700 pages of reading, per week, for one class

[caffeineRx]

How do you do it?

[ellakate]

Hey, inbox, I hate to see you so upset. Can you start a study group?

[caffeineRx]

It's really that amount when you add it all up

[ellakate]

You are right. This is ****.

[ellakate]

Why do teachers do that to students?

[Nursey103, ADN, RN]

What class is this for?

[caffeineRx]

thanks so much. i was trying to go head on with this reading.

[caffeineRx]

I suppose ill b skimming through stuff :)

[Hairstylingnurse]

If I'm not mistaken this is the part of nursing school (usually begining) where they want to weed out the students from the slackers. It usually gets people to start dropping out on thier own. Just the ones that arent really ready to commit to the nursing program. Hang in there, u will be capable of much more than u think u r. And a few do usually drop at this point. That being said be ready to commit to studying like u never have before, missing out on lots of sleep(for studying) and anything else nurse related. Its a whole new world. Good luck to you, and remember there is alot more to YOU than u realize at this point.

[Nursey103, ADN, RN]

I would seriously skim the book. It is impossible to get that much reading done & even if you did read that much, how much are you actually going to remember?? I'd read & study your notes & use the book for a reference (read up on what you don't fully understand). I'm the kind of student who reads everything but sometimes you just don't have the time. If I don't have time, I make sure to read my notes & then I'll just use the book for things I don't get.

Good luck!!

[caffeineRx]

hope this is just a test! seems like a ton of stuff

[sistasoul]

When I was in school we had huge amounts of reading to do. I would get so overwhelmed. I never once finished all of the assigned reading as there was clinical to prepare for and all other types of projects, etc.

By the time you read all of that you can not possibly remember most of what you read. I got to the point that I read as much as I could and took really good notes in class and mainly studied from my powerpoints. I managed to graduate with this method.

The instructors know you can't realistically read that amount in 2 days and retain the info. I would definitely look at the nursing interventions (what would the nurse do?). I found the teachers mainly tested from their powerpoint lectures. I had one teacher take questions directly from NCLEX books. I would definitely get some NCLEX books and go over the questions pertaining to the reading for the exams. It reinforces the material you have read and been lectured too about. I knew a student who studied mainly from the NSNA NCLEX book for a lot of the material. She was the number two student pertaining to grades and the class president. This book gives you in a couple of pages what 30 pages of reading in a med-surge book does. I still use mine as a new nurse to look up stuff I need a refresher course on.

I would just read as much as you can and briefly scan what you cannot get too. The reading in nursing school is crazy and I wish someone had told me when I first started not to go too crazy about the reading.

Hope that was of some help to you.