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Thank you very much for all of the advice. I've been trying to read the step-by steps in the book as well. It makes it seem not as tough. I just realized there's a CD inside my book, not sure what it is, but maybe the mysterious thing can help.

Can any of you wiser ones help me out? Second round of check-offs are Friday and I could really use some visual tools to help me out. All the videos I've found though have either been really poor quality, muffled and hard to see, or they appear to be made by a 12 year-old at a sleep over. Any tools for the following would be spectacular: -Occupied Bed Making -Patient Ambulation -Oral Hygiene for the Unconcious Patient Occupied Bed Making is my biggest fear. Terrified, honestly. Not looking forward to demonstrating moving someone around without hurting myself either. :stone Any help or advice is incredibly welcome. I'm one of the younger people in my class so I already feel intimidated.

Thank you both Jamie and Jedi of Zen. You're right, class has started now. Yes, I am still scared stiff and sometimes I don't like to look people in the eyes for fear that they will sense my weakness. ^^ I have my first check-off on Friday. It's amazing how much having a vet cousin can help with one-on-one. She put some stitches in an orange for me to take out, and she let me watch a surgery (and demonstrated surgical asepsis). Bed-making makes me panic, but that is in a while, and filling out these assessments. I've started on both, but the pediatric one is proving tricky. Thank you both so much. Hearing that people do live helps. And thank you for offering further support/advice.

Thank you both. I just had my second day today and I'm a bit calmer. This information has helped me a lot.

I'm currently in the LPN program at Calhoun. After I complete this year, I am not sure if if I should continue as planned and do RN classes next, then go on to the Univeristy of North Alabama and hope the classes roll over for my BSN. It also occured to me that I could just get my BSN and then take the test to get my RN License. I tried to get information about whether or not the classes would roll over as credit for my BSN, but all UNA's website listed was inormation about an online RN to BSN option. I do not want to take online classes. I live with my parents, I do not work, and I do not have children. Going off to school or taking the time to go to classes is not an issue. Does anyone have any knowledge or advice they can share? I thought I had my plan laid out. I'm 18 now, I want to be younger than 30 by the time I get out of school.

When I registered, the advisor mentioned that there might be some assigned reading before the first day. Now I have my text books, and my syllabus whihc scares me and might as well be written in a foreign language. Does anyone have any advice on how I should know which of my ten books to take with me? Or how to find out if there is assigned reading? I'm starting the LPN program at Calhoun on Monday.

Hi, I just graduated this spring, and I applied to both the ADN program and the LPN program at Calhoun. Not suprisingly, I did not get in on my first try but I decided to go ahead and take some things like Biology and Psychology that I would need for when I did get in. Well, my schedule was set, 8AM-12PM Mon-Thurs. I was pretty happy with this. And then, yesterday morning, 9:30 AM, I got a phone call saying that someone could not take their spot and I made it into the LPN program.Thankfully, a nursing friend of ours told me to apply for both. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled. I know how tricky it is to get in in the first year at Calhoun. But I am also completely terrified. I like having things set and ready early, and now I have to wait until August 20th to find out exactly what's going to happen. Five days before classes start. It's not doing anything for my nerves. And also, I'm scared about the work and if it's going to completely inhale my life. My cousin has been trying for two years to get in and hasn't yet, so I wouldn't dream of turning it down. But, please, has anyone been through this program? Do you think you might could give me a hint of what it's like so I'm not completely blind? Thank you. (Heh, I'm sorry, that was horribly long, but I am very unnerved and stressed.)