Starting Nursing School in Fall 07

hi, lashonda-123!

here is a very recent thread started by an lpn student who posted every day for the first 7 or 8 days of her classes, to give you an idea of how things went for her. keep in mind that this was an lpn program and lpn students usually go for full days every day of the week and work at a much faster pace than rn students.

• https://allnurses.com/forums/f50/first-day-nursing-school-235170.html

here are a handful of links to some of the fundamentals of nursing syllabi i've found on the internet. these may not be what are going to be taught in your program, but at least it is something for you to look at and contemplate.

• http://faculty.eicc.edu/ccaldwell/nu121module.htm - from scott community college in iowa
  
• http://www.texarkanacollege.edu/~sdroske/n1309syllabus.htm - introduction to nursing, texarcana college
  
• http://faculty.necc.mass.edu/cvincent/nursing1/syllabus.htm
  
• http://www4.desales.edu/~sey0/nu205.doc
  
• http://servercc.oakton.edu/~mikey/syllabus.html - click on units one thru six on the left side margin of this page to get specifics about what is being taught in this fundamentals nursing class at oakton community college
  
• http://www.lee.edu/syllabus_descr.asp?crse_id=002769 - nursing skills i class and syllabus at lee college in baytown, tx.

keep in mind that we all started out at the beginning and that we were all scared and nervous. i, myself, used to get physical sick (nauseated) every day as i was walking into my clinicals because i was scared to death i was going to accidentally kill someone. i am happy to report that i haven't killed anybody in 34 years years yet. you are not alone and you are not the only one to feel this way. i survived. many others before and after me survived. you will survive too.

don't be a stranger to the student nursing forums. you will find a lot of help and support here as you are going through nursing school. welcome to allnurses! :welcome:

Thank you Daytonite for posting that. Once again the resident source has provided excellent information:bowingpur. Are you sure you don't have Super Nurse uniform somewhere in your closet?

Ha! Ha! No. If anything I tried to keep as low key as possible. I'm sure you've read some of those posts about students in the class who overwhelm everybody else with their comments and statements. I tried very hard not to do that because I didn't want people to get ticked off with me. Even as a staff nurse, preceptor and supervisor I did the same. I tried to get people to do the speaking up first and then do some fancy communication techniques to get things rolling. It's very hard to do that on the Internet where you are addressing a group or answering a post.

i have no information on the hesi. i would suggest using the critical thinking flow sheet for nursing students to study the individual diseases in gi, gu and neuro. know the steps of the nursing process and how to incorporate them into your practice. this is something that you should know by graduation. you will be tested on it when you take nclex. it is the problem solving process and it is one of the most important concepts you should have learned in nursing school.