Overwhelmed w/ Pharm and Medsurg!!

[on eagles wings, ASN, RN]

UGH! I am so overwhelmed w/ this schedule! My professors are totally uninterested in teaching. One gives us the answers before the test--she totally destroys any motivation in us to study because she makes the tests SO easy--not even NCLEX style!

Pharm is so disastrous--this professor reads powerpoints verbatim and cannot answer questions because SHE DOES NOT KNOW THEM. Basically, I am not being taught anything. We are being left to ourselves to know everything... how on earth am I gunna succeed?

I study night & day for pharm. If medsurg was my baby I would go to jail for negligence because I do not even look at the book until a day or two before the exam.

*Sigh* It is hard because I am audiovisual... so finally, do any of you have any recorded lectures or youtube videos that help you in med surg??? I don't have time to read the book and the powerpoints are USELESSSSS!!!!

Thanks guys!

[Blue Cat]

How frustrating! It is so hard to teach yourself such complex content. What text do you use for med-surg? We use the Lewis med-surg books and the website for the book has printable key points for each chapter. I also have the Reviews & Rationales books for med-surg, pharmacology, peds, and maternal newborn. I really like that series and also have the NCLEX prep book by the same publisher. It condenses all the key info, so that might be helpful to you.

Amazon.com: Prentice Hall Nursing Reviews & Rationales: Medical-Surgical Nursing (2nd Edition) (9780131789708): Mary Ann Hogan, Stacy Estridge, Dolores Zygmont, Joan Davenport: Books

[Blue Cat]

How frustrating! It is so hard to teach yourself such complex content. What text do you use for med-surg? We use the Lewis med-surg books and the website for the book has printable key points for each chapter. I also have the Reviews & Rationales books for med-surg, pharmacology, peds, and maternal newborn. I really like that series and also have the NCLEX prep book by the same publisher. It condenses all the key info, so that might be helpful to you.

http://www.amazon.com/Prentice-Halls-Reviews-Rationales-Comprehensive/dp/0131195999/ref=pd_sim_b_15

[on eagles wings, ASN, RN]

Bluecat, thanks for replying!!!!! I got that book and I love it.... I wish I had more time to read it. I feel like I only read it in the very beginning when things were slower. Now I hardly use it, only for clinical, care plans, etc. I am not following the syllabus at all. I learn quickly when someone is explaining things thoroughly or at least with pictures.... :-/ My teachers do neither and reading a book to get info only works when I have a lot of time.... If I could get a good video explaining things, I would be able to use the Reviews and Rationales better because I would already have some kind of foundation. Know what I mean?

I did well on my first pharm exam--92%. Still a B but I am glad with it! I am just so frustrated that it is taking all my time from studying, preparing for clinical, etc. I am so mad right now lol:banghead:

[rubato, ASN, RN]

Can you just sit in the back of the room and read the book while the teacher's wasting your time?

[♑ Capricorn ♑]

From what I was told from current nursing student ahead of me in school, is that it is up to us to learn the material. The instructors will go over what is important and will answer questions, but our REAL learning, is from the book(s). You can't expect yourself to really understand and learn anything if you aren't doing the readings or at least skimming. It doesn't always have to be the textbooks, you can use other books which can help you. NCLEX book, review and rationale books etc.

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

besides the above advice I would add that you need to talk to your Dean. This is not teaching.

[on eagles wings, ASN, RN]

rubato: yes but i cannot concentrate with the noise. and i find it rude to put on head phones in class.

[on eagles wings, ASN, RN]

From what I was told from current nursing student ahead of me in school is that it is up to us to learn the material. The instructors will go over what is important and will answer questions, but our [b']REAL[/b] learning, is from the book(s). You can't expect yourself to really understand and learn anything if you aren't doing the readings or at least skimming. It doesn't always have to be the textbooks, you can use other books which can help you. NCLEX book, review and rationale books etc.

hi, yea i do read and study, but i can't learn just by reading. this is my real problem. and my teachers are useless, i don't even ask them questions anymore. so essentially, we have to figure out what is most important by ourselves.

i have every book under the sun: pharmacology success, medsurg success, both of the reviews and rationales books, pharm made incredibly easy, etc etc. i could go on, lol. i use all of them. but for me, this is not nearly as effective as someone explaining it to me.... this is why i am so upset. i spend hours on end to understand material that could take me 1/2 the time.... and i don't understand it nearly enough.... and its not just me, i got a 92% on my pharm exam, a 100% on my medsurg exam(because the prof literally tells you what it on it!!!!)

[on eagles wings, ASN, RN]

besides the above advice I would add that you need to talk to your Dean. This is not teaching.

i am so scared of doing this. i have heard of teachers finding out and retaliating. =/