UT houston spring 2010 hopefuls

[butterflykiss]

hi there, I'm a spring 2010 UT houston hopefull, I'm trying to see who else is embarking on this journey so we can support each other. I really enjoyed tracking the Fall 2009 class, and I hope we can do the same. I still have a few classes to take. I am currently taking chemistry. As of now my science GPA is 3.33, and overall gpa is 3.61. I am taking the net in May.

Can't wait to hear from others.

[cjbarnes2006]

MaoKhan,

Thanks for your response. About the clinicals, are the shifts 12 hours long? And do you have them every week? Will you please also explain what is the page writeup for the clinicals? Thanks, Emilie.

First semester clinicals are 8 hour shifts, plus about an hour post-conference meeting with your clinical group and instructor. They are every week excepting the first few weeks when you are in lab and the last week or so before finals. The write up is a care plan. You will learn to hate them. You go to the hospital the night before clinicals where you will pick a patient and make note of their medical history, diagnosis, medications, etc. and then you take that home and develop a written plan of how you will care for them. The one I just did this week came to a total of 32 pages when it was completed, and that was with roughly 15 medications. My first care plan was 37 or 38 pages with 20+ meds on it. They take hours to complete when you do them properly.

[twoy83]

I know im so ready to get the process started! Im so excited to apply to UT- Houston! I attend HCC at the moment and i purchased the study guide for the hesi and i hope that it helps. Im hoping my GPA puts me in but i know i have to pass the hesi.

[kimmy088]

Some students are assigned to nurse preceptors (one-on-one) and some students are put with clinical groups (groups of about 10 nursing students) headed by a clinical professor. If you are linked up with a preceptor (this semester we requested to be with a preceptor...you are not forced to do this) you work whenever they work whether it is nights, days, weekends, etc. You need to complete five 12-hr shifts before the end of the semester... it was only 5 because we started clinicals mid-semester instead of at the beginning.

I'm guessing that we will be starting clinicals right away for care II so we will have more clinicals to complete if we are offered precepting this summer.

[GretchRB]

since you guys already have a fb for the class of fall 2010 please let the others in the other thread know! i'm going to post the fb link you posted but just so you know there are others out there! :)

ut houston fall 2010 (university of texas at houston)by mjbayuda

[hookem08]

Hi there! I am prepping for the HESI and wondered if you could send me the prep document that you saved that is no longer a working link? Let me know. Thank you!

[NAM123]

hi everyone.. i just got a email from ut_houston for interview ahhhhhhhhhhhh..any one that already went through this process please help me.. what kind of questions do they ask etc..

thank you sooooooooo much

[speakthetruth]

Hey this is last years thread. the new thread is 2011 hopefuls.

[katanator]

I am a spring 2011 hopeful, and I was wondering if any of you that are already in the program can recommend things like scrubs, shoes and stethoscopes? and also, are any of you in school until 11 PM ever? In my interview today, on the sample schedule it showed one day where we would be on campus from 9 AM- 11PM!!! That seems way crazy!!!!!

[everpark]

I'm curious about the Mac capability with UT nursing classes. They stressed at the interview that they weren't Mac compatible, but I read in a previous thread it works just fine. Anyone have any experience with it?