[NanSeeH]

Book Stand!!! My husband built me a heavy duty table-top book stand after my jr. year in nursing school. My back and neck were killing me from stooping over my text books.

[Deborah Ann]

Hello! I have so enjoyed this thread and everyone's input! I start my ADN progran on January 11th. I made a list of many of your ideas and will begin purchasing/implementing them today!

Also. thanks to the thread on PDA's and your wonderful input, my husband bought me a Palm TX for Christma. The Palm TX is not as expensive as the Dell or Ipaq. It has wifi and Bluetooth. Per your recomendations, I downloaded Epocrates free software and Diagnasaurus. I will download more soon. I love my PDA. I use the alarms daily for various tasks personal and business. I use it to record information that I don't want to lose. I am very pleased with it. Thanks again everyone! Happy New Year!:Melody:

[ShockerGirl]

Wow! Thanks guys for all your input, I start the nursing program Jan. 17th, and the list of things they gave us didn't have alot of this stuff on it, alcohol wipes, pockets on labcoats, etc. Lots of help! Thanks for all the help

[Lizzypooh]

Hi there, i'm new to this site, i'll be going into a practial nursing program in february and i found these suggestions *very* helpful, thank you very much

[Fun2Care]

Welcome to AllNurses.com & good luck, ShockerGirl & Lizzypooh! :hatparty:

[blueiwahine]

Originally Posted by rn2be2006

I have been going through all these posts to find what items are the best things to have for nursing school. The posts are all scattered so I thought I would start a post that will contain all the info for the new incoming student

Things I couldn't live without were: A large desktop calendar-so you can see everything that is going on that month, small monthly calendar - to carry around with you, multi-color pens so you can write in a different color for each classes assignment on your calendar, PDA (is great so you don't have to lug lots of books to clinical...but not a necessity), good shoes - Merrell was the shoe that was the most comfortable for me, Saunders & HESI book- help to put things in simpler terms. We had to have lots of Change available to copy PRs/ teachers notes for class.

[FutureNurse35]

I think a small bible will also help.

[Brie2200]

I agree.... AMEN!!!!

Originally Posted by FutureNurse35

I think a small bible will also help.

[tropicbound]

I'm just starting nursing school the end of this month. This thread has been great!! But what is the "Saunders & HESI book" that blueiwahine mentioned on Jan 16?

[wanna-be-nurse]

Hey Guys!!!

I was wondering which is better for a first semester BSN student:

a spiral notebook with detachable sheets for each subject (that means about 4 notebooks) or a binder so I can carry all my subjects all the time.

Why worry is that the binder will get too heavy and there wont be a necessity to carry all my subjects all the time OR carry each subject notebook when I need it although I'm scared I might need more than one at a time....AY!!!