UST HOUSTON ABSN FALL 2022

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Hey! I was wondering if anyone has been accepted for University of St. Thomas - Houston ABSN program for Fall 2022 yet? 

5 hours ago, nursing11381 said:

Not the person you messaged but I can answer this for you. To be honest, everything is kind of run terribly. As a first semester student right now, we have had to be "flexible" a lot. At orientation they said nursing school is ALL about being flexible...and they definitely mean it. Every class you have is online and it's a weekly zoom call for teachers to lecture on material for exams. But the lectures aren't conclusive and there's definitely things that are missing from reviews. Plus they say not to pay attention to things because it won't be on the exam...but it ends up being on it LOL. The program being 12 months is HARD. Multiple teachers have told us they want to give props to us for deciding to do a 12 month program because it is brutal. Yes, you can do it and pass but be prepared to do a lot in a small amount of time. We have exams pretty much biweekly in our main courses that each cover between 15-20 chapters. Plus discussions in the easier classes that are almost biweekly as well. BUT I will say if you are good at independently being responsible for what you need to do and you find a reallllly good group of friends to study/help each other, it makes a world of a difference in this program. I'm not sure how to chat outside of this platform but if you'd like to get more info from a current 1st semester student, let me know! 

If you don't mind, if you could email me too to ask more questions about the program! I'm starting in January. [email protected]

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I was accepted into UST for the Spring Summer cohort and needed the student curriculum schedule for Nurs2372 health assessment and Nurs2370 pathopharmacology 1. Is there anyone on this thread that would be Able to send this to me because I am trying to read all the material in advance. 

Sincerely, 

Tori Bell 

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nursing11381 said:

Not the person you messaged but I can answer this for you. To be honest, everything is kind of run terribly. As a first semester student right now, we have had to be "flexible" a lot. At orientation they said nursing school is ALL about being flexible...and they definitely mean it. Every class you have is online and it's a weekly zoom call for teachers to lecture on material for exams. But the lectures aren't conclusive and there's definitely things that are missing from reviews. Plus they say not to pay attention to things because it won't be on the exam...but it ends up being on it LOL. The program being 12 months is HARD. Multiple teachers have told us they want to give props to us for deciding to do a 12 month program because it is brutal. Yes, you can do it and pass but be prepared to do a lot in a small amount of time. We have exams pretty much biweekly in our main courses that each cover between 15-20 chapters. Plus discussions in the easier classes that are almost biweekly as well. BUT I will say if you are good at independently being responsible for what you need to do and you find a reallllly good group of friends to study/help each other, it makes a world of a difference in this program. I'm not sure how to chat outside of this platform but if you'd like to get more info from a current 1st semester student, let me know! 

I was accepted into UST for the Spring Summer cohort and needed the student curriculum schedule for Nurs2372 health assessment and Nurs2370 pathopharmacology 1. Is there anyone on this thread that would be Able to send this to me because I am trying to read all the material in advance. 

 Sincerely, 

 Tori Bell 

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Hi everyone, 

I am applying to university of st thomas, for admission in January or may 2024. I am scared simply because I have read horrible reviews about the program on reddit. Like the professors don't care about you, the study material isn't on the exam, and sometimes people are given YouTube links to study or just told to read hundreds of pages from a textbook with no real guidance. 

Does anyone have an update on their journey so far? Please help. Last thing I would want is to waste 65k on a bad education. 

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newnurse5799 said:

Hi everyone, 

I am applying to university of st thomas, for admission in January or may 2024. I am scared simply because I have read horrible reviews about the program on reddit. Like the professors don't care about you, the study material isn't on the exam, and sometimes people are given YouTube links to study or just told to read hundreds of pages from a textbook with no real guidance. 

Does anyone have an update on their journey so far? Please help. Last thing I would want is to waste 65k on a bad education. 

It's not the best, nursing school is not meant to be done in one year. The professors do not owe you anything and will not give you anything, most recently (2nd sem) we had an exam and they said they won't put something on it, but low and behold it was on the exam... they're really unorganized and like I said, nursing school shouldn't really be done in one year....it works for some people but you're going to have to be okay with teaching yourself, because you are paying all that money to pay yourself. Also clinical sites are MID, they really put you in random *** places, yeah maybe 1/3 are nice but the rest are like not the best. 

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Specializes in nurse.

Got it. Thank you for that I will definitely take that into consideration 

matrix_25 said:

It's not the best, nursing school is not meant to be done in one year. The professors do not owe you anything and will not give you anything, most recently (2nd sem) we had an exam and they said they won't put something on it, but low and behold it was on the exam... they're really unorganized and like I said, nursing school shouldn't really be done in one year....it works for some people but you're going to have to be okay with teaching yourself, because you are paying all that money to pay yourself. Also clinical sites are MID, they really put you in random *** places, yeah maybe 1/3 are nice but the rest are like not the best. 

One more thing, do you think this will affect job prospects and pay? Does a one year program look bad? 

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