Who's ready to start Med-Surg?

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This fall semester I start Med-Surg 1. I have been waiting for this as this is basically one of the most important courses of the nursing major. Granted I enjoyed Fundamentals last semester but this is when we get to do all the cool stuff like IV's (last time I learned to do this was 5 years ago so I'm super rusty), performing more catheters (I did one in Fundamentals and I sucked at it :o), and just doing more general procedures and longer clinical days. Our clinical is from 630am - 4pm so a 9.5 hour clinical. This is also where I think we all will get more muscles from lifting that Med Surg book, it weighs a TON! We are using the Medical Surgical Nursing text by Kathleen Osbourne and it is 2688 pages!!!

Anyone starting Med-Surg 1 this semester? What book are you guys using and how stoked are you to start? How long are your clinical days going to be? Last but not least what do you think you are going to enjoy most about this clinical experience?

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hey cherish i enjoyed reading your post. thanks for posting. i am a 20 year old from panama city, fl. and i am starting my first semester in nursing school aug 23. im currently taking pharm online, my first official nursing class. in the fall, i have med surg, medsurg lab, and concepts/ nursing practice (online). we have to have 4 books plus a $611 book bundle just for the med surg leccture which in total came up to $804. my 3 classes were $2500:( i am very overwhelmed (financially and emotionally) at this point but this is what i asked for. I am going to the BSN program at the university of west florida in pensacola, florida. good luck to everyone:)

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I'll be starting nursing 3 next month, which is medsurg. I can't wait...I'm excited about everything, we'll be able to do so much more. I chose night clinical (I did morning clinical 1st semester and rediscovered I'm NOT a morning person, lol)...so my clinical is 2-11pm. Books aren't on sale in the bookstore until next Monday so I haven't gotten mine yet. Good luck!! :)

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I am ready for it. I look forward to learning how to start IVs, giving IV drugs (all except IV push), and maybe the chance to do skills I learnt last semester but didn't get the chance to do with real patients. I don't look forward to going to my clinical site right after work to get info needed for my care plan, but it will have to be done.

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This fall semester I start Med-Surg 1. I have been waiting for this as this is basically one of the most important courses of the nursing major. Granted I enjoyed Fundamentals last semester but this is when we get to do all the cool stuff like IV's (last time I learned to do this was 5 years ago so I'm super rusty), performing more catheters (I did one in Fundamentals and I sucked at it :o), and just doing more general procedures and longer clinical days. Our clinical is from 630am - 4pm so a 9.5 hour clinical. This is also where I think we all will get more muscles from lifting that Med Surg book, it weighs a TON! We are using the Medical Surgical Nursing text by Kathleen Osbourne and it is 2688 pages!!!

Anyone starting Med-Surg 1 this semester? What book are you guys using and how stoked are you to start? How long are your clinical days going to be? Last but not least what do you think you are going to enjoy most about this clinical experience?

I too am starting med-surg in the fall (sept 7). I'm super nervous. My book is Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition, by Black. It too is over 2000 pages and weighs a ton! Not looking forward to lugging it around with me! :eek: I loved my Fundamentals course last year and was able to get a lot of great experience with catheters, Hoyer's, etc. We haven't gotten our clinical assignments yet, I think we get them in Mid-August on where and what day our clinicals are on, so that's been kind of stressful, not knowing where we r gonna be and what day :uhoh3: im looking forward to being in a hospital this semester vs LTC facility like last semester (I LOVED our clinical site, but I think being in a hospital is more my speed). I know our days will be 8-12hrs, depending on the site and day we have clinicals. I like that, with med-surg, we will have a whole bevy of pathologies that we'll be seeing, its gonna be a good experience working with different Dx and what not.

Good luck to everyone this coming semester! it should be a wild ride!

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