PVAMU-Fall 2007

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Hello to all...

I just received my acceptance letter to Prairie View (Fall 2007).... I am so excited!

Has anyone else received letters of acceptance to their program? I would love to find other classmates.

Also, is there anyone out there currently in the program or who just completed the program that can give me some pointers?

Thanks

Specializes in ICU.
I know this is weird but I was wondering what your last name was. I don't know how you pronounce it but i knew a girl from Mississippi whose name sounded like yours but i don't know how she spelled it.

It's pronounced Keisha. Sorry not from the SIPP! I just noticed your screen name...do we have something in common???

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It's pronounced Keisha. Sorry not from the SIPP! I just noticed your screen name...do we have something in common???

Yes I see we do! PM me

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Ketcia,

Do you suggest us getting all the books on the recommended list at PV? Or are there some books that are just a waste of time/money?

Thanks

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Specializes in ICU.
Ketcia,

Do you suggest us getting all the books on the recommended list at PV? Or are there some books that are just a waste of time/money?

Thanks

My suggestion is to get the essential books first. You will know which ones those are because they are the main textbooks for each class. As far as the supplemental books, I would play those by ear. You will find out what type of learning style is best for you and which supplements will increase your learning. Too many books and resources can be overwhelming and cause anxiety. There is also a such thing as too many study guides. Just because the author has a study guide, does not mean it will help you. If you find you are having trouble in a class, then you might want to look into other resources. Also, the textbooks used are really helpful and most of the time you do not need supplementation. The books have SO much information that you barely have time to read those, much less some added pages.

Good luck and feel free to ask more questions if needed.

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I'm not going to say too much because I don't have time right now. However, know this....if I can do it, you can do it. Many people who did not make it, did so because of their own doing. Being lazy, wanting to be spoon fed, wanting to go clubbing, etc. will not get you to your goal at PV. Our school prepares us VERY well. I have been in clinicals and have worked with students from other schools who were not as advanced as I was. Meaning I was in my 3rd semester (of 5) and they were about to graduate! They were looking to me for skills advice and they were about to apply for a freakin' license! :nono:

WE HAVE LOTS OF PRIDE....that's why not just anyone can walk out with a degree and that's why we have a 100% pass rate on boards. Our school wants to put out competent nurses, not nurses who make 4.0's in their program, but can't pass NCLEX. Or better yet, ones who do not have the skills needed to be a first year nurse. I met a new nurse from a medical center nursing school who had not done a SUB-Q injection yet, and one who had not put down an NG tube. That was SO 1st semester for me:uhoh3: (You guys will know what that is soon enough!)

Anyway, I'll be the first to admit...PV is not for everyone. It's for the STRONG-WILLED, DETERMINED, AND SELF-DIRECTED. If you are looking for an easy ride, please don't put yourself through the torture. HOWEVER, if you know what you want and you will do the work to get it....YOU WILL SUCCEED.

Ok, I'm done b/c I said I was not going to say much.

Ketcia

Hmmm..good you are graduating but it's very important others know what you went thru. There's really no need encouraging someone to go to PV when you as well as others know how hard and very difficult they make things for students. I was also there, so i know what I'm talking about. Everyone knows how hard it is in nursing school but they make it unnecessarily harder at PV and you know that. You can be proud of 100% nclex pass rate when at least 50% of the class passes not when 18% out of 81 passes. I would say it the way it is and it now depends on individual person to make a decision of going there or not. You can't just say that others who are not graduating with you are not as serious or determined as you are.That's an understatement and you know it. Anyway, this is just my two cents...I'm neither discouraging or encouraging anybody, but it's good to say it the way it is so pple can make their own decision themselves....

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Hmmm..good you are graduating but it's very important others know what you went thru. There's really no need encouraging someone to go to PV when you as well as others know how hard and very difficult they make things for students. I was also there, so i know what I'm talking about. Everyone knows how hard it is in nursing school but they make it unnecessarily harder at PV and you know that. You can be proud of 100% nclex pass rate when at least 50% of the class passes not when 18% out of 81 passes. I would say it the way it is and it now depends on individual person to make a decision of going there or not. You can't just say that others who are not graduating with you are not as serious or determined as you are.That's an understatement and you know it. Anyway, this is just my two cents...I'm neither discouraging or encouraging anybody, but it's good to say it the way it is so pple can make their own decision themselves....

Well it wasn't unnecessarily difficult for me. It's all about perception and my perception is that I worked hard and I was rewarded. Your perception of "the way it is" is different from mine. Nothing was made unnecessarily hard so NO, "I don't know that." No one can speak to my experience but me. And I never said that the only people that didn't make it were not determined, HOWEVER there were a lot of people in that situation. Some people couldn't pay for school, some had family issues, etc. so they had to sit out or drop all together.

So anyway, like I said it's all about perception. I'm proud I graduated from PV. And if it's as unnecessarily hard as you say it is, I must be a genius :rolleyes:

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well, i'm a pv grad. went straight through without dropping or retaking any classes. but Pv is hard.unnecessarily hard given that when you graduate most people are hired through internships/preceptorships (HOUSTON). everyone is different but i tell anyone if you got 2 acceptance letters and u insist you want to come to PV, postpone the other admission acceptance letter to the next semester for personal reasons. then come to pv.

Prairie view for one is very disorganized. if you're not financially stable or don't have much of a support system, you're coming in with your additional baggage. i remember one time, if a friend hadn't paid my tuition for me, i would have dropped out that semester eventhough i had applied for finaid way in advance. finaid is a mess. i hear they are working on it though. so far as the curriculum, all you know is what you'll read. the teachers are just figureheads to tell you what to read.

I heard a lot about ketcia's class. last semester they had to retake several finals just to increase the # of pple who passed. during their first semester, they retook a couple of exams too! During my five semesters in PV no one had retaken any exam let alone a final! didn't matter if

your last semester you have to take this exit exam called HESI. passing rate in PV is 900 and you must pass inorder to graduate. you have 2 chances to take it before your graduation. no other school in Houston has such a high score set. most school use 850 and others just take the exam for your own personal evaluation. 92% of my class that failed the HESI had a score btw 850-899. if you were in this bracket you would wish you were in another school.

Anyway, PV is very hard. hardwork, determination, prayers, support system, bills paid all play a part in your success in PV

just my million cents!

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Well.... to the ones that have gone to PV, what can you tell us that is good about the school?

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well, i'm a pv grad. went straight through without dropping or retaking any classes. but Pv is hard.unnecessarily hard given that when you graduate most people are hired through internships/preceptorships (HOUSTON). everyone is different but i tell anyone if you got 2 acceptance letters and u insist you want to come to PV, postpone the other admission acceptance letter to the next semester for personal reasons. then come to pv.

Prairie view for one is very disorganized. if you're not financially stable or don't have much of a support system, you're coming in with your additional baggage. i remember one time, if a friend hadn't paid my tuition for me, i would have dropped out that semester eventhough i had applied for finaid way in advance. finaid is a mess. i hear they are working on it though. so far as the curriculum, all you know is what you'll read. the teachers are just figureheads to tell you what to read.

I heard a lot about ketcia's class. last semester they had to retake several finals just to increase the # of pple who passed. during their first semester, they retook a couple of exams too! During my five semesters in PV no one had retaken any exam let alone a final! didn't matter if

your last semester you have to take this exit exam called HESI. passing rate in PV is 900 and you must pass inorder to graduate. you have 2 chances to take it before your graduation. no other school in Houston has such a high score set. most school use 850 and others just take the exam for your own personal evaluation. 92% of my class that failed the HESI had a score btw 850-899. if you were in this bracket you would wish you were in another school.

Anyway, PV is very hard. hardwork, determination, prayers, support system, bills paid all play a part in your success in PV

just my million cents!

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Thank you. There's really no reason for me to talk too much on this after all I cannot make decision for each person but by actually telling pple about my experiences including the ups and downs, I'm paving a way for them to get really prepared so they don't get stuck like i might have been at one time or the other. Experience , they say is the best teacher, however, I can also smartly learn from other's mistakes as well. Again i say thank you for saying it the way it is.

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well, i'm a pv grad. went straight through without dropping or retaking any classes. but Pv is hard.unnecessarily hard given that when you graduate most people are hired through internships/preceptorships (HOUSTON). everyone is different but i tell anyone if you got 2 acceptance letters and u insist you want to come to PV, postpone the other admission acceptance letter to the next semester for personal reasons. then come to pv.

Prairie view for one is very disorganized. if you're not financially stable or don't have much of a support system, you're coming in with your additional baggage. i remember one time, if a friend hadn't paid my tuition for me, i would have dropped out that semester eventhough i had applied for finaid way in advance. finaid is a mess. i hear they are working on it though. so far as the curriculum, all you know is what you'll read. the teachers are just figureheads to tell you what to read.

I heard a lot about ketcia's class. last semester they had to retake several finals just to increase the # of pple who passed. during their first semester, they retook a couple of exams too! During my five semesters in PV no one had retaken any exam let alone a final! didn't matter if

your last semester you have to take this exit exam called HESI. passing rate in PV is 900 and you must pass inorder to graduate. you have 2 chances to take it before your graduation. no other school in Houston has such a high score set. most school use 850 and others just take the exam for your own personal evaluation. 92% of my class that failed the HESI had a score btw 850-899. if you were in this bracket you would wish you were in another school.

Anyway, PV is very hard. hardwork, determination, prayers, support system, bills paid all play a part in your success in PV

just my million cents!

FACTS (not what someone "heard"): People took exams over in my first semester because we had a very different class. Many people were there thinking they were going to skip along, and they failed. They were graciously offered retakes b/c the professors thought that they had done something wrong and wanted to correct their mistakes. We were offered extra tutorials, our instructors stayed late and even offered to come in on Saturdays for those who felt they needed extra help. Needless to say, the outcome was the same b/c it was not the instruction. The majority of people that we lost were in the 1st semester. We did not lose a lot of people after that. The bulk were weeded out early.

-Last semester we were offered retakes b/c the second LVN to BSN class was intergrated in with us. There were 11 of them and 8 of them failed both the final exams which made them fail the classes. THe exams were offered to save the people in the LVN-BSN program because if you fail 2 classes you are out the program. The instructors were generous enough to attempt to give people another chance. They did not have to do that. They did not do it to increase the number of people who passed. That statement is contradictory b/c if they make the school SO hard, why would they offer people another chance? If the instructors were figure heads and did not care, wouldn't they just say "oh well" and not allow people to retake exams to try to help them succeed??

- One accurate thing that the poster stated was about financial aid. When I got there, if you had problems with financial aid you had to drive to the main campus. That was a PAIN. Now, there is a financial aid representative in Houston strictly there for the School of Nursing. That has saved A LOT of headaches, because the counselor only handles the nursing students and she is located at the school.

- HESI is a diagnostic exam that measures how well you will do on the NCLEX. The recommended passing score is 850. Yes, we have to make a 900. I made way above 900. I'm not sure why we have to make so much higher than the other schools. I do know that our instructors expect nothing but the best from us, so our standards are higher. Personally, it makes me feel good that after taking that exam, I am ready for boards. If I could have taken my boards right after the exam I would have b/c I was EXTREMELY prepared.

-LAstly, it seems weird to me that this poster appeared from out of thin air. They joined today and this is their first post, that just "happens" to be about PV and they just "happen" to be a PV grad....strange.

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Specializes in ICU.
Well.... to the ones that have gone to PV, what can you tell us that is good about the school?

Like I have been saying all along, everything is about perception. There are many things that go on in life that one can see as a negative. I feel blessed to have gone to PV. I have met some of the smartest, caring, rule-the-world type of women in the instructors. I am in awe of their accomplishments and their abilities as powerful Black women. I am getting wiser, so I am learning to appreciate all of my experiences. Both good and not so great. I'm not saying it's a box of chocolates, but if I can do it...you can do it.

Be encouraged wherever you go, because with nursing you have a huge responsibility that goes far beyond the school you attend and how hard is was. School is only the first part of a long journey to greatness. Chose wisely. If you want to feel prepared and ready to take on the nursing world, I would chose PV. If I had it to do all over again, I would make the same choice

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ketcia, yes, i joined yesterday. i've been lurking for about a month because i'm planning on going to CRNA school and needed some info and when i did a search, i found this website. I felt a need to share my opinion on this issue (so i joined), after all it is a discussion forum. By the way, I graduated dec-2006. Do you want my FULL NAME to double check? get a grip on life, there's more to life than nursing school or being a nurse!

good thing about PV for me was the fact that i made very wonderful friends here. lifelong friends. i'm proud to be a nurse. period. not necessarily proud to be a PV nurse!

To all those who want or have to go to PV, it's a hard journey, but we'll be here to support each other. I don't mean to discourage anyone. just be armed. i got plenty of resources (books) that i bought but don't plan on selling. I could lend them out especially my care plan books. PM me for more info.

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