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I did retake the TEAS for a second time and only was below the score i needed by a few points (my school required a 75%). It was the English portion that proved to be my weakest area. So I went home and reviewed it a little and once i re-took it i had some of the same questions and also my score was significantly higher in the 90%.

In my personal experience, I've found that every woman that I've known who desired a "natural" birth winded up getting a C-section because of complications such as the baby going into distress, excessively long labor, or no cervix dilation, etc. To each his own of course but, I don't believe that attempting to "tough" it out through the birthing process (which can be more or less painful for each and every individual) makes you any more woman than someone who opted for an epidural or pain meds. To me it seems that women purposefully chose to do this "all natural" process just so that they can have some sort of bragging rights, and I don't mean to offend anyone but still....I just feel like in this day and time it's unnecessary to suffer as if we were back in the fields birthing our babies.

Before I started the program, my mother (also an RN) purchased me all kinds of goodies including a Littman cardiology III stethoscope, my school uniforms, nursing shoes, and other little tools like my penlight, etc. Needless to say I love my mother :redpinkhe

Wow! Thank u so much for sharing the link. My DH and I just downloaded Kindle for Mac and got a ton of free books. This is amazing and I'm so grateful that u shared. Now I have lots of reference material to look at on my nurs school journey

Wow! It's good to hear there is someone out there like myself. I too find it difficult to enjoy summer/winter break. I relax for like the first few days - week and then i'm all "I wanna go back to school, I'm ready for the new semester!!!". I get bored easily plus I actually, genuinely enjoy school and "having something to do" other than stay at home and lay around all day. I too have a husband and two small kids but I like to learn (crazy, right?) and be busy, not too busy, but occupied.

I think that you should try to postpone A&P II until the summer because last fall semester I had that class, the corresponding lab, and my upper level psych class and i seriously worked my butt off for A's in those classes. A&P II can be an intense course because of all the reading/studying thats required. I'm starting nurs school in a week and thankfully will only be taking nursing courses & clinicals. But, thats because at my school A&P (along with other pre-req courses) are required to be completed before you begin nurs school. So, in short, I'd recommend putting it off and like another poster said just look up what you don't already know because sounds like it will be too much of a load which could in turn hurt your grades.

My school only requires us to buy our stethoscope, hemostat, bandage scissors, reflex hammer, pen light & a BP cuff is optional. I wish we could get that other stuff so that I could play with it a lil bit (he he) but I believe the rest is provided for us in lab. I think its taken care of out of our seat reservation fee that was required after our initial acceptance into the program.

I'm starting nurs school on Jan 10th so I've been prepping myself by looking at youtube vids of nurs skills like bedmaking, handwashing, ng tubes, wound care, etc. I have the majority of my textbooks already so i try to skim thru them. we've already been assigned to read the chapters on vital signs and decision/critical thinking so i'm going to read and outline those once i'm closer to the first day of school. im pretty excited to be starting so soon and congrats to u as well!

I love using youtube for demonstrations and I'm not even in nursing school yet lol. I start on Jan 10th and I've been trying to prep myself by looking at skills videos like bedmaking, wound care, and ng tube insertions. I think its a great resource/reference for those who want to use it

super duper excited here too! trying to prepare myself mentally but still unsure of what to expect haha. Nevertheless bring it on. Congrats to all the other accept-ees as well!

I don't remember having a substantial amount of chem on my TEAS exam. I would suggest getting the study guide and review everything in it well. My only trouble with the exam was the English portion with all the grammatical 'rules' ugghhh it was so tricky (besides I haven't seen that stuff since the fourth grade). I warned a fellow friend of mine about the same thing and she said i was right, after she didn't pass, because she didn't listen to me. At my school you have to pass with a 75%. But be very careful because even if you do very well with the science portion don't expect for it to make up for another portion of the test if you "bombed" it; doing well on one section won't "make up" for another section

I really, really like this thread. I don't begin nursing school until Jan 10th but by seeing what you all talked about changing has helped me to learn what I should do in advance. I plan to read everything ahead of time, take good notes, print out & review powerpoints, etc. I actually learned to do this in previous classes, such as A&P II, and Lifespan Development, which helped me to reduce my extreme desire to procrastinate and kept me from falling behind in class. I'm interested to see how I'm going to be able to handle this load because its been at least a year since I've had 4 classes + 2 labs. I have a previous degree in Biology/Pre-Med so we shall see....

Haha thank u! My mom-in-law is an RN too plus I have 2 other close friends who are RN's that I can rely on if needed lol Good luck to u too!

Yay! Congrats to us Spring 2011 nursing students!!! I too start Jan 10th and I can not wait and am super excited/nervous at the same time. I plan to work my BUTT off to maintain my 3.0 GPA. I've already submitted all my paperwork (physical, immunizations, signatures, BLS card) plus I've ordered 2 sets of custom uniforms for my school's program. My mom (also a RN) even got me a Littman cardio III stethoscope (in candy apple red!) as a b-day present. So needless to say I'm amped and ready lol

Hi Carla0912, I just got an A in A&P II so speaking from experience I believe that those who get the higher grades put in the most work. I usually began studying for an exam exactly 1 week before the test. I would start with an hour of study and then "crank" it up more and more as the exam got closer. Lab really helped me out alot too. I found myself paying alot of attention during lecture to make sure I focused on the material that was on the test. But most importantly keep up with all the chapters as you go...meaning never get behind in the reading because that will surely get overwhelming when you finally do decide to start reading/studying. I plan to use these same methods next month in nurs school. Hope this helps you. Good luck ---C