Tulsa Community College CNA Program

I took my CNA class at TCC. Our class was only five weeks. The first four weeks was lecture and lab and the last week was clinicals. I don't know how they will do rotations now, but when I was there about a year and a half ago, they split up our class into two groups. Group A went to one place and Group B went to another place for the entire week. Our two sites were Senior Suites and ManorCare.

I did my CNA at TCC also. I did a 4 or 5 week summer online blended class the summer of 2009. It was a breeze. Our clinical sites were owasso baptist village and ambassador manor. Half the class went to one site and the other half went to the other, so each student only went to 1 site.

I took the online blended CNA course at TCC this past spring of 2011. I believe it was 8 or 9 weeks, also. It went from mid-March to May. The first few weeks were 1 day a week in lab, like you said. There were a few assignments, like one research paper, an "extraordinary elder" project (paper + presentation), and some blackboard discussions, which were easy points. Our scheduling was messed up after spring break, and so we ended up having clinicals the last two weeks of class, twice a week (tues & thurs) for a total of 4 clinical days. Like previous posters said, the class is split into two groups, and sent to two different nursing homes (the PCT class had clinicals at the hospital & got to visit all the fun units, no fair! :) ) You are at the same facility for all of clinical. I was sent to Senior Suites in BA, I believe the other group was in north Tulsa. The class was pretty easy, I ended up with an A. I start the RN program at TCC next Monday, hope you get in! Good luck in your journey

Thank you :) I don't remember what the individual scores on Nelson Denny was, but my combined score was 16.3. You need at least a cumulative 2.5 GPA to apply for nursing. I had a 3.56 when I applied. There's a "point system" the nursing division uses for admission. You can estimate your amount of points based off a worksheet they have. The more points you have out of the total possible, the higher chance you have of being accepted. You can add up your points:

GPA: 3.5 or greater= 10 pts, 3.4= 9 pts, 3.3= 8 pts, 3.2= 7 pts, 3.1= 6 pts, 3.0= 5 pts, 2.9= 4 pts, 2.8= 3 pts, 2.7= 2 pts, 2.6= 1 pt, and 2.5 or less = 0 pts

Science Courses: Intro to Bio for Majors, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology (must be separate lab classes, A&P combined is not accepted) & Microbiology. For each class, add these points for what grade you ended the class with. An A= 8 pts, a B= 6 pts and a C= 4 pts. If you are currently enrolled in a class when you apply, you get 1 pt.

Non-Science courses: Eng Comp 1, Intro to Psych, Eng Comp II, Devel Psych, Amer Fed Govt, & US History. For each class, add these pts: An A= 4 pts, a B= 3 pts and a C= 1 pt.

If you are currently enrolled in a class when you apply, you get 1 pt.

If you are currently enrolled in the CNA or PCT course at TCC or have completed it with a C or better, you also get 1 extra point. People who did not take their CNA or PCT at TCC do not get the extra point.

Combined Nelson Denny score:

Score of 13 or above= 15 pts

Score of 11-12= 10 pts

Score of 10= 5

You also get 1 extra point for each of the following classes, if you have them COMPLETED with a "C" or above: (cannot just be currently enrolled)

NURS 1013 Critical Thinking & Decision Making

NURS 2993 Intro to Nurses Informatics

NURS 2993 Honor Service Learning in Nursing

NURS 2993 Stress Mangagement

ALDH 1323 Medical Terminology

BIOL 1383 Nutrition

So strive for A's, especially in those science lab courses! It's totally doable. My total score on the worksheet at the time I applied was 84 points. The natural break in the point system changes each semester, I think, depending on how many students apply and what their scores are. So the minimum amt of pts to get in change with each semester. I also know that they updated the worksheet, to where Bio for Majors counts for a few less points than the science course category. Hope this helps!