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Hi Magz89, If Im not mistaken its $8725 per semester. It is expensive but with the help of scholarships it can help offset some of the cost. When is your appointment?

Too eaches own. I agree the local community colleges are a lot cheaper. Let's take VCC for example it will take you 2 years for pre-reqs, go on a wait list for the RN program, once your in the program it will take you 2 years and if you get accepted ...

Fingers crossed, let's hope we can continue FT.

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Completely agree with you 110%! Sometimes working from the bottom up will help one have a better understanding of what it takes to be a great Nurse.

Very true, and its nice to have that experience to make sure Nursing is for you or not. For sure you will have some great insight seeing as you volunteer at Nemours and within your current employer.

That's a great experience! Definitely take in everything they are willing to teach as it will come in handy for you come nursing school. It does help to have some medical/clinical experience if at all possible.

I agree with you. I'm an MA as well, I work for a Children's Hospital outpatient. I pick up as a PCT on weekends to have the inpatient exposure and I have learned so much we don't do in the outpatient world.

Yes it is. Your welcome! I really like RegisteredNurseRN.com and I'll look into the others you recommended. Being a visual learner I like how I can print out the worksheets and work along with her. Do you currently work in the medical field?

That's a great start! I wrote notecards to learn the conversions and look into registerednursern.com she has a ton of YouTube videos, along with printable worksheets that you can do at the same time she's doing the conversions/dosage calculations. I ...

You are very welcome! Some books also offer test banks if you can get your hands on I think it would be beneficial and extra practice. Any little bit helps!

We might just be twins! hehe. Yes, I am totally with you. Here is a list of books my friend sent me and I was able to see pricing. Pharmacology for Nursing $21.97, Brunner and Suddarth Textbook of Medical-Surg Nursing 13th Ed $33.97, Jarvis Physc...

I sure will! They are not that expensive. I seen the books we will need and the max for 1 of the books is $34.00 for the actual book. I'm a visual learner and prefer to have the books at hand.

Ok good Im not alone LOL. I was able to login to my Kaplan I just found the link I sent to another classmate.

Awesome, thanks for the info! I have been trying to sign into my email but something must be going on with their server, its not allowing me to login to get to the Kaplan email. I'm going to read it tonight for sure!

Ill be working as well FT hope its doable if not I will have to decrease my hours or change positions. How about you?

Not yet, I going to sit down and take a look at it.

Yes, I ment to give an update. I met with a friend who just took Focus Tutorial and said the same thing. I recently got an email for Kaplan which also goes hand in hand with Focus Tutorial. My friend is doing the LPN to RN transition and sent me a pi...

Exactly! They do last a long time.

I have always had a Littmann just gotta upgrade them later on as time goes on but overall I love them!

Thats exactly my thought process, not spending too much without knowing what is required. I think I'm safe with the Littmann 3 for now. Some of the RN's I work with provided good feedback regarding that stethoscope. Later on down the line I'll upgrad...

Thanks for the list. I'm going to see what they provide and go from there. You know I compared the Littmann Classic 3 to the Classic II S.E and Cardiology. I really liked the Cardiology as 1st option and then the Classic 3. Cardiology was a little mo...

Thats the same stethoscope I purchased . Yes! I need a good penlight, scissors etc. I'm going to look around. I know we get a Herzing bag with some items but I hear your better off purchasing your own, better quality.

i recall a classmate went to the 2nd orientation sometime in June and she starts the LPN to RN Bridge on 7/11. I purchased a stethoscope about 2 months ago to buy things little by little but that's about it. How about you? Oh I agree I don't want to ...

Good question not sure if we'll need a graphing calculator, hopefully not lol. Me too! I can't wait to go in to get fitted for uniforms and find out our schedules.