Anyone Ever Go Through This?

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ok just need a little of advice here. Im 28 and just went back to school about a year and a half ago after 10 years. After coming back to school I made all A's. This is my first semester as a nursing student and i just had my first test and made a C. I am very strict with my grades and i put alot of time at studying, so this makes me feel a little bad. In no way i am trying to say that a C is not good enough. I just figured that after all the hours i put in, i would have done better. Has anyone gone through this? I did go back and doubted myself and changed some answers which i think affected me. Anybody have any suggestions of what i can change so I can do better next time? Sorry just a little bummed. Or am I being too hard on myself?:o

I'm LUCKY if i get 2hrs a night. generally I read the chapters (LOTS of reading) try to do the SG but usually don't have time. I review the notes and Power points from lecture starting the week before the test. We have these things called Virtual Clinic Excursions(VCE's). They are 5 points ( too much work for 5 points if you ask me, they take like 4 hours to do.) it's a workbook set of 4-6pages and you also have to take care of a virtual patient on the computer and give meds and asses and print out reports for the instructor. I like to look over the posts here because they give you a lot of interesting ways to think about things from a real RN point of view. The poster DAYTONITE knows everything!! She has a lot of good information and websites posted on a lot of threads. Good luck in your studies.

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thanks smartin13.....i tried recording the first day of class and there was no way i could understand him on my recorder, i can bearly understand him in class! recording my notes i am doing for my health assesment class, however i havent had a test there yet. but you are right, i will try to record my own notes on the fundamental class and maybe that can help me.

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jcox121.....i do alot more than 2 hours, i think my life has been only nursing school for the last 2 weeks, i even have my essays done and are not even due for another few weeks. we also do chapters on our own on nursing lab and get graded on those. lets not forget the math too! im hopeful that i will learn my study style soon and my grades can reflect on that. i appreciate everyone giving me advice.

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I was always told never to change your fist answer....and was frustrated when I would and then miss the question! Go with your first gut instinct! I was a terrible student! I studied and studied and still felt like I just scraped by. However, it's been 13 years since I became a RN and can tell you that the real world is nothing like school. For me nursing school was one of the most difficult things I have ever done! Test anxiety is a beast! Good luck and don't sweat it. It'll all work out in the end.

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i am a first year nursing student and i just have to say, nursing classes are totally different than any other classes that you take, including the sciences.you will not be able to study the same way you did for those classes. i think you are being too hard on yourself. nursing classes are not memorization classes. you have to understand why things happen and how things work.

that is exactly how my health science classes (nas 161 & 162) were...

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I think weve all experienced your frustration. The bottom line is after you have studied all of the information, can you apply it. Application is a key point in nursing. I had to "plug in" the information that I learned. Scenarios are good questions to practice with. When given a question, picture a patient, vizualize what you would do, what medication, what interventions would you use. This method has help me tremendously.

good luck to you and dont give up. Lord knows I keep going.

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