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Hi, please withdraw and retake the course only because you do not want any W's on your transcripts and you've worked so hard to get to this point. Nursing school is competitive so you want to have great transcripts. Plus, A&P is the foundation for every nursing class. It's a must that you know this material. Please take this break time to review all you A&P notes. A&P is a fast course so you want to be ahead and review. You may not see this yet, but you are receiving a glimpse of nursing school far as having to self study, be resourceful to find a tutor, books, videos, etc to enhance your learning, having professors who may not compliment your learning style so you are going to need to accountable for your own success. Please take this time review every chapter A&P, but first learn how to study exams. Read books how to study exams in general. Hopefully this may help you. You can do this! ?

Please take your time. First take pretest and see where you are. Review nursing theory orem and Maslow nursing process in your fundamentals book..Listen to mark k priority audio on YouTube, read any test taking strategy book and have your nursing diagnosis book ? handy ..then learn to dissect the question from a test bank...Get any test question bank with good rationales and get the priority assignment test questions book... learning how to dissect the question with the new knowledge from test taking strategy, Maslow, and priority book. This should be a time to really go slow to read questions. Do not start answering questions yet ..just learn how to dissect. See what the question is asking, see what only key knowledge you need to answer the question and see what words or phrases are in the question, etc. Next get a large study schedule calendar and practice daily with flashcards and actively review until test date.. Take your time.

read chapter 5 and chapter 42 in your Saunders book for day 1 and then read two new chapters for day 2..etc.

when is your next exam?

Hi @mslaydiej What do you need help with about the cardiac?

Hi, getting a nursing student extern is key during nursing school. It really depends on your future goals whether you want to work in an acute setting, doctor office, rehab facility, nursing home, etc. I would like to suggest other non nursing roles that teach critical thinking and team collaboration such as medication Technician, unit Secretary, medical Scribe or EMT.

Which program would you rather pick and choose? Which school has a tutoring service that will help you pass fundamentals and graduate with little to no debt?

I highly recommend going to a local library and check out a few A&P study guides and print out the chapter outlines and read it daily. Then go on Quizlet and review every AP chapter. Last, watch all professor Fink video on Youtube during June- July.

Listen to Mark Klimek YT videos check out a NCLEX book at the library and Google "Kaplan Decision Tree" Review NCLEX practice question using the decision tree. Read the NCLEX test taking strategies and use the decision tree and review more NCLEX practice questions Have a great CARE PLAN book. Your nursing textbooks will have lots of "fluff" try to rent your textbook study guides and review NCLEX books for exams. Priority and efficiency is key

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Congratulations!

We appreciate you. One of a kind Nurse Beth ?

Great article Nurse Beth! I'm away from full time nursing, but still practice as a contract LVN. My two cents would be to stop calling problem solving skills as "test taking strategies" in the classroom.

Interesting comments....I've been contemplating for quite some time and decided to go the opposite route.

I've walked in your shoes many of times during the LVN program especially during first semester. My entire class who had some CNAs and EMTs failed the final and yet we moved on to the 2nd semester, but it was a struggle for the entire class. I say that to let you know that everyone is in the same boat learning how to become a LVN. Having medical knowledge helps to a certain degree, but not overall. You will be given terms like nursing process (Assessment, Diagnosis, planning, implementation, Evaluation) and critical thinking which is another word for problem solving. You are a problem solver. You will use the nursing process step by step to solve a problem.You will need to know your A&P to help solve the patient's problem. Nursing process -especially ASSESSMENT is the most important step to solving the problem. Assessment include knowing your A&P and patients basic human needs (respiration, safety, etc) to help prioritize which problem to solve first because no patient comes in with just one problem ☺ So basically you will have to put all the pieces together your A&P and basic human needs for the patient. You will need to brush up on A&P. test taking strategies can only get you so far. A&P is vital. Also look at your chapter summaries and key points to focus on what's important for the exam. A great place to start learning how to be a problem solver is your Saunders book and nursing care plan book. Ask your teacher to teach you how to study your textbook and take notes as well. Or do a search on here too. I'm confident you will make it! Nursing process will be with you during school and on your nursing job