Who starts school this week!!!

[tookewlandy]

I start September 5th, at 8am. We have Lecture all day and then Friday i have skills lab all day. My schedule is really Monday 8-2:30(lecture), Wednesday 7-3(Hospital/clinical), Friday 9-2:30(skills lab). But they want us to learn the basic before we get a patient, so our schedule for the first 4 weeks is different. I have :

Monday-Lecture- 8a-3p

Tuesday-Lecture-8a -3p

Friday- skills lab - 9a-3p

for the first 4 weeks, and then it is back to my regular schedule when clinical starts. The first week we only have 1 lecture day though due to labor day tomorrow. But thats ok cause it gives us a chance to get the overwhelmed first day feeling out of our system cause we have a week in between lecture classes this week.

So is anyone else starting this week with me?

Andy

[kayel]

I start Nursing 1 tonight. Found out last night that my mother has gone crazy and is leaving my father after 31 years in a wonderful marriage. I'm doing okay, but it has put a damper on my excitement (although I have been too upset to get nervous about tonight!), and I feel like my 'rock' has been shattered. I so badly need a mother-figure right now, and I no longer feel like I have one. This has certainly made me realize how important my own marriage is to me, and that I need to take extra good care of it for the next two years. Anyway, I just thought it was ironic that my expected crisis while in nursing school is probably happening right off the bat. So if I can get through the next few weeks, I think I'll be good. I'm sad that my memory of this first night of school will be an upsetting one.

I'm so sorry, that's a very sad surprise for two days before nursing school! I pray you are able to work through it ok and that you somehow have a great first week of nursing school despite it.

[kayel]

I'm back today also!!!! Nervous and excited!!!!!!

[metfan]

I start my 10 month LPN program tomorrow. I am so excited. I am driving my family crazy. I am not as nervous as I thought I would be. I can't believe I am going to be a nurse. I have been a dog groomer for 20 years. It has been a career that has been very good for me but its time to move on. Wish me luck. Maybe even a little prayer for all us newbies. Thanks. Colleen

[ladyinred667]

I started my first semester of Nursing last week (Aug 28).

My schedule is:

M-T 7:30-1:30 Clinicals

Sat 9-11:30 Skills Lab

Nursing Lecture and Pharmacology both online

We are also doing what they call "frontloading" until September 19 to teach us basic patient care. We already had to have our first true clinical day moved from the 18th to the 19th because we missed a day last week due to Ernesto, the storm that never was.

I'm not too crazed so far, but I have a Pharm test tomorrow (6 chapters) and then a Nursing Lecture test next Wednesday (12 chapters, I think?) so I have a feeling I'm going to be nuts pretty soon.

Good luck to everyone!

Noelle

[StudentNurseAbby]

Wow, I've reached a whole new level of exhausted and it's only the second day. I'm so...I don't know, a lot of things. Stressed, happy, excited, nervous, tired...etc.

[nursemama2be]

Ok so i did my orientation and today i had my A&P class... im excited that i am exempt from 2 courses this semester... so i am taking 4 courses.. whoo hoooo

today was ok.. my A&P teacher is cool.. so i am still excited...

[nursey70]

I go back to Widener tomorrow. This semester I have to do 84 clincial hours ontop of my 3 days a week. Uggghhhh. Any survival tips?

[gymrat33, LPN]

I started first year on Aug. 21st. Our lectures are not that long and we already have our first test on Monday. We started clinicals this week. I am on the Pulmonary/ Renal floor.

My schedule is:

Mon/ Wed. lecture 8am - 10am

clinicals Thurs/ Fri. 7am - 12pm

lab test out every other tues.