Kotylynne

What campus are you at? At FW we HAD to buy the code because they were utilizing a new system ? it was like $250 or something crazy FOR JUST THE CODE and then they gave you a "free" Book

Hahaha I'm already not sure if I want to do that anyway but time will tell!! I think I'll enjoy it of course but I don't think it'll be my cup of tea ?

For pharm try to focus on mechanism of action, side effects, black box warnings and interactions and try to keep the drugs COMBINED into one category when possible so you aren't memorizing each specific drug and also figure out the suffixes as fast as possible. Once I got that down it helped a LOT. Med surg 2 was just SO much better for me. I have no medical background so med surg was hard because of that too. Then this semester it was like everything just started clicking into place and I was using what I learned in both pharm and med surg 2 AT clinicals and that REALLY helped it all click. It's still hard but I asked myself at least 100 times how the heck I ever made it through 1st semester! That was easily the HARDEST. Also @clintonjohnson13 I forgot to add that I'm really loving the Ortho stuff! I think I would like to be that way, or wounds. I didn't think I would like that at all but we got to see a really deep coccyx one and I was SO intrigued.

That's awesome you guys!! I forgot that some campuses did the Summer term! I'm kind of jealous, it must feel SO good to be that close!! @clintonjohnson13 that sucks!! We had the second half of semester 1 as virtual, then semester 2 we were on site, I LOOOOOVE the hospital SO much! I finally started to feel like I was doing nurse things and not ALL patient care. Which I don't mind at all but trying to get out of that and being used to the nurse stuff was something else. I just had my FIRST injection on a person in our last day last week LOL I'm not sure how next semester will go. I do not expect to be able to go to OB clinicals on site, I completely understand that too though. I do hope we get a chance at mental health though. I'm so excited for you guys!! Do let me know how your last semester goes and any advice for Med surg 3. I'm sooooooo worried about that class even though med surg 2 went MUCH better for me than 1 haha @LMAY I feeeeeel you girl. I think I'm going to do some reading for our next semester but I don't want to do anything else but be lazy haha and clean my house that was neglected ??

That's awesome! So exciting!! I am headed into semester #3 but looking forward to it! Did you take a Summer semester?! How have things been at your campus with Covid? We have been all virtual except clinicals. Curious to see what this semester will look like (no final word yet) So happy that everyone is successful so far and continuing to move forward!! Best of luck to you, it's crazy to think we are almost there after all of THIS craziness too!

Does your book have an online code or anything?? Many of the books when you go to the sites in them, will have a key points available for each chapter. Does your teacher not lecture at all? How do they do their tests (like do they make them up themselves or go straight from the book?) Or you could also look at the "main idea" pages at the end of each chapter too and see if you are grasping what it says you should understand by the end. Probably a lot of extra work but if it gets you through the end it will be worth it.

I love this! Thank you!! I am really hoping to get in on an Ortho floor (or ULTIMATELY our ortho hospital!) when I finally graduate. IDK what it is exactly but I am called to it

Everything you needed to know to pass the TEAS and get in is all you need to know before nursing school starts. The rest you pick up and go into deeper for certain things in the classes. And just because some schools are different, I went in with aphy 101, 102, chem 101 and Microbiology under my belt. The main basic concepts such as distal, proximal, abduction, flexion etc., are brushed over as you go as well.

I want to know all of this stuff too LOL I'm sad this board is so quiet !!

Did you have to take a TEAS exam or anything??

For pur first semester we had fundamentals, med surg 1, nursing lab and clinicals. The hardest for me was med surg. I am actually (VERY fortunately as it NEVER happens) retaking med surg as a Summer course so I can catch back up to my cohort. I think it was just more difficult for me because I have no prior medical experience

I'm not 100% about how competitive sellersburg is or how many seats they have but I do know USUALLY 130s is a comfortable place to be!! Are you taking the ATI practice ones though ??? I have heard those are usually a bit harder than what the actual TEAS is.

I am with you for needing to vent and rant OP, it is a trying time to start school (ADJUST) and for us EVERY other day there was a new plan and each plan knocked us down a peg. One email (annoyingly but rightfully so) started with "Nursing is all about changes and now we are expected to change AGAIN and you can either embrace it for it what it is or make it more complicated than it needs to be and try to go against it..." or something of that nature and for as HARD as I rolled my eyes at that statement, it IS true. Our life as we knew it changed completely when we started and will continue to do so as we adjust to our new and ever changing roles trying to get from point A to point B. As hard and painful as it is that our entire experience has done a 360, we are fortunate that our schools care enough to HELP us get through it. Definitely blow off steam OP, I know I still have my moments as I was truly beginning to find myself and now have to go back to attempting to mom and wife and school all in the SAME place, but we MUST adapt and do our best to get through this.

Ugh yes I am so sad too. We were supposed to move to a large hospital here for this second 8 weeks and I was SUPER excited to make my way to the ortho floor as I have decided that it has my heart. We are currently only in med surg 1 clinicals though so I dont know if it's going to be the same for our ENTIRE nursing program for the rest of the semester or just those of us in semester 1 but hopefully we will actually get the email tomorrow and I can tell you more. Virtual is NOT the same. We already had some of that with Shadowhealth and UGH. I want the real patients. I loves doing that at the LTC/rehab facility and I'm going to miss it ??