Life-Span class is shortening mine.

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I'm just whinning........certainly to a group of intellectuals that can somehow utilize this contradictory load of crap.

I'm certain this will be the only useless part of school, but I just can't get "up" for this.

I've been staring at it since early this morning. I can't see any content when I read it. It's like one of those pictures that you're supposed to look at and kind of let your eyes go out of focus and out pops a spaceship or some other such image that's not apparent by just looking at it. It's as if it's just someone talking about how thier day went or making casual conversation. When it does try to make a point, it only speculates, never settling on one thing, but presenting a range of possibilities.......all possibilities.

So they can never be wrong.....................how convienient.

I'm supposed to be writting a bibliography. I have to read and summarize ten papers.

I have to summarize speculation................beautiful.

Morons.:p

Originally posted by Furball

Is this lifespan class the same as developmental psychology? If it is....that class lost my attention when the prof tried to make a sexual connection to why women drink their soda's with straws and men don't.....huh???

Hmmm...I chew on my straws, hate to think what that means (other than I was obviously :rolleyes: weaned too early...)

I don't doubt that some may think it wise for nurses to take a developmental psych class, but I wonder why our local BSN program only requires developmental psych I, which covers only prenatal through adolescence. If it truly is lifespan, shouldn't we also be required to know what factors supposedly influence our lives from teenage years through the grave? NOT that I'm complaining, mind you...

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originally posted by kardut

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i don't doubt that some may think it wise for nurses to take a developmental psych class, but i wonder why our local bsn program only requires developmental psych i, which covers only prenatal through adolescence. if it truly is lifespan, shouldn't we also be required to know what factors supposedly influence our lives from teenage years through the grave? not that i'm complaining, mind you...

in answer to your question "....shouldn't we also be required to know what factors supposedly influence our lives from teenage years through the grave?"

absolutely we should...and in my college...we did! erikson is my favorite still because i personally and professionally found his theories about human stages of development to be the most true of all that i ever studied.

if it had not been for all the psych i had in college, i would not have passed my nursing boards because that entire test when i took it reeked of nothing but psych cases, even when it didn't really say it was psych...the situations were...cause if you knew the developmental stages of a human being according to erikson, you knew which answer to pick on a lot of those test questions that were not that obvious to those who were not as grounded in psych as i was. glad...sooooooo glad...i paid attention in all my psych classes because i used the theories during state exam time; i used them during the years i worked as a rn, and i still see the value of using what i learned in my day to day interaction with people...but maybe this is because i'm a people person and i love...luv...psych! :)

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originally posted by peeps mcarthur

future,

maybe i'll see a realworld application for this someday but i have worked in a hospital setting and had a few close rn friends both male and female and can't see a possible reason for learning the stages of a persons life.

i don't need to know "where" a person is in thier life to care about them.

nobody fits a model of the life-span, we are all unique. 8 million possible combinations of one gene(allele) for one set of parents who also have 8 million possible combinations for one gene through each sets of parents over time back to the original two eukaryotes!!

i only see an individual that needs my care. i don't need to learn about cohorts(age groups......aren't they so cute!). i can tell the difference in needs between a teenager and a lol.

it is true that i may need to know some of this for later classes. it's easy money for the college and sooooooo easy to find psyc majors to teach as many classes as the market will allow.:devil:

peeps, like i said, we only are required to take general psychology (asn), but for a bsn, human growth and development is required and we discussed from the biological basis of development to late adulthood.

i see your point and understand your point of view but if one needs the class to obtain the degree, one will just have to make the best of the learning from that class, or....lots of love.

it is good to hear about different programs set-up from other schools.

p.s. we do not have to take chemistry (asn)! and others do.

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originally posted by lpn,future, rn

peeps, like i said, we only are required to take general psychology (asn), but for a bsn, human growth and development is required and we discussed from the biological basis of development to late adulthood.

i see your point and understand your point of view but if one needs the class to obtain the degree, one will just have to make the best of the learning from that class, or....lots of love.

it is good to hear about different programs set-up from other schools.

p.s. we do not have to take chemistry (asn)! and others do.

hi stephany...in the aas program of study i went through many moons ago (well...15 to be exact since i graduated nursing), we most certainly did have to take chemistry and human growth and development (which was a 5 credit hour course...if i recall correctly). i can't believe there are schools that aren't requiring these two courses of study! i'm simply flabbergasted! :eek:

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originally posted by kardut

"...if it truly is lifespan, shouldn't we also be required to know what factors supposedly influence our lives from teenage years through the grave? not that i'm complaining, mind you..."

one would think so. interesting!
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originally posted by cheerfuldoer

hi stephany...in the aas program of study i went through many moons ago (well...15 to be exact since i graduated nursing), we most certainly did have to take chemistry and human growth and development (which was a 5 credit hour course...if i recall correctly). i can't believe there are schools that aren't requiring these two courses of study! i'm simply flabbergasted! :eek:

hi renee!

i don't know of too many that require both, although i haven't the personal knowledge of all the schools in my area nor state of their academic and pre-req classes.

depending where you are, the degree will be either, aas, asn, or adn. what is the different in the 3 assoicated degrees, if you don't mind answering?

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originally posted by lpn,future, rn

hi renee!

i don't know of too many that require both, although i haven't the personal knowledge of all the schools in my area nor state of their academic and pre-req classes.

depending where you are, the degree will be either, aas, asn, or adn. what is the different in the 3 assoicated degrees, if you don't mind answering?

gee...stephany...i really have no idea of the difference. i've always thought they were the same, but apparently not. or, they could be...just require a different course of study or take a different approach or something to the way they graduate nurses. my degree from the community college states that i graduated march 1987 with an associate in applied science...major: nursing

i wasn' t aware the curriculum wasn't the same across the board, but now i know that it is different depending on the school, state, etc....just like some bsn nursing programs are not all the same, guess this is true of the two year programs too. :)

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Hi. I was your fellow sufferer through this long summer of what my school calls Human Development. It saddens me and makes me sick (as I'm sure it does you) that you had to actually drop this class. Don't get me wrong. I surely understand. Listen. I hate this class. I've been there, done it more than once, and find it immensely boring. That's not to say that I don't see some value in it. It's just that what value I find, I see as mostly common sense to most educated adults.

It pains me to take this class. Just don't let your dropping it affect your ultimate goal. There may be some classes you just have to suffer through.

Good luck,

Cindy

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I started Psych on-line today and it's pretty intense for 5 weeks for a 15 week course but I just really don't care about it so ..............I guess that makes it somehow.........easier.

There's a test at the school but it's only one of many ways of scoring points so it shouldn't be that hard to skim all that crap.

I can't wait to get through school and start learning about nursing:rolleyes:

Cindy,

I am sick over it. I really feel like crap but you guys here have made me feel less alone.

I feel like I failed to be prepared for the monotony and that lack of training held me back. I was actualy surprised that I fell asleep studying........the first time.

I'm really seriouse, I took caffiene/ephedrine stacks to try and stay "enthusiastic" about it and I ended up with my face smashed up against the second chapter in a pool of cold drool.:zzzzz

Before I started the prerequisites for nursing, I had an idea of what the training must be like from working with nurses.

I now know what they meant by "I didn't learn anything about nursing until I got out of school and went to work".

Now I know.:stone

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Peeps,

I understand everything you're talking about. EVERYTHING.

I also dropped the class due to lack of interest...not getting it...screwy teaching...passing out every time I opened the book....I was sooooo Pavlovian (open book - go to sleep). It was truly the worst class I have had to muster through. I really prefered Organic and Biochemistry class with the Yale professor and I never liked chemsitry to begin with.

I took lifespan again last semester and barely made it with my life. I honestly would lose all energy and will to exist before class. IV epi push STAT!

Like you, I am a 4.0 student and I was ready to dump it all. I didn't. I finished that stupid class and now I start clinicals next month. I never before walked out of the last day of a class and almost fell to my knees crying in relief that it was over......I would never have to sit through that again.

Don't drop the program. Just do the whole thing as you're able. Apparently people like you and me (and many others) have a very specific crosswiring in our brains about stuff like this and need to get through it in our own way at our own pace.

(Alyssa now getting off her soapbox!)

Anyhoo... hope this psych class is better for you!

Alyssa

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Peeps,

Life Span, or whatever name they are calling it now is alot like trying to remember all of the nursing theorist. My first trip through nursing school, we had one week to write a ten page paper on caring. Yes, you heard it right. This was part of the nursing 101 class. I thought I would lose my mind. I'm actually alot better in the classes where there is a lab.

I know no one wants to hear that it is a memorization class, but it is. The professor I had for life span (human growth and development) was actually a nurse. That helped alot, because she related everything to nursing. But, there were a lot of people in that class that didn't get it (boredom or whatever) and her motto to us was "Ladies and gentlemen, just remember C=RN and you all will do fine." It doesn't mean that you have to be average in all classes, but if that is what it takes to jump through that one hoop, just get through it and go on.

I realize this doesn't help. But if you think that is awful, try taking a Finance class or accounting (I cried through two semesters of that BS before my school decided I didn't need a MBA and asked me not to come back.

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Ten pages on caring?...............OMG!!:eek: :rotfl:

I mean really, I might squeek a coulple of pages about it and just BS for awhile but ...geeze

Thank you Babynurse,

This is the first class(psychology) that I have'nt bought the book two weeks in advance and studied.

I don't even want to buy the $55 book........My God people! Have a heart will ya. It's only an online course and it's not like I will even have it 5 min after the last test.

Besides EVERYONE knows that it's full of crap, even psych majors!

That's a round of golf at a decent course and a good lunch at the snack bar!!

I think I'll take the telecourse again and get a damm "C" and just move on with my life.

Anti-psychologist

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