MCC - Nursing Students Starting 2009

Also can anyone help me figure out which CPR class to take through the Red Cross? There are quite a few options and I am not sure which one to take.

For school you just need the adult CPR. You will be good with the American Heart Association Heart Saver class which is good for two years. If you plan on trying to work at a hospital though, you will need to get the BLS (Basic Life Support)/ Healthcare provider training. The AHA one also lasts two years. I took mine online. It's quick, then you just show up to a testing center and demonstrate your skills.

You can get away with 1 set. In the 1500's you only wear it one day a week. Then on in the 1600 it's one lab day and one clinical...honestly most the time I didn't wash it after the few hours of lab...it didn't get dirty and I wore a shirt underneath. Then after that sure you have two days of clinical so you just throw it in the wash when you get home. No big deal. Two would be nice to add to my laziness, but not necessary!

I start in October! Lab section co806 (th 9-3). Anyone with me?

Hello, to all,

From this 1/2 an MCC nurse (yeah me!), here's a couple of things that I have wished for along the way.

1) I wished that I had started in October several times, including now, because between 1600s and 1700s was Christmas/Winter break, and during that time you have previously learned detailed assessing skills, but in 1700s, you are going to have to really be using them the second you walk into clinicals. Right now I wish I started in Oct because I just finished up Psych where you are assessing pts, but not really any kind of medical issues, and I'm headed right back into Med/Surg 2. I haven't medically assessed anyone for over 8 weeks...what am I gonna remember over the summer even?

2) I wished I would have waited a tiny bit to go and purchase all of the equipment that they said that I needed. The "Nurse Packs" that you might or might not have heard of (a required item that you must purchase in addition to your books, available in the bookstore only) had a penlight and headphones in it, but who's to say that it won't change for you guys?

3) I wished I would have started to read ahead of time when I had the chance before classes started. I wouldn't have "super" studied it, but I would have read it and tried to understood it as best as I could. You will get a letter from Teri the most wonderfully organized and all-knowing woman on the face of the planet (she's the secretary in the nursing office) that will tell you when to come and pick up your syllabus. (Or maybe you won't and you might have to call her, probably the last week in July or so).

I'm not so sure that things will be the same for you guys as it was for me, as I hear that they might have been looking to change the order of how the classes are given, but who knows. One thing that I wouldn't change is the friendships that I have developed. Treasure those.

Congrats to all of you and welcome!
~Hoot~

I also start in Oct. See you then as well as Mitchymich So our labs are on Thurs. from 9-3? Did you figure out were? Does anyone remember if the uniforms run big or small?

Lecture day is on Monday and everyone that starts in October will be together but for labs/clinicals they will be different depending on your section number. Look on your letter that lists your classes, under nurs 1530 check your section number and then look in the fall registration book for what day you have. If you don't have a reg. book let me know your section and I will look it up for you!