blue2rose

Even if you are not happy with what you have to go through, I think you have to get going, swallow your pride and get over everything until you finish, right? Anyway, I wish you good luck until you pass the finish line.

NOTE CARDS ARE A GREAT HELP. IT GIVES YOU THE CHANCE TO STUDY WHERE YOU ARE. KEEP THEM IN YOUR PURSE AND GO OVER THEM WHILE you are WAITING IN LINE TO PAY FOR YOUR GROCERIES. :) DON'T WASTE TIME AND USE EVERY MINUTE. GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR STUDYING!!

I totally agree with you. I talked to a lot of people from HFCC, Schoolcraft, Macomb and there is different. I was fulled by the "no waiting list". When you are to far away, you can't wait to finish! Good luck in there to become a nurse!

NO matter where you are, what nursing program you are, you have to study. Good luck when you are in the nursing program!

Some other study tips: ]:nuke:Learn to Study Smarter - Not Harder Achieved with good time management "Winner has a plan; a loser has an excuse "Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan" ]Learn to Use a Necessary Education Tool Number 1 Friend FOR Students! ]Textbooks look like books, feel like books, but are not to be necessarily treated like books! More correctly considered a tool ]The Textbook as a Tool - Convenient way to organize a great volume of information - Full of pictures and graphs - Various sizes and colors of text - Boxes of additional information and facts - All can be selected - as needed - to assist learning ]Why Bother with the Textbook? - 70% of test questions come from the class lecture - Majority of study time should be spent on notes and handouts - 30% of test questions come from the textbook - Knowledge from the textbook can move you from a failing to a passing grade! ]Know What is in Your Textbook Toolbox ]Table of Contents - Map of the book - Speeds up finding information - Provides the "big picture" of the book - Provides a sense of sequence of material ]Preface - A "must read" - Provides purpose for the book's design - Author tells how to use this textbook - Interpretation of the graphics - Use of boldface, italics, and color text ]Glossary - A vocabulary list - Contributes to understanding - Aids in learning new terminology ]Index or Indices - Provides a map of the textbook using specific words, terms and/or phrases - Great for locating specific information - Looking up a key word listing will provide page numbers for additional information ]Appendix or Appendices - Provides specialized information - Format is usually Tables and Charts - Examples - Nursing Diagnoses - Nutritional information - Foreign phrases ]Reading a Textbook - Should be an active process - Read out loud whenever possible - Read to another person to sharpen reading comprehension - Reading" an Assignment - Read Chapter introduction - Read Objectives if available - Read Chapter Summary or ending paragraphs - Read the Chapter "Outline" What Chapter "Outline?" * Furnished by the author when book was planned * Publisher looks at general structure of book * Author "fleshes out" the outline * Publisher drops the Roman Numerals so finished book flows better * Major divisions indicated through text size, color, capital letters, etc. - You can re-outline the chapter by just re-inserting the Roman Numerals - Save your time and paper! ]Advantages of "Reading" Process * Improves reading comprehension * Saves time * Will break assignments into manageable segments * Keeps the assignments from feeling overwhelming ]Highlights of Highlighting * Must be discriminate * Only highlight 5 things on a page - Prevents over-highlighting - Forces you to look at material objectively - Helps you seek most important information on each page * May choose the topic sentence of each paragraph - Author's principle ideas ]Write in Your Book! * Textbooks have wide margins just for this purpose * Great place to write definitions Useful when cross referencing lecture notes with the textbook ]How to Physically Study * Limit or eliminate distractions * Get functionally comfortable * Plan to work for a specific period of time ]How and What to Study * Review your notes * Cross reference lecture notes with your textbook * Review class handouts * Do practice questions related to the material - Make up your own - Use textbook CDs when available ]Study Alone * Opportunity to sort through information at your own pace * Study with a really smart person - Read notes out loud to yourself in front of a mirror - See yourself learning AND teaching! ]Study Out Loud Makes studying an active process! ]Study with a Group * Expands your concepts & understanding * Allows you to teach others - an excellent way to learn * Keeps you from becoming bored ]Study Group Cautions * Group must be dedicated * Seek partners that are a comfortable match * Change groups if it doesn't work * Don't be the only teacher -Group assignments - Learn a topic, teach a topic, & learn the topic better ]Make Flashcards * Students love them or hate them -Don't spend long periods of time preparing them * Useful to recapture "lost moments of time" * Good for material to be memorized -Don't put too much information on each card Program success depends on the student's willingness to do what must be done to be successful. Educational success cannot be achieved without focused effort on the part of the student. In order to be academically successful, many students just need to get out of their own way!

Many schools are not having any course about critical thinking but I think they should. If english is your 2nd language, you have to read carefully each question, and get used to the Nursing Fundamentals questions because they help a lot. To think critically, takes time. Read the question as it is (don't try to add to it), and try to eliminate the distractors. After you read the question, try to eliminate at least 2 answers, and pick your first choice. Stop erasing because that can get you in trouble. When I take a test, and I am not sure of the answer, I always put a question mark for that question and come back later to it. Don't waste your time and go to the next question. Come back to it later. Try to answer the questions that you didn't know for sure and don't erase any other answers. Nursing program makes you humble and many people feel the way you do. If you really want to be a nurse, don't give up. God forbid, if you don't pass the fundamentals, retake it again. Don't let that stop you. Do as many Nclex questions as you can. The Fundamentals book helped me so much. I wish you good luck! some website that can help you: http://www.test-preparation.ca/ http://philippinenurses.blogspot.com/2007/08/nurse-test-taking-strategy.html

You are right about WCCCD.

some study tips i found online. nursing school is insanity! [color=#548dd4]how to make it through, mind intact. [color=#696464]by marti wethington, rn, emt-i (former nursing student) success tips [color=#d44817]- organization [color=#d44817]- study skills [color=#d44817]- test taking strategies [color=#d44817]- don't sweat the small stuff organization get a large calendar with blank squares calendar your syllabus times [color=#d44817]- class time [color=#d44817]- lab practice time [color=#d44817]- skills testing time [color=#d44817]- clinical hours (include transportation time) [color=#d44817]- clinical prep time [color=#d44817]- homework: patient care plans [color=#d44817]- readings to do calendar your syllabus due dates [color=#d44817]- readings (list these on sunday for the week) [color=#d44817]- skills [color=#d44817]- tests calendar your tests [color=#d44817]- mark test date in red [color=#d44817]- schedule 3 study periods and a "cram session" prior to test date [color=#9c2d1f]- study 1 is vocabulary [color=#9c2d1f]- study 2 is concepts and relationships [color=#9c2d1f]- study 3 is review the highlights [color=#9c2d1f]- "cram session" or what i still don't know [color=#d44817]- study periods do not have to be on consecutive days but should be close to test day. it's your life! put it on the calendar! [color=#d44817]- work shifts [color=#d44817]- family obligations [color=#9c2d1f]- weddings [color=#9c2d1f]- birthday party [color=#9c2d1f]- kids' play, tournament, special celebrations [color=#d44817]- just say "no" [color=#d44817]- just for me time cry!!!! take one day at a time [color=#d44817]- live by your calendar. [color=#d44817]- look at it every morning first thing. [color=#d44817]- check off each item as you complete it. [color=#d44817]- cross off each day as work well done. [color=#d44817]- one day at a time!!! just for me [color=#d44817]- jazzercise, yoga, cross-stitch, knit [color=#d44817]- walk the track, ride your bike [color=#d44817]- walk in the park [color=#d44817]- soak in a bubble bath [color=#d44817]- have a date with your "honey" one rule for a 2 to 3 hour period once a week you are not allowed to think of, fret over, or speak of....nursing school. study skills [color=#d44817]- reading is not studying! [color=#d44817]- your reading of your text and your completing of your notes is scheduled under "reading!" [color=#d44817]- textbook reading can also be study 1 vocabulary in the textbook. [color=#d44817]- study sessions last 50 minutes then a 10 minute break. you can schedule several sessions in a row, but take your breaks! study 1 vocabulary [color=#9c2d1f]- read your notes and book with a pink highlighter in hand. [color=#9c2d1f]- highlight any word that you do not know: medical terms, pathology names, drug names, regular english words, etc. [color=#9c2d1f]- read the definition of the word. [color=#9c2d1f]- look up definition and write it in if not included in your notes or book. [color=#9c2d1f]- this session can be done in your "reading" only in the book. your notes need a separate session. study 2 concepts and relationships [color=#d44817]- read your notes and book with a blue highlighter in hand. [color=#d44817]- highlight things that go together e.g., four hallmark symptoms of a utiare urgency (the need to "go" now!; frequency, going more often than usual; burning, a stinging sensation; and pain. study 3 review the highlights [color=#d44817]- read the highlighted words and concepts only. [color=#d44817]- have your brain fill in the blanks. [color=#d44817]- stuck? still don't know? [color=#d44817]- star * the "i don't know" highlights. cram session [color=#d44817]- look at and review only the starred items. [color=#d44817]- you have triaged your time. [color=#d44817]- you have spent the most time on the difficult. [color=#d44817]- so..."don't waste your time". test taking strategies [color=#d44817]- make sure you know the vocabulary. [color=#d44817]- use knowledge of anatomy and physiology & medical terminology [color=#d44817]- eliminate the distractors. [color=#d44817]- choose the best of the 4 answers given. [color=#d44817]- in medicine, know the priorities of treatment. it is often as simple as abc test taking strategies 2 [color=#d44817]- get a good night's sleep. [color=#d44817]- no all-nighters. [color=#d44817]- eat a good breakfast. [color=#d44817]- stop cramming 1 hour before test. [color=#d44817]- take a walk, exercise, meditate.... [color=#d44817]- realize that there will always be something you do not yet know. don't sweat the small stuff! [color=#d44817]- you cannot do it all! [color=#d44817]- get an agreement with family to share duties. [color=#d44817]- pick your "must do" list with care. [color=#d44817]- just say no!!! [color=#d44817]- don't forget to schedule the just for me time. the end!

Organization is the key.

From what I see, you're not even in the nursing program there, but you comment on something you don't know for sure. You don't even know what you get yourself into. I will you good luck!

I am a student at that school. I hope that you will finish the nursing program. No one expects the nursing program to be easy, but here is the most horrible nursing program ever. I never heard of a school where the teachers aren't happy because 60 will finish in december and, they say that only 40 should finish. How do you explain that? In Medsurg 4 they told us that on the test will be the first 3 chapters, but they had the first 5 chapters. The average of the class was 60%. They did that on purpose, so we will fail. The majority of the nursing instructors here are not happy to see many people to finish this school. They should audit the nursing instructors when a certain % is failing their classes. They should be questioned, but nobody cares. They are proud when half of the class is not passing.

That school has a million issues, not only "A LOT". I know people who finished the classes needed for nursing at WCCCD and, then, they went to Wayne State when they heard about WCCCD's nonexistent accreditation. WCCCD is a horrible school. How do explain the low number of students who graduate? From 120 students who started in the fall of 2006, only 44 finished. What is wrong with this picture? The horror stories are only here.

Hi there! Right now the nursing program from WCCCD doesn't have a waiting list, but you need a high GPA and a good NET score. The last GPA they accepted in the fall was 3.8. There is no joke! The nursing program there is no joke. The 1st 7 1/2 weeks are hell because you have to be in class for 20 hours and study at home at least 20. The nursing teachers are bad the majority of them. Many of them will make it impossible for you to finish the nursing program. THe majority of them don't teach anything. Many classes are self-teaching and the tests are horrible. This is the reality. You'll see.I know from experience.

why everybody thinks only about poop and body fluids? only the nasty part? is there anything you really like in nursing? not everybody is meant to be a nurse. nurses must be humble and tough for their patients. they have to be the legs, brains and hands for the sick people. are u ready to do that? here is some funny stuff. you know you are a nurse when......... now smile.... 1) the front of your scrubs reads 'nurses... here to save your ass, not kiss it!' 2) you occasionally park in the space with the 'physicians only' sign... and knock it over. 3) you believe some patients are alive only because it's illegal to kill them. 4) you recognize that you can't cure stupid. 5) you own at least three pens with the names of prescription medications on them. 6) you believe there's a special place in hell for the inventor of the call light. 7) you believe that saying 'it can't get any worse' causes it to get worse just to show you it can. 8) you wash your hands before you go to the bathroom. 9) you believe that any job where you can drive to work in your pajamas is a cool one. 10) you consider a tongue depressor an eating utensil. 11) eat ing microwave popcorn out of a clean bedpan is perfectly natural. 12) you've been exposed to so many x-rays that you consider it a form of birth control. 13) you've ever heard a patient with a nose ring, a brow ring, and twelve earrings say 'i'm afraid of shots.' 14) you've ever placed a bet on someone's blood alcohol level. 15) you've told a confused patient that your name is that of a coworker and to call if they need help. 16) your bladder can expand to the size of a winnebago's water tank. 17) you have seen more memberes than any prostitute could dream of. 18) you believe that not all patients are annoying... some are unconscious. 19) y our family and friends refuse to watch medical sitcoms with you because you spend the whole time correcting everyone and pointing out upside down x-rays. 20) you don't get excited about blood, unless it's your own. 21) you've sworn to have 'do not resuscitate' tattooed on your chest. soon. 22) discussing dismemberment over a gourmet meal is perfectly normal to you. 23) your idea of fine dining is anywhere you can sit down to eat. 24) your idea of a good time is a cardiac arrest at shift change. 25) you believe in the aerial spraying of prozac. 26) you believe that 'shallow gene pool' should be a recognized diagnosis. 27) you believe that the government should require permits to reproduce. 28) you believe that unspeakable evils will befall anyone who utters the phrase 'wow, it's really quiet, isn't it? 29) you have ever wanted to write a book entitled 'suicide: getting it right the first time.' 30) you h ave ever had a patient look you straight in the eye and say 'i have no idea how that got stuck in there.' 31) you've had to leave a patient's room before you begin to laugh uncontrollably.