lexie'smama

Hey ladies, just finished my first semester up and now on month long Christmas Break! It is pretty hard and a lot of extra studying at home! Especially if you have to take A & P. And they no longer allow you to go out of the classroom if your exempt. The ones who are exempt had to stay in the classroom during lecture and were allowed to work on other things because you will have other subjects going on at the same time, such as fundamentals, vocational relations and pharmacology. But when they take the Nutrition or A&P tests, you can go study elsewhere. Also, on the powerpoints u asked about, the two instructors teaching styles are very different , but both good. One will give you exactly what you need to know in her notes on powerpoint. This will almost always be what all is on the test. The other, will read from the book and tell you to highlight if she states that it is important. she does some powerpoint , but it is mostly an outline of the chapter. They should send you a list of books to take with you first day, but mostly you will be using the Rosdahl textbook of basic nursing and the A & P and Nutrition if you are taking those. The biggest thing for us was getting through the anatomy with everything else we were trying to learn at the time and also the drug calculations at the end of the semester because you have to make an 81 on the test. But they make it easy to understand and want you to succeed. i made a 100 on it so it is passable. Everyone actually passed it. We did lose a few people the first semester and it was from nutrition. Good luck and feel free to ask any more questions you may have!

my NS instructor spent almost a whole lecture on the importance of "never get your honey, where you make your money!" Valuable lesson i think! lol;)

and how ya doing on that long list of requirements?

hey steph, hows your summer been? cant believe we now have a little over a month until we start! what kind of bag are you gonna get for school?

thanks so much for the replies!

amy 10587, just wonderin, did you buy every single book that was listed and do we use all of them? Also, should we bring them all to class the first day, and should i get like one of the small rolling luggage bags? sorry for all the questions!

thanks so much for your reply Jenni0278! That really helps alot. Maybe we will make it through!! lol

the paper that they gave us totaled about 5,000 in expenses over the year. I was suprised that we had to pay for so much up front. Before school starts, we have to have a CPR class-about 30 dollars, a physical-around 100, our books -around 900, a drug test-probably around 30-45, and a couple other things. She said we had to have our books first day of class, also our hunter green uniforms, and white shoes. so quite a bit of expense before grants or loans come in a couple of weeks after school starts! Hope this helps. Sorry numbers arent exact but thats a good estimate.

i know, it was so overwhelming. im not really sure how im going to pay for everything but i know last year, i did a stafford loan and it was late so they let me go ahead and buy my books and then took it out of my account when my loan was credited by the school. hopefully they will do that again. i called financial aid, so i will let you know when they get back to me. yeah, i think im gonna buy a rolling bag also. they should have quite a few to choose from closer to school starting. i know it says that we need to bring our books first day, so i guess so. i dont know if i will bring stethoscope and kit though. surely we wont need that until a little later on. im hoping that our tuition will come out of financial aid and not have to pay up front bc there is too much else to spend on. the way she talked it would though. i was on the far left side of the room farthest away from the door. had a red shirt with black shirt over it. blonde hair. where were you?

so what did you think about orientation? im trying to figure out how to get all the things done before school starts and come up with the money for them! sounds like its gonna be pretty strict and structured program. but im just ready to get it started and over with!

thanks so much for the reply amy! did you start in jan? how long do you have to study in the evenings?

i was worried about passing nutrition but passed with a B. I am sooo happy about that! hopefully it will give me a little extra time to study for other things. Except i havent taken a & p. im probably going to be working in the evenings and wkends til bout 8 pm so im really worried about that and not having much time to study. and hate that i wont be able to spend much time with my family:cry:

that is scary! I think clinicals is the part that im most worried/anxious about. we will do just fine though. im so happy because i passed my nutrition class this semester so at least that's one thing that i wont have to worry about studying for.

yea i know. i just wonder when we will start wearing the scrubs and all that. Hope its early on because its alot easier for me to get up that early if i know i dont have to pick out something to wear. lol..

yea, anything that involves time or money is always a hard decision to make. whatever you choose to do, good luck!