I never thought in a million years that at the age of 33 I would still be in school but here I am getting ready to start a pain staking new journey of becoming a nurse. I was under the impression that all I was going to have to pay for was tuition and books.... boy was a wrong.
Let start off by saying tuition is going to cost about 2500 dollars a semester which I guess isn't horrible considering, I'm on a payment plan thats 355 dollars a month. The program requires 12 books that range in price from 20ish dollars to about 130 dollars so I'd say about 1500 dollars for books, I expected that to be honest. What they don't tell you is all the shit they make you buy before you even start the program.... like lots of extra crap.
First day out of the first orientation you have to buy your uniforms from a certain place and you need a lab coat that also must be purchased where you get a uniform of course because I have 2 lab coats that I already own, right, can't use them. You need at lease 2 uniforms that 2 shirts and 2 pants about 140 dollars ok. After that your required to buy a name badge that 12 dollars not to bad either. ok you are required to have a stethoscope that must be at least a littchman classic 2 or better, luckily my sister is a veterinarian and she gave me her old one thats about 160 dollars I didn't have to pay yay me! White shoes cost my cheap ass 20 dollars at Walmart they had to be all white leather, you also need your own Blood pressure cuff forceps and pen light all of which I have from my job. In order to upload all of your medical records and such you have to buy access to castle branch which costs just under 100 dollars that also pays for your drug test and background check. That doesn't however includes co-pays, mine are 15 dollars a visit I've been to 2 Dr app thats 30 dollars. In order to use the lab you must buy your own lab kit from the designated lab kit website thats another 79 dollars..... none of your lab stuff is provided. You need CPR I have that so I didn't need to pay for that either. Not to mention all of the notebooks and markers folder and such that you need on a regular basis. I also found out that when you do your clinicals a lot of the places make you pay to park so add about 50 dollars a semester on top of everything I just said.
School hasn't even started and I'm already feeling overwhelmed, all I see is dollars signs and the clock ticking.
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