Disgusted With School

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I just need to rant and rave!

I spend days and hours working on these careplans for school. I'm turning in 20 & 30 page careplans and when evaluation comes I get absolutely no credit for anything I've done. "It's Not Good Enough" is what I was told.

As far as my performance in clinicals the adjunct had nothing to say about me to my instructor so he jumped on me and made it sound like I haven't done anything. When I've been on the floor I've always been told that I was doing a good job. What the crap????

It's like all you get from these people is a hard time. Now I see why so many people dropped because of the way the instructors treat you. I don't expect to babied by no means, but don't tell me I'm doing a good job and then go back to my instructor and act like I haven't performed!! :banghead:

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

how many times did you fall down when you were first learning to roller skate or ride a bike before you finally got to where you were going?

i can't account for the personality of the person grading your papers.

i answer questions about care plans all the time here on the forums. students ask that the allnurses community give feedback about their critical thinking on them. before you turn the next one in, give us a whack at yours--very shortened version--we don't need but a half page or so. you can link into and see my reply to care plan posts. we have several sticky threads about writing care plans:

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WOW! 20-30 pg careplans!! goodness, Im over here stressing over 2 pages..LOL..Did u get feedback on why it wasn't good enough or teachers just being mean..

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I'd give anything for a 20 -30 pg care plan, ours are 47 pages every Tuesday night, plus memorizing everything about our pts meds for Med recall on Wed morning.

Nursing school is so hard, I have always been up for a challenge, but this is crazy, no life, no time for anything, all of this and still barely passing. 80% is a C in my school, you have to have an 80 % to pass. It's crazy.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.

sometimes bigger isn't always better, just because it's so long doesn't mean you hit on what your instructor thinks is important, sit down with them and ask them what they feel your care plans are missing, take the I want to do better not what did I do wrong approach, then if you still feel unfairly graded you have proof that you asked for assistance and still didn't get the answers you need to succeed.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
I'd give anything for a 20 -30 pg care plan, ours are 47 pages every Tuesday night, plus memorizing everything about our pts meds for Med recall on Wed morning.

Nursing school is so hard, I have always been up for a challenge, but this is crazy, no life, no time for anything, all of this and still barely passing. 80% is a C in my school, you have to have an 80 % to pass. It's crazy.

My BSN program required 40+ page referenced and footnoted careplans. That's what university programs are like. It's the bachelor degree requirement that needs to be fulfilled as much as the nursing requirements.

To pre-nursing applicants reading this, take heed. . .a BSN program is not just about learning nursing. You are also satisfying the college's idea of what a bachelor degree student should be doing and that includes writing 40+ page care plans which are equivalent to term papers in any other department.

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.

I must have gone to an easy nursing school, I don't remember anything like that!

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yeah, im in a BSN program also and they don't make us write no more than 2 pages..I don't see the point of 40+ page careplans, what r u writing about?

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Specializes in General adult inpatient psychiatry.
I'd give anything for a 20 -30 pg care plan, ours are 47 pages every Tuesday night, plus memorizing everything about our pts meds for Med recall on Wed morning.

Nursing school is so hard, I have always been up for a challenge, but this is crazy, no life, no time for anything, all of this and still barely passing. 80% is a C in my school, you have to have an 80 % to pass. It's crazy.

What does this care plan cover? I know for each semester we had to do a case study, which was basically a big care plan (at least 25-30 pages) and it covered medications, patho, and nursing dx/interventions/goals in depth but that was only once a semester. Our daily care plans ranged from about 5-10 pages, depending on how complex our patients were. I'm in a BSN program, for the record.

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This ridiculous care plan, covers everything you can imagine, from H &P, all meds, actions, dosages, indications, parameters, our head to toe assessment, assessment for care days 2 & 3, Interventions and rationales for everything that we find abnormal in our assessments, of course our plan of care with inteventions, rationales, outcomes and changes we would make and why, we have to have 3 other nursing diagnoses in addition to the plan of care, and a PC diagnosis, there is a MAP we have to complete. It is a combination of our plan of care and the nursing process tool. We call it the care plan. It's just huge. I've been working on it and my meds since I got home from school today and 1:00pm, it's now almost 11 pm, had to do the careplan, process tool, and memorize 17 meds - the class, indications, actions and side effects of each. If I don't know them at med recall in the morning I have to go tell the nurse I can't pass her meds because I'm not prepared. I'm not in a BSN program, this is an ADN program. I thought they were all ADN programs were like this.

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Oooh, I get it. You guys just include all your information in one packet. We do all of that (assessments, drugs, history, careplans, etc.) but they are all considered separate items, albeit due at the same time. Same thing, different name.

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Specializes in telemetry, ortho, med-surg.
I'm not in a BSN program, this is an ADN program. I thought they were all ADN programs were like this.

Oh no, not all ADN programs are like that, at least mine is not! One of my clinical prof. told us that in the real world, careplans are pointless. You are not required to reinvent the wheel. Best of luck with your course work. I cannot imagine having to memorize so many drugs!:no:

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