MARCH 2010 STARTS

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All LPN students due to start in March 2010, let's support each other!!

Share with us your start date, program length, or whatever else you'd like to share!!!

:yeah: I'm so excited for everyone! :yeah:

I know the uniforms for Lancaster Career are sooooooooooooo hideous! I can't wait to burn mine! 3 months to the day for graduation....I can't wait to never wears these hideous blue stripes again!

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Specializes in LTC and Acute.

Wow, I'm lucky that my uniform just looks like scrubs basically

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I know the uniforms for Lancaster Career are sooooooooooooo hideous! I can't wait to burn mine! 3 months to the day for graduation....I can't wait to never wears these hideous blue stripes again!

Lol I was cracking up telling my husband how I'll look more like a chef than a nurse... He's so excited to see what I look like in it, just to pick on me!! It's good to hear that the evening program is more relaxed, simply because I won't go too crazy trying to balance everything. Congrats on your quickly approaching graduation date!! :D

Quick question, what do you recommend as a way to keep my notes organized? Like binders, folders, multi subject notebooks? Just curious... Thanks :D.

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I start my LPN in class on tomorrow and I am very excited and nervous all at once. I have 12 yrs of CNA and took a medication aide course before so I hope all of this helps me in some way or another.

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I start my LPN in class on tomorrow and I am very excited and nervous all at once. I have 12 yrs of CNA and took a medication aide course before so I hope all of this helps me in some way or another.

I bet all of that prior experience will prove to be a big help! I took a 12 month online course for a Pharmacy Technician Diploma while I was home pregnant with my youngset, and I had to learn some anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, and some pharmacology and we will be learning about these topics during our program! I pulled out some of my old books and I've been going over the info. so I feel a little more prepared for what we will be learning. I don't think it will be too hard, it's just a matter of memorizing such a great amount of information that will prove to be a challenge for me!!

Good luck with your studies and please share oh how your first day went ;D!!!

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Well today started off kind of slow due to having to finish up some paperwork, but after that it was right into A&P. The instructor was reading it right out of the book which made it so boring but I picked up on alot of the stuff she was saying.

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Well today started off kind of slow due to having to finish up some paperwork, but after that it was right into A&P. The instructor was reading it right out of the book which made it so boring but I picked up on alot of the stuff she was saying.

That's good! I'm studying some A&P while I wait, because that seems to be what everyone starts off with. I'm thinking my first full day won't be so bad, since they dedicate a whole day to orientation the week before. I think that's so we can get our syllabus and so our instructors can tell us what supplies we will need for the class... Geeze I am so nervous! I haven't been out of my house for much other than food shopping for a few years now lol...

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Well today was more relaxed, but once again A&P was a handful. We talked about the 12 systems in the body, and the atom and nucleus and protons, and I was looking at the teacher right along with everybody else,"like what is she talking about?". A&P is a class that is going to require me to study day in and out. Good luck with ur classes!

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I have a feeling that because I took an A&P course (it was non credit though :() I will survive okay lol. Thanks so much!! Good luck!!! :D

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As far as binders and such to be organized for school....mmm. From what I remember of level 1 you have Vocational Relations for 1 week- so you just need a small binder, its a super easy class, but some actually failed it...how I don't know haha. Than A&P and NPP are the biggest ones, you would want two big binders for those each. You have Community Nursing and Growth and Development inbetween A&P and Nutrition, so you only need 1 small binder, those two classes can share that one. Nutrition is short, as well as Intro to Med Surg, so a small binder for each of those. You don't need a separate notebook for all the classes, you get power points. Don't get too used to them though, because in Level II and Level III they take them away and you have to write notes. But once A&P is outta the way the rest of Level I is smooth sailing...Level II...lol its a whole new ballgame, and I'll get back to you on Level III in April if I come out alive! GOOD LUCK!

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As far as binders and such to be organized for school....mmm. From what I remember of level 1 you have Vocational Relations for 1 week- so you just need a small binder, its a super easy class, but some actually failed it...how I don't know haha. Than A&P and NPP are the biggest ones, you would want two big binders for those each. You have Community Nursing and Growth and Development inbetween A&P and Nutrition, so you only need 1 small binder, those two classes can share that one. Nutrition is short, as well as Intro to Med Surg, so a small binder for each of those. You don't need a separate notebook for all the classes, you get power points. Don't get too used to them though, because in Level II and Level III they take them away and you have to write notes. But once A&P is outta the way the rest of Level I is smooth sailing...Level II...lol its a whole new ballgame, and I'll get back to you on Level III in April if I come out alive! GOOD LUCK!

Thanks so much for the heads up! And good luck with Level III!! :D Another quick question... Do they make you buy a specific stethoscope or can you buy whichever you want in any color?? Thanks again...

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You buy everything yourself, how ever you like it. You will need to buy a stethoscope (any kind any brand), a blood pressure cuff-walmart has them for $10, a watch, a pen light (walmart or the nurse store at park city has them) and a medical clip board- office max. You need all of it by the time you get to your 2nd check off which is head to toe assessment. The school sells a DVD of the assessment for you to watch and practice with at home for $10, I can just give you mine though, I'm never watching it again, hahaha.

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