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So, my foundations and health assessment labs were online. I don't know the exact rule, but I would think wearing your scrubs would be the way to go for these labs. Teachers like when you show up looking the part? That said, all lab professors are slightly different. Some are pickier about certain things like having your hair back etc. Def ask when you meet them! ?

Hi, sorry for the delay. Yes, eligible for the covid vaccine. I am unsure what they'll make you provide as proof as everywhere is a bit different. For me, I brought my school ID and a copy of my unofficial transcript and it was fine.

The nurse pack bascially is a training kit. It comes with a bp cuff which you'll need for practice at home and it has an injection pad, PPE, sterile gloves, a foley kit, wound dressing stuff etc etc. As for Labs, those only recently became available in person so I don't know exactly how it will be run for your group. Mine is getting boot camps over Winter break because everything for us was virtual and then we learned at our clinical site. For HA and Foundations we had small group sign ups virtually extra practice and I'd bring my "patient" and ask questions about things I was working on. All that said, I think the set up will likely be different going forward... I started at the height of the shut down when going in was not an option and it seems the labs are opening back up. The biggest thing will be to just keep practicing stuff for Health Assessment at home. It will get busy but I would commit some time every week to really try to work through all the assessments I was working on because the following class, they'd add a whole system.

We got our nurse packs I think as part of our tuition. I bought a stethoscope, pen lights, goggles and surgical masks shoes, it depends on how strict your particular clinical professor is so it’s probably best to just get all plain black ones.

@IvyFutureRN Of Course! Your Foundations Professor will teach you and also recommend a book which I did rent it at the time and it was fine. But honestly what helped me most was the professor gave a lot of practice sheets and I would honestly go to Youtube and watch Registered Nurse RN explain it!

Generally speaking, the three P’s of nursing school: Patho, Pharm, Peds are the major culprits but med surg is hard too (adult health 1 and 2) bc NCLEX style questions are tough. It truly depends what you’re strengths are. Patho is level 1, pharm and adult health 1 is level2, and peds and adult health 2 are level 3. Can’t speak from experience for level 3 yet but it’s the toughest (as I’ve heard) Don’t let it scare you tho, just map everything out!

They can send you up to 50mi and I’ve heard it happens! They honestly don’t do anything to help students get there who don’t drive but many of us carpool! Especially for those far locations. Clinical groups are about 10 to 12 students each so you’ll meet ppl and carpooling might be an option. ?

Each site, yes! You have to pass in order to be able to give medications on the floor. For level 1 you’ll learn it in foundations and then in level 2, med surg (adult health) tons of resources online and they’ll recommend a book too, however you learn best. It’s pretty basic once you do a bunch of practice.

Dosage exams are done at the clinical site and they’re not multiple choice- you need 98 to pass or something? clinical locations are set for you. They can send you up to 50miles away... I’ve gotten lucky so far but anything is possible. This is where you either use the commute to decompress or you can relisten to lectures on the way home ?

@Lccoric10 You do start clinical rotations right away - I cant speak for Camden but NB and Newark run their programs similarly and the first semester you do 1 clinical for Foundations. Level 2 gets two rotations and level 3 gets three rotations. I think level four does a few different settings for community health and then one for capstone? but I'm not 100% on that! Personally, my group was Summer start and we did not get to go into the hospital because of Covid. Then when things were safe enough, we had delay because a lot of my group wasn't able to get their background checks completed because the police departments weren't doing them at the height of the shut down (which was when we were getting ready to start the program). My entire first semester was remote. As for Fall which was Level 2 for me.. we were able to go to clinical for both rotations with little issue. Testing/Exams has been fine - we use a lock down browser called Respondus and it's much better and less clunky vs Proctor Track which is what we used before. It's a bummer being filmed during an exam it takes some getting used to but, you will!

Hi all, I’m in the ABSN program going into level 3. Happy to answer questions anyone has!

I hope my spot goes to you!! ? finger crossed!

Hi All! Congratulations to everyone on their acceptance! I was accepted as well, but am releasing my spot as I accepted a spot for a program that starts this Summer. I wish you ALL the very best and thanks for all your guidance on this journey. Go the em!!

You could also check this site for comparison it helped me last year. https://njtransfer.org/

@nursesareawesome I'm not sure what the exact date is. I do know that Rutgers Newark ABSN has orientation this week tho.