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For some of my clinicals, I have to get up at 0430. I get out of bed as soon as I hear the alarm - whether I'm awake or not! I can always trick myself to "5 more minutes" if given the chance - so I don't give myself that chance. I also have back up alarms set "just in case". Preparation is key for me. I have all my scrubs laid out for the morning, including socks, shoes, and band for my hair. My bags are packed and double checked the night before. My favorite travel coffee mug is clean and waiting on me. As much as I hate getting up early, I hate being late even more! If I am running a little late, that is when I'll hit every red light, find every bottlenecked portion of highway, and park in the most distant lot.

Congrats everyone that got accepted!! You've worked incredibly hard to get here. Take a moment to soak that in. Prepare to get on an entirely different kind of crazy train than the one you took to get where you are! JFS476 - I sent you an email re: the facebook group. Please let me know if you have any questions at all.

Well, it turned out the lady partsl birth was uncomplicated (mom delivered baby out in two big pushes), but the neonate did have some serious issues my partner and I had to address. Overall, a success! Next Wednesday, I have another OB SIM. Everyone has different schedules for these SIMS - some people are at clinicals instead.

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I remember vividly being in your place! I wanted to get my hands on as much info as possible. Summer semester has started for the seniors - 2 days in and we are all behind. I have to get ready to deliver a SIM baby next Wednesday!

Last year, our fundamentals book was an ebook package with online components that we needed for assignments. No way around buying it that I remember. You will also receive ATI books. There should be a drug book too. In addition, I would suggest to buy a diagnosis handbook. Mine is by Betty J. Ackley MSN EdS RN and Gail B. Ladwig MSN RN. Found used on Amazon. This is incredibly helpful for care plans when you start clinicals.

In regards to the nursing program following regular school calendar: Yes, they do follow the regular school calendar. However, there is a slight possibility that something random could occur - like a makeup day for clinical for a whole group.

Be proud of your accomplishments! There is no need for you to compromise your excellent patient care and sense of professional ambition to satisfy others who are complacent. Keep being a leader. Perhaps you will be able to mentor in the future and pass along your skills to another.

How would it be if you brought all the bath stuff in, ready to go. And said, "I thought we'd give you a bath this evening, ok?" Sometimes patients seem to not want to bother anyone (but don't take the initiative to do anything on their own either.) If you brought it all in, she may acquiesce, but still have the opportunity to say no.

Start searching around for possible nursing school interview questions, and then practice what you want to say out loud. Dress professionally for the interview. Eye contact is your friend. Have a question or two prepared to ask the interviewers. Someone asked about reference letters earlier in the thread. I brought mine to the interview.

I finally read through the comments in this thread all the way through. I'm so excited for you all! I remember not being able to think of much of anything the last summer except the mystery of nursing school. I wanted to know every little piece of information I could get my hands on. A few things I thought were helpful to do during this time included binge watching youtube nursing students/nurses. There were several I liked - Nurse Bass and Nurse Nacole are ones I remember from the top of my head. If you search youtube, you will find more people who document their nursing school experiences. Of course once I started school, I could.not.even. keep up with watching youtube. A question that I never could get answered was, "What should I be doing now to prep?" Most people say relax, get your family life in order, do fun stuff because once school starts - it won't let up. Those are great pieces of advise. But just in case you want something more substantial.... 1) Make sure you have a printer before school starts - check ink prices...that's where it bites. 2) Read up on APA style report writing.

Looking back, I want to point out that the Foundations class will be for the "junior" nursing class. That Adult Health II class is what is often referred to as Med-Surg 2. That will be our senior class.

JFS - Do not put any stock into what banner says about class times and days. They have to give Banner "something", but it is by no means your actual schedule. So for everyone, do not make any commitments to anyone until you get the official schedule at the beginning of the semester. Ashley may remember better than I... but I think we didn't get a hard schedule until the first day of class/orientation. There may have been something beforehand at the 2 day orientation. Even so, be flexible because sometimes things change with short-notice. I can't stress having a good planner/calendar system enough. I'm old school and prefer a paper planner over a digital one. I use the full-size uncalendar and love it. Here's a sample of my this past February on the monthly view.

Hello all!! I'm Patricia and am in the current cohort graduating in December 2016! So excited to see you all here! Good luck to each of you!

I'm not sure. I hope we can be put into groups that make carpooling easier. i live in Woodstock. Anyone else out my way?