Hi, I just started my lpn clinicals 2 wks ago. I thought it might be cool for all of us new nursing students to be able to share our experiences and maybe lean on eachother in this tough year to come.
I'll start- I'm Ashley, married and have 2 children (2.5yrs old and 7 months) and I am not working right now, thank God. Not sure I could handle it if I were, lol. I'm only in week 3 and I'm already behind in my reading. I don't know how it's possible to get all the reading done, it's very overwhelming. My Nursing fundamentals class text is unbelievable, the chapters are like 80pages each, with very small font, and we have to read at least 4 chapters each week, in addition to the other classes. I've been making myself study for at least 3 hrs every night. Hopefully that will be enough, I'm trying, but wow it's a lot of reading. I bought myself a recorder this last week to hopefully help drill the lectures into my head. And I aced my 1st quiz today in pharmacology. Yay! Anybody else? How's your first couple weeks going? Let's get to know eachother, we need all the extra support we can get :)
You can do it Erica! I start up again Aug 30th, for RN program now, it will be 1 more year, and this time next year I'll be graduating with my RN- hopefully! Then I'll go for another year after that with online classes for my bsn, but I'll get a job and work at the same time. Ugh, it's been a very tough year, and it's exciting to have finished step 1, but it's overwhelming to know I still have so far to go.
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You can do it Erica! I start up again Aug 30th, for RN program now, it will be 1 more year, and this time next year I'll be graduating with my RN- hopefully! Then I'll go for another year after that with online classes for my bsn, but I'll get a job and work at the same time. Ugh, it's been a very tough year, and it's exciting to have finished step 1, but it's overwhelming to know I still have so far to go.