Fast-track nursing courses

[mpolo]

Hi,

I'm currently doing a fast-track nursing course, and I am dying (figuratively speaking).

Just so overloaded and overwhelmed that it isn't funny. Im in my second semester, which has been

interrupted by surgery, and me trying to catch up to everybody else (still about a month behind in clinicals),

and also getting assignments back which are indicative of the time spent doing them.....not great.

just feeling so overwhelmed, lacking in drive, and to be honest, this is the toughest thing that I have ever done in my entire life. just received an assignment back, worth 30% and its just a fail (i.e. 47%), and I have to go to see

the teacher after exams are over re this. truth be told, im overwhelmed, i don't know if i will even pass these exams coming up in just under two weeks. one is on clinical, and the other is on contextual stuff....just feeling so despondent after receiving this assignment mark.....47 out of 100. I know that it wasn't great work, what gets me, is just this feeling of being overwhelmed.

Can somebody else please provide tips on how they coped with fast-track courses? The one that i am doing is and 18 month course for Nursing qualifications. I come from a non-science background, really enjoy my clinical placements, but am having a lot of difficulty with the written report component. So fed up.....want to be out there doing the work, not being bored senseless not understanding much, because this course is going at lightspeed and i feel that i don't have a chance in understanding any of it at all........please help guys if you have been in this situation. I feel that i am losing my mind.

please help guys!

[mpolo]

Update....

post exam # 1....the contextual one. over and done with, wasn't that bad,,,, the bark was far worse than it's bite.

now for a day and a half rest, and onto the second more difficult one, based on clinical information.

It just seems that I needed to get some perspective....and I just needed to break through a bubble,

which I have done. Basically been studying nearly 10 hours a day, and found out this unbelievable technique

called ACRONYMS......it saved my life for this current exam. and I have already used it extensively to

prepare for my pathophysiology and the like for my second exam.

It also isn't a coincidence that my newfound relief, is based aroudn the fact that I have started swimming again.

Ahhhhh......hydrotherapy mixed in with exercise therapy, you rock!

For all those ppl out there contemplating on doing a fast-track course.....don't you dare slack off. Especially if you are a non-science background student like myself, as a non-science student you have to catch up to have minimal scientific knowledge of the course material...period. As non-science, you are the weakest link, ensure that you make yourself stronger. Stay healthy, (good food--not junk), exercise daily (swimming is awesome), and by God almighty study your orifice off. It will pay off. One day.

Good luck to all the rest of you doing a fast-track.