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Hi All,

I'm new to this site and to the field of nursing. Has anyone gone to this school and if so, what did you think?

I live in San Diego, CA, and there is an online program that this school offers. I'm 3 prerequisites away from applying to the school, with a start date of August 08. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nicole

I know, so do we... and I just looked at the schedule, and the first semesters have one too.

SO, any words of wisdom on how to get through the second semester (and/ or study guides to share?) how do your courses compare to the first semester curriculum. which were hard (aside from pharm) and which were easier? i think i heard that acute and chronic was kind of like human experience but a little more intense, and that family focused was pretty easy, like professional nursing has been. is that your assessment?

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hmmm...interesting. I wonder if they will cover all of the same stuff or maybe test taking strategies, etc. We shall see. :)

Haha, yeah, I'll let you know. :)

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SO, any words of wisdom on how to get through the second semester (and/ or study guides to share?) how do your courses compare to the first semester curriculum. which were hard (aside from pharm) and which were easier? i think i heard that acute and chronic was kind of like human experience but a little more intense, and that family focused was pretty easy, like professional nursing has been. is that your assessment?

I would say this semester was/is the most intense thing I've ever gone through, at least, school-wise. I didn't think that FF was easy, per se. Some of it I already knew b/c I have a child, but some of it is obscure, at least what they ask on the test, and there were a lot of problems with the Prof. I got a nasty email from her, more than once. Which surprises me b/c she seemed so nice when we were doing the disability class. Anywho... there is just mass confusion on what we're supposed to be tested on vs what we actually did get tested on... so maybe she'll take the things we all pointed out to her and fix them, who knows.

Prof nursing is nothing compared to these classes. There isn't a class that you can just blow off like we did with that class. At least that's what I did. I think A&C is pretty much on the same level as Hum Ex, just more detailed in the disease process and what your role is in it.

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About 2nd semester...Family focus is nothing like Prof. Nursing! In fact for me it is the class I am doing worst in. The material seems easy enough but the tests come out of left field so you never really know what to study. Plus there are only 3 exams and the final is worth 30%.

My advice would be don't blow off any exams in any classes because it's all about getting your points together before finals. For most of us it is different than 1st semester where you could potentially get all A's. I'm not saying that some people don't get A's in 2nd it's just not as easy as first. Keep it simple and don't get too caught up in the readings. Stick with study guides and power points for A/C (choose your reading carefully because time is of the essence). For pharm I would try to make flash cards for all the drugs and use your ATI book!! Just look up the drugs on your own because the pages are often wrong in the objectives. Reading in this class is important but again, don't get bogged down in it- just learn the drugs. I wish I had taken this advice from the start but once I started streamlining my studying I did a whole lot better.

If you don't have a study group I would start thinking about one because they really help. Split up the study guides so you have less work to do. There is not a whole lot of instructor support (as you 1sts have probably figured out) but you can learn a lot from study groups.

Good news is you will have your degree while everyone else is still on waiting lists for schools! Also the disability class is super chill so it's like a nice break! You can get it done in the first week or two and have a normal life for a little bit!

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About 2nd semester...Family focus is nothing like Prof. Nursing! In fact for me it is the class I am doing worst in. The material seems easy enough but the tests come out of left field so you never really know what to study. Plus there are only 3 exams and the final is worth 30%.

My advice would be don't blow off any exams in any classes because it's all about getting your points together before finals. For most of us it is different than 1st semester where you could potentially get all A's. I'm not saying that some people don't get A's in 2nd it's just not as easy as first. Keep it simple and don't get too caught up in the readings. Stick with study guides and power points for A/C (choose your reading carefully because time is of the essence). For pharm I would try to make flash cards for all the drugs and use your ATI book!! Just look up the drugs on your own because the pages are often wrong in the objectives. Reading in this class is important but again, don't get bogged down in it- just learn the drugs. I wish I had taken this advice from the start but once I started streamlining my studying I did a whole lot better.

If you don't have a study group I would start thinking about one because they really help. Split up the study guides so you have less work to do. There is not a whole lot of instructor support (as you 1sts have probably figured out) but you can learn a lot from study groups.

Good news is you will have your degree while everyone else is still on waiting lists for schools! Also the disability class is super chill so it's like a nice break! You can get it done in the first week or two and have a normal life for a little bit!

funny how disability and pharm are both 2 credits. Thanks for the info. I will keep all of that in mind. I know what you mean about strudying right. Like the clinical quizzes for clinical I and the readings are a HUGE waste of time and resources. Thanks for giving me a heads up. I will try and keep that in mind...... I though pharm was the problem, now i have to be worried about FF too?!

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I would say this semester was/is the most intense thing I've ever gone through, at least, school-wise. I didn't think that FF was easy, per se. Some of it I already knew b/c I have a child, but some of it is obscure, at least what they ask on the test, and there were a lot of problems with the Prof. I got a nasty email from her, more than once. Which surprises me b/c she seemed so nice when we were doing the disability class. Anywho... there is just mass confusion on what we're supposed to be tested on vs what we actually did get tested on... so maybe she'll take the things we all pointed out to her and fix them, who knows.

Prof nursing is nothing compared to these classes. There isn't a class that you can just blow off like we did with that class. At least that's what I did. I think A&C is pretty much on the same level as Hum Ex, just more detailed in the disease process and what your role is in it.

Who's teaching FF? I struggled too...I love the subject, in fact, I am pretty sure I want to be post-partum nurse...and the exams were just tough!! Luckily for us, the same prof is teaching psych and that again is my hardest class. It all depends on who teaches and writes the exams!

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About 2nd semester...Family focus is nothing like Prof. Nursing! In fact for me it is the class I am doing worst in. The material seems easy enough but the tests come out of left field so you never really know what to study. Plus there are only 3 exams and the final is worth 30%.

My advice would be don't blow off any exams in any classes because it's all about getting your points together before finals. For most of us it is different than 1st semester where you could potentially get all A's. I'm not saying that some people don't get A's in 2nd it's just not as easy as first. Keep it simple and don't get too caught up in the readings. Stick with study guides and power points for A/C (choose your reading carefully because time is of the essence). For pharm I would try to make flash cards for all the drugs and use your ATI book!! Just look up the drugs on your own because the pages are often wrong in the objectives. Reading in this class is important but again, don't get bogged down in it- just learn the drugs. I wish I had taken this advice from the start but once I started streamlining my studying I did a whole lot better.

If you don't have a study group I would start thinking about one because they really help. Split up the study guides so you have less work to do. There is not a whole lot of instructor support (as you 1sts have probably figured out) but you can learn a lot from study groups.

Good news is you will have your degree while everyone else is still on waiting lists for schools! Also the disability class is super chill so it's like a nice break! You can get it done in the first week or two and have a normal life for a little bit!

If only all classes were like Prof. Nursing....LOL!!!! :lol2: If that were the case Joe Schmo on the corner could be a nurse. Thankfully, not. :up:

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Who's teaching FF? I struggled too...I love the subject, in fact, I am pretty sure I want to be post-partum nurse...and the exams were just tough!! Luckily for us, the same prof is teaching psych and that again is my hardest class. It all depends on who teaches and writes the exams!

Its Prater. I read she's teaching your Psych class. So yup, same person... great. I wonder if she'll be teaching ours. She really doesn't like me now, oh well.

Yes, I agree, some of those exam questions were tricky... and I've HAD A KID... haha. Its funny what they think you SHOULD ask a patient or say to them, but when I was in the hospital, they did none of the stuff we talk about. Oh well.

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About 2nd semester...Family focus is nothing like Prof. Nursing! In fact for me it is the class I am doing worst in. The material seems easy enough but the tests come out of left field so you never really know what to study. Plus there are only 3 exams and the final is worth 30%.

My advice would be don't blow off any exams in any classes because it's all about getting your points together before finals. For most of us it is different than 1st semester where you could potentially get all A's. I'm not saying that some people don't get A's in 2nd it's just not as easy as first. Keep it simple and don't get too caught up in the readings. Stick with study guides and power points for A/C (choose your reading carefully because time is of the essence). For pharm I would try to make flash cards for all the drugs and use your ATI book!! Just look up the drugs on your own because the pages are often wrong in the objectives. Reading in this class is important but again, don't get bogged down in it- just learn the drugs. I wish I had taken this advice from the start but once I started streamlining my studying I did a whole lot better.

If you don't have a study group I would start thinking about one because they really help. Split up the study guides so you have less work to do. There is not a whole lot of instructor support (as you 1sts have probably figured out) but you can learn a lot from study groups.

Good news is you will have your degree while everyone else is still on waiting lists for schools! Also the disability class is super chill so it's like a nice break! You can get it done in the first week or two and have a normal life for a little bit!

I emailed her why they're like that, she basically blew me off and said, if I tell you to study something, just do it and you'll be fine, does it matter what module or part of the semester it came from???

I told her yes it does b/c we have modules for a reason, if we waste our time reading the stuff assigned, but she ends up testing on all different material, that's just wrong. She didn't like that...

What's the point of having modules, if the study guide and the test itself is all over the map?? ugh.

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Hi everyone,

I cant believe they accepted only 24 students...what happened to the 70 students class. ...it is so dissapointing

I did not apply,but I would love to find out what the GPA cut off was if anyone can tell us please....

Or if anyone does not mind (alternate students) what your GPA is? Thank you all

Also for those who are in the program...can you please tell me how many hours a day (what time) did you have to go in for labs? Thank you, I know things could change but I want to get an idea for future day care plans!!!

thank you all

Hi Laura,

Hope you're doing well. The program is going great! I can't believe we are almost done with our first semester. I would make sure you have childcare daily. Here is my schedule:

Monday-Clinical class at new Granite Ridge location- my group was 1-3

Tuesday- Study Day Off (In the beginning of the semester you will have a lot of community service events, that will take place on the days you don't have class)

Wednesday- Preclinical 9-11( go to Sharp Coronado and pick patient, gather info) 12-2 Health Assessment class---sometimes an exam in the computer lab 12-2

Thursday- Clinical 7am-3:30

Friday- Study Day

Having childcare covered is a must, at least for me. There is so much information in such a little time that you really need to focus! Hope this helps!

Nicole

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hi Nicole thank you so much ...i emailed you as well few days ago

Lately I am not reading much positive info about the program....I am getting worried :(

Is anyone applying for the Fall?

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I was planning on applying this fall but I have three classes left to take and one of them is anatomy so I may push it to Spring.

For those of you who got in can I ask what your GPA(s) were and if you know what the median GPA for the science courses are? I emailed Kennessa asking but she hasnt gotten back with me.

Thanks!

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