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Bump for same. Going to do one of the work co-ops, but can't decided on Medical Terminology or Legacy of the Family. Anybody able to chime in? Wondering about work load of the two. Will be taking concurrently with Leadership and Management.

Great score! Make sure you have all your ducks in a row because you're in, my friend!

OK- from the top. Taylor- didn't use. Lynn Clinical Skills book used at the beginning of the semester for the skills quizzes we had to take. Maybe 3 times. The NCLEX adaptive quizzing you don't have to purchase straight away. You don't have to buy it at all if you don't want to but it's helpful for those who like to do practice questions. Silvestri Saunders NCLEX book is also helpful for studying. I knew people who only studied the content we were covering from this book, did practice questions and were making A's and B's. You can buy the 5th edition, it's cheaper. Zerwekh and Claborn - don't even know what's in that book. Don't need it. Davidson, London, Ladewig Maternal Newborn you will need when that lecture comes around. Don't get in a hurry. Pickar, don't need. I'm assuming you all know how to do basic dosage calculations. Gahart IV meds, don't need. Ignatavicius (or Iggy as it's referred to) is your bread and butter book. That is where you'll get 85% of your information. Need it for the first test for sure. Hockenberry Peds nursing, you'll need for when that test rolls around, like the maternal-newborn. Videbeck Psych....I downloaded a free copy online of an older edition but I think I only looked at it maybe once or twice. Hope that covers it!

I apologize! I totally forgot about the booklist. Let me dig through my files and I will get it posted on here. I will also notate on there which books you actually need. Also- needing all of your books on the first day is an out and out lie. This is correct. RON is pretty easy content. Basically ethical and delegation questions, patient prioritization, things like that. It was our first test and I think I made like a 94 or 96 on it. NDEEE is more difficult. I think one of the E's stands for endocrine as well. If it's the same professor lecturing for NDEEE, then y'all will quickly realize what I meant when I said "hooping and hollaring, shouting phrases from the powerpoint." She's a terrible lecturer, there is no nice way to say it. Y'all will basically be teaching yourselves the content she covers, IF it's the same lady.

Very much so. It's a very strange feeling to not have any school work or studying to do. I feel like Ricky Bobby after he won his first race.. I dont know what to do with my hands....

Thanks! Believe me, I'm ready. Monday is HESI final so... that's a wrap!

This is hard to say, because I dont know what changes they are making because of COVID, and yall going entirely online. The normal would be your 2 days of lecture, then 1 day of clinical on a different day of the week.

Yes. She will lecture. Do not put too much thought into it. She reads off the PowerPoint, goes off into a tangent, skips ahead 3 slides and then repeats the process. You will have 3 days of lecture before a test. She will drag her *** through the first 2 days, then rush through the third. Her accent is extremely thick and she is very soft spoken, so it's nearly impossible to follow. Anticipate lots of online shopping during class. Also play a drinking game with your friends.. everytime ------------- says "as such", take a shot. Trust me.. you'll laugh when you get what I'm saying.

Ooooooookkkkk! She lives to make students feel uncomfortable and make their lives difficult. She maintains a smile 99% of the time and she seems very un-assuming when you see her, but she can be very condescending and EXTREMELY nitpicky. You can tell, this lady lives for the moments where she is able to back a student into a corner and make them feel unsure of themselves (stupid). The little mistakes and hiccups that can be the genesis for active learning, serve her only to make students look dumb, especially when it's in front of classmates. For the longest, I thought this to be accidental, or just a flaw in her method of "teaching", but it's not. She has said, out loud, that she likes putting students in these kinds of situations and giving them a hard time. She says it's to prepare them for the real world, which on the surface seems fair, but nothing she does is conducive to that in reality. She takes it way too far. Examples: 1- This past Fall in sim lab- oh don't get me started on sim lab. The most awkward place in the world, and you walk in to find out this lady is filling in.. Anyway, this day was our "code" day where our sim patient came in for a head trauma and crashes and you have to run an ACLS code on her (keep in mind NOBODY in our class outside of me and the paramedics are ACLS certified, much less any of the basic track students). We get our assignments, I am the secondary nurse (helper to primary) and I am the only transition student in the code. All the rest are N3 basic track students who have never ran a code in sim or real life and have no clue what ACLS is. Me, being the ER nurse who does it every day, gets approached beforehand by the rest in my group asking for help. I tell them what to expect and that I will dictate as much as I can to help, without being obvious. The girl who is a primary nurse, during the code, misses what I tell her to do and flubs up while bagging the patient. -------------- stops the Sim and then and there, walks in the room and starts grilling her..and I mean GRILLING her. "You choose to take the patient's blood pressure while they're not breathing rather than continue with bagging them? Do you not understand BLS or your ABCs. This is basic stuff you should know this. You killed your patient. This lady is dead now. Your partner (me) is telling you stuff and you are not listening to him." Blah blah blah. This girl was damn near in tears before I stepped in, and I was pissed off...I literally had to interrupt this lady and tell her "she doesn't understand. She has never done this before. She isn't able to listen to me because you keep talking into the microphone for a patient who is supposedly coding and intubated, and she's trying to focus on you rather than think for herself." The room fell silent and her face went pale..I could tell she was not happy..but she did not respond to me. I honestly think the only reason she didn't attack me was because I'm a guy and about a foot and a half taller than her...LOL..but I had to stand up for this poor girl and I'm glad I did. I could tell she felt completely helpless.... overall the experience was wasted and nobody took anything out of it. In post conference I walked everyone through everything we did and explained to them how it would ACTUALLY go in real life. Example 2 - week 2 of clinical she lined up her entire group as soon as they got there, made them raise up their pants legs and the people who weren't wearing white socks got sent home for the day. People that didn't have a pen on them, were sent home for the day. If you didn't have a white undershirt, you were sent home for the day. Yes... we have a strict dress code, but this is *** and just being difficult for the sake of being difficult. For context, you're allowed to miss 1 clinical day before failing out of the program. For those students, this was their one day. If for any reason they had an emergency or were running late on another day, that was it. They're out. Because of this. Needless to say, when they send out the email asking you guys for your clinical site preferences...unless you really, REALLY want Hermann Northeast, which I think is the one she takes for the first 2 semesters...avoid her. I have heard that she can be good in clinical and can help you make connections at that hospital because she worked there for like 25 years...but to me, it just isn't worth it. You guys are on AllNurses, so you're cool, so you get the leg up with insider info. Sorry for everyone else...LOL Off the soap box. Again.

That is correct. The person I knew that went through it worked weekend doubles during the Summer and had zero social life. And if you want a review on ---------------------, you dont want to ask me. I will let you guys form your own opinions there...LOL

Last time I checked, and it's been a few years, they start off in the Summer. Their Summer session runs only 6 weeks, but you go 5 days a week, all day. 3 days of class, 2 days of clinical and you are there full time. Then you get a 6 week break and pick up in the Fall going 2 days a week to class and 1 day a week to clinical. Same for the Spring.

I can tell you now that you won't know your exact schedule for a couple weeks. You will have class either Monday/Tuesday or Wednesday/Thursday, and clinical one other day out of the week. Best thing to do is just let your boss know this information and make them aware that the school hasn't provided it yet. Juanita should be sending out an email soon with clinical site preference choices so they can get things scheduled, but I wouldnt hold my breath.

I'm happy to do it. I remember how lost and frantic I was, and how nice it was having past students there to offer advice. Glad to help. Congratulations to you both! Yes, the next 6 weeks will be crazy and overwhelming. I do not doubt that one bit. But it will settle, and I promise, you will get in a comfortable routine in no time and before you know it, you'll be on AllNurses giving advice to the 2022 class!

Congratulations! Let the firehose drinking commence ?

I can't really speak much to that. Depends on too many different factors to be consistent sxhool to school, year to year. I will say this though, if you are selected as an alternate, take it just as seriously as an acceptance and have all your ducks in a row.