Stanislaus spring 2015 Facebook?

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Hello future nurses :) I read on this site that students create Facebook pages for their class so that they can get to know each other and help each other out during their time in the program. Maybe posting study groups, questions about projects, encouraging words etc êtc. I'm not a Facebook person, but if anyone is interested in getting something like this started, I think it would be a great idea. Let me know what y'all think. Congratulations to Stanislaus Spring 2015 admitted students!

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Hi Misha!

I really like that Facebook idea! I feel like it will make us nursing students connected. But I wonder who else here in allnurses got admitted in Stanislaus.

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Hey Princesama. I know there are a few alternates on the other thread. We can always create one and get the word out on this site and also let (MODERATOR EDIT OF NAME - PLEASE DO NOT POST NAMES PER TERMS OF SERVICE) know in the nursing department. She talks to everyone so if students call she can let them know about it. Even if there are only a few signed up by the time class starts, everyone else can join after we start.

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Yea that's a good idea, hopefully more of them see this post but yea they can join us later on :)

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Hi Mish and Princes, welcome to the CSU Stan nursing program! I'm almost done with 5th semester, getting ready to enter my final semester (yay!). Having a class FB page is extremely helpful, I can't say enough good things about it. Congrats on your acceptance (:

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@Jen

Omg that sounds so exciting! You're almost there! Congrats to you!

Thank you and we'll take the good advice :)

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Jenn I am so jealous. Any advice you wanna give us newbies? How has the first 5 semesters been?

primcesama, I can try and get one set up. What should we title it?

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I was thinking "CSU Stan Nursing Students Spring 2015" or "CSU Stan Nursing Class of 2018"

But you can modify it if you want :)

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I was thinking the same @primcesama. I haven't had a Facebook for 4 years.... Should I just make a second page off of the one I have now? Or a whole other page? Not sure how it works.

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I would suggest you make a whole new page for it, because you don't wanna get mixed up with your own page and the group lol

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I have no idea how to set up a FB page either, lol. My nursing class is the reason I got FB in the first place... and now I use it all the time.

The best way I can describe nursing school is a series of peaks and valleys... lots of highs and lows. That is how it has been for me anyway. The broad, general advice I have to give is that first and foremost, the competition is over. After clawing your way to the top, keeping your grades up, and trying to beat out the other 300+ applicants, it can take a little time to switch out of that competitive mode. Make friends, because you and your cohort will come to depend and rely on each other more than you can imagine. The first semester is really overwhelming, you really hit the ground running, and things won’t really slow down until 4th semester, when you do community health and psych. Even then, it’s incredibly busy, I just think by then all the pressures start to normalize a bit as you become acclimated to the expectations. I would strongly urge you to get a good NCLEX book, such as Saunders or Prentice Hall (or both!), and use them to study concurrently with your books on whatever subject matter you are going through at that time. The way you will be tested from now on is VERY different from how you are used to being tested. The questions seem very strange at first, and difficult to wrap your brain around, and difficult study for, but the more practice NCLEX questions you do, the better you get at it. My advice, study the material at hand, and then do practice questions. I remember my first quiz in Health Assessment, I studied so hard for it, and after I finished, I was certain I had an A coming my way. But I got 6 out of 10, a failing grade! As for the rest of it, it is so individualized… we are all so different, how we learn, how we motivate ourselves, how we deal with stress, etc.

Feel free to message me if either of you have any questions, now or down the road (: Once again, congratulations!

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Great advice! And I couldn't agree more on "the competitions over" lol. That's why I wanna make the FB page. I'm nervous about the program only because I'm older and have two small children. But, moms have entered and conquered the program before so I really have no excuses. Thanks for the NCLEX book advice.... Looking them up now.

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