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My school only allows black pens ....black is only allowed for nursing documentation...so just be aware of that!

I definetley suggest a great calendar!!! I love the ones that are day to day it REALLY does wonders to write everything in your calendar out ahead of time!!! I organized it by three different colors....in pink I wrote my school stuff (lecture time,lab time,clincals, any time I was going to be studying..,etc) in purple I put my work schedule, and then any free time for myself I put in blue. This helped me because if i planned to study two hours one day and I didn't get a chance to I could move it to a future date to be held accountable for it! Also scheduling free time helped me be more sane!!!! I also think a clipboard would be good for clinicals. I used a small binder for my clinicals,but a clipboard is much more handier! I bought a tiny notepad with a pen to put in my scrubs pocket to record any patient data at clinicals. This was helpful to me to jot down a persons vitals. I forget things very easily so to have that handy helped a lot! I reccomend a heavy duty bookbag, mine has tears in it already from just one semester!!! I love gel pens in different colors, just me being a pen snob lol. You can buy your own BP cuff, I bought one, to practice at home on any willing participants!!! Lots of penlights they die so easily! Don't spend too much on them! Just buy the regular ones, nothing fancy. Hopefully this is a good start for you!!! Good luck everyone and I hope you will love the first semester as much as I did! I am on my break now and I can't wait to go back even remembering how stressful it can be!

I am in my second semester!!!! I will be taking med surg 1, contemporary nursing, and mental health. Very excited for mental health!!!