CCBC Spring 2020 Cohort

Elaine89 · Dec 1, 2019

Good looking, I’ll probably check it out. I’m on financial aid so I’ll probably wait until then....maybe

Ughnamesarehard · Dec 1, 2019

Also, I can tell everyone one big tip I learned: Ask at orientation to see if e-book versions of textbooks are ok. If you can do the ebook, you can easily use the "search" function to find things in the book in seconds instead of fumbling through the index. This is very important because you need all the precious time you can save because you will be busy day and night! This will also allow you to take just a light laptop to school instead of 30 lbs of heavy textbooks, and you can easily find things in class for group projects (there are TONS of in-class group projects).

Elaine89 · Dec 1, 2019

Yikes! I’m not a big fan of group projects, but I plan on going digital for note taking so ebooks would be highly convienent for me.

Ughnamesarehard · Dec 1, 2019

3 minutes ago, Elaine89 said:
Good looking, I’ll probably check it out. I’m on financial aid so I’ll probably wait until then....maybe

I hear you... I think I ended up buying a used one from Amazon.

Ughnamesarehard · Dec 1, 2019

1 minute ago, Elaine89 said:
Yikes! I’m not a big fan of group projects, but I plan on going digital for note taking so ebooks would be highly convienent for me.

Our online class was given a list of books that never mentioned the ebook versions as an option, so people ended up taking 2 book bags to school with them. One girl even bought a suitcase to carry them all! We later learned that the ebooks were an option, so many of us just broke down and bought the ebook versions because it was just too hard to manage all the books and to wrestle with several books on a tiny desk in class. Also, the teachers want answers very fast, so those with the hard copies were always still flipping pages when the ebook people already found the answers. This was all in the online program though, but I'm sure it'd be similar to the day program... as long as the Orientation people OK the ebook versions that is!

Ughnamesarehard · Dec 1, 2019

Also, for everyone that didn't get into the ATB program, they will give you another chance to apply and start the ATB program in your second semester of nursing school, so if you didn't get in for your first semester, you can try again, they will spam you with offer to reapply mid-way through your first semester ?

Elaine89 · Dec 1, 2019

I thought you buy your books from the bookstore and the orientation people just tell you which books you need

Ughnamesarehard · Dec 1, 2019

2 hours ago, Elaine89 said:
I thought you buy your books from the bookstore and the orientation people just tell you which books you need

Yes, you do, however many of the books have an "e-book" version that you can buy that is often less expensive than the hard copy. For example many of our books are published by Elsevier, so you can go to the Elsevier website and buy the e-book version of the book for $94 instead of $116 (for example, this is our fundamentals book: https://evolve.elsevier.com/cs/product/9780323400053?role=student ). The textbooks are not sold only in the bookstore; they are also sold by the publisher/ in other bookstores/ on Amazon, ect. Don't worry, they will go into great detail about books in the orientation! My main point is that me and my classmates found the ebooks easier to transport and faster to use.

girlidek · Dec 2, 2019

19 hours ago, Ughnamesarehard said:
Ah, ok, maybe they're waiting until after orientation. The dosage book pretty much covers the same thing as the course if you want to get a jump start (they sell the dosage book at CCBC bookstores).

do you know the name of it? i wanna see if they have it on amazon or something

girlidek · Dec 2, 2019

i looked on the ccbc bookstore website to see all the books for fundamentals and there are so many of them! did you guys only use the fund. of nursing book? @Ughnamesarehard

Ughnamesarehard · Dec 2, 2019

3 hours ago, girlidek said:
do you know the name of it? i wanna see if they have it on amazon or something

I've attached a screenshot of the dosage book info from the Catonsville campus Ccbc bookstore; I'm not sure if Essex has a different one. It's "Dosage Calculations" by Gloria Pickar, 9th edition.

Ughnamesarehard · Dec 2, 2019

3 hours ago, girlidek said:
i looked on the ccbc bookstore website to see all the books for fundamentals and there are so many of them! did you guys only use the fund. of nursing book? @Ughnamesarehard

We used almost every single textbook! Some of them are reference books though, like your lab test manual and pharmaceutical meds manual. It's a TON of reading and studying, so when they give you "optional" textbook readings at orientation that you can read to get a head start on, be sure to do it. Here's a picture of my textbooks for the first semester... Keep in mind you will use many of these throughout the program, but you do have to buy a few more late in the program.