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First graded exam for fundamentals on Monday. We had a practice exam I didn't do well. Now am VERY stressed that I won't do well for the "real" thing. Study tips please...

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we have weekly quizzes over our reading materials... did u have quizzes or online resources u can utilize? we have review questions online that we can answer with rationales. i would probably practice those questions to start with. good luck on your first exam!!!

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In most cases, I believe the first test is always going to be somewhat disappointing. At least you got a practice test, so you know what kind of question to expect on your real test. I just took my first test in Fundamentals got a 75, which is FAILING. I'm trying to use this as a learning experience and strive to do my best next time!

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study what you would do as a nurse. Study assesesing for certin conditions, interventions, and most importantly your paitient teaching! thats really all nursing tests are. In nursing school they dont care if you know the nitty gritty of a disease, what they want to know is WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? example, Your looking at your paitients urinary bag hangin off the side of his bed, you notice there is no unrine in there..what are you going to do? call the doctor? NOOOO... you go straight to your nursing processs, ASSES! assess, your paitient, look at the tubing on his catheter! is it all kniked up or tied up? this could be your issue.

Learn to think like a nurse...same idea if your patients moniter is reading a pulse ox of 0%, dont run and call the doctor... ASSES! is the thing even on his finger!?

hope this helps you some. Sorry for all the mispelled words =O)

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