Failing... Pls help!!

Editorial Team / Admin · Feb 15, 2017

Have you utilized your resources, such as study groups, professor's office hours, and tutoring? Have you evaluated your learning style to ensure that the way you study is the best for you?

Apple-Core, ASN, BSN, RN · Feb 20, 2017

Failing in one area or across the board? In practical or text-based learning? We need more info!! :up:

Workitinurfava, BSN, RN · Feb 21, 2017

Let me use my psychic ability to figure it out. Can you explain what you are struggling with?

melissamabd, DNP, RN · Feb 21, 2017

It's true... there are a few ways to fail. Is it theory, skills validations, clinical time? If it's theory, there are a few things that may help. You need to do more than master what the book, lectures, and powerpoints say... you then need to be able to explain them to someone else (accurately) and show how you would apply them to your work. Next, you need to be able to analyze situations which depend on these concepts. For instance, if you're studying pressure changes due to ACE inhibitors, you need to analyze all the ways things could go, predict them accurately, and know your rationales. Beyond that... I know, it's huge, this endeavor... you need to be able to write a piece about this concept (think care plan, brochure, article). AND THEN, evaluate someone else's doing all these things we've talked about accurately. WHEW.

Nursing is about going FAR beyond mastering the book's content. You then have to make it three-dimensional. This fosters critical thinking and eventually (years later), expertise. Ways to accomplish all this: 1. do your reading. all of it. know it cold. 2. study with other people. if a concept is hard, read it from 2-3 sources. 3. do NCLEX questions, case studies to flesh out how things are applied. 4. follow all that practical advice about resources offered by someone else here (above). GOOD LUCK TO YOU!