do you have to read to make good grades?

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not now, RN

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Specializes in LTC, med-surg, critial care.

While I will be the first to admit that I don't always read every single page of all assigned reading (sometimes it's just too much) ... this thread kinda disturbs me.

Reading is for understanding, learning and internalizing the information. Not just for grades.

Someday when I'm ill, I hope I don't have some condition that my nurse found "boring" and neglected to read about. :stone

It's not so much that I'm lazy but I don't absorb it as well. I ask lots of questions in class. Between that, writing lecture notes and seeing/doing in clinical I know what I'm talking about. Not all of us can read and get it the first time. If I see it done or have it explained to me I'm all over it. :)
Specializes in ER, Medicine.

Reading is very important. Even if you don't have the time or want to read at least skim. After all how else are you going to learn?

lisamc1RN, LPN

943 Posts

Specializes in LTC/Behavioral/ Hospice.

I read most of the assigned reading because there have been questions from the reading that weren't in lecture before. I do skip sections if I really understand it already.

Tilleycs

146 Posts

While I will be the first to admit that I don't always read every single page of all assigned reading (sometimes it's just too much) ... this thread kinda disturbs me.

Reading is for understanding, learning and internalizing the information. Not just for grades. Someday when I'm ill, I hope I don't have some condition that my nurse found "boring" and neglected to read about.

I agree. Would you want to be operating on by a surgeon who found HIS textbooks too boring? Would you want your taxes done by an accountant who found the latest changes to the tax code too boring?

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