SarahXBeth

Good Luck!!! Get lots of rest!!!!

I sure hope i do Too!!!

So i just retook my nclex... Had all 265 questions... With a total of 52 SATA questions (i know, bc everytime i would get one i would mark it down). Im freaking out. This is my second try at nclex.... Everyone i know just got a handful of SATA.....

Please Help! I took my nclex (1st attempt) last week and found out that after 92 questions, i failed it. I have been devastated and trying to figure out what went wrong. I have no clue how to study for this thing... and need help!!! I seriously dont want to have to explain to anyone again (work included) as to how i failed it a second time around.

omgosh.... I feel so much better now! However, I didn't get an email, but my phone has been acting crazy.... so maybe I did, and just don't know it! That makes me feel soo much better! Im still kinda bummed that our first day, is such a long day!!!

Ok, not sure if anyone reads this anymore.... anyway. Our first clinical day we have a medication calculation exam. Im terrified. I don't know anything about the subject.... and I know we only have so many times we can take it... I don't even know if we can use a calculator. To top it off, the bookstore called me, and they sent out the wrong book Nurse/math/meds book.... so the correct one is on the way, but may not be here before the first day of class.... which is next week!! Is anyone else having trouble? Is anyone else as freaked out as I am?

I have several tats and piercings, none of which I regret. I'm a hard working straight A student, lets not place labels on each other based on appearance. I wouldn't care if the person saving my life or my child's life was tatted from head to toe as long as they are an expert at what they do. What I mind is a 20 something nurse fresh out of college, that looks "professional" to society's standard and can barely start an IV.

Quick update- My tuition bill posted, and I spoke to financial aid today. Everything is in order... but they are still putting the financial packages together, and I was told they should be done and posted by the end of this month! So if you are like me, and still don't have financial aid on your student account... they are working on having everything in by the end of the month!

Does anyone have their financial aid posted to your student account? I'm getting nervous, because nothing has been posted yet... and i'm pretty sure I had everything in on time.

Thank you soo much! I'll be looking at the book list!!!!

AH I see. Im always jumping ahead n things, Lol Thank You!!!

Does anyone know when fafsa gets put into our student self service? I already did all the paperwork for verification and everything was done on time, but they have not posted it on my account. I know that every year I have received some financial aid, but now cant remember when they post how much you receive before the semester starts.

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Thank you SO Much!!! I will be looking into all of this! My wedding band set is not appropriate for nursing, I didn't really consider that when I picked it out! So we were looking at some solid bands instead that I could wear while nursing and just wear my actual wedding set when I'm not nursing. I deff. didn't want to buy another one though and not be able to wear it! Your information has been very helpful, and oh man, I am nervous about that first day!!!!!

So for the students that are already in the nursing program... any suggestions for us to prepare over the summer? I know someone had said dosage calculations. Also, the paperwork says no jewelry, does anyone know if this includes a wedding band? Im kinda bummed about having to take out my nose piercing.... are they really going to enforce that?

Since it is finals week, Just wanted to say . . . . Good Luck Everyone!!!! Study Hard! Get Lots Of Rest Over the summer, can't wait to see you all in the Fall!!! :)

I also did my cpr at Bluegrass Nurse aid, (also where i completed my CNA). It was like a couple hours... no big deal.

I need all of my immunizations. However, i have an appt. on friday to start all of them!!! I still need to get my scrubs and stethoscope, im just waiting b/c i know its a little expensive. I also have to get a new parking permit for cooper campus. I hate purchasing it, b/c it's like $250 I am excited to get started, i really wish we knew where our clinicals will be at? Or what day our lab was on? Lol, i am just trying to prepare and make sure that i have childcare for all of my classes. Im work part time, on the weekends but iv heard a few people advise to not work if you dont have to. I know that we can make it work if i dont work next semester, i just cant decide. Im so excited though! Im ready to get this semester over and hurry through summer break. ( Although i may need to slow down and enjoy my time off, apparently nursing school is hard... )

I turned in my packet and was switched in the system with no trouble. After speaking with my advisor, i was enrolled in my class, no promblem. I have a schedule complete with times/dates/teachers. I dont think they can purge anyone from the system, once we are actually enrolled. I will be very upset if they do, because i choose classes and my clinical that worked around work. I even had to change my sons enrollment at his school for next semester to accomadate my wed. clinical. It worries me that everyone is getting a different story. I really hope this whole program isn't like this. Although, someone told me to be sure to make copies and hold on to everything because they will lose stuff or not enter grades correctly. I really hope this isn't the case.

OK. After emailing student records, they went ahead and enrolled me in the nsg 101 course. Its a lecture, lab and clinical. However the lab is TBA. They must be having issues with the system because they had to overide it and enroll me through their system. Looks like i have class like all week long, but i get out by like noon every day, except for clinicals (7-5). Im also taking his 101 online, so hopefully that class isnt too hard, im terrible at history!!!

OMGosh, thank you!!! i have been trying all morning online to enroll in the nsg 101 and cant seem to get it to work! i"ll be calling school!!!!!

Does anyone know how many sets of scrubs we are suppose to have? Also, i turned in my paperwork today for the adn program, and let the lpn program know that i wouldnt be taking my spot in their program, so im sure that someone on the alternate list will be getting a very happy phone call

Im also sad because it says no visable piercings, so my nose piercing has to come out, and iv had it for 8 years Im sure they aren't going to let me keep a retainer in it either. Super sad, oh well.... i guess its time ti grow up...

when are we suppose to have the background check done by? I thought i read it in there, but now i cant find it! Which form is due by the 18th? Im gonna take the three (letter of intent, crime page, and tech. standars) tomorrow to campus. But i know the background check is like $60, so thats gotta wait until pay day. I also gotta get all these vaccines going too!

Thank you guys SO much! I will deff. be checking out grogans and testing out a couple different ones to see what will work best for me! :)