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I vote for raspberry pink :) It's what I have and it's my favorite one!

No problem at all! Feel free to ask any other questions you think of (even not via PM)! I'll try my best to answer them. I wish you the best of luck! :)

Congrats on starting Pharm. and Informatics soon! Informatics is a breeze and Pharm. is a lot of work but I'm sure you'll do great! As far as clinicals go in Fundamentals, you spend the first portion of the semester in the skills lab two days a week learning all of your skills. You begin real clinicals in October. When I started last year we had our clinicals at a nursing home but this year Fundamentals students are starting out in the hospital setting instead. My schedule in Fundamentals last Fall was Monday: Lecture 8-1pm Tuesday/Wednesday: Skills lab/Clinicals from 8am-2pm, just to give you an idea. Afternoons are also offered as an option. All of your classes throughout the nursing program will be three days per week- one lecture day and two clinical days. As far as when you find out where/when your clinicals are, sometimes we don't find out until 2 weeks before they begin. This can be VERY frustrating when you're trying to plan babysitters, work schedules, school schedules, study schedules, and everything, but they tell you in Informatics that your new middle name is "flexible" and they mean it! Everything is based on a lottery system. You will receive a list of lecture and clinical options via email for every class and you will have to list your order of preference. Based on your lottery number, and then your preference form, your lecture/clinicals/day/time is assigned to you by the nursing office. After Fundamentals, which is 15 weeks, every other class is 7 weeks long, so literally your schedule will change every 7 weeks. It can be crazy but honestly, there are people in my program who work full time, have children & family, and are still making it through the nursing program. If there's a will there's a way! It's hard work but it will definitely be worth it when we graduate in May!!! My key advice to you is to keep up on the reading and don't fall behind! Always come prepared to class and clinicals ... and take everything one chapter, one day, one test, one class, one semester, one year at a time!!! Let me know if you have other questions or anything and feel free to send me a PM if you'd like to!

Hi there! I am currently in my second year of the nursing program at Schoolcraft. What would you like to know?

I graduate in May 2013! I'll be done with Peds/Ob soon, then I have Advanced Med Surg, Psych, and Advanced Concepts in Registered Nursing!!! Three more classes until graduation! Woohoo!

Last I heard, it is still 4-5 years!!!

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I got a pair of white leather slip on Sketchers that have no shoe laces but are not clogs. I got them for around $45 on Amazon and they are SO comfortable! All the other student complain after 7 hours of clinical how their back, legs, and feet hurt and mine never do! Easy to clean/keep clean, too! For the stethoscope, I got a basic Prestige Medical Clinical I for around $40 and used it without a problem until about a month ago when I upgraded to a Littman Classic II S.E. for around $90. I thought the Littman would be so much better/sounds clearer but I honestly hear no difference in the quality! Maybe it's just me but I feel like I wasted my money trying to "upgrade". Like someone else said, bp cuff is probably not worth buying. It is nice to have one to practice on but your school will probably have a skills lab where you can practice doing bps for free. Just saying :)

I have to say that I am truly enjoying nursing school so far. I have only completed Pharm, Fundamentals, and Nursing Informatics (I start Surgical nursing January 18th!), but I truly am enjoying it! I thrive off of stress in most situations, so the stress of all the readings, skills lab check offs, clinical observations, etc. helped push me to success! I feel honored to even be a nursing student, to be honest. My school currently has waiting list approaching 5 years! The road to nursing school was long for me with prereqs and the waiting list, but now that I'm finally here I don't want to screw it up! This is my dream and I'm going to work my butt off to get where I want to be. To be successful, in part, it takes some common sense! Show up to every lecture and clinical, be prepared, STUDY in a way that works for you, manage your time wisely, and be DEDICATED! If anybody watches The Biggest Loser, you'll know that Dolvett always says "Hard work, dedication." That has honestly been my motto and has helped me get this far, and I know it will help me finish the program :) As far as having a child, I have a good friend who has two small children and she has managed to make 4.0's in all three of her nursing classes so far. It seems like the majority of my peers in nursing school have children already. If they can do it, you can do it! The woman I purchased my Fundamentals book from told me she got pregnant and had her son WHILE in nursing school! She said it was hard, but she did it! She is now a nurse and loves it :) tokyoROSE put it perfectly that if you want to be a nurse, nothing will stop you! Find a way to make it happen :)

I was on the waiting list as of July 2009 and just started Fundamentals this Fall. Although I waited two years, many of my classmates only had to wait one year. A LOT of people got bumped up this year for some reason. Good luck :)

Ours is 80% or 79.6% with rounding for the theory/lecture part. We also need to pass the skills lab exam, clinical, and a dosage calc test (3 chances to get 100%) in order to pass the class.

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you guys know I started a nursing student group on Facebook for all of us starting this Fall. If you're interested in joining, just search Schoolcraft Nursing Students '13 on Facebook and you should find it on there :)

I was sitting next to you in our CPR class TruleeblezdRN! :) It was so nice to meet you and a few other people in our CPR class who will be starting the program with us this Fall! I hope everyone is doing well on getting their packets together! I am done with everything except for getting my hep. b shot at the health department within the next few days. One step closer to nursing school! :) Talk to you all soon!

I'm not sure when they'll be letting us know about our time slot, but I hope they let us know some time in June to give us ample time to rearrange our schedules. I have just about everything done on the check list. I'm taking my CPR class tomorrow night, then I take my 2nd tb test Friday morning and hopefully get my titer results then as well. It's all coming along very well!

TruleeblezdRN, Did you sign up to take it W. Chicago & Merriman tomorrow at 6pm? I'm all signed up to take it there as well :)