Is anyone else freaking out!!!!

[clintn91180]

Sorry I just have to let some of this out. I am so stressed out right now. I have foundations final Thursday, A health Assessment Exam Friday, which I have about a 69 avg in the class. Foundations I should pass, but not by much. Health Assessment I pretty much need a miracle unless I do really good on this exam. Besides that I am having the worst time keeping my concentration on studying. I am distracted so easily right now I will be shocked if I finish this thread. Clinicals are starting soon with care plans and all, and that is going to make it worse. I am also sick of working in the mall during the holidays. If I see one more happy couple I am going to lose it. Well, I am going to start working just weekends in a after this next week, so maybe that will hep. I am also going to see my doctor and ask her about anti-depressants. I never believed in them, seems stupid to me to need a pill to make you happy, but I am willing to try anything right now. Sorry to make y'all listen to my problems, but my 2 best friends are in boot camp now, so I have to vent somewhere.

Thanks

Clint

P.S. I am also sick of those people who never study and get A's, if you do this do everyone a favor and lie and say you study!! thanks

[zacarias, ASN, RN]

You guys are all talking about antidepressants for anxiety and stress. While they certain ones can help with anxiety, I prefer just PRN benzos myself.

Z

[Mkue]

Clint, how are things going now? :)

[epg_pei]

My experience is that some memorize better than others, and for some reason consider that to be intelligence. I've never considered someone with a great memory to be especially intelligent. I liken it to a comparison between the Encyclopadia Britannica and a B- nurse. Which one is actually more useful?

Memorizing is not knowledge, it's storage.

[Vsummer1]

Originally posted by epg_pei

My experience is that some memorize better than others, and for some reason consider that to be intelligence. I've never considered someone with a great memory to be especially intelligent. I liken it to a comparison between the Encyclopadia Britannica and a B- nurse. Which one is actually more useful?

Memorizing is not knowledge, it's storage.

Yes, and your point is......

The fact is, that is what the instructor's want. How else will one learn? Because where I go to school, and on every test I have ever taken, they want to know that WE know what they said in class. Application comes in clinicals which we must also pass.

So please, now that you have defined what intelligence ISN'T, let us know what your definition IS?

[LPNtoBSNstudent, BSN, RN]

You guys are making me nervous! I start the nursing portion of my bsn program in january. Ugg. Right now I am taking micro, business stats, anthropology, total fitness and concepts of PE. I get so excited to start the nursing classes sometimes, but this is making me nervous! Yikes!

Anyway, hang in there and GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[golynna]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:imbar

[camkib]

Memorizing is not knowledge, it's storage.

I understand your point exactly. I am a student who tends to make A's or B's in most everything (knock on wood). Although I have never claimed that I don't study. I work really hard for my grades.

I have always found it discouraging that some equate the ability to memorize with intelligence...it's simply not true. And to take that a bit further good grades don't necessarily equal intelligence either.

I am good at retaining the information that I've read and what has been presented in class....period. With that being said, I don't think that I am any more intelligent than my peers who score lower than I.

Just my 2 cents