How is school going so far?

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Hi fellow students,

I know that some of us have started our NP programs this week. How does everyone feel so far?

I am having doubts myself about whether or not this is right for me.

Anyone else?:(

Hi fellow students,

I know that some of us have started our NP programs this week. How does everyone feel so far?

I am having doubts myself about whether or not this is right for me.

Anyone else?:(

Although I just officially started the NP program, I had already taken a few MSN level courses--theory, research, sadistics, and patho, which I earned A's in all. Well on Wednesday, October 1st, we took our first PE/DD exam. Avg grade was a 70, so avg person failed. I happen to be a bit above avg...I failed too. This was a first for me; and way disappointing considering I spent sooooooooooo much time reading and studying. The only excuse I have is that I was (and still am) sick--I'm thinking I had food poisoning. Instructor expressed his disgust with our poor performance (although there is a long history of many failing his class). Maybe this isn't for me. :-(

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Specializes in ER; CCT.
I'm with you on Nightingale; I'm going to do my theory paper on either her or Benner (the novice-to-expert stuff). Frankly, they are the only two nursing "theorists" I can stomach at this point.

I'm right there with you. Check out Orem's Self-Care-Nursing Deficit Theory. Although grand, not too abstract in her concepts. Also, fits nicely with Henderson's definition of nursing (gold standard borrowed my many of the theorists in their metaparadigm development of nursing). Collectively these two can guide most projects as a comprehensive framework involving nursing practice as they complement each other and it doesn't hurt your head too much.

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Specializes in CTICU.
sadistics

Sadistics is right!!

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Med-Surg.

Please I'm doing my h&p's and haven't recieved a grade yet and the next one is due friday. I'm so "smart" I went on vacation last week and then work today and tomorrow and have to submit 2 homework questions for my groupd by tomorrow night and guess what , each question requires reading..... fun..... not..... I'm doing and independent study and have emailed my professor 2 times and have yet to hear from her. Shall I go on? I dont know how i'm gonna make it and I feel like such a loser :-(

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Specializes in CTICU.

So, just did my midterm exam for statistics today - was not too bad. A few tricky questions, and a little harder than I expected, but I think I was prepared.

Happy to report my second patho exam was much better - got an A+!

Just have one final report for statistics (evaluating an article) and 2 more patho exams this term, as well as a final exam for the NP role practicum.

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Ack! Studying nursing theory, and actually coming to see some value in it (especially at the mid-range and practice theory level).

Quick, someone send me a referral to a psychiatrist (or psych NP, of course)!

;)

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well, another day, another test, another failed PE/DD exam. and once again, it wasn't for lack of effort or understanding of the material on my part; fortunately I failed by an even slimmer margin; class average popped up a fraction of a point from the first exam too; so we have a class of 70 and 50+ of us are failing--from all tracks, like CRNA, FNP, PNP, ACNP, ANP, etc.

does this seem right to anyone? so maybe you are asking yourself...how would the school allow the instructor to fail 70+% of a class of graduate students? well the answer is, the instructor doesn't. the instructor offers a sweet deal that if you don't pass you can wait until the final drop day to drop and even though you are failing miserably, you'll be given a "W", not a "WF"; well of course people are going to jump all over that because they wig out about grades; not me though; if I for some unfortunate reason do worse on the 3rd exam and my overall average drops below an 80 (there are a couple other things that will get factored into our grade which so far are pretty high for me) the instructor's gonna have to give me a failing grade; I'm a 4.0 student at this university, including a few graduate classes; I'm a member of Sigma Theta Tau; I don't care about my GPA at this point; I just want my degree and ultimately, certification; I'm going to hold him accountable, even if I'm the only one

just to give you an idea of the situation...if you get a 100% (which is highly unlikely) from the non test stuff, the lowest you can average on the 3 exams is a 66...well the averages on the first 2 exams are less than 5 points above that point of no return; it's absurd

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Specializes in PICU.

I've always heard that if the class is doing that poorly, there's something wrong w/ the test or the teacher. That's crazy to fail that many grad students who are presumably doing well everywhere else!

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The rule of thumb for the masters level is for every credit hour taken you need 4 hours a week of study time. that's absolutely impossible!

I'm two years into the NP program now and I'm really struggling. For the person making all the A's, I commend you! I don't see how anyone could make an A in a masters level class.

I've already taken patho and phamacology and barely passed by the skin of my teeth with C's in both classes. It's hard! Or maybe I'm just dumb!

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The rule of thumb for the masters level is for every credit hour taken you need 4 hours a week of study time. that's absolutely impossible!

I'm two years into the NP program now and I'm really struggling. For the person making all the A's, I commend you! I don't see how anyone could make an A in a masters level class.

I've already taken patho and phamacology and barely passed by the skin of my teeth with C's in both classes. It's hard! Or maybe I'm just dumb!

wow...a C is passing at your grad school? I thought B's were standard minimum in all grad schools; lucky you; up unitl this class, all I've made are A's; but this is a special class...bleh

as for study...I'm absolutely serious when I say I did 4+ hrs per day; doesn't matter, still failed; sacrificed time with my newborn son and wife to study...yeah that was worth the sacrifice:(

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I go to SLU in Missouri. You can make a C in the core classes but have to have a B in the clinical classes. But you have to maintain a 3.0 GPA which I am barely doing!

I have three classes left to go and they are all clinical classes. I am really stressed!

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Specializes in CTICU.

Because I'm a foreign nurse (despite prior graduate level study), I was admitted provisionally for the first 8 credits, which means I need to maintain a 3.8 QPA for those credits to stay in the program! Stress!

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