OB has got me down

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Going into week 7 of a 15 week semester. First OB test covers 16 chapters.

Prof says no study guide, go over the PowerPoint slides and do the ATI and you'll do fine.

I spent over a week making notes from the slides and the text. I read and did the questions for all the ATI chapters that went along with it. I did all the NCLEX mastery questions for OB too.

Day of the test I felt like I did pretty good. Like at least an 80. I got a 64. The whole class did terrible, so it wasn't just me. But that's the worst grade I've gotten on a test and I'd like to not repeat that.

So what do I do differently? I have scheduled a meeting with the prof to go over the test.

I know it was all the SATA questions. We get no credit unless we choose all the correct options. No partial credit.

Specializes in L&D.

Have you had your OB clinical yet? For me personally, I found the classroom and textbook part of OB hard to understand until I was actually doing it and seeing it in clinical. Now I am an OB nurse and absolutely love it, but it didnt necessarily start out that way!

Have you had your OB clinical yet? For me personally, I found the classroom and textbook part of OB hard to understand until I was actually doing it and seeing it in clinical. Now I am an OB nurse and absolutely love it, but it didnt necessarily start out that way!

Yes. It's over already. It consisted of one lab day and 3 clinical shifts d/t holidays at the beginning of the semester.

Brief update, I got a 94 on the second exam. I also scored a level 2 on the ATI exam. That first one must have been a fluke?

I'll chalk it up to not feeling well.

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