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My school offers a stethoscope at orientation for $15. Call me crazy, but is a $15 stethoscope really going to perform? I've heard that breath sounds are hard to detect for a beginner. Someone said to get a Littmann II Classic S.E. (about $70) I ...

Yeah....pre-nursing studying is nothing like nursing school. I'm in first term nursing school (Fundamentals) and I study ALL the time. Probably 2 hours on weeknights and 6 hours on Saturday and Sunday. There is no "down time". I don't care how go...

outside of class and clinical, on average, how many hours per day or week do you study? do you find you have time for family? do you have days where you don't have to study or do you feel like you are always studying? if i'm going into nursing scho...

I'm the OP and am now 2 months into my ADN program so I thought I'd post how much studying I do. I have class M-Th 9 to 4. I study 6 or 7 hours on Friday, 3 or 4 hours on Sat and Sun and about 1 hour each week night. Yes, it is a LOT but it's real...

Here is my dilemma. I have a HUGE passion for labor/delivery and pediatrics (having had 4 children myself). However, I do NOT want to deal with sick adults. I understand that NS is mostly about sick adults and we will only spend 8 to 10 weeks total o...

WHITE top (not even really a scrub top, it zips up the front and is hideous) with an ugly patch on the sleeve, WHITE pants. Do they just want to humiliate us by making us look as stupid as possible? You'll be able to pick us out from all other stud...

I start my ADN program next week. Over the past month or so I have read the entire Foundations book and am half way through Calculate With Confidence. I have also viewed many procedure videos. I can tell you that my stress level has gone WAY down ...

I finished pre-reqs in the spring and I start NS in August. I've been trying to enjoy all the time with my kids. Getting the house clean! But I've also been reading the entire Foundations text, just 10 or 20 pages a day but I feel like I'm learnin...

At my orientation a few weeks ago, they told us to have a Plan A, Plan B and Plan C. They said you have to attend class and being sick (or sick kids) is no excuse for missing a test (documented emergencies are the exception). Fortunately my husband...

Starting my 1st sememster in ADN program next month. It is also 9 credit hours goes like this: Monday - 9 to 4 Fundamentals class Tues/Wed/Thurs - 9 to 4 Fundamentals lab (and later in semester clinicals) I sure hope I can get most of my studying do...

If you go into the lab NUR1020L and click on the CRN number, it will show a different schedule. Hoping that is wrong!

Has anyone else looked at the schedule? It almost looks like at Palatka we will be in class on Tues/Wed/Thurs from 9 until 6 plus Mon/Fri from 4 until 6. In the past the first semester students have done a four day 9 to 4 schedule. This seems to b...

I got into Palatka as well! Congrats to my future classmates and good luck to everyone!

I still haven't found out yet....I'm on vacation....of all weeks. Maybe they will tell me if I call them. ToreoN2B, were you in Category 1 or 2?

Nothing here in North St. Augustine. Did he get a letter or a packet? Great.....no sleep tonight!

I'm worried about the same thing when I go to NS this fall. I'm kind of a perfectionist and earned A's in my pre-reqs. I'm the kind of person to ask what question I got wrong and then argue my case. I've been told that this will make me crazy if I...

Based on what I was told in an informational session earlier this year, I think you would be classified as a Cat 2 then.....but if you want to know for sure, call them and I'm sure they can tell you. Oh, and if you call....ask when letters are going...

Yes, your pre-req GPA and HESI determine what category you are in. Then they rank by points within that category, then by application submission time if there is a tie. I think I'm in category 1 as well. From past groups, I've heard that everyone ...

Nomijen.....are you in NS now? How do you deal with the sick people when what you really want to do is deal with injuries? How do you just "suck it up"? I just keep wondering if 2 years of NS dealing with stuff I don't like is worth it to get where I...

Toreo....do you know anyone in the program? Have you heard what it might be like?

The new guidelines are 3.5 GPA to put you in category one. I think I was told that they have drawn from category two in the past as well. Hopefully letters will go out soon!

I applied to both, you?

So, the fact that I say "eeeewwwwwwww" when I even think about doing bed baths, catheters, wound care, etc. on adults.....this will go away in time? leenak....EXACTLY! What if I can't get a job in OB or PEDS after I graduate? It seems that a lot o...

Yes, I'm waiting. I think the letter might go out next week, based on what they said in an informational session.

You all say NS will be great "if nursing is your passion". Well, my situation is that I really want to work in LDRP or pediatrics....but I can't really imagine myself giving a bed bath to a 65 year old man. I find myself with a HUGE passion for lab...