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Practice questions, practice questions, practice questions. Saunder's NCLEX review book saved my life! And I don't know what kind of text you are using, but Brunner's Med Surg has a program called NCLEX 3500 on the accompanying CD in the back of the...

I can't even begin to imagine having to learn all that stuff in one week. That's insane. My school had us take an actual assessment class that lasts an entire semester, with lab every other week for us to practice on each other. The big final was a c...

I am done with all my med surg classes, and we used Brunner's as well. I will tell you that while there were no straight up pathophysiology questions, you did have to have a good understanding about the patho in order to answer some of them logically...

Aww, that sucks. I'm sorry you are having such a rough first semester. But please don't think that it will always be like this. There are some truly nice people in nursing school that won't give you all of this highschool drama, you just have to look...

In our last semester, my leadership clinical goes from 2-11 PM, 2 days per week. We get assigned our patients (anywhere from 3-6 people, depending on census) and we have pre-ward conference for 45 minutes, and then we can take a quick peak at our cha...

What proof do you have that they are cheating? Do you have an honor code in your school? Personally, I would not go to a professor unless I am absolutely 100% certain. In fact, I try not to worry myself about what anyone else does. As long as I have ...

I love all the lifelong friends that I have made. I love feeling more confident in clinicals with each passing week. I love the hour drive home from school. I love making patient's and their families smile and feel more comfortable. I love when nurs...

I am in my last semester and we have always had to do charting on our patients. The first semester we mostly just charted vital signs and basic assessments, but as we worked our way up we did more and more with the charts, including nursing notes. Ob...

We are in leadership clinicals right now, and since it is our last semester and we are taking on a heavier patient load, we don't have nearly as much paperwork as we used to. We don't have to turn in any more care plans or 13 page assessment profiles...

LOL! Yup, it's called a reflection paper. We are supposed to take a few minutes to "reflect" on what happened during clinical and then write something that we learned from our experience. I think it's a waste of time, personally. But if that and one...

I was assigned to an LPN yesterday and she was amazing! She was so nice and helpful, and she really knew her stuff. Even though I am in leadership clinical, she was definitely more than qualified to help me learn what I need to know. There were only ...

1) Phlebotomy. Even though I am in my last semester, I have only had a chance to start a couple IVs and I am desperate for more experience before graduating. 2) Spanish related to the medical field.

I tend to think of demented in a derogatory manner. It is a term that people use to insult each other, and basically it means they are insane idiots. Dementia, however, refers to someone having a disease. They aren't crazy, they are sick. You see wh...

Yeah, I guess it isn't anything to really worry about, and boy will I never forget again! But I still feel it was a little harsh having to fill out an incident report over something so small, and it definitely did not help put me in a good light with...

I don't have a problem with sharing grades either. I'm not going to run around bragging that I got 100% because that might make someone who failed feel bad, but if someone asks me I don't weird out about it. Pretty much everyone in my class shares gr...

That could be your problem. I don't know how many times I've been told by instructors to read ahead of time so we won't be so lost in class. It helps.

Some of them I would never let touch me with a 3 foot pole. But there are others who are amazing at clinical and in the classroom, and I would trust them with my very life. I think it all just depends on the person.

Oh, no, syllabuses are typically greater than 100 pages at my school too. Generally they cost around 15 dollars.

It's one where you can see the seconds tick by. tick. tick. tick. it allows accurate timing when you are trying to count respiration and pulses.

What helped me was to start living on my school schedule the week before the semester started, that way it wouldn't be such a big shock to my body when I actually had to force myself to switch schedules. I don't necessarily make myself wake at at 4 A...

Oh, no, dimensional analysis is wonderful! I was homeschooled, and my father taught me how to do DA to make word problems easier, back when I was in 5th grade. I hated it then, and I would cry, saying, "I'll never use this in my entire life!" But the...

I plan on doing nothing that requires any mental exercise whatsoever. My brain is burnt out!

A in mental health, B in med sug III. I'm happy with those grades. Now it's on to my last semester: pediatrics and leadership!

Woah, that was harsh and completely uncalled for. Some people are just better test takers than others. A grade is just a letter, it means nothing in the real world. I think clinical performance is a much better predictor of a good nurse.

Congratulations! It's such a good feeling, isn't it? I just got my grades online, and I passed this semester with good grades too. Now it's on to relaxing and enjoying my break before going into my last semester! I plan on taking a lot of bubble bat...