Randi156

the pay for everything is less here in TN, BUT the cost of living is also a lot cheaper than it is in NY. BSN is slowly starting to make its way in TN. I am only a student, but looking at job openings for a few years I have noticed some require a BSN. Give it time, if you really need to make more money go to middle or west TN or back to NY.

I will for sure put name tags on all items! I plan on being polite as I don't want my professors to think I am rude and not professional. I will most likely not make them friends though. I hope that these supplies make a difference in the way I hear things and such after all that is why I bought them :)

Thanks! and you are very right I am there to learn and better myself to become a wonderful nurse. I am going to try my best to be the bigger person as I want to be professional and not immature. these posts are making me feel much better about all of this! I can't wait to start! I just hope I pass!!

Thanks so much for the comment and advice!! These students do seem really immature to me, last I checked we were in college apparently they missed that memo! I hope my professors are impressed (not that I am trying to impress anyone!) I can not wait to get started and using my supplies!! Thanks for the good luck wishes! I will have to hunt out the mature students :)

I love my Iguana Med scrubs! they look great and are super comfy!

These are the shoes I got Google Product Searchhey aren't white but we are allowed to have white, ceil blue, or navy. Body fluids can't soak through these I don't think they have like a slick exterior that seems like it would roll off instead of sitting on it. Hope you find something!

My best advice is to order the book from ATI for the TEAS V study guide. I did the book and did the 2 online pactice tests from ATI. If you can pass the online ones you are good to go for the actual test itself. The online practice exam is harder than the test I thought. The science portion of mine was a lot of physical science which I haven't had since oh I dont know 8th grade! so I had some trouble with it since I had been taking chemistry courses and micro.

Here is the deal I start my 1st semester of nursing school Monday woohoo!! I am already super nervous but yet very excited! My 1st semester I have the usual health assessment, communication for health professionals, fundamentals, etc. Anyways........ I have talked to a few of my fellow classmates and everyone went out and got a stethoscope at walmart, BP stuff at walmart, etc. I have NOTHING against this I have been truly blessed to have such a wonderful fiance' and have saved money back myself as well I have a littman cardio III stethoscope, and a Welch Allyn tycos sphygmomanometer I am very lucky to have these and my fiance' and myself bought these as sort of an investment as we expect these to last a long time for me provided they don't get stolen! Plus the BP thing was bought used from a med student I know and it was simply a good deal. My issue is my classmates have kind of made me feel like I have a snotty attitude about these as they asked me what type of supplies I have so I named those two items off to them ( I wasn't like OMG! I have this this and this only top of the line stuff you know) I just stated I have a littman stethoscope and a Welch Allyn BP since they asked. Well now no one really likes me that much and have been saying stuff like "the snotty rich kid", etc. I am in no way shape or form a rich kid! I don't consider myself snotty either and neither do my friends outside of school. I just think I am truly lucky and blessed to start school with nice things. Should I leave the nice stuff at the house now that we already spent money on it or just take it to school and be lucky I have such things? I hate everyone already hates me! This is not what I was expecting! What should I do? 3/4 of me says just ignore them, but the 1/4 of me says are my instructors going to hate me because I have nice things?

Thank you all for all of your wonderful and helpful input !! This has made me feel a lot better about my decision to attend the public state school they are accredited and a BSN program. Thanks so much again everyone !!

I got accepted into 3 different nursing programs all BSN. I got accepted into ETSU (east TN State University), King College Bristol,TN, and Lincoln Memorial University. I ended up picking ETSU because it is so much cheaper since it is public. Does private really offer any plus's to public universities job wise? I can complete ETSU and be debt free when I graduate! with LMU or King I will have student loans. Does going to private schools increase better job opportunities? Does anyone have any opinions on this? I plan on going back to school after I graduate to get my DNP or CRNA. Anyone have any input in this? I am so nervous I didn't make the correct decision....... I can still get my admission to LMU and King if need be. Any one have any thoughts?

Thank you so much everyone! I do worry way to much. Getting so nervous!!

SO I just got my list of what I need for my 1st semester of nursing school woohoo!! It says I need a sphygmomanometer ( blood pressure cuff) in bold is their exact words. Does this mean I just need a cuff or do I need the whole thing such as : [h=1]http://www.allheart.com/rilf15.html[/h] So confused :/ help please??

I always try to not make my nurse wait since I know she is in a hurry. All I do is put my purse down because I know it weighs a ton! Granted I am not a nurse yet, I start RN school this fall. Anyways, earrings aren't going to make that much difference I personally do not think lol. I just put my purse down and roll with it. The number isn;t going to change by 5lbs from taking all my clothes off and ring, etc.

There is ETSU and King College. King is more expensive but has great scholarships they offer. ETSU's program is good from what I hear I plan on going.

I took the TEAS V and did well except for the Science. The Science KILLED me!!! It was awful. For me it was a lot of physical/earth science and some organic chemistry and chemistry. My advice to anyone is study the Science in the ATI book the ATI book really helped me with the math. I ran out of time int he math section and missed some very simple questions because I worked so slowly in the beginning to make sure the got the answers correct and not make any "stupid" mistakes. Seriously though study the science.