Updated: Mar 28, 2023 Published Nov 30, 2021
Joe V
7 Articles; 2,555 Posts
If you could send one message to Santa what would it be?
iNurs5, CNA
471 Posts
21 hours ago, Joe V said: If you could send one message to Santa what would it be?
A potion for an instant stress reliever. ?
FiremedicMike, BSN, RN, EMT-P
551 Posts
The answers to my Peds final…..
On 12/2/2021 at 11:27 AM, FiremedicMike said: The answers to my Peds final…..
I hope you pulled it off.
15 hours ago, Honyebee said: I hope you pulled it off.
It’s a week and a half from now..
FashionablyL8, CNA, LPN
142 Posts
Good luck Mike! Our peds exams had so much about developmental milestones and while I can remember weird disease sx and blood values, those milestones just all blurred together in my mind.
I wish Santa would give me a magical way not to feel awkward every time I say no to working extra at my jobs (having 2 part-time jobs I always feel like I'm not doing enough for one or both).
31 minutes ago, FashionablyL8 said: Good luck Mike! Our peds exams had so much about developmental milestones and while I can remember weird disease sx and blood values, those milestones just all blurred together in my mind. I wish Santa would give me a magical way not to feel awkward every time I say no to working extra at my jobs (having 2 part-time jobs I always feel like I'm not doing enough for one or both).
Our peds exam 1 is extremely hard.. Many fail it. I missed it by 2 questions.
From past classes, the peds final is notoriously much easier than exam 1, but it doesn't make the stress any lower, LOL..
With all the jokes aside, I'd love a few weeks off without studying for those times, but I need and have to. However, I already bought my gifts for four special occasions. I purchased a long foldable table from Costco--a plastic long picnic table as for my study table. When I saw a large monitor (42'') was on sale for about $200, I purchased it as my birthday and Christmas gifts. I’ve been happy with this device. I can see better and am not slouching as it used to be.
On 12/10/2021 at 2:19 PM, Honyebee said: With all the jokes aside, I'd love a few weeks off without studying for those times, but I need and have to. However, I already bought my gifts for four special occasions. I purchased a long foldable table from Costco--a plastic long picnic table as for my study table. When I saw a large monitor (42'') was on sale for about $200, I purchased it as my birthday and Christmas gifts. I’ve been happy with this device. I can see better and am not slouching as it used to be.
Next Wednesday is my final, then I have a break until the middle of January.
I think I'm going to sleep for at least 2 weeks LOL
Yes- sleep and feel like your life is your own again for a little while. It's the BEST feeling not to have to study constantly- just be able to relax, watch a movie or read a (non-nursing) book without feeling that you should be studying. School isn't that far behind me that I've forgotten- or maybe we never forget LOL.
Best of luck to both of you, Honyebee and Mike!
Kitiger, RN
1,834 Posts
17 hours ago, Honyebee said: With all the jokes aside, I'd love a few weeks off without studying for those times, but I need and have to. However, I already bought my gifts for four special occasions. I purchased a long foldable table from Costco--a plastic long picnic table as for my study table. When I saw a large monitor (42'') was on sale for about $200, I purchased it as my birthday and Christmas gifts. I’ve been happy with this device. I can see better and am not slouching as it used to be.
How well I remember that feeling that if I had any free time, I HAD to study! One difference, though. I kept Sundays free. I didn't study nursing on Sundays. Often, that meant that I had to study all day on Saturday, but it was worth it.
But the sweet relief of being between semesters . . . oh, I remember that!
I do still study my nursing journals, but only those articles that are helpful and/or interesting. (Yeah, I'm a COB, graduated 1979.)
3 hours ago, Kitiger said: How well I remember that feeling that if I had any free time, I HAD to study! One difference, though. I kept Sundays free. I didn't study nursing on Sundays. Often, that meant that I had to study all day on Saturday, but it was worth it. But the sweet relief of being between semesters . . . oh, I remember that! I do still study my nursing journals, but only those articles that are helpful and/or interesting. (Yeah, I'm a COB, graduated 1979.)
I have an ATI exam for almost every nursing course at the end of the quarter, so I do need to review on my two-week breaks and for the finals, too. ?