Orientation is very exciting. You will discuss your class schedule and requirements, sign up for a hospital list, order uniform, ask questions from others and they might give away books or other...
I have just checked our class size. The lecture class has only 32 people. Our clinical group has 6. I assume there are some people who have to repeat second semester so that adds to the numbers later....
I am going to PARKLAND!!!!!!! I will have OB/L&D at Parkland. Wow.:balloons: The new clinical schedule for second semester students is on eConnect. What are your clinical sites?
I don't have a PDA. I usually had my small med-surg clinical handbook, drugbook and even the Ackley careplan book with me. I put everything in a bag and stored it in the break room during the day. It...
It's good to be busy again. :) I had my first micro class today, and it was great. I have some classmates from my second semester nursing class and some from first semester. I heard that there are...
Thanks guys. :) I have also found a great blog here: http://unsinkablemollybrown.blogspot.com/ She is a new OR nurse writing about her orientation and first days of work. Very interesting.
How was your last day in the OR? I am a nursing student interested in perioperative nursing. Unfortunately, this semester I had no chance to observe in the OR during my clinicals, shadow a nurse or...
Are you going to buy new or used books for second semester? I am thinking about buying used ones. Both Lowdermilk and James were published around 2003 so there must be a lot of used books out there....
Thanks Sunny. I don't know what specialty I would like to do. Right now I am interested in perioperative nursing but some weeks ago I liked med-surg, too. Would you like to go to Parkland?