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

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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?

Thanks! I have this bag from my military days. It's probably what I'll use for a while. It's an amazing bag, I just want to get away from military stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000LF70TI/ref=aw_d_var_2nd_sporting-goods_txt?vs=1

Want to go towards something like this:

http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/polo-ralph-lauren-leather-briefcase/3310539?origin=keywordsearch&contextualcategoryid=0&fashionColor=&resultback=0

If you are willing to spend 500 on crap ralph lauren at least get some quality leather. Check out http://www.saddlebackleather.com/

keep your eye on styleforum.com for sale section if you are fine buying used for other nice leather bags, sometimes youll find some saddleback as well

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So what u think I should get? New iPad or a laptop? I already have an iMac at home by the way.

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So what u think I should get? New iPad or a laptop? I already have an iMac at home by the way.

They both have merits. The iPad has that app that you can use to take notes right on the powerpoint slides, and it is small and light, but my apple only classmates run into problems with online content not being supported sometimes, and have to do some assignments on the computers at school. You can also pickup PC laptop for a lot cheaper.

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Specializes in Forensic Psych.

They both have merits. The iPad has that app that you can use to take notes right on the powerpoint slides, and it is small and light, but my apple only classmates run into problems with online content not being supported sometimes, and have to do some assignments on the computers at school. You can also pickup PC laptop for a lot cheaper.

Ahhhh, so annoying! My laptop is broken, and I can do most things on my iPad, but some of our assignments are Flash and it's such a pain to have to go to the campus library. There a few outside browsers that will run some of the stuff, but not all.

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Word of advice form a Graduating RN student here. I recently got into the journal articles. I subscribe to the Journal of Emergency Nursing and Critical Care Nurses Association of Canada's Journal. You wanna impress people in clinical read those. RNs are stunned when you cite recent research and they (secretly) love it. I learned so much about practice from those, more than any textbook that is. Great way to get a job/get noticed in a good way is to just bring those into the lunch room for all to read.

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A&P coloring book...

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Mosby's Pharmacology Flash Cards. The cartoons were so silly, they helped you to remember the actions of the drugs

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A great stethescope and pen light!!!!! I felt fancy! lol

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My Bible, Fluids & Electrolytes made easy, Nurse Tabs app, my zuca bag, my northface backpack for lighter days, Littman classic II se, and lots of coffee

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Specializes in Med Surg/ Pedi, OR.

positive vibes !

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