how often do you study?

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how often or how long do you spend studying or doing school work a day? and what grades are you making? i just want to see how often and how long everyone studies.

I do school work about 3 to 12 hours a week - depends if it's a short lab assignment or a big paper due. Will study 6 to 8 hours before taking a test. Don't have much time to study - 3 small kids.....

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Hey that is great that you don't have to study much. I did not have the study much first and second semesters and got A's so when it came to the third semester I ended up failing one of my M/S classes with a C-. Totally my fault, when I wasn't doing well after the first test I should have kicked up the studying. Now a year later I am repeating the course and doing fine. I just want you to know what happened to me, and that not studying now might work for you. but be careful.

Thanks, lizmatt. :)

I have heard that M/S II is extremely hard. . . and OB. Next semester, I will be taking Psych and Med/Surg I. I know I will have to study more for those classes than I do now. I might not have to study as much b/c this is just Foundations? I mean, we still learn lots of stuff (like lab values, oxygenation, health assessment, vitals, drugs, math, I & O, catheterization, injections, etc, etc, etc), but maybe I don't have to study as much because we don't go as in-depth with it as a more advanced class. I think if I were in M/S I, I would be studying much much more. I guess we'll find out next semester, lol. I will try not to let that happen to me, and thanks for the advice! :)

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180,

sorry to hear about losing your friend. well, i'm sure it will get tougher especially when you're going to get into med-surge ii, have you been studying or reading, rather, what will be on the nclex? just something for you to think about. good luck.

thanks, hanna. :)

i hope she comes around and stops being angry with me. i don't know what she wants me to do. i can't just lower my grades and dumb myself down to make her happy.

anyway, yes, i have heard that m/s ii is very difficult - and ob. are you in those classes, or have you already taken them? i am sure that i will definitely be studying a lot more when i get to those classes. maybe this one is just a bit easier, because it is foundations. our textbooks have nclex questions at the end, and we have a workbook with them that also has nclex-like questions. our tests are set up to be like the nclex as well. other than stuff like that, i've not been reading or studying any nclex material. i think when we get closer to our last semester, we get a big nclex prep book. it's pretty expensive, but i don't think they start really focusing on that until toward the end. maybe i should run out and get myself one right now just to read? but then again, it's only my first semester. what if i don't understand the advanced questions that are in there? lol it would be useless if i had no clue what the book is talking about. :banghead:

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How do you all study for clinical procedures? I don't start school for another 9 days so I am curious. When I had to test for CNA I felt like I was in hell. I basically took all the procedures and wrote each step out over and over until I thought I had it down and then I would physically practice on a willing friend lol.

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How do you all study for clinical procedures? I don't start school for another 9 days so I am curious. When I had to test for CNA I felt like I was in hell. I basically took all the procedures and wrote each step out over and over until I thought I had it down and then I would physically practice on a willing friend lol.

We have this huge book that has the different procedures in it. For the first 7 weeks of this semester, they had us in a setting called "campus lab." It basically looks like a big hospital room, only with dummies instead of humans. lol They would give us an assignment to read out of the huge book (usually around 100 pages or more), and every Wednesday, we would go in there, watch the instructors do it, then practice these things all day long ourselves. First thing in the mornings, though, we would have a quiz over everything we read. It was only 10 questions, but it could be ANYTHING from any part of the reading, so you had to pay attention. I just read the readings, and if I had a particularly hard time with it, I would maybe write down the steps in a more condensed order. If a friend is available, practice on them. There's no kind of experience like hands-on experience. Now that the 7 weeks and check-offs are over, I start my first ACTUAL week of real clinicals this Wednesday. I know it's going to be stressful, but at least I don't have to do those huge readings every week! :)

Good luck!! :D

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We have this huge book that has the different procedures in it. For the first 7 weeks of this semester, they had us in a setting called "campus lab." It basically looks like a big hospital room, only with dummies instead of humans. lol They would give us an assignment to read out of the huge book (usually around 100 pages or more), and every Wednesday, we would go in there, watch the instructors do it, then practice these things all day long ourselves. First thing in the mornings, though, we would have a quiz over everything we read. It was only 10 questions, but it could be ANYTHING from any part of the reading, so you had to pay attention. I just read the readings, and if I had a particularly hard time with it, I would maybe write down the steps in a more condensed order. If a friend is available, practice on them. There's no kind of experience like hands-on experience. Now that the 7 weeks and check-offs are over, I start my first ACTUAL week of real clinicals this Wednesday. I know it's going to be stressful, but at least I don't have to do those huge readings every week! :)

Good luck!! :D

I will have that same type of setting at my school as well. I just tend to get nervous when it comes to doing things hands on. I over think everything and get all flustered. I guess I will get better with hands on learning since I have to do it that way.

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gabriella,

I see you are from KY. What nursing school will you be attending there or what part? I have a lot of family that lives there, and I am right on the TN/KY line myself. I just moved here from KY last semester and was actually thinking about attending a KY college, but they didn't have the 4 year BSN - only the ADN.

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gabriella,

I see you are from KY. What nursing school will you be attending there or what part? I have a lot of family that lives there, and I am right on the TN/KY line myself. I just moved here from KY last semester and was actually thinking about attending a KY college, but they didn't have the 4 year BSN - only the ADN.

I will be attending Galen. Which school were you looking into for your BSN? There are quite a few in Ky, but I am not sure if you were looking in that part of the state.

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I will be attending Galen. Which school were you looking into for your BSN? There are quite a few in Ky, but I am not sure if you were looking in that part of the state.

Um, I'm not exactly sure where Galen is. Is that near Louisville? I am in a TINY town in southeast KY. Well, I was. I moved now to TN just right across the line. In Middlesboro, they had a small two year ADN program, but I wanted to get on track for the BSN. I'm going to LMU in Harrogate now, and I like it pretty well.

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Um, I'm not exactly sure where Galen is. Is that near Louisville? I am in a TINY town in southeast KY. Well, I was. I moved now to TN just right across the line. In Middlesboro, they had a small two year ADN program, but I wanted to get on track for the BSN. I'm going to LMU in Harrogate now, and I like it pretty well.

Yes, it is in Louisville. Have you started nursing courses or are you doing pre-req's?

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Yes, it is in Louisville. Have you started nursing courses or are you doing pre-req's?

I'm in my first semester as a nursing student. I have the pre-reqs out of the way, except for one more science. You?

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I originally was going to attend a cc and got the prereqs done but at galen you get your lpn year one and then year two you do pre reqs if u need to and your rn in year two. so you get it all done in 2 years.

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