NUR104: Excelsior Study Group

bEgger · Feb 1, 2016

An idea to study the quizzes is to take a picture of the quiz and the answers you chose, and that way if you see what questions you get wrong, you can look back at your pictures and maybe narrow down the correct answer! The test was pretty hard. I barely passed! I felt like a lot of it wasn't found where I had been studying either!!

ZofnasLPN · Feb 1, 2016

I actually did pretty well on my discussion, got a 89! I am constantly watching my grades as well!

I haven't gotten my discussion grade yet, but I'm not too awfully worried there. The quiz, I made really stupid errors and could have done better. I need to learn to slow down when I have the time and read more carefully. I document the quiz answers as well to make studying easier, it also helps so that you can challenge questions/answers. Other than the study factor, I dislike not being able to have all the info to be able to challenge the test. Errors happen, I've found a couple myself in previous courses. I don't feel it's fair to us. In a typical classroom setting, we'd be able to keep the exams or at least review them and go over what we missed. At the absolute least we should have rationales. Just my opinion. Ha Ha. It's a new week though, let's make the best of it and keep on swimming! We've got this.

vicky531 · Feb 1, 2016

I recently found out that if you go to your grades and click on your score it brings you to another window with all the quiz questions but no answers at least you can review the questions - I am trying to do that for the exam but it won't let me I actually calledl the school asking of a tutor type just to go over the exam and there isn't such a thing that all concerns should be addressed to the professor

they did give me a name of a review book Test Success Test taking techniques for beginning nursing students Patricia Nugent 7th edition

and yes its a new week hope it goes better

Vicky H

vicky531 · Feb 1, 2016

click on calculated grade and all the questions pop up

shandy94 · Feb 3, 2016

sooooo relieved i'm not alone

almost feel like a cyber bully looking for imperfections in someone else's work especially when i don't possess credentials for such..

yes i pulled a 66 on the exam but my quizzes and discussions are pulling me through...barely thanks for the insight )

ZofnasLPN · Feb 3, 2016

sooooo relieved i'm not alone
almost feel like a cyber bully looking for imperfections in someone else's work especially when i don't possess credentials for such..
yes i pulled a 66 on the exam but my quizzes and discussions are pulling me through...barely thanks for the insight )

Hello D squad! Ha Ha, funny but not funny. I'm right in that boat with you. I'm trying to find a new approach to this that will work better, but it's difficult. There is so much information crammed into one week with little to no organization or direction. We're basically supposed to know everything. I went as far as pulling out my old nclexpn study books and test for success books. I'll be sure to pass any useful info along! I also downloaded an nclex rn study prep app. I figured it never hurts to start and it also provides rationales which are helpful. So does the questions that go along with each chapter...they're nclex style. I'm trying to find a good helpful source on the nursing process questions. We learned a great way to weed through the answers in PN school on the ones we weren't sure on, but I've forgotten it and haven't been able to find it in the mounds of work I kept.

bEgger · Feb 3, 2016

I was able to pull through as well, just with my discussion grade! This weeks discussion seems a little difficult. Not quite sure how to start off! It seems like to me that this class is mostly about the nursing diagnosis, which in my experience in the hospital... I've never seen a nurse use once!! But thats how it is with school I guess! I got a NCLEX review book as well. My friend just graduated from nursing school and said that the Saunders NCLEX review book helped her a whole lot throughout the schooling!

bEgger · Feb 3, 2016

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bEgger · Feb 3, 2016

I haven't gotten my discussion grade yet, but I'm not too awfully worried there. The quiz, I made really stupid errors and could have done better. I need to learn to slow down when I have the time and read more carefully. I document the quiz answers as well to make studying easier, it also helps so that you can challenge questions/answers. Other than the study factor, I dislike not being able to have all the info to be able to challenge the test. Errors happen, I've found a couple myself in previous courses. I don't feel it's fair to us. In a typical classroom setting, we'd be able to keep the exams or at least review them and go over what we missed. At the absolute least we should have rationales. Just my opinion. Ha Ha. It's a new week though, let's make the best of it and keep on swimming! We've got this.

The discussions seem like the easiest part! (Except week 5.. not sure how to go about this one...) I think it would benefit us a whole lot to see the correct answer. But what helps me is to see which questions I missed and then spend a long time finding the actual answer in the textbook. Its usually there, I just didn't have enough time to look for it during the quiz. BRYQJ7kUUyGmmaTpMgDCQpWiZx4Vysr19gcCVawACMbL5+wlFJenpKUCD8vOyMDAMt3QPF4YeY2AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC

ZofnasLPN · Feb 3, 2016

I was able to pull through as well, just with my discussion grade! This weeks discussion seems a little difficult. Not quite sure how to start off! It seems like to me that this class is mostly about the nursing diagnosis, which in my experience in the hospital... I've never seen a nurse use once!! But thats how it is with school I guess! I got a NCLEX review book as well. My friend just graduated from nursing school and said that the Saunders NCLEX review book helped her a whole lot throughout the schooling!

We're being hounded on the nursing process because that's what the nclex is all about. It was the same with PN school, but I've forgotten so much because it's not something that I consciously use.

This week's discussion is actually pretty easy for me, I can't do it off the top of my head but give me a care plan book and piece of cake. Which book did you end up getting? I don't like the one that I chose as it doesn't clearly define the rationale. I'm going to end up getting the newest car plan book by Gulanick and Myers. It was the best one I found previously as it breaks everything down.

Is there anything in particular I might be able to help explain?

vicky531 · Feb 3, 2016

thank you for replying it make me feel better knowing Im not alone.

I will look into those books mentiones, also I found that for a one time fee nclexonline.com give you all the questions per topic there is a free trial I was gonna try- will let you know how that goes

Vicky

bEgger · Feb 3, 2016

We're being hounded on the nursing process because that's what the nclex is all about. It was the same with PN school, but I've forgotten so much because it's not something that I consciously use.
This week's discussion is actually pretty easy for me, I can't do it off the top of my head but give me a care plan book and piece of cake. Which book did you end up getting? I don't like the one that I chose as it doesn't clearly define the rationale. I'm going to end up getting the newest car plan book by Gulanick and Myers. It was the best one I found previously as it breaks everything down.
Is there anything in particular I might be able to help explain?

I don't see any of the nurses using it in the hospital but I guess it's just one of those things that we need for school! I got the nursing diagnosis guidebook by ackley and it helped a lot actually.

The whole part about the actual and risk questions were kind of confusing. From what I read, there is a certain way you have to write the diagnosis ?