CCAC Spring 2011

U.S.A. Pennsylvania

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Just wondering if anyone else on here has applied to CCAC for the spring 2011 semester?

Yes that would be great, thanks so much! And by the way we have the same clinical

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Specializes in PICU.

I apologize, i've e-mailed the lady and she's giving me a run around, getting pretty frustrated. She told me she didn't know what was in the bundles, which I find hard to believe. If the bookstore, shannon, and the elsevier lady do not know what is in the bundles someone has got to be lieing. I refuse to pay for books I already have! Going to call Elsevier tomorrow and speak to someone, I Will have an answer. I mean the company ships and sends the books in the bundles, they can't tell me they do not know what is in them.

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Learning so much, already!!!!!! They say they start you off easy and it really is easy. They also say it gets much harder later. I believe it. There is so much to learn. We've given bed baths, cleaned g-tube surrounding areas, applied some treatments, learned how to read charts, take blood pressure and pulses and some other vital signs. Its a lot of reading and you need to know a lot. I'm trying to soak up learning opportunities whenever I can. I ask my clinical instructor "why" a lot and shes patient with me. It helps drive points home and will make me a better nurse. Shes amazing.

Oh-and those of you considering e-books...I cant speak for all clinical instructors, but ours wants us to bring the books to clinical to keep in the locker room. The reasoning behind it is so that when she asks us certain things, we can go look it up. Each of us will bring a different book so that we're not lugging the huge things to class. I bought mine off half.com for super cheap. Some of my books are an edition older (my $25 FON is 3rd ed), but I find that its not a problem at all. Ebooks would come in handy sometimes, but not if you need them at clinical...which may or may not be required of you.

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Specializes in PICU.

For those of you at the calu campus I made a facebook group to continue the tradition from the other classes, just search for "CCAC @ Cal U Class of 2012 Nursing" will help out with the tons of questions we will have :)

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So how's it going for everyone? Good teachers, clinicals, classes? Enjoying yourselves? :)

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Specializes in PICU.

Oooo...good so far, busy. I've never been so excited with B's in my life. How's it going for you?

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