Health Assessment has got me depressed.

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So I have been taking Patho, Fundamentals and Health Assessment. I am doing amazing in Patho..I actually have an A and I have a B in Fundamentals. The first part of the session is over next week..we have finals. Well according to my calculations. I am not going to meet the exam average of 76% in Health Assessment. Of course I have well over that right now..but my exam grades are suffering. I know I shouldn't make excuses but I honestly know the information. My teacher is ridiculous. She doesn't even make the test hesi or nclex hard she just makes it tricky and hard in general and all my other classmates agree. I knew what each question on the test was asking but none of the answers were the choices. For instance we learned wheezes sound like a wosh wosh washboard..well on the exam she had A. Bubbling B. Gurgling and like two other options that had nothing to do with it. Well I picked bubbling because wheezes are high pitched and apparently I was wrong. My point..she teaches things way differently than she tests. We have one more exam..the Hesi it is worth 100 points and even IF I do get a perfect score I will be a couple points away from the 76% cut. My question is...should I prepare for the hesi this weekend..do amazing on it and prove that I know this information and then go to someone higher up and tell them my situation or should I just give up already? I refuse to fall behind. My other classmates are hardly passing but are slipping by and I feel so embarrassed. Apparently I cant continue in my next Fundamentals class and clinical's until I pass this class which means I have to wait for the next session which is another 8 weeks from now. I'm not even sure what to do with myself right now I'm so frustrated. And even if I did wanna drop the class she gave the 3rd exam after the drop date giving everyone hope and then made the exam dumb hard. We have two professors and I met with one of them numerous times and I also went to tutoring so many times.

SO my question of I do amazing on the Hesi which is our last exam for the class and get a score high in the 90s do you think it would be possible for me to talk to the dean or something and explain and prove I know the information so I can move on to the next part of the session?

If you go to Chamberlain....no chance.

And I do go to Chamberlain, please tell me you do too and you know exactly how I feel :/

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Specializes in Assisted Living.

Yes I do.... I feel ya. I'm barely above waterr with a 78% in Assess, 77.7% in Funds.... And I missed the 2nd quiz in Patho due to miss communication and despite begging em and offering them a 10 page paper they wouldn't let me make it up. So depite me getting nearly 100% on every other quiz i need to nearly do perfect on the final to pass. I ****** up at the beginning and didn't take the classes seriously. But since week 4 I've been working my ass off. At least you aren't in such a bad place as me. If I fail two... I'm out the program.

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Yes I do.... I feel ya. I'm barely above waterr with a 78% in Assess, 77.7% in Funds.... And I missed the 2nd quiz in Patho due to miss communication and despite begging em and offering them a 10 page paper they wouldn't let me make it up. So depite me getting nearly 100% on every other quiz i need to nearly do perfect on the final to pass. I ****** up at the beginning and didn't take the classes seriously. But since week 4 I've been working my ass off. At least you aren't in such a bad place as me. If I fail two... I'm out the program.

My Fundamentals teacher has been supportive from day 1 and I think that's the only reason why I am doing amazing in her class. She personally emailed me and told me she was shy and just like me while in nursing school and told me I could go to her if I ever need anything.

Don't worry about Patho, trust me you will be fine especially if you are taking it online (: If we fail two we are also out of the program..and as long as you get a 76% on your finals this week you should be fine. You can do it, I know you can!! Study your butt off for the next couple of days and good luck. I'm really bummed because I have a clinical group and everything already assigned to me and I was so ready to move on in Fundamentals but I can't move on because of Health Assessment now :/ Apparently if you dont pass one you can't move on in the other. Thanks for sharing btw, made me feel a little better (:

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.
You guys are probably all right. I'm going to finish the class strong, take the hesi and then schedule an appointment to meet with my teacher so I can talk to her. And then I'll suck it up and re take the class and do better this time around because I know what to expect and I have no excuses this time. I guess what I was trying to say is I don't think the teachers tests were fair. I have taken practice nclex and hesi questions and they are nothing compared to this teachers tests. I don't have a problem with taking those tests, I have a problem with this teachers test..and I just really think it's unfair when I know material but I have to waste money and time and go through it again because someone makes it almost impossible to pass a class. I'm not too many points away from being able to pass so who is to say the person who has 15 more points than me knows the material better than me? I hope someone out there gets what I am saying :/ I'll take the class again but it just sucks because I honestly know I'm ready to move on :/

Vent your excuses here so when you go talk you don't make excuses but take responsibility.

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Talking to the dean is basically asking him or her to go against the teacher to which there is no avail. If you're not the only one failing to this extent then I would agree something is definitely wrong but from what you explained there are not only people passing but there are also people doing very well. Doing well on the hesi will prove nothing to the part of yourself in explaining you know the material at this point it's tough luck because I know it sucks but wouldn't we all love the best teacher for every class possible but it's just not feasible. We've all been through less than desirable teachers. Doing well on the health assessment hesi is difficult why don't you go take and tell us how you really do to prove how well you know it if so you claim. From what I'm also reading is that you're taking three classes... it is very possible that you're inadvertently ignoring one class over the other which tends to happen. Not only is this college but this is nursing school. Not everything is going to be laid out perfectly for students to basically just do. On the comment also on knowing the right answer but none are true that is the quintessential nursing question that you will see in nursing school career. They're not going to be exactly the right answer rather which is the he least wrong answer. I understand that it may be convenient to blame the teacher at this point but if other students are getting As which I am assured they are then they're doing something right.

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Specializes in Emergency, ICU.

Maybe you need to review this teacher's material more carefully and practice actual stethoscope listening on everyone you know.

Wheezes are distinct sounds. Musical. Never bubbling -- that would be crackles.

Go back to the basics instead of wasting your time trying to reason the professor into changing her test style. That won't happen.

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