last semester of my LVN program...and nervous?

plaza · Feb 5, 2010

bigboy - if I'm not mistaken, most, if not all your posts are similar. if you are truly having trouble with school, if you think that failing "4 quizzes within 3 different courses...is fine," please think again. you may not be ready to take on the responsibility of administering meds and giving tx.

you need to be on your toes and thinking at all times. there are a couple of young folks in my class who are in a similar position as you. I am taking my instruction seriously and put alot of effort into not only getting good grades but understanding what it is that I'm doing. it's really unsettling when one of them approaches me for answers to something that they should know.

futurenurse310 · Feb 5, 2010

Are you going to a fulltime program or a part time? And do you work?

StudentNurse2142 · Feb 6, 2010

bigboy - if I'm not mistaken, most, if not all your posts are similar. if you are truly having trouble with school, if you think that failing "4 quizzes within 3 different courses...is fine," please think again. you may not be ready to take on the responsibility of administering meds and giving tx.
you need to be on your toes and thinking at all times. there are a couple of young folks in my class who are in a similar position as you. I am taking my instruction seriously and put alot of effort into not only getting good grades but understanding what it is that I'm doing. it's really unsettling when one of them approaches me for answers to something that they should know.

Plaza, didn't you just start last month? You will see things alot differently towards the end, trust me. I myself have failed one quiz and one test, and you know what IT IS FINE! My school doesn't allow you to make up, or retake tests, if you fail, you have to try hard to bring your grade up again. Lucky for me my classes give 10 test a semester, so if you bomb a test you can bring it up. I have managed to never get below a B in an of my classes. Does my failing 2 tests, or bigboy failing 4 mean we are not going to be good nurses? No. Test and clinical are two VERY different things, you will learn that. There are girls in my class who barely scrap by with tests, they study, believe me I know they do, but the NCLEX style ?s are tricky, and some people just don't get it. But those same girls, give amazing patient care, they can dress wounds and give a straight cath with the best of them. Passing meds...as long as you stick with you 5 rights your golden. Honestly I think everything I have learned in the clinical setting is so helpful to me, while the classroom stuff, I hardly use it. Like I said, you'll see things veryyyyy differently towards the end.....

So Bigboy, just practice your ATI and Nclex ?s for the next couple weeks, and brush up on your skills. It will be over soon.

bigboy18 · Feb 16, 2010

bigboy - if I'm not mistaken, most, if not all your posts are similar. if you are truly having trouble with school, if you think that failing "4 quizzes within 3 different courses...is fine," please think again. you may not be ready to take on the responsibility of administering meds and giving tx.
you need to be on your toes and thinking at all times. there are a couple of young folks in my class who are in a similar position as you. I am taking my instruction seriously and put alot of effort into not only getting good grades but understanding what it is that I'm doing. it's really unsettling when one of them approaches me for answers to something that they should know.

yeah, most of my posts are similar..because I didn't get a lot of replies to the first couple of threads I made. Anyways, I passed my first final..i have 2 more written finals to go and than my skills assessment.

Are you going to a fulltime program or a part time? And do you work?

Full time, no work.

Plaza, didn't you just start last month? You will see things alot differently towards the end, trust me. I myself have failed one quiz and one test, and you know what IT IS FINE! My school doesn't allow you to make up, or retake tests, if you fail, you have to try hard to bring your grade up again. Lucky for me my classes give 10 test a semester, so if you bomb a test you can bring it up. I have managed to never get below a B in an of my classes. Does my failing 2 tests, or bigboy failing 4 mean we are not going to be good nurses? No. Test and clinical are two VERY different things, you will learn that. There are girls in my class who barely scrap by with tests, they study, believe me I know they do, but the NCLEX style ?s are tricky, and some people just don't get it. But those same girls, give amazing patient care, they can dress wounds and give a straight cath with the best of them. Passing meds...as long as you stick with you 5 rights your golden. Honestly I think everything I have learned in the clinical setting is so helpful to me, while the classroom stuff, I hardly use it. Like I said, you'll see things veryyyyy differently towards the end.....
So Bigboy, just practice your ATI and Nclex ?s for the next couple weeks, and brush up on your skills. It will be over soon.

Yeah...there is such a huge difference between the first semester and the last semester. It's really really hard to absorb everything you learn during lecture. Then again, most of it is just an in-depth lesson of A&P and all those diseases. All of the quizzes i've had so far were very tricky. I'm not worried about clinical at all..I just want to get the finals/skills assessment over and done with.

I know I can do it.. each semester, i've used up one re-write and I've always managed to pass. I have one left and hopefully this time around, I don't need to use it. Today, I wrote my final exam for one of my courses (health) and I scored 80%...I thought I would've done horrible..and I really didn't study that much since my class mark average in that class was 85%.

I'm studying real hard for the other two courses which are Healing and Nursing Arts... those two give me the most trouble.

Regardless, I'm going to try to remain positive until these 2 weeks are over. I'll post back the results...and tell you guys how I do.