Its been a rougher than rough 8 days. I thought that it was "just school work" and I would enjoy the difficulty (because I generally LOVE school and the tougher the better) but HOLY COW!!! I took my first quiz last Thursday (quizzes are on things you have not gone over yet in class but were expected to study for homework) and then my first exam this morning. I spent 5 days studying, almost every waking moment, to the point that I felt I had "overstudied" almost, and then went and took the exam and almost NONE of what I studied was on the exam. I was so heartbroken. I am exhausted and very....humbled by my first week in nursing school.
I had heard that half the class would fail this first 9 weeks (we do 9 wk blocks for our nursing classes) and had no idea why until I took the test.
I'm making adjustments in hopes of bringing up my grades next quiz (got a 92 on the quiz and an 84 on the exam) but... ugh. Basically we read the text with our teacher in class, but the exam was all implementation (which was not the focus of the text or our lectures, which as I mentioned were basically us reading out of the book together), mostly with multiple "right" answers, and only one "best" answer (of which I could not figure out why...and just guessed) Kind of like NCLEX but more confusing.
I am not complaining though. If it was easy, everyone would do it, and if I can somehow manage to get an A, then it will be that much more well deserved. I just thought I'd share my experience.
I am also taking A&P1 and that is quite a load of information as well, but what we need to know is very black and white, so I'm way more comfortable with it, in comparison.
I could not do this forever without going insane...but for one year... I will somehow make it through. I can only hope and pray that my LPN to RN transition program is a bit more straightfoward. I am still kicking myself for the time I wasted this weekend, studying things that I did not need. Sleeping would have been a better use of my time. :)
