Need input- 1st Semester

[EMEddie]

How do you guys study for fundamentals??? i am at an 87% now, the grade keeps going down and I study like crazy..

I read the textbook, the power point and read ATI, am I doing too much?

How did you guys study for fundamentals and were successful?

Thanks in advance,

Eddie Ed

[ImThatGuy, BSN, RN]

For foundations I read none of the chapters that dealt with theory, ADPIE stuff, communications, multiculturalism, sensitivity, or hugging. I only looked at the PowerPoints and listened during lecture. The poop, pee, sleep, stress, oxygenation, and fluid and electrolyte chapters I read because that was something I enjoy knowing about. I made B's on the first list of crap I mentioned and A's on the physiological chapters. Worked for me. Hang in there, man. Fundamentals is boring, lol.

I still think the hardest unit was mobility and whatever else was in that. Can we say boring? I've historically done poorly in areas that aren't interesting. Blame it on internal motivations I guess.

A lot of kids read, did PowerPoints, did the whole flash card thing which I don't see how any human has time for, listened to recordings, did stuff on the book's website, held study groups, and still failed. In short, there's no one right way to study.

But hey I believe in you!

ETA: Weren't you an EMT? You got this whooped, man!

[EMEddie]

Thanks for the advice bro...Yes, EMS for the past three years and like you say, theory stuff bores me, but when it gets to clinical application and physio/patho in there I like... Some of the questionings are just "different" per say, so not sure how to best prepare...

Again, thanks!

[ImThatGuy, BSN, RN]

Thanks for the advice bro...Yes, EMS for the past three years and like you say, theory stuff bores me, but when it gets to clinical application and physio/patho in there I like... Some of the questionings are just "different" per say, so not sure how to best prepare...

Again, thanks!

Yeah, I just try to think like the teacher that made the test. I answer the questions the way that person would, and I usually do really well doing that. I didn't learn that until last November though. I discovered that of all the teachers we have none of them will answer a question the same so I'm not worried about learning "the nurse way" as much as I am playing the teachers's mind games.

They give us old NCLEX questions sometimes which are usually like National Registry questions: two or three answers are correct. Frankly, as a whole, the NR questions were more difficult.