I bought my Syllabus yesterday !

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Specializes in LTC.

I bought syllabus yesterday, and after reading through it( which took a half hour), I was almost bought to tears ! It is sooo much information we have to learn in just 7 short weeks.

Class starts Feb. 2, ends May 20th. This is the mother/baby course, so we are basically expected to know everything that goes on from the time of conception to the baby is born. I won't go into details, but its a Ton of reading,videos to watch, and etc.

We start our clinicals on valentines day ! :(, so I won't even be able to spend it with my BF.... but thats okay, nursing school comes before he does.

Now for the Grading. Exam 1 is 35 % of our grade, Exam 2 is 35 % of our grade, and the comphrensive final is 30 % of our grade. All exams are 100 questions. We must also do a Case study, Medication research paper, Mother baby Care plan( which is 20 pages long), and a oral presentation. All four of the above assignments are worth 1 point, and will be calculated towards our exam grade. However, we must get a 75 % or above to even get that one measly point.

We must also attend a child birthing class, and write a report. Its seems as though its alot of hard work, and the syllabus is very intimadating... however, I prayed and asked God to give me strength to make it through this class. After that, I felt a load lifted off. I know with hard work and dedication, I will have a great chance at passing.

Immediately after mother baby class is over, I have a 7 week medsurg class, and one more summer course, than I'm done, done, I can definetly see the light ! Thanks for reading, and God bless. :D

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

Welcome to nursing school. The syllabus for one of my BSN classes was 1 and 1/2 inches thick! We had to buy it at a Kinko's store.

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Specializes in Critical Care (ICU/CVICU).

WOW! That is ALOT! :cry: But buying your class syllabus? That's a first.

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Specializes in LTC.

The syllabus cost 6 bucks !

Since books aren't available until the week before class starts, I ordered the main text book to get a head start on reading and assignments. Its alot, but totally worth it !

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

My BSN program did this a lot with their syllabi. The instructors had a lot of journal articles, etc., they had copied into the syllabus. Rather than have to copy and hand them out in class, they sent them over to Kinko's around the corner who put them in a binder and then we paid for the copying and binding. It was more efficient than the school's reproduction services which really stunk. Maybe that is how Kinko's got started. I've noticed that there are a lot of copy centers close to large universities. That can't be a mistake.

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I feel your pain. I remember my first semester I spent like $400 on books and I was at ease, like 'yay got all the supplies I needed.' But then they informed us that 3 of our classes required us to purchase the handboooks (which included the syllabus, the powerpoints, and for lab it had the activity sheets). The lab one could only fit in my 2in. binder. The pharm one was also 2 inches and it was only part 1 of 2. And then we had to print a nursing handbook for the whole program. It all came to an additional $30.00 and it was sold at our on-campus print shop.

But wow, I'm sure you'll be fine, did yours include notes or anything in it????

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Specializes in LTC.
I feel your pain. I remember my first semester I spent like $400 on books and I was at ease, like 'yay got all the supplies I needed.' But then they informed us that 3 of our classes required us to purchase the handboooks (which included the syllabus, the powerpoints, and for lab it had the activity sheets). The lab one could only fit in my 2in. binder. The pharm one was also 2 inches and it was only part 1 of 2. And then we had to print a nursing handbook for the whole program. It all came to an additional $30.00 and it was sold at our on-campus print shop.

But wow, I'm sure you'll be fine, did yours include notes or anything in it????

Its no, notes.... We get powerpoints in the beggining of each class to study from. They also gives us the objectives and study sheets in another packet, but thats free. I'm not going to buy every required book. I'm just going to get the main text book and study guide. Last semester we needed to read three books. I only used one, and passed the class c- flying colors.

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Specializes in CVICU/ER.

Take it week by week. Try not to look ahead and stress over something that is due 4 weeks from now. You will go crazy if you do that. Week by week.

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Wow! That's great you get the BUY your syllabus!! I have to print out our 132 page syllabus! And they leave it up to us to print out every other little paper! My poor printer!! (Though I think I'll be frequenting the school's computer lab more often now!) It sounds like your program is quite intense!! Good luck! You're almost there!!!

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Specializes in Critical Care (ICU/CVICU).

132 pages?! On a SYLLABUS?? Am I the only one that has never heard of a syllabus more than 15 pages? LOL That is CRAZY!

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I'm terrified.

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Oh, no, syllabuses are typically greater than 100 pages at my school too. Generally they cost around 15 dollars.

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