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Yesterday, I did two chapters of my Nursing Fundamentals study guide. Today I did the objectives for this week, all 35 of them. I did all the objectives for this week's Pharmacology and opened up this week's objectives for Assessment. I still have to read three chapters of Carpenito's Nursing Diagnoses. My hand is about to fall off. My fingers have developed a cramp and I've made myself very very drowsy. I have been at it since early this morning. Yesterday I spent the entire afternoon up until bedtime reading for the upcoming week and doing those objectives.

The answers for those objectives are long! Oftentimes it takes a page and a half to answer! I've dried up two pens!

I am going to take a nap.

Mayhaps when I get up I can tackle more writing......ARGH!!!!!!:(

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I think I got 3 hours of sleep each night all thru nursing school. I would dream of care plans and objectives. Thats how I came to be known as the caffine addict. By the way one of my instructors once told me that Carpenito was a froot loop. Really, with some kind of mental problems. has anyone else heard that? Or was this instructor just pulling my leg?

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:eek: Ok, you are totally scaring me!!! WOW, are they trying to weed out some students or what??? How can they give that much work, and expect you to be at your best with patients?? :confused: I think you ought to go outside and run around a bit, or bay at the moon. Get a friend to take a latte run with you. Change environments maybe. I'd be losing it about now if I were you! God bless! Heather
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Specializes in Geriatrics, Pediatrics, Home Health.

I spent all day Friday typing my Content section 1 notes, text book notes and words to know and spell correctly. Saturday I typed up my lecture notes, & textbook notes for cnotent section 2. Today I finished CS 2 and am getting ready to start CS 3. This one is about care plans and how to write assessments. I have my first Exam on Tuesday covering ALL 3 CS!

Our instructor told us that the questions will NOT come from the textbook. So there is no way to just 'memorize facts' we have to KNOW what is missing from the care plans.

Needless to say I am scared, but also eager to get the first test out of the way!

Good luck everyone!

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No no noooooo, don't let me scare you. If anything, make it work in just the opposite....determination....resolve. I made myself get away from the table for a tad and then felt better when I approached it again. When one sits in front of the books too long, one starts slipping into a coma....haha. Breaks are necessary, yes. After a snack of popcorn, I felt embodied.....now, if only I'd had some chocolate too.

Btw, does anyone know where I can find a subscription service that (1) is affordable and (2) will deliver nursing magazines to my door? What mags do folks recommend....I need journals, lots and lots of journals.

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Sounds like my last few weeks. I have found typing the stuff up to be easier because I type way faster than I write. Plus it is easier to read because when I write that much it gets sloppy. Maybe typing things out would help you. I don't know. Some people say that makes it harder for them. I have been wiped out too. Taking a quick mental break and getting back to the books in just a minute.

Teresa

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Actually, I think I'm going to try that. A classmate of mine said basically the same thing you did and she's found it helps her to keep up much easier. Too, these study guides leave you very little space to write in...but they want lonnnng answers.

I think mayhaps tonight.....I'm typin'!

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Specializes in Adult Med-Surg, Rehab, and Ambulatory Care.

They certainly do keep us busy.

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hello

Iam a new grad May 2003 and have passes NCLEX I have found while you have to read some material, there is no way to know all that stuff I am convinced. I took my instructors lectures and virtually memorized them then prior to each exam I took all the review questions I could possibly stand to do several days before the exam on each content area get you 2 or 3 good review books and see how well you do on your next exam (However the key to this method is you must be able to take good lecture notes

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Hi there. I am new to this and just saw your message and had to respond. I too, am in nursing school and oh my. I couldn't believe the amount of reading (last exam covered 16 chapters out of 6 different books) / objectives / careplans (last one was 31 pages). Unbelievable. Yet, they tell us to "rest" so that we can take care of our "clients". Rest? I sleep 3-4 hours a night if I am lucky. So, hun, I completely understand. Hang in there. I am in my 2nd year now - so, it is do-able. E-mail / vent anytime. Have a great day. Angela

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Hi there. I am new to this and just saw your message and had to respond. I too, am in nursing school and oh my. I couldn't believe the amount of reading (last exam covered 16 chapters out of 6 different books) / objectives / careplans (last one was 31 pages). Unbelievable. Yet, they tell us to "rest" so that we can take care of our "clients". Rest? I sleep 3-4 hours a night if I am lucky. So, hun, I completely understand. Hang in there. I am in my 2nd year now - so, it is do-able. E-mail / vent anytime. Have a great day. Angela

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Specializes in LTC & Private Duty Pediatrics.

All:

- For those that are typing notes up --- I do hope you are using a word processor and not a typewriter.

- Now for even more fun. For memorization - type the word or sentence over and over again for 5 or 10 min. Then try to recall from memory.

- I hate using paper/pencil for studing --- so I just do everything off the laptop.

- I make study cards / guides and use that as I go along. Then quiz myself off of the cards/guides. The end goal being to do core memory dumps without the cards/guides. Seems to be working.

John Coxey

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