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The thing that baffels me most is, I coasted thru first semester w/o cracking a book (it all seemed like common sense to me and wound up half a point away from an A) Second semester, I busted my rear and read and read and read and well you get the idea. And failed big time. I'm so glad to know that I"m not the only one this has happened to. I keep telling myself, "what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger" and the Good Lord must have a plan for me that includes being a nurse. ps....forgive all the spelling errors

Some of my classmates failed first semester and attempted it again and passed. Well, this semester our teachers aren't much for giving us guidance or advice, so these people are out of the program b/c they failed Med-Surg/OB. They are all applying to different programs. The other schools around us have a better pass rate on the NCLEX and the program I'm in is notorious across the nation as being one of the toughest programs. I refuse to let that school defeat me! I'm just going to perserver. Why don't you check into other schools? You'll probably have to start out at ground zero, but you can't give up on your dream. I almost had....Started selling back all the reference books I had acquired over the last year (now I regret it, but that's another story). I tell you what, nursing school may be interesting, but i believe it's the worst kind of pain anyone can intentionally inflict upon themselves (not to mention their families and friends). We've just gotta keep our head up and keep perserving. We wouldn't have gotten this far if it weren't meant to me, right?

Luckily I have a very supportive husband, whose behind me 110% and KNOWS i can do it. The thing is, i guess it goes back to Murphy's Law . If it can happen it will happen in nursing school. The thing is, nursing school tends to bring back all the horrible stuff that you had buried deep inside you. So needless to say last semester I went crazy b/c all the bad stuff came flooding back - but I've since gotten everything under control and have my head in the right direction. I am not going to let ANYTHING defete me. Not going to be a quitter! I have tried two different study groups, that definely did not help AT ALL. Everyone seemed to be more interested in chit chatting rather than studying. I guess I'm just a lone studier.

Have anyone of you failed a semester? I know a ton of nurses that failed, but succeeded once going back. I feel down on myself for failing second semester, but I'm keeping my head up, because this gives me time to hone my study skills because I already have the content from this semester, so I plan on getting an A this semester coming up. At first I thought ir was devastating, and I was a failure, but even more EMBARRASSING because I've never failed at anything. I'm using this to my advantage though. Please, if anybody has been in a similar situation, please feel free to reply (sometiimes it makes you feel a little better knowing your not the only one going through something like this)

I love the idea that I can actually make a difference is someone's life. In clinical we're only given one patient at a time, but I help classmates with their patients. I fall in love with each and every patient i encounter (even the mean ones). I find myself putting them in their shoes (i'm a very empathetic person....which will probably be my downfall one day, but i hope it NEVER changes). I love being able to spend time with my patient, rubbing their foreheads while they try to relax and recover, not to mention their emotional needs. I love being able to listen, which so few of my patients have anyone to bounce their feelings off of. Even if you only make one person comfortable and feel loved, it's a great day. It's the neatest feeling to have a break through with one of my patients that was in end stage COPD with not alot of options in front of her, I stay with her, rubbing her forehead. It was too funny b/c she asked me, "Do you do that with all your patients?" And she requested i kept doing it, with a tear in her eye. I really feel that that woman truley felt love that day and to me that was the greatest feeling for me. Patients writing poems to you, greet you with a smile and hug, tear up when you leaave. These are all great, it really offsets the negatives. Not to mention nursing is a steady, respectable career to go into, but you truly have to take the good with the bad and focus more on that good feeling you get when you help someone. It's also a secure job in which you can make a decent living. I'm not going into this to become rich because that will never happen, but life is not all about money (in my opinion at least).

I've never had any complaints with allheart. Got all my toys in no time (took a little longer for the scope, but it's b/c i had it engraved). I've been thoroughly impressed with them. Prices are great, and i get great service from them.

I just got on the educational leave program out at whitfield :) I'm on cloud nine right now. But psych is what i really want to do, so i don't think the work out there will be bad. Some people just aren't very comfortable working around psych pts. The do have a med/surg area and also the nursing home. So if any of those would be of any interest, look into them. all the people i've talked to that went in on the ed leave program and started working out there after school, they have absolutley loved it and most are still out there. good luck in whatever y'all decide to do! :balloons:

Get the study guide. My test was word for word from the study guide, but a few of my friends that have taken it recently (i took it July of 02) said it wasn't word for word. http://www.eriworld.com/ Good luck and don't stress! It's not bad (just basic stuff).

another tip....try opening your mouth slightly to open up your ears. those double-headed scopes suck! during checkoffs on vs i had to go through three sets before i could get it (not to mention my instructor checking me off kept either clearing her throat or making gurgling noises.....didn't make it very easy) i vote master classic II - don't know where i'd be w/o mine :)

but you (or the data collector) didn't observe that behavior. what if the mother suffers from munchausen by proxy (or however you spell it) ? The mother could be "telling" you something that isn't true just trying to get the attention of med providers. now when you run tests to validate what the mother's saying you're able to actually "measure" something. so that data would be objective. now if she came in and told you that her kid fell down the stairs and bruised his leg you could observe that bruise. but the info you got from the mother would still be subjective. you observing that bruise is the objective data b/c you can actually measure the bruise.

what the patient (or in this case, the mother) states is going to be subjective.....anything YOU OBserve is going to be OBjective :)