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The first 8 or 9 weeks is Nursing 112. It is 5 days a week. 2 days are 3 hour lectures of Theory and Pharm, 1 day is like a 6 hour Pharm lab, the remaining 2 days is skills lab for like 7 hours each day. Once you conquer the practicums and dosage tests, you move on to N114. Skills lab is replaced with clinical days at the hospital, and you will no longer have the pharm lab. It will be 4 days a week in 114. Hope this helps. My advice: Enjoy your summer, enjoy the free time you have. Because in all honesty, you will probably see your classmates and books more than your family/friends/dog during first semester. Make friends with everyone, and really make friends with your clinical group because the more you enjoy and like your peers, the better your clinical experience will be. You're all in this together and everyone should be rooting for eachother. It's so much better to have people you can go up to and ask dumb questions, vent, or just ask for help and have that confidence to do so. Clinicals can be nerve racking, so having a supportive group is beneficial.

The D&C test is very simple imo. But even so, a couple people failed and had to retake in my class. Don't stress about it. If you can do the problems in the book then you will be fine. Just remember the rounding rules as they can come up on quizzes/tests. And always double check answers, units, and ask yourself "does this make sense?". I found using the formula method to be the best in my case. Always hated DA and these conversion factors, which is how they will teach you. Take it day by day. I remember the first week or so everyone was just tripping out on all the material but you will learn to adjust. I'll tell you right now the hardest part of 1st semester was not having enough time to be lazy or go out.

good luck to you guys. im going into 2nd semester and here are some tips - You will mostly likely have no life, esp for 112 which is 5 days a week. You will probably see your classmates more than your family, meaning you'll probably be locked in your room learning interventions, insulins, medication administration, injections, dosage calculations, sc, IM, a lot of abbreviations, physical assessment, foley catheters, wound care, blood pressure, vital signs.... oh lord you're in for a treat. But you will survive. Just be wise when you study. For theory, don't memorize. Understand why it's the correct answer and be able to rationalize your answer. Flashcards are only good for when you have to memorize abbreviations and insulin o/p/d.. But that's just my opinion as I kind of hate using memorization to study. But sometimes you have to. - take physical assessment seriously. Like really seriously. I wish someone would have told me that good physical assessment skills will make your life easier when you're documenting in clinicals. More than once I had to go back and reassess my patient cause my findings didn't match up with what I found on the chart. Other times what previous RNs were charting wasn't correct, and sometimes I just missed things. It happens. Documenting sucks but it's necessary. Back to the physical assessment, know the whys, whats, and abnormal, normal, and be able to tie abnormalities to possible pathology. For instance, if you find left lower leg edema with pitting present, can you explain why this happens? Nobody expects you to master pathophysiology during nursing school, but it helps to understand common abnormalities that could be physically assessed. This all comes with experience I think. - Please don't go and read word for word every chapter that is assigned. You will lose your mind. Use other resources for learning things such as youtube, khan academy, or even simplenursing which is okay. But if you love reading textbooks that is great. I just find it difficult to retain information that isn't visual. - Take careplans seriously. You will hate every inch of driving to the hospital after class, picking a patient, scrolling through the EMR trying to find the information your professor wants, writing down ALL the medications, and figuring out what interventions you're gonna implement the next morning, after only 3 hours of sleep. It's a huge pain. I will be here feeling your pain when you reach that point. thats about it for now. this helped me reinforce things ive learned too so excuse the wall of text. good luck. you will probably be best friends with red bulls and caffeine.

Alright, so I was watching some video on how to withdraw medication.We've been taught to always inject air equal to the amount you're going to draw up. But this video said that you do not have to inject air into single dose vials. which is interesting because i was practicing with those small morphine single dose vials and would inject 1ml of air into it, and i would notice that when i let go of the plunger, it would vacuum itself/plunger would move back as if it were drawing the medication without me doing anything. Which of course throws me off. What gives? so is this because the air i injected or something else? My partners always inject air into these tiny vials and i havent heard any complaints.

Judging a student's chance of success by harshly punishing blunders on their application? Sounds very reasonable. I'm not even sure why you need proof of a diploma. That's ridiculous. I was out of town and truthfully applied through my phone. Still not sure why it would even go trough if mandatory parts were missing.

That seems like a real BS reason to make someone wait a whole year just because a wrong email was inserted. Give me a break!

I got the email. I'm ineligible because I did not include my high school diploma attachment in the application. Which raises the questions why did it accept my application if it was incomplete, and why did it take to so long for me to find out about this. Oh well. My fault for not carefully reading I guess. Weird how that's required considering I've been going to that school for years. Anyways I replied to the email with a pdf of my HS diploma and it should be fixed since there is a grievance period lasting 'till the 3rd of October. Time to keep studying for the test!

Called and they said definitely by Monday and to keep checking. not sure what to think. I hate to be all negative Nancy. Could it be that because I applied for the CSUN BSN thing it takes longer? hoping some of you didnt it get either so i can be more positive

So relieved to hear this. Ill be be calling like around 1:30 pm if I don't get anything. at least I didn't get a rejection email, lol

I am officially nervous.

I applied like the second the application was available and did not receive an email like some of you have today. When do I start panicking?