I got accepted into LMU's nursing program!

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I got into LMU! I am really excited and a bit nervous as well. I will be getting my ASN and already have all the classes needed for my BSN as well, of course other than the nursing classes. I have a 3.6gpa as of now and good study skills. Any tips I should be aware of. Also, how do the women reading this feel about male nurses. Thanks for any advice and God bless!

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Welcome and good luck

Moved to the general student nursing forum

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Specializes in Oncology/med surg, Occupational Health.

Congrats Country Boy,

I graduated from LMU in 2008. Which campus will you be attending? I remember being excited and very nervous my few months at LMU.

Be prepared for a bumpy, disorganized ride in nursing school. Some days you're the windshield, some days you're the bug. You will learn some great skills and have some exciting experiences. I will be happy to answer any questions you have.

Good Luck & God Bless.

p.s.: the majority of female nurses enjoy working with male nurses. I have worked with some wonderful male nurses.

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Specializes in Telemetry.

I love male nurses, they can be very funny. Welcome to the world of nursing. Please say goodbye to the luxury of hanging out with your friends for a long period of time and hello to some hard work and exams. You will be fine, you have developed good study habits as you stated. Good luck on your journey!

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Congrats Country Boy,

I graduated from LMU in 2008. Which campus will you be attending? I remember being excited and very nervous my few months at LMU.

Be prepared for a bumpy, disorganized ride in nursing school. Some days you're the windshield, some days you're the bug. You will learn some great skills and have some exciting experiences. I will be happy to answer any questions you have.

Good Luck & God Bless.

p.s.: the majority of female nurses enjoy working with male nurses. I have worked with some wonderful male nurses.

I will be at the main campus in Harrogate. I have heard they can be disorganized and I also heard that a lot of students don't make it past the 1st. semester because of the 80% or better rule. Did you find this to be true? Also have you heard anything about their NP program? The NP program is my long term goal, but one step at a time of course :D.

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I love male nurses, they can be very funny. Welcome to the world of nursing. Please say goodbye to the luxury of hanging out with your friends for a long period of time and hello to some hard work and exams. You will be fine, you have developed good study habits as you stated. Good luck on your journey!

Yea i figured my days of freedom to hunt and fish are gone for a loonngg time! lol. Good to hear male nurses are liked, I hear i have a good sense of humor so hopefully this will be a good thing with my future patients!

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Specializes in Oncology/med surg, Occupational Health.

I have heard that 1st semester is difficult. I was a LPN when I started LMU, so I didn't have to take 1st semester. My hardest semester was the 3rd. I failed it by 1.5 points and had to retake it. I was also working full time while attending school.

Yes, the school was very disorganized at the administrative level, in my opinion.

I'm sure you will do fine, just keep your nose to the grindstone and focus on the light at the end of the tunnel.

Pt's love funny nurses, it helps relieve a bit of the stress of being in the hospital.

You should be able to get in a deer or bear hunt around Thanksgiving or Christmas break.

God Bless

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This Fall, I will be starting my 3rd semester at LMU. I am at the St.Mary's site. Yes, be prepared to kiss your social life goodbye (if you want to pass). I think first semester was a piece of cake compared to second semseter..and I am scared of this next term. I have heard it is the hardest by far. About guys, acutally one of my really good friends in school was a guy--but he didn't pass this last semester! :( I think that when I do graduate and start working it will be nice to have a male around to break up all the female drama! LOL All the males RNs that I have worked with in clinical have all been more helpful and friendly than all the female nurses! LMU has frustrated me many times--they can be very unorganized..but all in all I feel like I have learned a ton! Good luck, just focus and study and you should be fine! :)

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Specializes in 12 years exp in corporate healthcare.

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I will be at the main campus in Harrogate. I have heard they can be disorganized and I also heard that a lot of students don't make it past the 1st. semester because of the 80% or better rule. Did you find this to be true? Also have you heard anything about their NP program? The NP program is my long term goal, but one step at a time of course :D.

Hello!

I attend the Harrogate campus and am past the first year. I am starting my third semester in the program, and I will be a tutor for the nursing program. You will be encouraged by your instructor to come to the Tagge Center to see me and another girl who will be tutoring as much as possible, lol. I absolutely LOVE your instructor for NURS 115. She was my instructor as well. She was also my instructor for NURS 126 (Psych) and will be this semester for OB (246). Let me know if you have any questions. I love it there at the Harrogate site. :)

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I will be at the main campus in Harrogate. I have heard they can be disorganized and I also heard that a lot of students don't make it past the 1st. semester because of the 80% or better rule. Did you find this to be true? Also have you heard anything about their NP program? The NP program is my long term goal, but one step at a time of course :D.

The main campus in Harrogate, in my opinion, is not disorganized at all. You start out with about 40 students in your class, maybe a little more. It is difficult to keep an 80, and they WILL kick you out if you have a 79.9. (I had a friend that happened to, actually). The best thing you can do is to put nursing school first, study like crazy, and get assistance from the tutors. There are only two nursing tutors for your entering class, that being myself and another girl. The NP students (who mostly all seem great) tutored my class last semester, but your instructor for NURS 115 told me the other day that she is only going to allow your entering class to see myself and the other girl. My class, which is more advanced, will continue to see the NP students (because they kind of put things on a hard to understand level). The new CRNA program is my ultimate goal, and from what I have seen, there are so few of NP and CRNA students, that they're mainly in classes together. You will have a locker that you can put your stuff in. For your first semester, clinicals will be at a nursing home (there are only two that you can be assigned to). One is about 5 minutes away from LMU, and the other is about 15 minutes away. You will get to do things like IM and sub-Q injections. You will get to give meds and maybe even do some wound care. You will feed a lot of people, and do a lot of AM care. It's just learning about the basics of nursing. You will have 7 weeks of lab and 5 weeks of actual clinical in the nursing home. Lab is just to familiarize you with the procedures and to get you comfortable with them. You will be checked off for things in lab before you can do them in clinical. There are about 3 clinical instructors that you could possibly be assigned to. How much you will actually be allowed to do will depend upon which instructor you're assigned to. One of them will let you do ALL KINDS of stuff (the one I had). One will let you do quite a bit, and the other (I have heard) will not let you do anything -- not even sub-Q injections. I would advise you to be familiar with Erikson's 8 stages of development. There will be test questions on these. Remember, ABCs (airway, then breathing, then circulation) *always* come first on any test question. The instructors will be very big on seeing what kind of "nursing judgment" you make. I took 17 hours my first semester in nursing school with 115, which people said I was crazy for doing. It all just depends on your learning style and how much YOU can handle. I will also be tutoring Micro, Anatomy, and Physiology (if you are taking any of those). Every semester, it gets harder. Your first semester, you will only have lecture on Fridays (if it hasn't changed), and your clinical or lab will be only 1 day a week. Every semester thereafter, you will have at least two nursing classes. Second semester you will have Psych and Med-Surg 1. Third semester you will have OB and Med-Surg 2. Fourth semester you will have a seminar class, Med-Surg 3, and Peds. I assume that you are taking care of your medical profile now over the summer before class starts. The instructors do not like when people don't have those packets totally finished. Make sure all your immunizations are up to date, get your physical, get CPR certified (if you're not already), and definitely get a copy of Henke's Med Math! I got mine off eBay, because you will learn over time that LMU's bookstore is SO expensive. I did the first 10 chapters in that book and made CERTAIN I knew how to do every single problem in it before the first day of school. They want you to learn the "ratio and proportion method" only. I was confused about that, because there is a ration method and a proportion method, but no "ratio and proportion method." Do the problems that look like this:

x mL : x mg :: x mL : x mg (the formula with all the little colons). Do not do the one with fractions. For your first semester, you will have 100 question tests with 5 math problems at the end. Within your first few weeks of the semester, they will give you 3 chances to pass a drug dosage quiz. If you cannot, you will be kicked out, so please get that book! lol

Most of the instructors are really awesome, and I haven't seen their "bad sides" that everyone warned me about yet. Just do what you're supposed to, don't complain, kiss a little butt if you have to, study, and give it your all. If you call "special attention" to yourself, they may "get it in for you," as I have heard people call it. They DO try to weed out the weak from the strong, and by the time you are starting your third semester (like me), your class may be down to around 20 people -- reduced by half. One of my very best friends decided to spend her time this past semester with her boyfriend. I would always ask her to study, but she would put me off. She ended up failing and is trying to catch back up by taking 125 in Alcoa over the whole summer. Do not do that. Make sure to study and try very hard. That is all I can think of for now, but if you need anything else or have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. I am sure we'll be meeting in the fall for tutoring (if you decide to take advantage of it), which I highly recommend (as will your instructor). Tutoring doesn't mean you're "dumb" or don't know the material. Many in my class spend HOURS every week with the NP students for tutoring, whether they need it or not. It's very invaluable. Sorry the post is so long, but I tried to share everything I can remember. From what you have said about your grades, you should be just fine. Try not to be nervous, and good luck!

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We have three guys in our program of 12 students. We love our guys and we wouldn't trade them for anything! They have an entirely different way of looking at many situations. It is refreshing to not have all "girlie" input sometimes!:lol2:

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