BrandiBooh

I say not to go by feedback from people that are not in a program because how can they truly evaluate? Simply because they know a few new grads from a program, that is not how you base your conclusions entirely. Everyone is different and everyone uti...

You really shouldn't go by what other people say about a program and what nurses on the floor say about programs because these people are unaware. Unless you are going through the program or have gone through it and now are working as a nurse, you ar...

All the major hospitals have externships in Tulsa (St. John, Hillcrest, SF, TRMC, etc) but for the summer you have to have your application in by January--and actually when I went for my interview at St. John they told me they started getting applica...

OH AND CONGRATULATIONS!!! I KNOW THAT'S A BIG RELIEF...

ha, I actually like Acute/Chronic...everybody is different however.

The scrubs were another area of confusion lol, but basically you can go buy the ones from OU OR wear the TCC/OU CBSN scrubs...I think TCC wanted us to wear the CBSN logo but it wasn't enforced since there was SO much confusion and people ended up jus...

During my first semester I do remember having to drive to both on SOME days...before clinicals started and that was kinda a bummer but it's not that bad. Most of the time though you only go to one campus per day and then the hospital. We have quite a...

**Oh and I just saw the ? about books, well...hopefully you are sitting down---the books for your jr. fall = $1000. But that's the BIGGEST chunk of the total books for the entire program...crazy huh? The spring was about uhhh 300?

OH YEA, and classes are at Metro and SE...so get use to moving around all week long driving back and forth (it's a pain). But know that you also have access to ALL OU facilities--so you can go to the lab there and library, etc.

I am in the CBSN program and I can explain it for anyone interested...there has only been two classes (including mine) go through this new (and VERY disorganized program).... I will say there are PLUSES and MINUSES...but basically, you take your jr. ...

All you L&D nurses/students that love it, I WANT TO LOVE IT TOO! This is an area that I am considering working within in my future and we start our clinical rotation tmr, and I am NERVOUS to say the least! Our first semester was pretty heavy MED-...

You know what, we ALL have felt "defeated" at one point or another in nursing school, and you will feel it more than once! I am a 4.0 student, and I know--that this semester, that will change. Is it hard to deal with? YES! Do I beat myself up about i...

Remember that you are a newbie, and that MANY students graduate feeling the same way you feel right now (that they have not performed a lot of the skills). Don't feel discouraged, YOU WILL GET TO DO STUFF--and they are not going to expect you to do a...

thanks!

Hey guys, I am trying to study for an upcoming pharm exam and it's over the CNS/Peripheral nervous system + drugs and it's kind of hard to memorize beta1 beta 2 alpha 1 and what each does, etc etc..I was just wondering if anyone knew of some great we...

You get a "day off" during the week at OU as well, at least the traditional program does...it may be used for community clinicals however, just depends on how you set up your times.

Okay, we didn't start our clinicals until 6 wks into school...so we just recently started clinicals (this week will be our 2nd clinical experience wk). We are on a general med-surg floor and we spend the entire time trying to fill out paperwrk for ou...

We go the day before also to get the basic info but we have to do an assessment before we start formulating our careplan...that's how we are taught to do..you assess then you form your diagnosis...I start thinking about possible diagnoses while I am ...

I am trying to find some information on liver lacerations (and its implications). I haven't been too successful so of course I came here for help The client I am caring for has a hepatic laceration secondary to lap. cholescystectomy she had a week a...

Thanks Baptized

Yea, I think that's a big part of the issue...our clinical instructor is being pulled from both sides (floors) so she never stays too long in either just checks in to see if we are "doing okay"...hopefully we will get more guidance whenever the new i...

Thanks for the encouragement!! It's greatly appreciate

I just didn't want to feel "behind" or like we were at a disadvantage in later clinical semesters if we don't get to do much this semester....my instructor was like "you don't learn that much in clinical I but you do learn where you don't want to wor...

Yea, that's true...but you know its easy to get discouraged when you are already feeling down about other stuff related to school, *sighs* thanks for your reponse though! And Wondergirl, no...you don't do everything for the pt. your FIRST semester I ...

Yes we get assigned a patient, our instructor is floating back and forth on two different floors bc we lost one of our instructors right before clinicals started...so we are still waiting to have that replacement. The patient that I had last week is ...