What kind of BAG do I carry all this stuff in?

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I am getting ready to start my first semester of Nursing Program and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on the best way to cart around all this stuff (textbooks, clinical supplies, etc.)? Thanks:clown:

A Rolling Bag is the answer. The books are extremely heavy. Almost everyone in my class uses one. The only disadvantage is if there is snow, then it acts like a snow shovel behind you. LOL.

Last semester I did not even take books to class. But this semester I am. If I follow in the book as the lecture is going on, highlighting what the instructor is talking about, I am more likely to remember it.

Good luck to you, and you will find whatever works for you. :nurse::nurse:

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery.

I am just getting ready to start and decided to make two bags. I have my trusty old jansport that I love and then I have a bag I bought from allheart that is a nursing bag and I have my stuff for my lab lecture class and practicals and all my equipment and stuff I need for that day. It wasn't very much and seems really nice. I know the roilling backpack would be nice but I just cannot bring myself to use one :cool:

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We aren't allowed to carry bags to clinicals, since we do not have an area to store it. So, our entire class uses a clipboard that has storage in it. It's just large enough for a stethoscope and the small books we can use for clinicals, not to mention paperwork. They also have a calculator on them, which comes in handy at times. As for the penlight, scissors, etc...I keep those in my pocket.

As for class, yes, you'll need a backpack. Our Med-Surg book is 11 pounds.

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Just say no to rolling bags. ;) The rest of society will be glad you did.

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My school has every student purchase a small rolling luggage bag. It's been working for their program for all these years :)

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.
That may be true at your school...but at my school, out my class of about 97, there was exactly ONE person who had a rolling bag...and people definitely said things!

Ah, you've found the one exception to the norm! :)

I'd still go for the rolling bag though and not care what people think/say about it. After all, I'd be at school to learn nursing, not to make fashion statements. And it's my shoulders on the line, not theirs ;)

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Specializes in LDRP.

somebody PLEASE tell me why you are all taking your books to class everyday? this just seems rediculous to me unless you are having some kind of study group, in which case everyone could just bring one book... or on the off chance that your instructor actually requests that you bring a particular book to class, in which case i dont fathom them asking you to bring in all 10 books at once.

i....hate.....rolling.....BACKPACKS.

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My school has every student purchase a small rolling luggage bag. It's been working for their program for all these years :)

That alone would make me not be a part of their program. I'm sitting on my couch getting angry right now that some school requires their students to buy a blankety blank rolling suitcase. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Flight.
maybe its just me, but i dont bring any books to class. i read the night before a lecture, then just bring my notebooks and take notes/record lecture with my ipod touch,. then i go home, listen to the lecture, type up my sloppy written notes, and maybe read over the book again if i need any clarification. i see no reason to carry those heavy books around..

as for clinical, i have a drug guide and lab/diagnostic test app on my itouch (even if i didnt, those are the only books i would really bring and they are quite small.. small enough to probably fit in my purse.), i carry my steth, scissors, pen, and penlight in my pocket.

for these reasons i need only a jansport backpack. you will never catch me with one of those god awful rolling backpacks. ;)

high fives... theres people in my classes..they have everybook & every guide and every protocol with them even if they dont have the class that day.. and they take up lke 76% of the desk and its really annoying. lol.

Honestly, I've never had that much stuff to carry with me. I'm going into my second semester, and last semester, we were only required to bring one of our books with us to class, and that was only on occasion (maybe about 5 times the entire semester).

I would bring my folder, pens, pencils, highlighters, my food, and on clinical days, my stethoscope, penlight, scissors and watch as well.

In all honesty, most days, I just used my large purse. If it was a particularly long day (i.e. clinical then class after), I brought my backpack, a regular, run of the mill Jansport.

That may be true at your school...but at my school, out my class of about 97, there was exactly ONE person who had a rolling bag...and people definitely said things!

esp. when they hold up the line of people trying to go up the stairs or down the stairs and they have to stop. pick up bag. stop put down bag. roll roll roll *squeak* rolllllllllllllllllllllll... bag falls over...its like a rolling train wreck.

OP- something you may want to do also, if its possible. @ my school we have lockers. so if u have many classes that day dump all that stuff you DONT need in there and carry what u do to class.. your back and class mates will thank you.:)

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somebody PLEASE tell me why you are all taking your books to class everyday? this just seems rediculous to me unless you are having some kind of study group, in which case everyone could just bring one book... or on the off chance that your instructor actually requests that you bring a particular book to class, in which case i dont fathom them asking you to bring in all 10 books at once.

i....hate.....rolling.....BACKPACKS.

Kudos X 1,000,000

Why carry all this crap every day?

I get this in my class. They whine and gripe about toting all that junk, but we NEVER need anything other than the book for the class we happen to be sitting in. For health assessment I always took the book and the stethoscope....so heavy. :rolleyes: I usually didn't even need it, but I'm not putting other people's ear filth in my ears.

If you're convinced in your mind to carry it around all the time then start hitting the gym. There to learn nursing and not make a fashion statement. psh I'm so tired of that excuse like it's permission to come to class looking like you're homeless.

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I think some people carry their huge rolling bags to make it look like they have so many books that they actually study, to look like they're super smart and studious. At least I had a classmate like that in A&P. She bought all the optional books and would haul 6 books into class and complain about how heavy it was- and then take up all the space in the aisle.

When I see a rolling backpack, I think of strollers at disneyland. Take up so much darn space, block traffic, and people hit you with them. SO ANNOYING!

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.
somebody PLEASE tell me why you are all taking your books to class everyday? this just seems rediculous to me unless you are having some kind of study group, in which case everyone could just bring one book... or on the off chance that your instructor actually requests that you bring a particular book to class, in which case i dont fathom them asking you to bring in all 10 books at once.

i....hate.....rolling.....BACKPACKS.

You haven't seen the size of some of the textbooks I had to have the first time around in nursing school. I'd bring only the books I need for that day and I'd still practically have to have a forklift. Guess my first school liked the thick ones ;)

Thank God that, for whatever reason, most of my textbooks in the BSN program are a heck of a lot thinner!

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