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I would wait until Orientation to purchase books because I heard they are changing books. Once school starts you don't a bunch of nursing books you don't need or can't resale. But if your are very anxious go to Southwest online bookstore to see if they have Foundations books available.

I think you may have started in the Spring semester? The Fall semester is done differently, we could not do anything until after Orientation in August. After orientation we had to email the dean our permits and she would reply back saying it was ok to register for the class. Also, in the Fall one of the clinicals are different, they have a Friday/Saturday split clinical, so the first 6 weeks you have clinical on Friday at the campus then when we went the hospital your clinical day changed to Saturday. And we also had the option to have a clinical on a Sunday. Preparing for the Spring semester doesn't give much time compared to the fall because Foundations would start at 12:30p or 2:45p but once you move on to the other semesters your classes start at 9:10a. They just had us sign our paperwork and told us don't do anything until after Orientation. And plus the dean is out attending meetings so she doesn't have access to issue permits right now. The spring semester might be a little more organized. The fall was extremely disorganized.

You are at the right place, you are going behind the nursing annex, I go there and can't remember the name of the building(pretty sad). No you won't have to pick your schedule on Friday. You will get an opporunity to pick your clinicial day after Orientation in August. So my advice is look at the class schedules(like you are registering for class) and keep in mind that you want that clinical day. I know that the Daytime program has clinical days on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. It is a first come first serve type of thing but you will have to wait until they give everyone directions on what to do once Orientation is over but I was able to get exactly what I wanted with no trouble when I started.

Oh yeah you all won't be able to register for class until after Orientation. You can view the class schedule if you want too just to get an idea on when your classes will start. Don't buy your books at the bookstore, too dang blasted high!! Go to amazon.com or abebooks or half.com or somewhere else, now if you have financial aid then you probably have to buy your books at the campus. I think that's all the I can remember.

The nursing building is behind the "fake nursing hospital" on the Union Campus. Congrats on the ones that was accepted. Enjoy your summer break, no need to try to get material to study up on because you will need this time to get other things in order because once school starts it will start. You all probably won't get a chance to find out much until Orientation which takes place in the fall. My advice stay focus spend as much time with your family and friends, watch endless hours of TV, go to the movies, walk in the park, do something you consider fun. Get plenty of sleep!!!!

LOL!! Yes it does teaches patience or teaches you how to bite your nails off from waiting! They only send letters to the applicants that wasn't accepted.

Look for a phone call around the very end of March and maybe the begining of April.

I loved the book, I swear my teacher used some of those questions from the first edition on one of our exams! You can buy either one because most of the information is the same but I think with the second edition you get a CD. Its worth the money because the rationales helped me understand the information a lot better than my textbook.

Good luck to all the newbies, middle agies(2nd and 3rd semester), and the oldies(4th semester)!!

Thats a good score being that you bubbled in some of your answers. To be honest with you I didn't know a thing about the NLN until some classmates of mines told me about it, I didn't study for it. I didn't even know Southwest required an exam(shows you how much research I did). They also told me when the next test was offered so I went along with them, paid for the test and took it. I had no idea what the heck the test covered. I took it, ran out of time on every dang blasted section so I left some answers blank and my score was a 100. I did really well on the Biology portion if my memory serves me correctly. So you are still in the running to be america's next top model(just had to get that out). A good friend of mines told me they accepted someone with an index score of 48 in the fall of 2009 so your chances are good.

WOW!!! Well hopefully it will help because I heard Adult Health I is hard. I'm trying to prepare myself but I can't stop relaxing!! I forgot what it feels like to be relaxed:p

First semester!!! I have Adulth Health the first part of next semester, now I wonder should I have signed up for OB instead. I want something fun!!!

YAY!! It does feel good to sit and relax. I don't even know what to do with myself because my nerves has been so frazzled these last few months with studying, working, studying, no life, studying, working, studying, exam, studying, exam, studying, wondering wth I got myself into, then studying some more! After the last exam I went home and started studying LOL!! then it dawned on me that class is over, I passed!!

Shoot, I would apply if I were you. Your scores are good but it depends on the other applicants scores as well. Take the NLN and then go from there because you could blow that exam out the water which could boost your overall score. Good Luck.