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Agreed! I have never been one to look for that sort of thing. I am more of an introvert and my initial instinct to meeting someone has always been to be positive or nice. You are right, I dont know or have any idea, but this is why I am just saying this is what I have heard and wondered why it was so prevelant. I guess there are always two sides, just like in any workplace.

I will never understand the games and the politics and the harsh people in nursing and this really irks me everytime I read about it. How is it that people go into health care, a field where CARE is a priority and the mantra for the job, and are rude, playing games, bullies, etc. Why do so many nurses make such an effort to make other peoples' lives hell? It bothers the heck out of me. I am starting nursing school in January because I love the thought of helping others and anything to do with health care and medical things since I was young, but on the side of being excited have had to almost prep myself to deal with these awful people. It really bugs me that this is such an expected thing. Every workplace has its people, but you would think nurses, or most, might be on the brighter side. I cant even count the number of nurses that were rude while my dad and my father in law were in the hospital and it left my mind boggled.

Oh okay so I will need to pick those up then. thanks!

Question about the online bundle. Can I not access them before school starts since they are online? Or do I still need to go and get something from the bookstore itself?

I Know! I just paid about 450 for the ebooks and one other book for semester 1 ..then I looked at semester 2...and thers so much more! I am going to look into other places to buy the books for semester 2 that arent the ebooks (those seem to be cheapest anywhere) to see what I can do!

Awesome thank you. Looks like that is what I will do.

Hi Julles, Did you just get your books from bookstore? Or are there other places, other than amazon that might have them cheaper? This may have been answered earlier, so if so I apologize. I saw some on amazon that werent that much cheaper and I dont think they would have the downloadable versions. Thanks!

Great I did the CPR last weekend. Thank you for the wonderful info! I will look into buying books now and I think I will go with the online bundle.

Oh no.. do you have to do both CPR and First Aid? I did my CPR and I just noticed it also says standard first aid...but the only other thing they have with Continuing Education is a CPR AND First Aid course for a whole weekend, the one happening before everything is due being cancelled.

All I have left is my mask fit! The only frustrating thing for me is one of my Certificates that I need printed from elearn will not allow me to enter my name and the date on it is from 2011. Seems more like a computer glitch than anything. How did your OSCE go? What is involved? Also in terms of books - should I purchase before school starts or will there be enough to go around if I go in within the first couple days? Also what did you do during orientation?

sounds good to me!

Question - because clinicals start the 5th week, does that mean that the first 4 weeks we have 2 days off?

That would make more sense! Thanks! Guess we have to keep an eye out for the schedule.

Where can you get the online versions? Is that also through the bookstore website? Also, if we have a Keep Open day on the first day of class, how do we know where to go to get info on the clinicals, labs etc?

Looks like we are in the same block!