El Centro First Year - Buy book box or not?

Hi guys,

I can't wait to see us all in our non-flattering scrubs! Mine have been sitting in the bag from Majors since the day after orientation ... now I'm afraid to look! Of course, I'm a guy, but we don't want our butts to look horrendously big either :-)

Do we actually use the scrubs before the actual clinicals start? A lot can happen in 7 weeks LOLOL (no more Skittles for me!)

I haven't loaded the e-books yet ... I just have a laptop, no desktop in use, but if I had both I think I'd put them on the laptop so I could take it to class instead of the book itself (a lot of people seem to think that's the way to go). Of course, if your battery dies during class you might wish you had the paper book with you.

Has anyone looked at all the stuff that's on eCampus under the Nursing Community? I think we're all finally members there. There are detailed syllabuses and notes for the classes ... it looked like about 300 pages of stuff for 1423 ... I don't know whether to print it out or not. I guess they'll tell us.

Last but certainly not least ... does anyone know how many more little expenses we'll have as school starts (besides background check, pee check, stethoscope, BP cuff, name tags, etc etc)????

Do any Parkland people know which Parkland location the clinical is at?

Looking forward to meeting y'all next week!

Richard

Hi Oneday,

A lot of it is in the COMMUNITY tab. At El Centro I have the ECC-AD NURSING community in my Community list. There's also a Brookhaven Nursing Community listed but I can't get there. I would think Northlake would use the ECC community stuff, but I don't know.

I received an email from James McCarty last Thursday with the schedule for the 3 day orientation attached. Most of the things say ECC, but a few (peeing, for instance) say ECC/NLC. I don't know if there's a separate schedule for NL.

Most of the forms seem to be somewhere in the Community under Forms, or hidden in the RNSG1423 tabs under COURSES. I still have not found anything that looks like an "immunization release form", or a "1460 lab schedule".

We're also supposed to have an access code for something called "Virtual Clinical Excursion" but I can't find it in my book box ....

Hope this helps! Did you ever get any emails?

Richard