Anyone starting Tomball fall08?

happygoluckygirl · Apr 13, 2008

I will be starting Tomball this fall as well! Congrats on your acceptance!

Aggie2000 · Apr 13, 2008

I'm finishing Tomball this May :nurse: . Congrats :yeah: on your acceptance! Good luck with your future career. Don't give up, it will be over before you know it!

misserella8036 · Apr 13, 2008

I'm finishing Tomball this May . Congrats on your acceptance! Good luck with your future career. Don't give up, it will be over before you know it!

Wow - it's almost over for you and I'm just starting. Do you mind anwsering a few guestions (I'm too impatient to wait for orientation) :lol2: What color scrubs do you have to wear? At your clinicals - are you there the whole 12 hours? I know kingwood leaves after about 9 to go home and work on careplans. How are the instructors? (you can pm the anwsers to me if you want) Any other sound advice would be appreciated! I've met people at everyother campus but tomball. Thanks so much! :bowingpurCongratulations!

hypocaffeinemia, BSN, RN · Apr 13, 2008

Wow - it's almost over for you and I'm just starting. Do you mind anwsering a few guestions (I'm too impatient to wait for orientation) What color scrubs do you have to wear? At your clinicals - are you there the whole 12 hours? I know kingwood leaves after about 9 to go home and work on careplans. How are the instructors? (you can pm the anwsers to me if you want) Any other sound advice would be appreciated! I've met people at everyother campus but tomball. Thanks so much! :bowingpurCongratulations!

I'm at Montgomery, but as for scrub color all the Lone Stars have to wear this horribly awful combination of white scrub top with "Sea Green" or teal-ish pants. Solid white shoes, too, which is another story since they don't make all that many solid white guy's shoes. We have our district patch on the left sleeve. I would imagine, however, the patch is changing for your class d/t this being "Lone Star" instead of NHMCCD now, so I would expect limited availability of this.

The LVN students get a nice royal blue/royal blue uniform, but we get to dress up like clowns.

misserella8036 · Apr 13, 2008

There is a guy in my apartment who wears royal blue scrubs with a patch on his sleeve - must be lvn. I wish we could wear those! I see people on the tomball campus wearing maroon scrubs too. wonder who they are?

hypocaffeinemia, BSN, RN · Apr 13, 2008

There is a guy in my apartment who wears royal blue scrubs with a patch on his sleeve - must be lvn. I wish we could wear those! I see people on the tomball campus wearing maroon scrubs too. wonder who they are?

Maybe respiratory, radiology (I think they wear grey, though), or physical therapy.

Some of the Tomball students shared a clinical site with us (Nexus, an LTAC in The Woodlands) at the beginning of first semester. We all had the same uniforms, so it caused quite a bit of confusion amongst both us and the staff.

misserella8036 · Apr 13, 2008

Maybe respiratory, radiology (I think they wear grey, though), or physical therapy.
Some of the Tomball students shared a clinical site with us (Nexus, an LTAC in The Woodlands) at the beginning of first semester. We all had the same uniforms, so it caused quite a bit of confusion amongst both us and the staff.

I hate white scrubs! Oh well - what can you do. How was Nexus? I think the day I chose we go to triumph hospital. Not looking forward to doing the ltc thing (I did it as a cna) but you gotta start somewhere. I suppose they are not going to let us jump in somewhere cool - like the ER. I take a class at montgomery on mondays. I see the nursing students in the hallway. None of you are ever wearing scrubs though. I suppose it's your lecture day. :rolleyes: Thanks for all your input!

hypocaffeinemia, BSN, RN · Apr 13, 2008

I hate white scrubs! Oh well - what can you do. How was Nexus? I think the day I chose we go to triumph hospital. Not looking forward to doing the ltc thing (I did it as a cna) but you gotta start somewhere. I suppose they are not going to let us jump in somewhere cool - like the ER. I take a class at montgomery on mondays. I see the nursing students in the hallway. None of you are ever wearing scrubs though. I suppose it's your lecture day. Thanks for all your input!

I know that Tomball spends a lot more time in LTC than we do. We have a total of four weeks I think before moving to acute care. My clinical group was the only one in an LTACH, the rest were in SNFs.

Monday is indeed our lecture/test day (for first years) and for me personally the one day a week I don't have to wear scrubs (between lab/clinicals/work), so I take advantage of it.

misserella8036 · Apr 13, 2008

I should've picked montgomery as my first pick. I recently moved closer to tomball so I chose that campus. I've always gone to montgomery. Oh well. i shouldn't complain. There are probably 100 people that would love to be in my place.

Aggie2000 · Apr 14, 2008

Wow - it's almost over for you and I'm just starting. Do you mind anwsering a few guestions (I'm too impatient to wait for orientation) What color scrubs do you have to wear? At your clinicals - are you there the whole 12 hours? I know kingwood leaves after about 9 to go home and work on careplans. How are the instructors? (you can pm the anwsers to me if you want) Any other sound advice would be appreciated! I've met people at everyother campus but tomball. Thanks so much! :bowingpurCongratulations!

We have the same scrubs as the Montgomery school (white tops with patch on left sleeve, teal pants and white shoes). Someone mentioned that Tomball spends alot of time in LTC. That isn't exactly correct. We are an integrated program which means we don't have blocks of curriculum. Most of what you will be doing is Med/Surg. You aren't really allowed to go into specialty units until end of 2nd to 3rd semester. Which is probably a good thing because you aren't allowed to do anything.

As far as clinical, you are there 12 hours. Most instructors expect you to do your care plan during the shift. Don't worry, they aren't lengthy like other schools, it is do-able. As far as advice, learn and be a sponge. Realize that you won't know everything and admit when you don't. This isn't a competition, and you and your classmates are in it together. Oh yeah, and be happy with a "B" even a "C" in lecture...

Good luck!

hypocaffeinemia, BSN, RN · Apr 14, 2008

. Someone mentioned that Tomball spends alot of time in LTC. That isn't exactly correct. We are an integrated program which means we don't have blocks of curriculum.

I was the one that mentioned that.

The students we ran into at Nexus last semester informed us they spend the entire first semester at Nexus.

We moved on to Memorial Hermann TW about 4-5 weeks into the first semester.

We're also integrated.