Unhappy with CSCC...are there any alternatives?

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I submitted my application to CSCC at 9:00 am this morning. Later today, I found out that dozens of other people had the same idea. They camped out in the computer lab and all waited to hit the 'enter' key at 9:00 am. The application was supposedly for Spring '11, but only a few people will get in due to the overwhelming number of applicants from the Fall '10 crowd. I'm fairly certain that I will not start until almost a year and a half from now. I find this frustrating, considering I have the same chance of getting in as someone who has much lower grades than mine (I have a 3.9 GPA). Are there any good alternatives to Columbus State out there?

Oops, yeah, the clinical is on Tuesday not Wednesday. I wasn't looking at the schedule when I poste. I just know that I'm in school T, W and TH rather than M, T and Th.

Yup, I got in the Tuesday clinical which will work out SO much better for our family. Tuesday is going to be one long day though.

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Oops, yeah, the clinical is on Tuesday not Wednesday. I wasn't looking at the schedule when I poste. I just know that I'm in school T, W and TH rather than M, T and Th.

Yup, I got in the Tuesday clinical which will work out SO much better for our family. Tuesday is going to be one long day though.

Yup that's my schedule too, plus a speech class online. I wanted the availability for work and my family. So much better to keep all the days together! At least Weds & Thursday will be short to make up for Tuesday... :cool:

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Speech online wasn't too bad. Sort of a pain in the heiny just because it's speech and I don't know too many people who get excited for that class.

Do you have many other coreqs to finish up?

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Speech online wasn't too bad. Sort of a pain in the heiny just because it's speech and I don't know too many people who get excited for that class.

Do you have many other coreqs to finish up?

I know, speech, woo-hoo, right? :yawn: And I'm not doing hybrid so I think I have to video my speeches and turn them in. Oh well.

As for what coreqs - I'm in Physiology & Humanities now, next quarter the Speech - so I'll have Patho, Micro, and that other Comm class. Not too bad, since I've only ever gone full time Winter '09 & Spring '10 Quarters. I'll definitely take Patho Winter quarter, I wanted to take it Fall, and just gut it out with the Nurs classes, but the times STUNK for taking with these first quarter Nurs classes, most of the times overlapped one of the times we'd be in class. Ugh. But I have a friend from Anatomy starting Nursing with us who took summer off, so she's in Physio Fall & we can try to take Patho together. We'll see.

So, are you done with your co-req's?

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I think that's a little harsh concerning 261. It is a hard class and very fast-paced. I'm happy for you that it was "easy". But I got my second "B" ever in that class and just because someone has a rough time with a science doesn't mean they won't be cut out to be a nurse or make it through nursing school... you both sound really judgmental IMO. There were good, smart people taking it for the second time. And I hope they make it to nursing school... and I won't think they are wasting a spot for someone else.

I meant that I know people who took 2-3 tries to pass BIO 261, CHEM 113, NURC 101, NURC 102, etc. If you don't make the cut on one of those classes and have to retake, sure. But if you continually struggle with each class and have to take a fair amount of a second and then third time... makes you wonder if they are cut out for nursing.

One girl in my NURC 102 class said she failed CHEM 100, CHEM 113, NURC 101 each once and she was on her third try of NURC 102.

According to the few people I know in the CSCC program or have graduated from the program, the nursing curriculum makes the prerequisites/science classes look like middle school so if you are legitimately struggling in multiple prerequisites, it makes you wonder how they will make it through the nursing curriculum. I'm one that finds anatomy much easier than physiology in the same way I found ochem/biochem much easier than gen chem.

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just because someone has a rough time with a science doesn't mean they won't be cut out to be a nurse or make it through nursing school...

No doubt! :) I am lucky in the sense that science comes easy to me, but there are people out there who have to work hard and that doesn't make them less capable when it comes to being a good nurse. Also letter grades don't always reflect the true capacity of the individual's knowledge base. Many people get test anxiety or have a hard time with rote memorization. Nursing isn't about knowing every single muscle, bone, or vessel name in the body. It is about therapeutic communication, assessment, and caring for your patient. Knowing body parts is of course important, but that is only one part of the big picture. For some people those things will solidify over time because everything is comprehensive - and with that comes continual review of what you already know (or should know).

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For what it's worth, even though I did fine in anatomy, I found physiology and pathophysiology to be much easier. I think for most people it is the other way around though....

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I think that's a little harsh concerning 261. It is a hard class and very fast-paced. I'm happy for you that it was "easy". But I got my second "B" ever in that class and just because someone has a rough time with a science doesn't mean they won't be cut out to be a nurse or make it through nursing school... you both sound really judgmental IMO. There were good, smart people taking it for the second time. And I hope they make it to nursing school... and I won't think they are wasting a spot for someone else.

It doesn't sound like you are struggling with 261, especially if you have other obligations in your life. I do not think 261 is an easy class. I was just validating what she had said. In other words, I could see how this stuff could be much more difficult. But at the same time, I don't see how this class could be considered the most difficult prereq at CSCC. I imagine 262 being much more difficult. Thankfully, I don't have to take 262.

The nurse I work with believes a lot of these science classes are unnecessary. After doing this for almost twenty years, she says she only remembers the stuff that she needs to use on a daily basis. She was a very good student in school. I agree with her to some extent. There was a lot of stuff I needed to learn for my first degree that I never needed to remember for my career. I believe you learn most of the stuff after you graduate.

I was a very good engineering tech and I had very average grades. After I graduated, it took me six months to find a job. I had no idea how cut-throat the career world would be. It took me another two years to find a decent job, because employers would go right back to my college and look up my GPA. Only after I had proven myself in my career would I gain any respect at all. When you graduate from CSCC, you are going to be tossed around in a very turbulent world. You will be a young nurse with very little or no experience whatsoever. You will fighting for jobs against people who very well may have more education and more experience than you. You NEED to be armed with every good selling feature you've got. Central ohio is saturated with nurses. There are dozens of students graduating every quarter. Last year, OSU had a record number of nurses graduate from their program: 2 DNP's, 92 MSN's, and a whopping 142 BSN's! With the economy the way it is, do you honestly think things are going to change much in 2-3 years? If anything, even more people will want to pursue nursing. It is extremely competitive right now and probably will be for a long time.

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For what it's worth, even though I did fine in anatomy, I found physiology and pathophysiology to be much easier. I think for most people it is the other way around though....

I'm one of those people too. Physiology has been awesome compared to just memorizing individual muscles,viens, arteries, etc. and placement [which are different from cadaver to cadaver to model to picture]... and I do realize that all people are different too, but just that mass amount of memorization was horribly boring and time intensive. I like *understanding* it better = why I like physiology. And I did fine in anatomy but I was taking Eng 111 too and that was sooo time intensive with my teacher. It was time more than anything.

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I don't like physio because i found it boring. I like to fix people. I think patho will be more interesting. I found them equal in terms of how hard they are.

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I don't like physio because i found it boring. I like to fix people. I think patho will be more interesting. I found them equal in terms of how hard they are.

I loved physiology because I loved learning about how everything works together. I don't prefer memorization, but really liked being able to trace functions from one place to another and extrapolate what will happen next.

Patho doesn't teach about fixing people. It takes normal physiology and shows what goes wrong and how a problem in one area impacts other areas and how a disease progresses through the body. Basically it's abnormal physiology. You learn some signs and symptoms.

There is no treatment or pharmacology in patho. You certainly learn about major disease categories. You learn stages of disease, but it isn't about how to treat or what interventions to take.

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There is no treatment or pharmacology in patho. You certainly learn about major disease categories. You learn stages of disease, but it isn't about how to treat or what interventions to take.

LOL, one of the things I'm NOT looking forward to is whatever we learn about Diabetes again!!! OMG, I've heard variations of Diabetes lectures on what it is and what's wrong with the body 6 times. We have one coming up in physio, and I'm sure we'll hit it in Patho too.... so that'll be 8. Plus Nursing school. Oyi. I could teach a lecture on Diabetes now.:smackingf

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