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I need some guidance.....I have decided to make a career change from education to nursing and am very passionate about it. Nursing has always been something that I wanted to do but never had the time to pursue it. Now, I am beginning to take my prerequisites to get into the program. At this time, I am working full-time at my children's school, and we will be entering summer vacation in 2 weeks. I am taking 3 online courses. Nutrition, Art Apprec. and Sociology. What I am most stressed about right now is my Nutrition Class. I have a good general knowledge about Nutrition. I have been "nutrition smart" for 15-20 years now. I have been working full time, and studying obsessively for a week now. I took my first quiz today in Nutrition (4 days early) and did bad. 70%...a C or D. I am horrified! I am an A student!!!! I froze during the online test, and non of the questions were what the instructor had prepared us for! Am I jumping the gun to be full of anxiety already? I am just not used to doing this bad on a test! I need advice! I am worried that this is my first Nursing course, first test and I bombed it! Can anyone relate or give me advice? I hope that I haven't made a huge mistake. I really want to do well and make this work! HELP!:nurse:

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Specializes in ER/Ortho.

I just finished nutrition online, and it was a tough course. I have found that with online courses you never know what your going to get. I have taken some which were useless. The professor basicaly gave tests which were the chapter review at the end which already had the answers written in. I have taken online courses which were major confusing, and tests came out of the blue (the good news is your allowed to use your book). The nutrition class I took was awsome because you actually had to learn to do well, and the tests made sense.

If I were you I would email your instructor and tell her your concerns. Asks if she posts an online review. With online courses you are allowed to use your book, but if she posts a review it would allow you to concentrate on stuff the instructor feels is important.

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When I took my nutrition class it was online. I would call your instructor or make an appointment to meet with your instructor. What do you mean when you say none of the questions were what was prepared for you? If the instructor said that was all you needed to know for the quiz and they were not on the test then you need better clarification on what to focus on. Hopefully you will feel better after talking to your instructor. I am sure you are not the only one who had trouble with the quiz if your study guide questions were not at all similar. Good Luck!

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I just finished nutrition online, and it was a tough course. I have found that with online courses you never know what your going to get. I have taken some which were useless. The professor basicaly gave tests which were the chapter review at the end which already had the answers written in. I have taken online courses which were major confusing, and tests came out of the blue (the good news is your allowed to use your book). The nutrition class I took was awsome because you actually had to learn to do well, and the tests made sense.

If I were you I would email your instructor and tell her your concerns. Asks if she posts an online review. With online courses you are allowed to use your book, but if she posts a review it would allow you to concentrate on stuff the instructor feels is important.

I did e-mail my instructor and expressed my concerns. She only gave us 30 min. to take a 20 question test. There was not much time to use my book. I think that was her intention. As far as the test questions went, a few of them were from the 4 review tests that were offered. We did have a lot of material to review in addition to the review tests. I feel more calm today than yesterday. I have to take this class on as a challenge, know that I have a tough instructor, and just do my best. There is no giving up here! This is my livelyhood! Thank you all for your responses! :bow:

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Hollimom,

I'm sorry your test didn't go so well. I'm taking my first online class this summer (pharmacology), and I'm nervous for the same reason. In class, I can sort of gauge what the professor thinks is important or where he or she is going to go with tests. Not have a personal interaction might be a problem for me.

If your situation were to happen to me, I'd express my concerns to the instructor (which is what I think you did). I'd also try to find other folks taking the class and find out if they did OK on their tests. If so, then I'd ask how they knew what to study, how they studied. You might try looking up your professor on ratemyprofessor(dot)com. Sometimes folks talk about how to study for a particular professor. You might also want to check on any tutoring available at your school. Sometimes the tutors know professors and how they test their students.

And it could be that you just got a crummy professor. :stone

Good luck!

BTW, I'm a former teacher working on prereqs for an RN program, and I'll have my daughter home this summer while I work full-time and take two classes. I've earned A's in chemistry and anatomy so far, and I didn't think I had it in me to do the science. Hang in there! You can do it! ;)

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Specializes in Hospice / Ambulatory Clinic.

I have to agree with the poster that mention with online courses you can test with the book. In fact most instructors EXPECT you to use the book and make the test appropriately hard based on that.

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Specializes in PMHNP.

how did you do with the online nutrition class. I will be taking it next semester spring 09.

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how did you do with the online nutrition class. I will be taking it next semester spring 09.

I am taking it online for spring 09 too...it's the only class I haven't gotten to log into yet. lol Good Luck!!

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