Last semester!! :-)Any tips??

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Its my last semester of nursing school. I'm so.excited!!. I can't stop now got to continue to study till I get that RN! Anyone out here got some tips for the past semester??

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Same advice I'm trying to follow my last semester... Beat senioritis back, especially come April. Remind yourself whatever crap comes up, only a few more months. Enjoy it if at all possible.

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

Wow, Joan LPN. You should be giving out tips, being so excited and all. It's wonderful that you're so positive.

When I went through the RN program as an LPN, by the last semester, I was symbolically brain dead.

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Specializes in Cardiac (adult), CC, Peds, MH/Substance.

If you haven't started looking at nurse residencies, do so now. In most areas, the good ones have closed applications long before graduation.

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My tip is to stay off your phone. The few girls who never looked up in class were the ones who couldn't pass the exit exam. And they were shocked for some reason.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Moved to the General Nursing Student forum for more replies.

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I am in my last semester of my lpn to RN program as well. No tips just a mutual thank the lord we are almost done!!!! After 4 years, I'm so done! 3 more exams and 7 more clinical days and I'm freeeee. Well until I start studying for NCLEX lol.

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Specializes in Cardiac (adult), CC, Peds, MH/Substance.

Of note, if you're an LPN or LVN it's worth asking (after job offer) if you get credit for LVN experience. A lot of employers give it, even in new grad residency programs.

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yes I heard about that. I work at a hospital that gives credit for lpn experience

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Just keep swimming just keep swimming!! You will do it the light is at the end of your tunnel!!

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I applaud your positivity. Now, for a small reality check for the many students who will be shocked to learn that they will not be graduating ... because it gets harder last semester.

It does.

Your faculty will be perfectly entitled to expect that you have learned, retained, and can competently apply EVERYTHING you have learned since you were admitted to prereqs-- all the science, all the assessments needed for making diagnoses, all the task-y skills, all the communications and documentation points, all the med math and pharmacology and physiology, all of it. They will expect to see you able to think and perform as a prudent new graduate nurse ... and they'll be looking really hard for hard evidence that's true. And if it's not.

Some of you won't be able to make that step. If that's you, then it's not too late to do a hard stop for that reality check and reacquaint yourselves with all your old textbooks. If it's not you, then congratulations, keep on doing well to integrate all your previous hard work, and try not to get distracted by your classmates who, sadly, cannot or will not.

Countdown!

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Specializes in ER.

Try to study. I would purchase additional resources like Saunders. I would say do everything that I didn't do such as studying additional practice exams. I didn't do anything and played on the computer a lot but I was first done with the practice exit exams, the exit exam, and I finished NCLEX quickly even though I was sick. The lady at Pearson Vue testing center pushed Kleenex and a bottle of hand sanitizer towards me.

Research who can give you a good reference letter now. Ask early on. First jobs probably will want them. Work on your resume now too.

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