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OP, thank you so much for sharing your first day in ED! I started as a new grad in July in ED and just came off of orientation 2 weeks ago. Since The first weeks in ED, I have come a way. Knowing where everything is really is half of the battle and ...

Hi, KNRZN 2013! I'm also a new grad ED RN! I just completed my orientation and felt I needed a tool to keep me better organized and to keep track of when I need to assess which patient. I made a sheet for myself that has worked really well for me and...

Several of my classmates and I have received calls for interview at Banner after we graduated in May with BSN. I know of one candidate with ADN who interviewed with Banner but mentioned he never received a call back from HR. We started applying aft...

Cowgirl_RN, I think I must have had the same classmates because those were my exact thoughts! It is really unfortunate. I had never heard or seen so much 'incivility' until I started nursing school. Honestly, I have had to weed through a group o...

Ours was also set up by the school and notified to us the day before. A rumor of a student using substance was reported to school and she was drug tested but that's the only occasion I heard of any random testing. That was it really. I'm with nmsx...

toy85 and other hopefuls, Our cohort just graduated yesterday from GCU (fast track). It is a rigorous program but you will learn so much in a very short time. Study hard! 4 kids, part time job but I still finished with honors. You can do it! ...

1) What has been the hardest nursing class for you and why? I found Peds to be really tough - not because it was a difficult course but we unfortunately had a brand new professor who had never taught before (we were often called her 'guinea pigs') an...

I agree with elprup - LOTS Of index cards if you are read/write learner. If you are an auditory learner, I highly recommend getting a digital recorder with a USB or if you have an iphone, download an app called SuperNote to record your lectures. Go...

Our program also places a strong emphasis on ATI and we have had to take a comprehensive test at the end of each course. Our professors opened the practice tests (A & B) prior to the test date and that helped some - but we often found that ATI u...

Are you graduating in May or June, 2013? We have 7-8 more months to go! I would love to get a thread going to see how many of us are 'here' and see if we can keep each other encouraged till we see the finish line! We are almost there!

studentnurseCT & PatMac10,SN congrats to both of you! I haven't ordered my pin yet but just received my cap & gown last week! Woohoo!! Our cohort finished our final exam on Wednesday and my last clinical day today prior to starting our caps...

OMG... our semester was horrendous. Community Health and Home/Hospice health... these 2 classes should have been combined but instead, we had to to weekly assignments for each and paper, health teaching, research, etc for both courses. It was pure t...

We are doing preceptorship selection right now.. anyone else? Which specialty are you choosing for your preceptorship? We are finishing up Community & Home Health... Community Health has proven to be a bigger headache than I anticipated with all...

What does your average week look like? I am just curious. :) This 8 weeks we have clinical rotations on Wednesdays and lecture on Thursday (from 5-9 pm) plus an online required course (this one is specific to our college - nothing to do with nurse....

Wow, most of you are doing Peds/OB rotation this semster! We did Peds/OB during block 3 (this past summer) and this semester we are doing Mental Health/Community health & Home health. I really loved OB!!! I hope you all enjoy it. When I final...

@StudentnurseCT, @Katie71275 and @Elisheval, we are almost there. :) What classes are you all in right now? How's clinical going? I am doing mental health. I'm enjoying the theory portion but clinical experience has not been the best. Anyways, I'...

If I could only choose 1 nursing care plan guide before being shipped off to a remote island, I would definitely pick this; Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Sandra M. Nettina Sold by: Amazon.com LLC ISBN-10: 0781798337 | ISBN-13: 9...

I feel the same way! iluvpatho, are you graduating in May? I'm also in block 4 and will graduate in May! I used to be so motivated to finish assignments and papers way ahead of time but for some reason, this block has been so mentally & emotio...

It seems like almost all professors I've had had a little phrases, like "you may be seeing this again" or "this would be fantastic for you to know". Do your professor have any phrases he/she uses to emphasize you will want to know certain concept in...

jtboog2003 is right - whether someone else slipped couple of words or half a page, you are still held accountable for your own work. I think others gave you a great advice to sticking it out and continue to keep doing well in school. We've all made...

I think what makes our nursing program so challenging is that when we started, they created a mental image in us that this is a survival of the fittest - like a boot camp almost! It somewhat prove to be true since on our small satellite campus, we s...

I am so sorry you had a such a rough day. Being in nursing school is stressful enough and to be sick and to have a fever would push anyone of us off the edge. I think each of us in our class had 'a moment' at least once during the first block whe...

If you are set on applying for an evening program, I would recommend double checking with your admissions counselor just to make sure they are offering evening program again. The group that just started in August at our Scottsdale campus is a full f...

I am in block 4 now and I don't think my arm and shoulder would have made it had it not been for my rolling laptop portfolio case. It has a spot for your laptop, plenty of space for your textbooks, notebooks and binders. I absolutely love mine. I ...

Hi there. From what I understand, they are no longer offering the evening class option on SHC campus. It's very unfortunate but it is also true that majority of students that began the night program with jobs are no longer employed or only working ...