CU Spring 2012 Applicants

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Since we're getting close to the end I thought I would start this thread. Please introduce yourselves and add any updates as you get them from CU.

I'm a non-traditional student making a mid-life career change. I used to work in corporate finance for many years. I became a stay at home mom about 8 years ago and then decided to make a major career change into nursing. I completed all my nursing pre-requisites at a local community college. My previous bachelor's degree is in business administration.

Would love to hear from fellow applicants!!!!

I ordered my books from a combination of Albris, ebay, half.com and Amazon. I have picked up some study guides for patho and pharm. I was thinking of getting a nursing diagnosis book.

Any current UC Denver students lurking here that can recommend study guides that mesh well with classes? Also how important are the CDs that come with some of the books? Used books are a lot cheaper, but usually don't have the CD.

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Hi future students. I'm just gearing up to graduate CU in 5 weeks, it goes by quick!! I never used the CDs for the earlier classes, but for some of your classes later on in the program they could be required. The CDs do have a lot of practice questions on them so if that's how you like to study you may want to get them.

For Patho I recommend a great book by one of the CU professors: Handbook of Pathophysiology by Elizabeth Corwin. You can get it on Amazon for as cheap as $5 and it's a very concise, excellent review of patho. I never read the text, I just went off of this book.

I would take the medical dictionary back. I bought one and never cracked it open once. That's what google is for :) However, I would HIGHLY recommend a nursing diagnosis book, you'll be doing lots and lots of care plans.

Hope that helps.

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Any thoughts on apps for iphone or ipods? I thought about getting some sort of nursing "software" for my ipod that might replace the diagnosing book.

Thanks!

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Thanks for the info cdidis!

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I got my textbooks yesterday. Holy crap. I don't know how we are going to take them to class every week. Some of them are huge. I hope that we don't have to lug them around to class.

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They opened enrollment early! It was not supposed to open until 08:00, and one of the lab sections I really needed to get was full at 07:40 :-(

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Chyna016,

The same thing happened to me too!!!! I really needed the health Assesment lab that was from 1-6p on Mondays! I had to pick the Thursday 7a-12p lab instead, my schedule is all over the place now. Oh well its a learning experience for next time thats for sure! What is your schedule like?

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I got one of the last spots in the M 1-6 Health Assessment lab, but had to do the Thur AM fundamentals lab.

I was hoping to only have class three days a week, so I would have an easier time with my work schedule. I know I can make it work, I just may have to be a little more creative with my work schedule.

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