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A student membership in AORN is only $20. You will have access to most their site, and get a subscription to the AORN journal. It is worth it!

It all worked out! I was worried when I saw your timeframe, I have heard the U pretty firm about having your license by the start date. Mine just posted also, and took 9 business days.

What about North Platte or Casper? I looked at moving up mine, and Casper had some closer dates, but I decided to stick with my original date.

That is such great news! I told everyone graduating in December ruined the holidays, but we have gotten our ATTs much faster than the May grads :-)

You actually have 90 days now to get a Texas license if you have a compact license. It changed in April 2013. https://www.ncsbn.org/30-90_days_Implementation_Table_072313(2).pdf

If they have a training double stethoscope try listening with an instructor (we used one of these for our test). You might not have it in the right spot.

It is open now, you might have just been a little to early. I would try a different browser if you still can not get into the application.

We submit a wish list, and you can rank what is most important to you such as, specific hospital, location or type of hospital. I have gotten my first choice for every rotation but one so far. For senior practicum we can make a pretty extensive list including unit and hospital, I hear they are pretty good about getting you into either your first choice unit or hospital as long as you are not to picky (for example asking for any ICU vs Burn ICU).

I tried the ebook using pageburst for one class on the recommendation of the professor, and I HATED it. The search function sounded great, but it would often give me to many results, and I would have to wade through them all to find what I really needed. Charts came through looking strange and hard to read. Sometimes the chapter would just cut off before the end also. That being said I love my kindle for just reading, but for studying the hard copy worked much better for me.

Thanks! I have a friend that was having trouble with an out of state app because her clinical scholar was not part of the university faculty, (I guess they are at some schools?), but was employed by the hospital. This had me worried I am collecting letters of recommendation from the wrong people.

I am a senior nursing student in Colorado, and I am trying to everything organized to start applying for jobs. Some of the hospitals I look at want letters from clinical instructors, is this the professor who taught the didactic portion of the class, or the nurse who supervised our group at clinical (my school refers to this person as the clinical scholar).

Study A&P! It all starts there, and if you can picture how everything works normally you can better understand the abnormal.

They both have merits. The iPad has that app that you can use to take notes right on the powerpoint slides, and it is small and light, but my apple only classmates run into problems with online content not being supported sometimes, and have to do some assignments on the computers at school. You can also pickup PC laptop for a lot cheaper.

I tried a lot of study guides, but the only ones I ever really used are Med Surg Success and the Saunders NCLEX review. I really liked Med Surg Success because it has rationales for the correct and incorrect answers.

They all have the classes you are talking about, they have just given them different names. Maternal nursing at my school is called "Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family" and Med Surg is "Adult and Elder Nursing Care". The least expensive schools for BSN are state schools, but you need to be a resident, and cost will vary by state.