Lonestar Spring 2012 Hopefuls

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Anyone applying?

SO, since we get to wear any color scrubs for the first semester.. what color scrubs are you all gonna buy?! :)

And HOW MANY pairs is a good amount for if we have lab Mon, Tues and Wed... three pairs if we do laundry every week?

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Is there a facebook group for us that are starting the ADN program in the spring at Cyfair?

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I was looking at the books from the bookstore online and some of them are special order and some are digital. Anyone else see that?

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I am going to the bookstore tomorrow to ask if cafe scribe works on the ipad2. The digital books are much less expensive.

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@Kalisefer I saw that too.. but I'm getting my books on Amazon and ebay, much less expensive than the bookstore if you know how to search :)

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yes, search Lonestar Cy-Fair ADN Nursing C/O Winter 2013. i'm an admin and i'll add you.

About the books, on the slide show it said books would be about $550.00, but when I looked online and added up all the materials for each class - it equaled $900-$1000.... I'm confused, can anyone help?

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@alex another idea is if you search in mylonestar under 2011 fall for the classes and then view the option for textbooks the isbn is there. The bookstore has several different book options, but I think the search under mylonestar is a bit more clear

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Thank you very much alex1987!!!

Well bookstore is much more expensive so try to order from places like amazon or eBay

When I tried to check textbook info for rnsg 1115 ? 1105? It said the textbook information still under review by the instructor...am I only one seeing that message?

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yes, search Lonestar Cy-Fair ADN Nursing C/O Winter 2013. i'm an admin and i'll add you.

About the books, on the slide show it said books would be about $550.00, but when I looked online and added up all the materials for each class - it equaled $900-$1000.... I'm confused, can anyone help?

Depends on where you buy books but I'm guessing we ll probably spend at least $500~ on books alone. I think the price on the pp was not updated and the price increased

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I just purchased through Amazon Fundamentals of Nursing and Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills for $156 (about $75 each one + shipping). If you get the package with both books at the bookstore it costs $188. So it's not a huge difference but at least I got to save something. Both books are in like new condition, with cd and/or access codes included.

Look for them separately instead of looking for the whole package so you can compare prices.

There's good stuff in ebay too.

So far I've spent $211 (without shipping costs) and I got: Nutrition, Taylor's clinical nursing skills, Taylor's checklist, Fund of nursing, Doc & nursing process, and Nurses' handbook for health assessment. All of them used but most of them like new condition.

I'm not sure about Fund Success and Test Success though. It says both are required but is that true? I mean they'll be obviously useful in order to prepare for the tests but does it matters whether or not we decide to purchase both or just one of them? :confused:

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I noticed when I was turning in the survey that one of the program's students did not show up for orientation. I also noticed that some girl showed up when we were nearly finished and she was allowed to sign in. That upset me because here is some chick that can't make it on time and she was way past late, while there are perfectly good alternate candidates who obviously were responsible enough to show up on time, why did they let her sign in? That just is not right, how many times is she going to be allowed to show up for class late. I also couldn't help but notice that she didn't even take the time to groom her hair. She looked unkept. If she can't take care of her own self who else is she possibly going to neglect, if she even makes it past the first two or three weeks. RANTING!!!!!!! Ok I feel better, but it is still not right to all of the alternates she was allowed in sooooo late.

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That sounds like you got some great deals Alex!

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