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Hi everyone! I'm currently a first year ELMSN-FNP student at Samuel Merritt University at their Sacramento campus. I absolutely love this website and forum. I found great support and advice when working through my pre-nursing prerequisites, applying ...

I have the 13'' Air. I found the 11'' to be too small. But my classmate has the 11'' Air and she absolutely loves it! She's used it for all of nursing school and has had no problem with doing homework, research, writing papers, etc! I'd say go to the...

I'm a nursing student and one of my clinical instructors had us practice verbally present handoff reports about our patients. It was such a great experience! I definitely recommend that. It helped prepare me for doing handoff reports in preceptorship...

Taking NCLEX! Aaaaah!

Thank you for this!

Congratulations!! Enjoy your free time now, you won't have a lot of it during school!!

Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Southern California

Thank you for this! I am a 4th semester nursing student and I'll be taking NCLEX this summer. This was wonderful advice, thank you so much! And congratulations on completing your first year of nursing!

Honestly, I'd get the Littman Cardiology steth. It's expensive, but totally worth it. I can't hear anything with the other cheapo brands. Even my classmates have said they wasted money on cheaper ones at the beginning of nursing school and it's worth...

Woo hoo congrats!! Welcome to the rest of your life!

Congrats! And thank you for the advice! I'll be right there job hunting next July.

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Congrats! That's so great! You might even meet a few of my classmates. Some 1st-year ELMSN FNP students will pop in to give you some good tips. I won't be there because I have critical care clinicals on those days. But ask them any questions you have...

Hi, yes you stay in Sacramento all 10 semesters. All classes are in person and a lot of clinical rotations are attached to them. So you'll be attending numerous hospital facilities in the Sacramento area. As a result, if you're not from the area and ...

Thank you for all your wonderful tips! I'm a current nursing student and printed it out!

We had a ton of reading ands studying already after the first day. Plus the professors went over the syllabus so we could begin working on papers/projects/presentations. I started reading already before the first day of class, just to keep up. You re...

Congratulations! I know exactly how you feel. I got my acceptance letter in September and it was honestly one of the happiest moments of my life. Enjoy it! You are about to embark on a life-changing journey! (And enjoy your free time now until school...

This is a such a great thread! Thanks everyone for your input. I just started nursing school in January and I definitely can use these tips!

Congratulations!!! I remember how happy I was when I was accepted into nursing school too! Enjoy the free time you have until next month, because you'll be busy!

kp32, check your PMs! Hi ALXiong! It's me Nicole!

Totally, feel free to PM me! We can talk more!

Definitely go on that vacation! Take as much time to relax, hang out with friends, travel, and do whatever you want before school starts. That's what I was advised, and I definitely pass that on to you. You might have weekend clinicals. It really dep...

Congratulations! You should be so proud of yourself. That's a really great accomplishment to get into the SMU program, especially the FNP track. I know the FNP track is really competitive. I'm 2.5 months into the program and it's pretty busy. I'm tak...

Congratulations congratulations congratulations!!! :)

Everyone in my class types away on laptops or tablets. But I'm old fashioned. I still print out the powerpoints (4 slides to a page) and handwrite notes with pens and highlighters. I find it's the process of actually writing down the notes that helps...