Starting Emory nursing school for the Fall 07

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Hello,

I am so excited about starting Emory nursing school in the fall. I'm coming to Georgia from Louisiana so I hope that it isn't too much of a culture shock . Is anyone else headed to Emory in the fall? Any advice about anything would be great from anyone ;) !!!!

Specializes in ER, Family Practice, Free Clinics.
AMY! One more question! Do we have to disrobe and practice skills on fellow students? If we do I will just quit right now thank you very much. :lol2:

Girl you better get over that right now.

Its not that bad. You'll practice health assessment on each other, and if you are really uncomfortable, you can wear a sportsbra and shorts under a hospital gown. You'll be in a room with curtained off areas so your instructor can come round, but its not like everyone is looking at you. As far as you'll have to go is a breast exam, and there were a few girls who refused to take off their bras :rolleyes:. I mean, only do what you can do, but personally, I think that's really lame if your partner is being very cooperative and giving you a good learning experience for you to deny it to her. There ARE a few guys in every class, but don't worry, if you are at all uncomfortable with that you won't have to partner with them for that kind of stuff. The poor guys get a smidgen short changed but there are always a few girls that aren't bothered by it. The instructors are very sensitive about it.

The only other skill I can think of that you'll have to show a little skin for is injection testing. You'll have to show to your instructors that you can safely give injections on each other before being unleashed on the hospital patients. You'll learn how to put patients on bed pans, roll them around in bed, bathe them, etc but you'll have clothes on for that and just kind of simulate it.

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OK,

My financial aid advisor just sent me an e-mail asking me if I wanted to get signed up for those loans. I told her YES!! She told me that just because you are on the list does not mean that you will get them, but it sure helps to try. I guess being a Georgia Resident is something that they might bend in cases where you will be in Georgia for a few years after school. I wonder with school being so close to starting will I know anything? WISH ME LUCK!!!

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I don't know how I feel about my breast being touched??? I don't move that fast on the first date!!!! As long as I don't have to do any exams on private parts at first...I have too much going on right now to deal with that!!!

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Specializes in Neuro ICU, Gyn/Uro Surgical.

Oh I am really alright with getting into a gown and doing assessment...It's just the idea of everyone begging me to put my clothes back on that worries me.

I finally finished that HIPAA thing...passed the quiz...used a few choice words during the entire thing. My children stopped coming into my room when my head started spinning completely around.

My financial aid advisor is going to put me on the waiting list too. It would be nice to knock out some of the stuff I have to repay.

I got my drug dose book and have started studying the 15 chapters. It is pretty simple. We did some of this stuff in Chemistry.

Tomorrow is the first day of the school year for my kids...I am throwing a party!

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I still have to do the HIPPA stuff. I came to Atlanta last week (about a 9.5 hour drive). I will be back on the road to Atlanta this week Thurs., Fri, Sat, Sun. and then return to Shreveport, Louisiana until August 24. Needless to say I am behind on too much. 1) HIPPA 2) Anat & Physio. 3) Dosage Calculations 4) Medical Terms. I plan to dig in deep to my Dosage cals while my mom drives on Thursday. I' ll take care of HIPPA and Anat & Phy. when I get back.

OK..not to unload on you guys or abything, but this would be so much easier if I wasn't picking up my life and moving. :( I can wait for school to start so that my maddness will have some order to it.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU, Gyn/Uro Surgical.

Yuppie...you aren't dumping on us! We all have our own little things going on before nursing school, some have a more difficult transition than others but you certainly aren't alone. I can't imagine having to pick up and move to a new city to take on a huge committment. You'll be fine...especially when you realize there are quite a few shoulders out there for you to lean on.

Amy...what shoes do you wear for clinicals? Someone went and got her uniform the other day and the list said NO CROCS. That stinks! I love my crocs but oh well. I keep hearing good things about the Danskos Professionals and wondered what you keep your feet happy with.

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Ok... So I bought my uniforms 2 tops and two pants...plus the blue jacket = $95.00. Didn't by the lab jacket b/c I can get that at home. Still feeling skiddish about buying these books..hate to wait until the first week of class to get those. Hope everyone else is doing well :)

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What HIPPA thing?! I haven't recieved anything like that. Uh oh..

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Specializes in Neuro ICU, Gyn/Uro Surgical.

The lonnnnnnnnnnnnnng, BORING, tedious HIPAA Modules when you follow the link from your Compliance-e-training email at your Emory account. I finished both HIPAA modules and the bloodborne pathogens one. All three have tests at the end that you have to get 80% to pass. I did the Research HIPAA one AFTER the long one you have to read and was able to skip through and answer the questions at the end. It takes over an hour if you go through it. The big HIPAA one is 39 pages long...long...long...lol

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busy....busy....busy.... right now i'm testing my pda's web access. i hope this works...;)

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Specializes in Neuro ICU, Gyn/Uro Surgical.

Wow the waiting list for the service cancellable loans must have been short because I just had it applied to my financial aid package!

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Congrats!!!!:roll

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