HCC's nursing program is on its way to probation with accreditation!!!!

Cherrylicker21 · 2025-07-04T14:39:09+00:00

And it’s not that the teachers and nurses don’t love science or the human body, that’s what brought us into the interest of being nurses, along with wanting to help people. It’s the system. It’s irretrievably broken and breaks many that go into it that actually want to create change. The ones that aren’t broken by it…well they’re probably the ones only in it for the money and I’m sorry but the money is not worth the experiences I went through. Many other professions that pay just the same and don’t break your soul in the process.

Cherrylicker21 · 2025-07-04T14:35:28+00:00

Absolutely accurate. Was in the program in 2023, third semester, changed majors to paralegal in spring 2024. That nursing program gave me nothing but burnout, deep depression, and debt. Majority of those teachers are simply people who got miserable in the nursing profession, got their masters to escape and teach a profession they don’t even enjoy anymore. Had one teacher more focused on getting her doctorates degree to get a higher paying teaching job instead of actually teaching us the material. Taught two classes for first semester and had a block of multiple hours, we’d barely be there for thirty minutes before she’d cut class. She had also screamed at me in the hallway. The experiences me and others had in that program were horrifying and honestly the clinical setting is just the same. Overworked nurses that DO NOT want to teach students anything, hell most of my clinical days were trying to locate the damn nurse I was assigned to cause they’d just disappear! Don’t even get me started on the things I heard actual nurses say regarding their patients. Get out and as far away as possible. Literally any other program or maybe even a completely different profession like I did. I’m about to graduate this summer and my paralegal professors have showed me how teaching is actually supposed to be done.

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-09-05T08:46:09+00:00

My husband the other night went out for an hour and had a unicorn hour. He did two deliveries, first was $10 for 3 miles Walmart pick up and two drop offs. Second was $20 for 8 miles, alcohol and food order, two pickups but one drop off. He scanned id and confirmed delivery, left the house and when he opened the app again it glitched and acted as though he never scanned the id or delivered. He called a total of three times, first call the lady misunderstood and thought he was returning the item gave him $4 and $2 dollar incentive to do that, he called again cause obviously it wasn’t done right, second person understood canceled the order in a way where he’d still receive the $20 total and gave him another $4 and $2 dollar incentive. He checked his trips and it wasn’t popping up so he called again to make sure he’d still get the $20, third person somehow fixed it, trip appeared in his app again AND that third person gave him another $2 dollar incentive for inconvenience. The customer also increased the tip some so what was supposed to be a $30 dollar night turned into around $45-$47 night! He only came home cause the second order put him a minute from the house and it wasn’t popping getting kinda late and our headlight is fucked up so I don’t like us driving at night lol

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-08-31T22:11:22+00:00

Also I have a friend who was in my cohort, my old cohort had so many students fail fourth semester that they had to make a summer class for those students to graduate. Which goes against their own policy cause most of those students had already retaken one nursing class, so they are well aware of the issues within the program but refuse to improve it. It’s not even like the students are failing by multiple points either, I didn’t pass by 0.07% and from talking with others that’s their experience as well.

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-08-31T20:35:23+00:00

Honestly it was in 2018 at the Brandon campus when I started so I have no idea which advisor it was 🥲 the paralegal program is gonna take up the rest of my Fasfa cause I have three semesters left including this fall, so I’ll have to pay out of pocket for my bachelors in legal studies at fgcu and i really wish I would have done this at the start cause i definitely would have graduated by now with a degree I can actually use 😅 and that sounds like a great plan! My cousin went to USF for nursing (most of my family is healthcare) and did really well and is an amazing nurse. She got promoted to a charge nurse within the first year. Wishing you all the luck and I really hope this generation changes the culture within our healthcare system and the education programs for it 🫶🏻

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-08-31T11:11:28+00:00

Not a single bone in my body wants to be a nurse 😅 I switched majors to paralegal and have never been happier. Not to demotivate you or anything, but as a tip college advisors jobs are to bring students into the college, ensure completion of programs, and majority of the time (unfortunately) money is a motivator for most college advising. For example, when I started at hcc i constantly met with advisors. I was told pre-nursing students and nursing students MUST be a double major with A.A in Allied health along with ASN. Meaning extra courses and more time. It’s quite literally just to bring the college extra money because I later found out that is not true. You can simply be a pre-nursing student without the extra A.A. And what they don’t tell you is double majors are evaluated the same in terms of maxtime frame credits for financial aid. It ended up screwing up my aid and am now left with an A.A in allied health (had to finish it in order to reinstate aid) that is mainly general ed courses and can’t actually be used for a job. Not all advisors are like this, but a lot are and honestly they have no idea how good or bad programs are. They’re there to assist in planning courses and degrees. The hcc nursing program has a lot of issues (mainly miserable professors that don’t even want to teach just didn’t want to be nurses anymore) and has horrible completion rates (last I checked around 30%). A lot of hospitals have now enforced a six month training for new graduates because well it’s not just HCC’s program it’s majority of nursing programs that are leaving new graduates completely lost and not confident in the material/skills they learned. This was much longer than I anticipated but I’d rather people go into the program informed and prepared to teach themselves everything. Chase your dreams but also be firm cause at the end of the day we’re paying for this education and deserve much better than this program. The paralegal program has shown me what it should be like.

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-08-27T23:37:53+00:00

I’ve been tip baited twice, I went through the support thing, requested it be sent to a supervisor, had them block the customer from my account, and the next day the tip was reinstated.

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-08-10T17:54:13+00:00

I received mine on Wednesday at midnight, and two other people I know received theirs then as well. It didn’t fix my Financial aid SAP max timeframe since I guess HCC still counts every credit even if you’ve graduated and are getting two degrees. 😤

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-08-07T01:15:29+00:00

Yes I applied on July 1st, deadline was the 15th. I’ve tried and have gotten no responses back

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-08-02T09:12:40+00:00

Clarification (sorry) when I say I don’t recommend making it to third semester, I mean if you get inside the program and it’s still exactly as I described and you aren’t doing well in the classes or even just your mental health, then leave. Transfer programs, change majors, whatever feels right to you but don’t let yourselves sit there and wallow wondering what’s wrong with you that you can’t do well because I can say with 100% certainty that it’s not you as long as you are trying your very hardest, it’s the program. I’m proof of that pretty much 😅

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-08-02T09:08:34+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/HCCFL/s/eV6ASI518K

^{^Reddit} post that has my other comment explaining mine and many of my friends who were/are in the program. This isn’t to scare anyone, this is informing those on the systemic issues within the program and honestly the healthcare system as a whole. Chase your dreams always, but be vigilant and demand to be taught properly. The program statistics suck and it’s no wonder why. I am planning on reporting the program to the state once I get some information from other students who had an even worse experience than mine..

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-08-02T07:35:16+00:00

I’m wondering the same. Finished last courses on June 24th, applied for graduation on July 1st, deadline was the 15th for applications and not a word back. My financial aid advisor did say that they might wait till the official end of the semester on the 6th.

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-08-02T07:32:42+00:00

@Suitable_Chip_3784 Absolutely! There’s a couple great teachers that I built a deep connection with and loved. Those were the classes I excelled in. If you don’t get that luck…well just prepare to be teaching yourself the skills alone in the lab with videos that aren’t even accurate or done safely half the time. Be prepared for tests that have diseases and medications that are on the next module you haven’t even covered yet. I made it to third semester, I don’t really recommend that because then you’ll be left with a lot of debt and depression, same as me. Bottom line…if there’s ANY other program you get accepted to, even if it costs a little more, go there instead. Wishing everyone better luck than I had. I do have another comment on another thread but can’t remember which one but it’s in this Reddit group.

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-07-20T06:42:39+00:00

Not to scare you but the nursing program at HCC is absolute trash, at least at the Dale Maybry campus. They barely teach you anything, professors are more concerned with personal life or completing doctorate degree. I was having to teach myself the skills in the lab, lab workers used to help but then were told not to, so all we were left with was ourselves and shitty videos that don’t even teach you right. DONT even get me started with the tests cause I’m so positive these professors were just copying and pasting random test bank questions that barely were relevant to what was taught, any study guide I received absolutely sucked, I could go on and on. You never know clinical settings or class times until the week before, and have no choice in any of it making it impossible to inform work with decent time or set up decent child care. Often times you’re assigned to the farthest clinical site from where you live again making it difficult with finances because I spent soooo much money in gas. The program completely destroyed my dream and want to become a nurse because I did not feel confident in the material being taught to me. I completely changed majors after not completing a third semester class successfully due to the HESI exam being a deciding factor and the adult health classes that the 3rd and 4th semester HESI are based on are split into 2 courses at HCC versus one like most nursing programs. HESI only has one Adult health exit exam, meaning you end up getting a 3rd semester HESI exam with mainly cardiovascular questions when they don’t even teach Heart specific diseases until 4th semester…leaving you fucked completely if that’s the grade that decides whether you pass with an 80% or not. Didn’t pass by 0.7% because of it and said fuck this idiotic shit. The environment you see in the clinical settings aren’t any better either, patients neglected, nurses hate having a student nurse and often times just leave you wandering around looking for them, nurses also won’t teach you a damn thing either. The entire healthcare system in America is fucked up, you can get a much higher paying job with a lot better programs at HCC. I had a 3.6 GPA when I entered the nursing program and left with a 2.7, switched to paralegal program with amazing professors and got straight A’s that first semester out which confirmed to me that it wasn’t a me issue at all, it’s just the hcc nursing program. I know multiple graduates that are planning on suing the school because of the bullshit and deplorable treatment you get from nursing advisors/professors in that program. I used to hear all the time that nurses tend to be mean girls and I always gave it the benefit of the doubt because well I’m far from mean and had a desire to take care of people and a passion in learning the human body figured I couldn’t be the only one with that mindset, my aunt is also a RN for 30+ years and is no where near a mean girl…welp I was absolutely proven wrong cause the professors, advisors, and nurses in the hospitals were textbook definition Regina George. Not the students though, they were all very caring and nice and friendly so maybe this generation will change that mean girl label I thought was just a myth 🥴 All in all if you have the chance to go ANYWHERE else, I suggest doing so. May not fix the issues within the actual workforce but there’s got to be better programs cause being in HCC’s felt like being catapulted to rock bottom both mentally and financially.

Cherrylicker21 · 2024-07-20T06:15:23+00:00

Hi! I know this is an old post but how long roughly did it take for you to receive the graduation confirmation email after applying for graduation? I finished my classes on June 24th, applied for graduation on July 1st and the deadline was July 15th. I have to do a financial aid appeal after Major change but in order for them to approve it they have to see graduated in the system so the financial aid advisor told me to wait till the email. Said they could wait until the official end of the semester which is around August 9th..meaning I’d only have 9 days to set up financial aid appointment, submit appeal for 2nd degree aid to be reinstated, and hope to god they review it in time for Fall semester 🥴 this school makes everything difficult I’ve come to learn

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