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Thank You Parks22 for your info. Couple of quick questions.... 1) What book or online info did you use to help you with the Vocab? 2) What kind of voice recorder did you use to record your lectures? 3) What skills were the hardest for you to learn/perform?

Our orientation date is on 7/23. I am so "OCD" I have already been to the school and begged the instructor to go ahead and give me the Textbook adoption form that lists what textbooks will be used for the course so I can go ahead and start ordering them.

Hello Everyone, I just received my acceptance letter for the RN ADN program for a local community college out here in North Carolina. I am extremely excited and extremely anxious at the thought of starting the program this Fall. I have been stalking this site in attempts to find information for new nursing students to help prepare and motivate me for the upcoming challenges. Unfortunately most of the posts I found are scaring the bejesus out of me (ex. "you will not sleep, you will not have a life, you will be fighting to keep a C average, ext....."). I have an obsessive compulsive personality and I always try to be prepared for everything. This does cause me a good deal of stress (I'm sure its not great on my body) but it does help me stay focused and be ahead of the game (most of the time). Because I like to be overly prepared I was hoping someone could give me some advise on what to expect from my 1st semester of nursing. I have already completed every course in the program with exception of all of the NUR specific courses. NUR 111- Intro to health concepts will be the only class I will have for this upcoming first semester. I am going to purchase all of the books online prior to the course start date so I can... 1) Get the books on the cheap :-)... 2) Start skimming and familiarizing myself with some of the material. Any advise or resource material would be much appreciated. Thanks