Help with OB!!

[ask87]

For some reason i cannot seem to make good grades on my OB tests....any tips..they would be greatly appreciated...LPN student

[Double-Helix, BSN, RN]

There's not really a lot of information to go on here. How are you struggling?

Are you having a hard time understanding the content? If that's the case, I would suggest looking into study groups with other students or tutoring to help you better comprehend the material.

Are you having trouble studying effectively? If that's the case, I'd suggest taking notes during lectures, making flashcards, recording lectures, study groups, etc. Basically try a new way of studying the information if your current method isn't working.

Do you understand the material but you're getting test questions wrong? In that case, doing some practice questions might be helpful. Practice really reading the question and understanding what it's asking. Pay attention to key words like most important, first, best, assessment, intervention, ​to help understand what the question is asking. Then practice reading and eliminating the answers one by one until you've found one that makes the most sense.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

I agree with Ashley...where are you struggling?

[LCinTraining]

There's not much to it. Catch the slimey alien, hand it off to the mother ship.

(Just kidding. But it does help me destress about OB thinking about it that way)

[brillohead, ADN, RN]

If you've never been pregnant yourself, I recommend reading some pregnancy books. (I liked Dr. Sears' take on pregnancy, myself -- not too familiar with the "what to expect" series.)

The pregnancy books are written at a lower level, so they're easier/faster to read, but they still give you a lot of the same information that you'll be getting in a nursing textbook. If you read the "general public" book first, then the textbook isn't as overwhelming, b/c you've already been exposed to the stuff before.

If you've already been pregnant/given birth before and you're still struggling with it, I don't know what to tell you. Because of my control-freak nature, I read at least a dozen different pregnancy books when I was knocked up back in 1999, and as a result I didn't have to study/read much of anything for my OB class. I listened to lecture, memorized some lab values, and aced the class without really trying because everything was so familiar to me from my reading a decade previous.