Hobbits

Congrats RN2B0511!!! What was the pinning ceremony like? Details plz!! YAY!! That is so exciting, I bet your family is so proud! Welcome tifschaefer and tcurtiss! Congrats on getting accepted!

I am so happy for you RN2B0511! Grats x10(to the 6th power)! I see brookhaven puts out some helpful, friendly, and wise students. I feel very greatful that I get to be a part of it. *Questions* 1. Some of us on FB have been talking and we were wondering what comes in those med kits that we get for the first semester? 2. What extra things do we need to buy ex: BP cuff? Penlight? 3. If you bought the book pack from the school how do the online books work? 4. Is the brookhaven logo on the scrubs iron on or is it embroided? Hehe I am currently rereading Harry Potter thanks to some advice from people to relax, I feel like Im gathering school supplys for Hogwarts Now where do I get a owl lolz jk. :tinkbll:

Thats some great advice RN2B0511 and good questions Kinky. Thank you! :dancgrp: :dancgrp: :dancgrp: :dancgrp: :dancgrp: :dancgrp: Sorry lol I'm bored and excited... waiting for it to start.

I was wondering, I have all my BSRN pre reqs for Texas Womans, but I took most of them at 3 different community colleges. Can the university's make me retake classes to get my BSRN from them once I get my RN from Brookhaven?

Yay Fortylove! I am so excited! To help with the confusion these are the people on allnurses that are also on the FB group lol. I had to do this so I knew who was who lol. All of us are going to Fall 2011 and graduating Dec2012. I removed the real names for privacy reasons. Ashlee067 Hmarie Alum08 Lupe1058 Kinckymarcia itsnvrulupus Hobbits I am really glad we are all getting to know each other because when it comes to clinicals and questions about school we wont have to worry about not knowing who to ask. Plus thanks to Ashlee lots of us are going to meet for CPR. Knowing we will have friends the first day will really help me sleep at night, so thank you all for staying connected and being so nice. I think we are off to a good start!

Fortylove are you taking CPR with us? I know so far its: Ashlee, Hobbits, Lupe, uh... 2 others on FB said they are coming but I forgot their forum names. Alum already took it, said it didnt last that long. Ok gotta do some homework, it piles up at the end heh... I can't imagin how hard the end of sem will be once we are in. We can handle it though! *edit* Can someone give me some height plz... Im 5ft O.o my problem with pants is they drag on the floor. I would like about 4-5 inches taller if anyone has some to spare.

I took patho at Elcentro because thats all the offered at the time :) online wintermester crazyness. It transfered just fine but Im not sure about what UTA accepts. My friend at UTA took patho at elcentro too and im pretty sure it transfered because right after she got into the UTA program.

Fortylove, I want to play tennis, I just joined lifetime and they have racketball. Lately I have just been swimmin laps because I am so out of shape. (when I say laps I mean I try to do laps haha) Congrats on your 2 kids and spending time on them :) I :heartbeat kids, we are planning for 3 kiddos and he promised me girls hehe. One of the reasons I am losing weight is so we can be a healthy family. I wonder what the diffrence is between end of life and the class I am taking. Mine takes the place of the end of life credits, its called death and dying, its psyc 2371 for psycology majors. End of life was full so this was my only option, but I have also learned a lot and really enjoyed it I have a finall in there and Im done. My friends keep telling me to relax, but I am the type of person that likes to work toward a goal, in fact if I am not I get kinda cranky. I have gone through a lot just to get to this point, and now all I want to do is get ready, study, and review so that I can go through RN school without fear of failing or killing someone, or going back to my old life/crap jobs. Peoples lives will depend on us, I dont want to look at them and not know what I am doing... or even worse do something wrong and hurt them more. I feel like I was given a gift, a chance at being an RN and when I think about it, all I can do is smile.

I learned stuff!!!! I posted this on FB group the other day too. First of all ! Its so cute!!! Maybe we can do something similar for graduation class of Dec2012 Tehe.CPR: Ashlee was telling us on FB that she signed up for the Brookhaven CPR for health prof, I did too. May 7 from 8am-4pm I got my CPR packet and the class cost me $68 it was in the continuing education window by admissions in S building. I asked if they had more room and they said yes 26 slots. If your interested give them a call: (972) 860-4600 (tell them u want CPR) they need your student id, you can pay over phone or go in person. Either way you need to pick up your packet required for the class ahead of time. Shots: I went to talk to Denton county health dept phone:972-434-4700 and asked about titer and immunization costs. The nice lady said the titers are very expensive and the vaccines are not and that most nursing students they get just redo the shots because like Ashlee said it has been over 7 years. We pretty much need 3 shots, TB test and the proof of our Hep B series. The one you have to watch for is the varicella because you need 2 doses each are about $20 (which was cheaper then everyone else, I hope she was correct) so thats $40 and needs to be started by June(play it safe). The MMR vaccine which covers measles, mumps and rubella was $20. The last one is the DPT which is diphtheria pertussis, and tetorifice and that was also $20. The TB test needs 48 hours (its in the skin they make a bubble, then you come back in 48 hrs and they check it and sign your paper) and was $10 so all together there is 3 shots and TB totaling about $90 and no apt needed if you go to denton county health next to the DMV in Lewisville. Make sure you print that immunizations paper from the Brookhaven website under success camp!!! Basically you need proof of: (Hep B x3, Varcella x 2, MMR, DPT, & TB) PLEASE correct me if I am wrong or missing something! Went to half price books yesterday turned in a box full of books (making room for my new nursing books) and picked up a pharm book for $8 looks new so I could practice dosages and conversions. Mainly because those darn hesi tests love math from what I hear. My fiancée and I are re-organizing our little apt to simplify our lives. Throwing out clothes, putting away things we wont be using for a long time, cleaning out storage, bookshelves, pantry/fridge... I even cut my hair. Things need to be simple so that I don't spend 2 hours looking for a scrub top, and I don't want to dig through 2 year old frozen food to grab a TV dinner. Next on the list is my car. Fortylove: Lol a book for fun? What is this you speak of?!? You mean.. like a book about nurses? Thats a good idea keep me motivated!!! Haha jk thanks thats a good idea, I may reread harry potter just for fun. What are you doing for fun this summer? Briterz: I couldnt find you on FB, try adding me: *edit* so before I posted this I saw that I am getting in trouble for posting links from Allnurses.com, I may have to stop. I didn't know that was a no no.

Kinkymarcia: Its called: Brookhaven RN Program Grad: Dec2012 and I made it open for those who wanted to read it :) let me know if u wanna join. So I was reading about the dreaded immunizations and found this on the brookhaven website: I googled it and found this: and I'm going to see how much these tests cost and maybe Ill get one instead of getting a whole butt load of shots... haha excuse my pun

WOOOT Lupe!!! *edit* I think I will have a hard time sticking people with needles... sharp things and I don't mix well. My friend said its like butter but, butter doesn't bleed or complain lol. *dances* *gets tired* *nap*

Yes I highly recommend these, I used these to study for patho while I was in it. They cover all the main points and give helpful ways to remember with their silly pictures. On the back of the cards it goes into detail. I didn't know they were this expensive, when my friend got into UTA's program she borrowed mine to help get her ready and said it helped. I'm so glad she gave them back recently or I wouldn't have remembered I had them lol. Good luck sugarmagnolia018 your off to a good start! *Edit* (because I dont want to double post) So I just found out one of my friends from Microbiology(we studied together) got in Spring 2011 and I friended her on facebook and went through her school pictures!!! Those green scrubs look awesome! I like how they put the Brookhaven logo on it and it has our name all professional and special! I'm so EXCITED!!!

I took Patho at ElC also, and borrowed a friends book. Lolz Lupe your funny. I wish it was aug already and all my paper work for school was done... I wanna start!!!! Dang it make time go faster! Who knew being patient was part of being a nurse... What is everyone doing to keep sane?

Thanks for sharing narussian! Did I hear maybe laptops!?!? *dances* I hope I get those teachers!!! Im sad about those fitted scrubs, I am a big girl and fitted = bad. Maybe I should try them on before spending money. *Questions* 1. How many nursing programs are going on at once? 2. Do the teachers stick with one group or do we get a mix? 3. Any guesses on how much the book packs cost for the first semester?

Last night I had a nightmare about RN school. I was sitting there waiting for class to start on the first day and all of a sudden this teacher said hand in all your papers... I was like huh?!? we had homework on the first day? And the people next to me are like yeah, it was on evolve... I was like OMG I haven't logged in yet, I don't remember my password! I started to cry then I woke up. I think stress management is something I already need to work on heh... Sweetpea your soo right... I need to relax lol.