Hostos Community College — Attraction in New York

Graduated from HCC with the liberal arts degree and LPN. There are many great profs. and the leadership academy is awasome. However, the registration process, financial aid, bursars and admission are a pain in the ... just take advantage of the resources, follow your degree audit, dont believe everything advisors tell you(sometimes they know less than you). do your own research. use rate my proffesors and ask classmates to get the best proffesors. I miss HCC, most of the time people can be friendly

Updated as of 7/3/19 So i just want to provide some info for those who have no idea what to do after graduation, or may want to continue taking classes w/o a fix schedule. I been working as a LPN for over 2yrs now. After graduation, i wanted to continue my education. So i wanted a frexible job. I decided to go for home care. So am working as a home care nurse. Now let me explain a little. There are different types of home care nurses. Some are call visiting nurses. Mostly those go to the pt's home to continue teaching and follow up. Some, nurses visit to collect information from pts to maintain services up to date. For example, insurance companies send nurses to make sure service still needed and pt is okay. (note when you get your bachelors and experience you can apply for nursing jobs from home like answering calls, reviewing charts... blah blah. Look it up) Ok, coming back to home care. What i do is go to the pts home and stay there. Usually, shifts are from 10-12hrs. However, most of the time you only have one pt. So far for me only one pt, one case. Hours can vary depending on the needs of the pt and the hours they can get approve from health insurance. You will be mostly working with peds(at least if you do nyc, am not sure about other places). Most of these kids will have feeding tubes or/and tracheotomy with/without vent, seizures, mobility and cognitive impairment. So things i may do during my shifts are showering, dressing, styling hair, brushing teeth, suctioning, cleaning stoma, doing ROM range of motion(most of these pts have mobility impairment, so they get very stiff w/o ROM) give feedings, give meds. Most of the time i give meds through tube feedings(pt most of the time NPO), give nebulizer tx. Monitor pt during shift. SAFETY FIRST! Order medical equipment and medication refills. Call md to provided report in any concerns. Maintain area where the pt is clean. Make pts bed, clean equipment.

Anyway, just think of it as taking care of family member home. Just remember, not all cases require the same kind of support.

Now lets go to income. So doing home care mostly you can get with an lpn from 22-29/ hr. For RNs from 30-40. These all depends on the agency you are working for and the level of care the pt needs. Some agencies provide health insurance, metrocard, direct deposits bonus while others don't.

Now, the most difficult part about these job is boundaries and dealing with family. If you stay doing home care after a while specially if you have the same pt they kind of become like family. So just try to be nice to the family. At the end of the day, you are in their home. Dont be judgemental. You will be there when they argue, eat, go out, have family visits, bbq and all kind of things you can imagine people may do at their place. I have encounter men who have felt attracted to me and sometimes you just really have to let the case go. Specially, if you try to put a stop and it doesn't work. Remember is their home, so you gotta be careful.

Some agencies i can tell you about are white glove(offer training but pay is low compare to other agencies and if you get the training you have to stay for a yr to avoid paying penalty), jsp agency, helping u come care... So for now thats all i have to...

Absolutely. It was the worst college I've ever been in. I started in August 2023 it's been 3 and 1/2 years now. I still haven't gotten my diploma, and I'm only taking two classes at this time, Right now, I am on vacation. I'm starting on Thursday, and I pray that I get through terrible community college, the Professors are very disrespectful. They can't teach they just want their money, Tutoring in the Writing Center only gives the students 30 to 35 minutes to study. To be honest, that's not enough time. The food truck outside tastes good. I don't have too many Spanish people. I don't have any friends. Their Events Don't Match the Theme, This college is full of Liars. The gym 💪🏾 closed around 1 pm. They opened at 10 am. You can't have your bookbag in there I am trying to hide it, but you can't, I can only work out for 10 minutes. I just want to Graduate alright my GPA is 2.033. Right now, I passed 5 classes, and I failed American Government History 3e Pol with Professor Cheng. She's annoying. Please don't take her class she's too Rough on the students, I was struggling with her class she gave me 0's, but I finished strong, I had a mental breakdown in class and outside of class, which was terrifying. "I'm sorry I have been through a lot." I tried. Psychology was very annoying I failed that class I had a Mrxican Professor He was boring he put me to sleep 💤 every time I got into that class I was knocked out, I tried

This is how my Experience at Hostos Community College.

This college is very depressing.

The Professor's Rates are 2/5 3/5

Jesus please I...

I thought that by getting in all of the required documents, applying before the priority deadline, and making several trips to the school over the span of six months to make sure that I would be good to go for the Spring semester of 2019 was enough, but apparently it wasn't. Every department is completely flawed. I've received the wrong information from admissions about what tests I needed to take prior to enrollment and have submitted e-mails that did not get a response. The financial aid office does not answer their phone or call back in response to voicemail messages. The academic coach that I was assigned to never called me to schedule an appointment even though she sent me an e-mail asking for my phone number so that she would contact me. I was notified of the day and time of the orientation that they wanted me to attend with only a 24 hour notice. The academic advisor who assisted me once advised me to enroll in classes that were not in alignment with my desired degree track at all. This administration is horribly unorganized. Truthfully, it is full of a bunch of lazy individuals who think that they have made it big because they have a sit down office job. I am disgusted with my overall experience with Hostos Community College and I plan to submit a formal complaint and pursue my...