Favorite things you bought during RN school to help your studies?

[northmississippi]

Mine would be my 2 voice recorders for each of my classes, my medical dictionary, watch, and nursing fundamentals made easy book.

What was yours?

[chaka_1709]

My new laptop, watch, a couple of nursing diagnosis books. I want to buy some study guides for adult 1 and 2 next semester and when I get a cool phone, I'll buy a couple of apps.

[missdiorcherie]

Hands down my iPad; its lightweight, and I've got most of my books on there as pdf's.....I graduate next month from LPN school and my journey would have been harder without it.

[buytheshoes11, MSN, RN]

Laptop, stethoscope, then an NCLEX questions/answers book I bought my final semester!

[on eagles wings, ASN, RN]

-my netbook--weighs nothing, i carry it everywhere

-ipod touch-- love it for clinical, has my drug guide and medscape... also use the dropvox app to record lectures and it automatically saves into my dropbox

-with that mentioned, DROPBOX saved me!!! have all my stuff in one neat little place :)

-medsurg reviews and rationales-- use it for careplans

-actually, the whole reviews and rationales has helped a lot... i used it along w/ my textbook and it helps me put things in perspective. it also has a lot of extra info but ive found that that extra info is so helpful to know in clinicals!!! my profs were always impressed and i give kudos to mary ann hogan

-and of course... allnurses.com :)

[DroogieRN]

A massive amount -- literally, thousands -- of large index cards. Highlighters -- I used a whole one every day. Mechanical pencils -- for some reason, a #2 mechanical pen il was so much easier / more pleasurable to write with than a pen when taking notes. And wine. Lots and lots of red wine.

[That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

A killer stereo and a few hours on BitTorrent

[Purkinje]

My folding clipboard. These were all the rage last semester -- not just with the students, but with the nurses, residents, and doctors as well!

Nursing Clipboards

[chevyv, BSN, RN]

I don't drink much coffee but I bought enough Coke to last a lifetime!

[eatmysoxRN, ASN, RN]

NCLEX Review Books

Littman Cardiology III

A binder for each exam (at the end of the semester, compiled them all into file folders... kept me organized)

A storage clipboard (my pants kept falling off trying to keep everything under the sun in the pockets)

A voice recorder I never used. Not even once.

30000 pens, approximately.

Jell-O shots. Lots and lots of Jell-O shots.

[Despareux]

A book light, quality pencils and erasers, pencil grip pads, electric pencil sharpener, printer ink, and my Saunders 5th edition.

[dbs412]

you're all scaring the crap out of me... i start nursing 101 in september

[ro2878, ADN, BSN]

Lean Cuisines to feed my kids dinner on "care plan nights." You know, those glorious days of picking your patient and then knowing you will be up until 2:00 am writing your 30 page care plan due the next morning at 6:30!! Didn't you just love those patients that had 40 meds?!!

Don't miss those days!