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If the hospitals in your area are allowing students to come in, then you’ll likely be starting your clinical rotations soon, if you haven’t already. Today I’m going to share some tips that will help you really get the most out of your nursing clinicals.

Tip #1: Daily Goals Post-it-Note
Tip #2: Ask to Watch or Do
Tip #3: Don't correct the Nurses or Techs
Tip #4: Be Brave
Tip #5: Don't Cry
Tip #6: Be a Team Player
Tip #7: Keep a Clinical Journal
Tip #8: Embrace Failure

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Doing a head to toe assessment is something you will be doing day in and day out for the rest of your nursing career, so let’s learn how to do it quickly, and efficiently.

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 For the 1st week of nursing school, the most high-yield topic is tissue integrity. 

Well, what is tissue integrity? It’s your skin’s ability to repair itself and stay healthy. Let's talk about it!

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Today we’ll be talking about the 10 essential supplies you need for nursing school. Then I’ll run through about 15 more things that are nice to have. This list may be a little different for each school, so if your school gives you a supplies list, definitely go by that first.

Now, I’m going to assume if you’ve made it through your prereqs, that you already have a backpack and pens and paper. If you don’t I highly recommend a rolling backpack. It may look dorky, but it will save your back because these nursing textbooks are huge and heavy, and there are many of them.

So, the top 10 nursing school supplies are:

1. Planner
2. Textbooks
3. Anki App
4. Stethoscope
5. NCLEX Review Guide
6. Scrubs
7. Shoes
8. Laptop
9. Analog watch
10. Badge clip

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Nursing school orientation is just one of the many things that is so different in 2020. At orientation, your professors will go over the dress code for skills lab and clinicals, the schedule that you could have for your clinical rotations, what skills lab will look like, the books and supplies you’ll need, and they’ll emphasize how much hard work you are going to need to put into nursing school.

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Today we’re going to be talking about all the little requirements that have to be met in the months leading up to nursing school. This is after you’ve been accepted, but before the actual start date of your program. When you get your acceptance into nursing school, it’s so exciting, because you’ve worked so hard to get to that point, and you should celebrate! But, that acceptance is conditional on you completing a bunch of other requirements and turning them in by different due dates. I’m talking about things like immunizations, drug testing, and getting your fingerprints taken. Nursing schools do NOT mess around. All of these things have specific due dates, and if you don’t get even one turned in on time, they WILL give your spot to someone else. 

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