Beginning med surg Monday!!! Need your input and studying advice

[Ericad85]

Heyy everyone!!! So after weeks of dreading med surg coming it is here!! Monday we begin and my class and I are soo nervous due to the day people telling us how awful it is and this is where they lost alot of people so on and so forth soooo I want to pass this with a good grade and am willing to do anything. Please give me your input and how did you study? What worked best for you and helped you succeed? Any info is welcomed!!! I have been doing well all along! My lowest final grade of the semester was an 85 in Fundamentals! I so hope I can do this...THANKS EVERYONEE :redpinkhe

[RNTutor, BSN, RN]

Don't let the negativity scare you too much...yes, Med-Surg can be difficult, but there are lots more people who HAVE passed than people who have not. If you study hard, get help early and often, and ask plenty of questions that should help.

Also, the advice I always give for Med-Surg (and pretty much any nursing class), is that the stronger you are on your A&P, the easier it will be. I always studied by reviewing the A&P, so that it was easier for me to figure out the s/sx of different illnesses and then understand the nursing care too.

Hope that helps! Stay positive, you'll make it!

[nlion87]

This helped me. In outline form List disease/disorder, pathophysiology of the disease/disorder, diagnostic tests to used to identify each disesae/disorder and special nursing considerations associated with each diagnostic test, signs and symptoms of the disorder, special nursing implications that go along for the disease/disorder as well as listing the meds used to treat disease/disorder and corresponding nursing implications associated with each med. It may be time consuming but as you are writing you are also reviewing as well plus no need to reread chapter--your notes will be all set for the exams

[Ericad85]

thank you both of you :)