Valencia College/UCF Concurrent Spring 2020 Applicants

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Hey Everyone!!

I'm starting a thread for those who applied to VC/UCF Concurrent program for Spring 2020. I think these have been helpful for others in the past and I haven't seen one for spring 2020 yet. Feel free to drop questions, comments or concerns. I know the Seminole State Concurrent program received their acceptances last Friday (10/11), anybody have an idea when we'll receive ours?

On 11/1/2019 at 6:15 PM, rvidal17 said:

wow thank you for this, idk why more students dont do this. do you mind explaining what the schedule is like? and cost? because those are two things i cant find answers to. and now im freaking out lol

Cost..... textbook, Castlebranch fee, UCF version of Castlebranch and equipment... I'd say $1500. Valencia tuition is about $1100 with UCF course tuition around $700 per semester.

FYI UCF side of the concurrent program doesn't know this yet but since 2017 Valencia does not give financial aid for the UCF courses you take in concurrent. Everyone in financial aid department will say otherwise as they don't know and only going off of what use to be the case. I actually got in touch with the Valencia financial aid contact for concurrent and she confirmed there is no financial aid for the UCF course ever since they got audited by the DoE back in 2017.

Which means you will only get 3/4 financial aid as you'll only be in 3/4 attendance at Valencia without the UCF course.

Schedule can vary but so far for nursing 1 it's Monday and Wednesday lecture til noon, Thursdays all day lab/ half day lab + half day clinicals half way through the term. Fridays morning is concurrent Pathophysiology.

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On 11/8/2019 at 3:31 PM, DMnurse said:

Jeez this sounds brutal. Glad I avoided this program and got into SSC's. Good luck to everyone

After PoMiiii and others withdrew, they offered 2% in extra credit due to my section's class average below in the low 70s and anything below a 77% is failing. So, unfortunately for him or her, they might have passed if they stayed.

They said throughout the term there was no extra credit but after the withdraw deadline our class average was still several percentage points below failing so they made a last minute decision. So it sorta screwed the people that withdrew and didn't want to risk failing versus the people that stayed and were heading towards taking a 10 credit F. But just saying, I knew well over a handful of people that were failing and thanks to extra credit just barely squeaked by.

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Hey,

I realized they never discussed what hair colors are allowed in orientation. Does anyone know how strict they are with this?

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On ‎11‎/‎1‎/‎2019 at 8:27 PM, PoMiiii said:

No problem,

the schedule for concurrent

  • M&W 9 am -11:50 am (west/Osceola wherever you applied)
  • Thursday is lab day/clinical day so it's from 8 am to 6 pm OR 6 am to 6pm?
  • F 9am-11:50 am west campus HSB building.

Cost

OK so I don't know if you guys get FAFSA but a heads-up is that you can only get FAFSA only in one institution meaning that if you get FAFSA from valencia, you will not get FAFSA for UCF. It honestly wasn't big deal for me because I just paid for UCF out of pocket and I'd get that money back anyway from my FAFSA refund.

  • The cost for valencia was around $1077 because its a 10 credit course.
  • The cost for UCF which is only one class is around $670 or so.

Also not sure if the price is the same for everyone, but it should be because each valencia class is $300 something.

I didn't include the price of all textbooks, uniforms, scrubs, lab bag cuz honestly, it's like another $600 unless you can get cheap alternatives.

One thing I wish I knew before orientation is to BRING CASH! they didn't tell us they didn't accept card until the day of orientation, so we all had to line up at the ATM and pay a fee. I would bring around $60-80.

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I hope I don't confuse you guys for the next things I'm gonna say cuz yall aren't in the program yet but it's good to know if you plan on going to the program

Lab days

In the beginning of the semester, you guys will not be going to clinical until like 4-6 weeks of being in the program.

so until then, every Thursday will be 8am -6pm in your campus (west/Osceola)

Lab around this time is mostly lectures and some skill teaching.


Clinical days

here is where it gets tricky..

you and your classmates will be divided into four groups. (group 1,2,3,4)

You will have clinical sites which are usually 30 min away from west campus MAX

Two groups will go to the clinical site, where you are assigned a CNA (certified nursing assistant) and practically follow them around and help them do tasks like bed baths and passing out snacks to residents.

The other two groups will go to the lab which WILL be on the west campus, even if you applied to Osceola. In lab, you will learn how to do skills or it will be the day of your skills test.

During half of the day, the groups will SWITCH, meaning if you were in clinical the first half of the day, you will go to the west campus lab for the rest of the day or vice versa.

It is going to be written on your class schedule (which will be given to you after you get in) of which group goes first to clinical and which group goes to the west campus.

  • The groups are assigned to go to clinical FIRST will have to be at the clinical site BY 6:30 am
  • The groups assigned to go to west FIRST will have to be at the west campus lab by 8 am
  • you have one hour to get to the clinical/west campus usually around 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm.
  • Each Thursday, it will alternate, meaning if you went to clinical first, last Thursday, then you will be going to west campus the next Thursday.

Sorry if I don't make any sense, tried my best to explain what I know. If you guys want something to be clarified plz let me knooo.

Is the divide between West and Osceola for clinicals the same for Traditional Nursing?

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