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I think my adviser's at school are getting irritated at me for asking questions about my tests. After our tests are graded, they hand them back to us and we look them over to see if we got any questions wrong. Sometimes, if I get an answer wrong, I see the correct answer marked and it will just click in my head why it was wrong. But If it doesn't, I take the test to the adviser and ask why it was wrong. I'm not trying to prove that I was right,I genuinely want to know WHY my question was wrong, so I can know where my thought process went wrong and so I can change it. People are going to be trusting me with their bodies and lives when I am a nurse, so I just want to make sure NOW that I get things right.......... One example is a question that I had that asked "Pooling of blood in the legs will lead to"- a)thrombosis b) venous stasis . Well, I put B and the correct answer was A. When the answer was wrong, I asked if the reason it was wrong was that pooling of blood was ALREADY venous stasis which will lead to thrombosis, they said no, that's not why it was wrong. And told me to look it up. I know what both of the words mean, I don't need to look them up, I just need to know why I was wrong so I can fix it within myself and MOVE ON lol! I am not trying to hassle the advisers, it's just that we dont have any techer sessions or q&a sessions, all we have are books, discs etc., so I feel sometimes that I need to look at an exeprienced nurse who will help me out and tell me" Okay, you went wrong here." or "this is why you were wrong". Is it presumptious or innapropriate of me to ask them about these questions?

Specializes in Home Health, Med/Surg.

Wow - very different than my school. We have a private "test review" with our instructor after each exam if we choose. It is the only way to see what we missed, and when we do miss something we are to answer and give our rationale of why we think we missed it - and then the instructor goes from there. I've NEVER been made to feel stupid or annoying because I didn't know the answer...that is what they are there for! Guess I'm just lucky. hang in there! But honestly, my advice for the future is to dig a little deaper to find the answer before you go to them -you'll learn more that way too!!!

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