Failed a syllabus quiz already??

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This is my second day of nursing school, and I did a 5-point syllabus quiz. It's obviously not that much but I ended up getting two out of five wrong, and I feel like a total idiot I couldn't even pass a simple syllabus quiz. I read the syllabus very thoroughly like twice and there was this trick question I couldn't even find in the syllabus. I feel really bad about this and my teachers stressed about how a point or two matters a lot and my grade is already off to bad start. :( I'm just wondering if I'm making this to be a bigger deal than it should be or what. Now I'm more worried about not making it especially when I can't even do a simple manual blood pressure...I couldn't hear a thing, and yes my stethescope was on right.

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You're going to fail if you get in that mindset. Stop doubting yourself and keep trying. In this post alone you have just listed negative things. Stop thinking that way and go forward with a positive attitude

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Specializes in Critical care.

Manual BPs take practice. Did another student get it on the person you tried? Some people are just really hard to hear. Start on someone easy and just practice, practice, practice. Once you have it down on someone easy start taking manual BPs of elderly people because they can be the trickiest.

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Details matter in nursing but a syllabus quiz will not determine your ability to think like a nurse. Stop beating yourself up. Just think of it like this: everyone experiences a "humbling moment" in nursing school, and you got yours out of the way now. I wish someone had told me to relax more and enjoy the ride in nursing school. There are 10 million things to stress you out the ones that learn to not sweat the small stuff do so much better in the long run.

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I think you're being too hard on yourself. And that can cause you to do bad on next exams just by feeling defeated and hard on yourself. I swear that a good part of the grade we earn is influenced from our own feelings, whether it's doubt or confidence. I also learned lack of sleep really effected me so maybe that effects you also and could have happened on the syllabus quiz? When I only slept 4-5 hours, I wasn't thinking as good about exam questions!

I didn't hear BP for the first weeks never mind days. Part of it was that my hand holding the diaphragm was shaky (so I heard those noises instead) and also that I had trouble feeling the brachial pulse. Even my lab teachers said hearing korotkoff sounds comes with practice.

Just read the other answers and see I'm saying the same things basically! Oh well another voice won't hurt :)

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