Today was day one of a 2-day orientation. We met at the school at 8:30 and filled out some forms, got a pep-talk from the Department Chair, and met the staff & faculty. Each of the professors gave a little talk about her class and we'll likely have a more detailed orientation on the first day of classes. We went through the main points in the student handbook and heard about ten times to be sure to wear panties with our scrub pants (seriously...who would think this would be an issue?)
After the main info thing, we took a class picture and then went to a pizza-lunch fundraiser for the CNSA. Thank goodness I'd already met a few people from class, because there's nothing worse than eating lunch in a room full of people you don't know. Anyway, after that we broke out into groups to go over stuff like PDAs, Q&A, equipment and such. All in all, it was pretty cool, but by the end I was pretty ready to get out of there and get home.
They also spent a fair amount of time scaring the bejeezus out of us regarding the first two weeks or so of class. One of our big courses (Intro to Clinical Nursing) is front-loaded so we have skills to take into the hospital. To be honest, all the classes sound remarkably similar to one another so it's hard to keep them straight...which sucks because I've color coded everything, and now I'm wondering if I've got it all mucked up and don't even know it.
So....first impressions. I thought the professors were all very nice, and the school itself seems to have an attitude that they want us to succeed. I've heard enough horror stories about schools that just try to weed out students, so this is a bit of a relief. Stay tuned!
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