For those of you almost done what was your hardest semester?

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I was just wondering what everybody thought their hardest semester was and what classes you took during that time. Everybody at my school says the third semester of Med surg II, psych II, and peds is the hardest and the one they lost the most students in. How about all of you? What was your hardest semester?

Specializes in L&D.

I'd have to say that my 4/5 semester was the toughest, I didn't do as well on the exams as I did in the past, but we also had more material to cover as we only had 2 exams. The semester was Med/Surg II, Some Psych and we had some peds also. But I wouldn't say the material is harder, just new material, material I had to learn because I don't know much about ie cancer, renal failure, liver failure etc. HTH!

Although I'm still a freshman, I do know that the hardest semester in our program is critical care/complex nursing. Thats the semester(5/6) where the most students get lost once they complete freshman year.....

Where do you go to school? That sounds like my next semester. I know its not easy but I am going to work my as** off to get through it. Michele

I am in a 2 year ADN program. Semester 1 was fundamentals which was my easiest semester. Semester 2 was OB, Peds, Community nursing, and OR, which I thought was very hard at the time, but I also just completed semester 3. Semester 3 consisted of all Med/Surg and was the biggest bear in the world to finish, I had to quit my job and study constantly to make it through this one, thank god I ended up with a B ( I also took Micro during this semester which may have had something to do with it too). I will be starting semester 4 on Jan 10th which is Med/Surge 11 and Psych. At the end of every semester, I tell myself It cannot get any harder than this and guess what? It always does. I now expect that every semester is going to be harder than the last. My best advice is to keep up with everything and the minute that you get a score on an exam that isn't that great change your way of studying ASAP so that you don't get yourself in a hole that you can't dig yourself out of. This past semester was the first semester ever that I used a study group and it ended up working great for me. I have probably changed my way of studying at least six times since the beginning of the program and it is always a benefit. Best of luck to you!

Specializes in Neuro/Med-Surg/Oncology.

I had all of my psych crammed into 3 weeks! Then it was on to some in-depth med-surg. The one instructor (unfortunately, she had the majority of the content) made up questions that were pretty far into left field. They weren't from the text, lecture or powerpoint. If you could narrow the answers down to two and one made sense/coincided with what we were taught and the other was a little weird, it was the weird one. A lot of her answers to her questions flat-out contradicted what she taught.:angryfire

I also think the burn-out factor did a number on me. I carried extra credits and was working more than I did last year. By the end of Sept/beginning of Oct, I was just plain sick of it. I was ready to walk out, shake the dust off my feet and never look back. Thanks to a lot of convincing from dh and my wonderful friends, I held on and I'm so glad! (Also the script for Lexapro helped!:rolleyes: ) I kept on sayin "I don't care! . . . I don't care!" and was countered with "Yes, you do! Really, you do!"

I don't think this semester will be as bad because the end is in sight. Come on May 9!

By far, Advanced Med Surg was the hardest/most time consuming. Although Pharmacology is not far behind!

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