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I encourage others to come in here and vent about school too!. Here, let me be the first--

Its my Last semster, and we have a TON on our plate. Well, our instructor gave us all the handouts for all the assignments we would have this semester.

I dont know if any of your are familiar with "ATI", but we have over 40 assignments due 60-100 questions each and on top of that we have to do 1200 NCLEX questions. Oh, the icing on the cake to all of this its worth less than 1%.

Now , i know that all of this is to prepare us for nclex and such, but its just too much!!. We have like 2 major projects and papers to write. & some of us work full time. Where are we supposed to pull the time to do all this. I suppose we arent supposed to sleep? Sigh.

I remember feeling the exact same way, but somehow I got it all done, though I was not always happy about it. Did your teacher give you the codes for the ATI tests? I took one Sunday at the begining of the semester and did ALL the questions. My classmates said this was not a good idea because I needed to get more out of it by doing a few a week. BUT I did it anyway, got it out of the way so that I could focus on the other assignments. I am so glad I did. After nursing school was over we still had access to ATI for 6 months, I took that time to redo all the tests and really get the most out of it. I also went into the subject tests and did ALL of those over also. This worked for me and removed a huge time consuming hurdle from my already busy days. So if you are the type that can sit at the computer for 8 hours at a time, I recommend doing it this way, then if you have any extra time in during the semester you can do a few here and there, but at least your not stressed about it.

Just FWI some people think NCLEX is nothing like ATI, I felt the opposite. I felt like it was set up really similar and I think I did so well the first time because I did so many pratice questions. ATI sucks right now for you im sure, I HATED it....but when I got done with school I felt that it helped me a lot.

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Me too. Signed up for wed, thurs, fri. Changed my work schedule. Now get "well you'll have some tues too we just don't know when. Don't make plans to work any tues even though it will only be like 3 days out of 4 months". Thanks. I'll just go be homeless cause you don't know what going on. No problem.

First semester signed up for clinical from 7-1. Change schedule for work to 4-10. Get clinical 11-4pm.......Could you please get the computer registration page to match what I am actually going to be doing???????????????? Is it really that hard???

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Flight.

i dont miss that traffic at all esp when u get close to the 395/195 ramps omg. im sorry :(

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Specializes in SDU, Tele.

It gets even better lol theyre doing construction all along the express way. Shoot me.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Flight.
I remember feeling the exact same way, but somehow I got it all done, though I was not always happy about it. Did your teacher give you the codes for the ATI tests? I took one Sunday at the begining of the semester and did ALL the questions. My classmates said this was not a good idea because I needed to get more out of it by doing a few a week. BUT I did it anyway, got it out of the way so that I could focus on the other assignments. I am so glad I did. After nursing school was over we still had access to ATI for 6 months, I took that time to redo all the tests and really get the most out of it. I also went into the subject tests and did ALL of those over also. This worked for me and removed a huge time consuming hurdle from my already busy days. So if you are the type that can sit at the computer for 8 hours at a time, I recommend doing it this way, then if you have any extra time in during the semester you can do a few here and there, but at least your not stressed about it.

Just FWI some people think NCLEX is nothing like ATI, I felt the opposite. I felt like it was set up really similar and I think I did so well the first time because I did so many pratice questions. ATI sucks right now for you im sure, I HATED it....but when I got done with school I felt that it helped me a lot.

oh ya...im burnin thru em like wildfire. not everyone will agree with this but what i do is i take them first and write down all the right answers then i retake them again to get 100%.

In reality i should be sitting down and whatever. theres no time for that and you need a 77% or better to get credit on multiple attempts, i dont want to sit here for 16hrs on 1 module when i can just knock em out.

but like you said, i do the same thing also, if i need to study practice in a particular area, ill go back into the modules and really utilize them. so its not a complete lost cause :)

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Agreed!!!

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

I am using a week of vacation time to make this semester work. I know how to party and live it up on my time off!!!

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Specializes in Cardiology and ER Nursing.
consider it practice for when you are a real, like, nurse. you'll be lucky if you have ten holidays in a year and a few weeks vaca. compare that to your student schedule and reconsider this complaint!

on top of this complaining about how many things need to be done isn't going to get those things done or make them magically disappear.

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"even working in the hospital you have your schedule before the day of!"

maybe.:uhoh3:

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Flight.
On top of this complaining about how many things need to be done isn't going to get those things done or make them magically disappear.

no but its nice to just blow off some steam sometimes. And apparently there are others who feel the same. its nice to know we are not alone in our endeavors thats all :)

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