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Hello everyone!! I have been doing my support courses for the last year and a half and I'm going to apply for the nursing program at Brookhaven this month. Though I'm not really stressing about it I am a little worried. This is my 3rd attempt at college and the first 2 times I did horrible!! Since I made the choice to go to nursing school in Summer of 2009, I've brought my GPA up from 1.76 to 3.0. And, all my grades in my support classes have been A's and B's except 1, Nursing Pathophysiology. I made a C in that class and it would have been a B if I had not made one mistake at the end of the course. So, my question is does anyone think that C in that class will hinder me much? If anyone can offer any insight it would be great. Thanks!!

Specializes in home health- pediatrics.

DISCLAIMER: Do not go out and buy the books you see here- wait until you get an official list from the school: they like to make adjustements to the required materials.

This is Ktosch's haul from the beginning of the semester! $$$$

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Specializes in home health- pediatrics.

Trying to post the picture again- if it doesn't work I will have to hide under a rock!

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I am a little late but thank you so so much sweetpea for answering my question so thoroughly! You're amazing. :)

Based on that picture of books I'm guessing the package comes with more than just the first semester's worth? But it doesn't look like all that we will need for the whole program?

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Specializes in home health- pediatrics.

Thankfully, most of those books will carry over to the second semester. You will be required to buy a new skills kit which doubles in price because it has all the expensive stuff to learn IV starts and injections. I was just told that we should not need any new textbooks for second semester, but some instructors will want you to purchase a workbook or something like that.

Third semester will require new text- that is when you will learn OB/Pediatrics/Mental Health.

But.... YOU WILL use almost every one of those books in your first semester!

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Sweatpea or Ktosch....Do you all remember when you had your "support camp"? I am trying to plan a nice vacation for my family this summer before school starts. I figured it will be our last until after graduation!! I did not know if the camp is scheduled way ahead of the semester or a week or so before. Any info would be greatly appreciated. You all are getting me so excited about the program from all the info you have provided!! Oh, and about the scrubs, I am very picky about my scrubs...can we purchase any hunter green ones? I wear Xsmall talls and and the length sure does vary depending on the manufacturer!!

Thank you again and congrats on almost completing your 1st semester...can't wait to be in your shoes!!

Also, does anyone that made it into the program have End of Life Issues this semester at Brookhaven? Just curious...I am in there and would love to meet you!!

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Specializes in home health- pediatrics.

Yes, you can purchase any Hunter Green, though because some shades vary, you should try to make sure your personal scrubs will be a close match. Faculty frown upon their clinical group looking mis-matched.Maybe the shop where you get your scrubs will also have the Cherokee to compare to. I encourage you to get your own because like I said, the Cherokee brand are stiff and frumpy. You will be paying EmbroidMe to put the logo on your scrubs, aprx $25. I imagine you will have to give them your scrub tops when the order is placed.

Success Camp is usually held the week before the semester starts. My class will be going through clinicals through the first/second week in August, so I imagine they won't be doing camp until after that. You are wise to get the vacation in, because you are right- you won't really have a chance, except for the winter break, and wouldn't put it past them to give us work to do. I would say to take your vacation before the second week in August, so you can have a few weeks to come home and prepare yourself for school.

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Thank you so much Sweetpea!!! I can't wait to thank you in person. I am so excited and nervous and your advice is really helping me feel better and giving a good direction of what I need to prepare for. On behalf of the future 2011 Brookhaven RN progam class we officialy thank you!

I put my FB link up under contact info in my allnurses.com profile if anyone wanted to be my friend ;)

*Questions*

1. What kind of everyday atire do we wear to class? I like to spend as little possible sleep time on hair/makeup/clothing. I also live in Lewsiville. Is there a uniform on normal class days or can we show up in like gym clothes/jeans?

2. What are your thoughts on the type of books, I hear we can buy e-books and hardback?

3. Would we be able to bring a e-reader like a nook if we can get the e-books? I

4. Do they put all 60 of us in a room to teach or do they split us up? Also how big are your clinical groups?

5. How long is the program, we start in Aug/Sep when would we graduate?

6. If we cant use laptops can we use audio recording with our notes?

7. How strict are they on cell phones?

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Specializes in home health- pediatrics.
Thank you so much Sweetpea!!! I can't wait to thank you in person. I am so excited and nervous and your advice is really helping me feel better and giving a good direction of what I need to prepare for. On behalf of the future 2011 Brookhaven RN progam class we officialy thank you!

I put my FB link up under contact info in my allnurses.com profile if anyone wanted to be my friend ;)

*Questions*

1. What kind of everyday atire do we wear to class? I like to spend as little possible sleep time on hair/makeup/clothing. I also live in Lewsiville. Is there a uniform on normal class days or can we show up in like gym clothes/jeans?

2. What are your thoughts on the type of books, I hear we can buy e-books and hardback?

3. Would we be able to bring a e-reader like a nook if we can get the e-books? I

4. Do they put all 60 of us in a room to teach or do they split us up? Also how big are your clinical groups?

5. How long is the program, we start in Aug/Sep when would we graduate?

6. If we cant use laptops can we use audio recording with our notes?

7. How strict are they on cell phones?

Hobbits, I think I will let you stew over those questions for the summer ;)

Just kiding! I will answer this afternoon! I am having some technical difficulties printing a paper that is due today and it is eating up my time before my class in 10 minutes!

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So I had a fleeting thought that maybe I should get dosage calc (and/or end of life issues) out of the way this summer since one less class in the fall might help my availability as far as work goes so I could try to keep my current job. (Those are the only two support classes I don't have, since all my classes are from UTA and they don't have a separate class for either, they are just worked into nursing courses.) turns out I thought of this a day too late since registration opened yesterday and they are all full already! Is it going to be this impossible to get into dosage calc in the fall or will students that are in the program have their own section/be registering earlier than all those trying to get into these classes to raise their points?

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Specializes in Cardiac Critical Care.

I just barely got into Dosage - it literally filled up at 8:01! I may be dropping it due to a schedule conflict (they originally posted the dates on there wrong!) ... I'm going to try to work it out with the instructor but if I can't I'll PM you or something before I drop it and you can jump online and get my spot!

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Thanks! Is it in class all of those days? I'm confused where it says this class meets (two different dates) underneath.

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Specializes in Cardiac Critical Care.

It doesn't meet all those dates, just 2 Saturdays for the entire day. As far as I know, the 2 class meetings are June 4 and July 9.

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