Rutgers ABSN Spring 2021

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Hey! I figured I'd start a thread as I haven't found one for this upcoming semester. Has anyone applied for Rutgers ABSN Spring 2021 start?

I have applied and am currently just waiting on a response. I know I have spoken to someone at the school and they have mentioned that some people have already gotten their decisions. 

Do we have dosage exams for each clinical site ? Will we learn this in class and if so which one ?

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Each site, yes! You have to pass in order to be able to give medications on the floor. For level 1 you’ll learn it in foundations and then in level 2, med surg (adult health)  

tons of resources online and they’ll recommend a book too, however you learn best. It’s pretty basic once you do a bunch of practice. 

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Specializes in dermatology.
2 minutes ago, Tsal said:

Each site, yes! You have to pass in order to be able to give medications on the floor. For level 1 you’ll learn it in foundations and then in level 2, med surg (adult health)  

tons of resources online and they’ll recommend a book too, however you learn best. It’s pretty basic once you do a bunch of practice. 

What is the farthest clinical site you’ve heard of? How does the school help students who don’t drive?

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They can send you up to 50mi and I’ve heard it happens! They honestly don’t do anything to help students get there who don’t drive but many of us carpool! Especially for those far locations. Clinical groups are about 10 to 12 students each so you’ll meet ppl and carpooling might be an option. ? 

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Specializes in dermatology.
13 minutes ago, Tsal said:

They can send you up to 50mi and I’ve heard it happens! They honestly don’t do anything to help students get there who don’t drive but many of us carpool! Especially for those far locations. Clinical groups are about 10 to 12 students each so you’ll meet ppl and carpooling might be an option. ? 

Is there a class or semester known for people failing out or not doing well? ?

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Generally speaking, the three P’s of nursing school: Patho, Pharm, Peds are the major culprits but med surg is hard too (adult health 1 and 2) bc NCLEX style questions are tough. It truly depends what you’re strengths are. Patho is level 1, pharm and adult health 1 is level2, and peds and adult health 2 are level 3. Can’t speak from experience for level 3 yet but it’s the toughest (as I’ve heard) Don’t let it scare you tho, just map everything out!

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Specializes in dermatology.
27 minutes ago, Tsal said:

Generally speaking, the three P’s of nursing school: Patho, Pharm, Peds are the major culprits but med surg is hard too (adult health 1 and 2) bc NCLEX style questions are tough. It truly depends what you’re strengths are. Patho is level 1, pharm and adult health 1 is level2, and peds and adult health 2 are level 3. Can’t speak from experience for level 3 yet but it’s the toughest (as I’ve heard) Don’t let it scare you tho, just map everything out!

Thank you so much for your responses! Do you have any tips, books/resources, or any advice in general for mastering dosage calculations? 

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@IvyFutureRN Of Course!

Your Foundations Professor will teach you and also recommend a book which I did rent it at the time and it was fine. But honestly what helped me most was the professor gave a lot of practice sheets and I would honestly go to Youtube and watch Registered Nurse RN explain it! 

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For your nurse pack, do you remember how much it costs? I am gauging whether to by things separately or just from the book store.

also for the attire, do you know if they are super strict on the footwear (if it’s not completely solid black etc)

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We got our nurse packs I think as part of our tuition. I bought a stethoscope, pen lights, goggles and surgical masks 

shoes, it depends on how strict your particular clinical professor is so it’s probably best to just get all plain black ones. 

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7 minutes ago, Tsal said:

We got our nurse packs I think as part of our tuition. I bought a stethoscope, pen lights, goggles and surgical masks 

shoes, it depends on how strict your particular clinical professor is so it’s probably best to just get all plain black ones. 

Could you clarify what a nurse pack is? Is that like a bookbag/tote with training kits? Or it's literally just an empty bag they give out?

If not a "training kit", do we get training tools/kits to take home to practice with (for Foundations or HA). 

Were labs open outside of class time if you want to practice, for example nursing skills before skills check-offs.

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The nurse pack bascially is a training kit. It comes with a bp cuff which you'll need for practice at home and it has an injection pad, PPE, sterile gloves, a foley kit, wound dressing stuff etc etc. 

As for Labs, those only recently became available in person so I don't know exactly how it will be run for your group. Mine is getting boot camps over Winter break because everything for us was virtual and then we learned at our clinical site. For HA and Foundations we had small group sign ups virtually extra practice and I'd bring my "patient" and ask questions about things I was working on. All that said, I think the set up will likely be different going forward... I started at the height of the shut down when going in was not an option and it seems the labs are opening back up. 

The biggest thing will be to just keep practicing stuff for Health Assessment at home. It will get busy but I would commit some time every week to really try to work through all the assessments I was working on because the following class, they'd add a whole system.  

 

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