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I just responded to my acceptance letter and accepted my seat into an RN program here in Chicago. Any advice for a new nursing student starting their first semester of nursing school in Jan. 2014???

Congrats! Still waiting here in Ga.

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Many congrats to you!

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Congrats! Think about buying the Saunders Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-RN book. I used this book to help prepare for exams during nursing school and found it very helpful! Also, just know there will be days that you will be exhausted and you will feel like giving up. Its okay we all had those days...Give yourself a break! Do something nice for yourself and take it one day at a time! I promise it will be worth it! I wish you the best.

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congrats!

I am also waiting to start school in Jan so I am not of much help. Next application time, I will be able to answer questions for the newly accepted people!

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Congrats wish you success in the program!

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Specializes in Gerontology RN-BC and FNP MSN student.

Congratulations!! Best wishes for success!!!:woot: Whoop Whoop!! :D

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Congrats to you. I'm also expecting to be accepted and starting Jan, so I'm not much help. But wishing you the best of luck to you:) or to us should I say :D

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I just responded to my acceptance letter and accepted my seat into an RN program here in Chicago. Any advice for a new nursing student starting their first semester of nursing school in Jan. 2014???

Never make enemies at school. Always be helpful to other students. Find time to sleep. Be happy with any passing grade on a test and do your homework, unless it's worth no points and wastes hours that you need to sleep! Get extra tutoring if you need it.

If your grades can afford it, miss a class now and then to catch up on sleep, food, and life. Don't miss clinicals though!

Tell people you have no life during school and they must accept it. You will miss birthdays, holidays, and other important dates.

Surround yourself with encouraging, positive, motivated people - not the sad, dismal, going-to-drop-out types.

Believe you will make it through and work hard! Woot!

That's some quick advice ... quality not guaranteed LOL

Cheers

-Trevy

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Study daily, go out one night a week after studying all day. Watch youtube videos explaining the patho, they are really helpful, and many times more clear than lecture itself.

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Specializes in Gerontology RN-BC and FNP MSN student.

If your grades can afford it, miss a class now and then to catch up on sleep, food, and life. Don't miss clinicals though!

That's some quick advice ... quality not guaranteed LOL

Cheers

-Trevy

Please don't ever miss class....if possible.

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Congratulations ...!

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No way to prepare no way to read ahead (our instructors jump all over the book so reading ahead chapter by chapter is a big fat waste of time and brain cells). If there was anything I could tell you it would be to know nursing math (figure out if your instructors want you to use ration/proportion or dimensional analysis and learn it that way. I'm fine with ratio proportion but my instructors want us to use DA and I am having a hard time grasping it :banghead:). Brush up on A & P (organ systems mainly, esp cardiovascular). Oh, and lest I forget how much INK AND PAPER I am using! I don't have one but I am getting one, a LASER PRINTER instead of inkjet![/quote']

Thanks sooooo much!!! I will take all of that with me and look into a new printer

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