best advice for a new nursing student

Congratulations on being accepted into a program!

I am a 3rd semester student; a challenging class for me was Complex Adult Health or Critical Care (different schools call it different titles) - the material was fascinating, but what made it tough was that our professor was new to teaching and didn't teach at all, so there wasn't really anyone to ask questions to that had great responses pertaining to the topics we read about. The majority of our class thought that was hard, as well as your standard Med Surg classes.

The bulk of school is Fundamentals and Med Surg. Make sure you understand your patho, compensatory mechanisms like when HR, CO, BP, RR and the appropriate nursing interventions/drugs. Airway is always number one as well as patient safety. Have fun!