TCCD Nursing Fall 2019

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Hello,

I am applying for Tarrant County College District for Fall 2019. I am starting this thread so we can all share our thoughts about the application and anxiety.. ?

My Stats:

BIOL–2401 B

BIOL–2402 A

BIOL–2420 A

Hesi A2:

Reading 96%

Grammar 96%

Vocabulary 92%

Math 90%

Overall 93.5

1 hour ago, malec33 said:

Yeah, tuition alone is definitely not 10K. They factor in supplies, books, uniforms, other fees from vaccinations, BLS certification, transportation and things like that. But if you buy used books and discounted/used uniforms you can save a lot of money. The time you're in school depends, but skills class is 4 hours and theory is 4 hours. So on whatever day you get assigned each of those classes, you will only be on campus for those 4 hours. Clinical for your first semester will not be 12 hours, 12 hour clinical start in the Adult semester which is your 3rd semester of school. For first semester it will be about 9 hours. Mine, for instance, is from 6:30 am to 3:30 pm but sometimes runs until 4 pm.

Is there schooling on Saturday and Sunday? Were can I look to buy used books and uniforms any ideas?

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1 hour ago, laugust said:

Is there schooling on Saturday and Sunday? Were can I look to buy used books and uniforms any ideas?

There is but I believe only for clinical, I'm not too sure though. For used supplies I highly recommend joining the Facebook group for your class, look up Nursing Fall 2019 Tarrant County College and the group should come up. This is how I was able to get a lot of books and my scrubs this semester. A lot of people further along in the program use it as well and are always happy to answer any questions.

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I was accepted last week as well!

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I declined my spot I was accepted somewhere else good luck to everyone.

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On 4/9/2019 at 3:52 PM, malec33 said:

Hi everyone! I am currently a nursing student at TCC. I decided to pop in here and see if anyone had any questions I can help with. Good luck to you all!

Hi malec33,

Is there anything you would recommend doing to prepare for 1st semester nursing at TCC? Would you recommend taking a medical terminology course? Thanks for offering to answer our questions.

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48 minutes ago, MidheavenGemini said:

Hi malec33,

Is there anything you would recommend doing to prepare for 1st semester nursing at TCC? Would you recommend taking a medical terminology course? Thanks for offering to answer our questions.

Hi there,

As far as preparation I would say the best thing to do is make sure you have a good study routine down and know what study methods work for you. It might set you behind, especially in theory, to barely be figuring out how you study best since you'll be hit with "choose-the-best-answer" and "select-all-that-apply" critical thinking/application type of exam questions to adjust to as well. If you have the time, I'd recommend doing a pathophysiology or pharmacology course. The program does not have a dedicated class for either of those subjects, but girls who have taken them when they applied to other nursing schools that required it said it has helped them a lot. You will not go too far in depth with either of these the first semester, so maybe even just picking up a pharm book and going over med classifications would be helpful. I recommend going over analgesics, opioid analgesics, beta blockers, benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, diuretics, anticoagulants, insulins, and ACE inhibitors. For pathophysiology I would look at signs and symptoms of the most common illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, renal failure, congestive heart failure, pneumonia, gastroesophageal reflux disease, chronic artery disease, UTI's, pressure ulcers, and antibiotic resistant infections such as MRSA, CRE, and C. diff. If you've never been in a clinical setting before nursing school, like me, skimming over the signs and symptoms of these and being familiar with them will help you a great deal in clinical and will be more beneficial than just cracking open the foundations book and reading chapter 1. You'll have a dosage calculation test within the first few weeks but it's really not that hard, go to the Think Tanks (study sessions) for it as soon as school starts and you'll be totally fine...and then just keep going to the Think Tanks every week, they will help you learn to answer the big scary exam questions I was talking about earlier. Best of luck!

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On 4/9/2019 at 3:52 PM, malec33 said:

Hi everyone! I am currently a nursing student at TCC. I decided to pop in here and see if anyone had any questions I can help with. Good luck to you all!

Do you recommend getting all the textbooks? I know in a lot of classes you end up not using the book much, but not sure about nursing

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Hi everyone, I’m applying for the spring 2020 semester. I know this thread is for this fall but I was hoping that some of you could share what stats you had that got you in the program?

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Hi Jennshack,

Here are my stats:

A&P 1 B

A&P 2 A

Micro B

Hesi 92.5

Good Luck!

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On 4/9/2019 at 3:52 PM, malec33 said:

Hi everyone! I am currently a nursing student at TCC. I decided to pop in here and see if anyone had any questions I can help with. Good luck to you all!

Hi,

Just wondering what you got in with so I have an idea of wherw i stand

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On 4/16/2019 at 2:21 PM, Tld0721 said:

I was accepted last week as well!

What scores and gpa dis you gwt in with?

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On 4/9/2019 at 3:52 PM, malec33 said:

Hi everyone! I am currently a nursing student at TCC. I decided to pop in here and see if anyone had any questions I can help with. Good luck to you all!

Hi there I’m a current el centro nursing student going to be starting my second semester in the fall. But not sure if you know if I could transfer? Or how that works ? Thank you!

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