Heather

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I noticed that no one has written on this forum in quite some time but I am curious to see how everyone has been doing with school! I am hoping to start the Fall 2011 program which is when many of you will be graduating. Any advice you can give? Also what were your gpa's when you applied? I am mostly nervous about that but my grades aren't bad. They are mostly average but I am working on increasing my gpa this semester and next as well.

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MsAshley,

I haven't seen any further posts on here. I too am hoping to enter the Fall 2011 ADN program at SC4. Did you take the HESI and do you have your 10 pre-req. classes done? I will look forward to the letters coming at the end of this month.

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Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows anything about HE 210? I heard its really hard and I'm trying to take it in the Spring with 2 other classes? Is this going to be too hard?

Thanks

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