I'm overwhelmed to the point of tears. I just began my ADN program last Monday and feel like I am drowning. I really am not trying to complain, but I could use encouragement from others going through the same thing or those who have been there and lived to tell about it.
First, I am a little flummoxed that I spent $800 on textbooks and yet I am probably going to be paying $20 a week to copy lecture notes in the library. I'm not sure why I needed the textbooks!
And second -- this may be the most pertinent at the moment -- is the fact that, while I am doing all the reading, I don't feel like I have retained a single thing. That is freaking me out. I don't know what to expect on tests when everything seems important. If I just go by highlighted and bulleted items in the chapters, there is still a mountain of information. I can't seem to rely on my old standby of "repetition, repetition, repetition" when there is barely enough time to go over it once, let alone multiple times.
Last, has anyone ever used MedsPublishing? That seems to be an important part of our outside assignments. I do the tutorials and they go well, but when I do the quizzes, I am asked a lot of nursing questions that, being a first-week (never mind first-year) student, I just don't have the answer for.
Thanks for letting me ramble. I don't have any friends in my classes at this point (I am the oldest woman in my program -- I feel a little like a dinosaur right now:cry:) and my family doesn't seem to be able to grasp how snowed-in I feel.
Bortaz, MSN, RN
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