Hang in there! I just finished my first semester also. I have two kids that are 12 and 10 and I felt half-dead by the end of the semester (I am also hypothyroid). I can't imagine how difficult it must...
Yikes! Sorry you have to pay so much. I found some of mine on craigslist, amazon, and half.com. They were all pretty much brand new. Do you have a local NSNA chapter? My local chapter had a sale at...
You will get one for each class and they are all each at least 30 pages long. You won't get them until right before classes, from what I remember. Don't sweat it though because they go over everything...
The give you the bandage scissors but not the clipboard. The clipboard is for clinicals, and you won't need that until you go to the hospital in late Feb/early March. I didn't take a clipboard with me...
So I ended up buying a Littmann cardiology 3. They will give you a kit that includes a basic stethoscope. The instructors didn't give us specific brand, but most all of them use some sort of Littman....
In regards to the shoes- you can wear any shoes you want to labs. I personally did not wear my clinical shoes to lab, especially after having my first MRSA and C. diff patients. Yuck! It's totally up...
Oops. I am in the full time day program. I have a friend in the part time evening program and he works pretty much full time. I think most everyone in that program does. I don't think it's quite as...
You mean working? Some were part time and some full time. The full timers really had a hard time, although there were a couple that worked overnight shifts Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. It can be...
Hi everyone! Congrats on making it in! I just finished my first semester at Lee. I will graduate the nursing program in Dec. 2016. I read a little of this thread and saw people were asking about...
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I am now in my first semester at FSW (Edison). I really, really love the program. It has excellent professors and the program is just really great. In my opinion it is the best in the area. I did A...
bombaychaat replied to FSWNursing's topic in Florida Nursing
I applied got the Spring. Just got an email that I am a candidate at Lee and I need to do doing drug testing and the background check before acceptance. I had 88 points and a 92 on the HESI. I'm super...
Hi everyone! I live in Ft Myers, FL and am currently a pre-nursing student. I have more than enough credits to go right into a BSN program. I am just finishing 2 prereqs now. Here is my issue. I live...