LeesG

Only in Nursing School would you buy extra packs of socks and underwear for you and the children, so you would have to do less laundry, then you could study the 50 hrs of work in 6 hrs....but even though you failed the quiz...you didnt feel like a complete loser cause everyone had clean undergarments. Believe me, its a bad day to fail a quiz, and have to do laundry when you get home...so buy extra !!!!

True, But also for me I realized that at anytime it could be me, with the tears in my eyes, leaving them, and my dreams of finishing school gone in a poof. Yes I could return, and I have seen many posts of people who have done that and did better the second time around, but thats not the route I want to take, Im here now, and want to stay. the scene I witnessed, as we all stood in the hallway waiting for each other, and then to see tears, it really was.....well....sad, that peoples dreams were crushed, be it a silly math error, or not appyling themselves, either way it was sad. This has been all the motivation I have needed in the last few days...hope ot helps you.

I also stuggle at times with the motivation to study. The other day I saw the devestaion of not studying from the other side, I watched 3 of my class mates walk out of the math test, with tears in their eyes, they failed, and are unable to return to school...thats it, kicked out !!! It was sad to see how easliy it can all slip away, all the work, or if they didnt study the feeling of complete regret on their faces, that they thought they could slip by, and then they didnt ...it was sad, and also enlightening. So Im not sure if I have tips for you to GET motivated a few days earlier, but for me, watching my friends fail, and seeing the hurt, that at any time could be me, has given me ALOT of motivation on the last few days.

YES !!! Im only 7 weeks into NS and I have had to pick it up 3-4 times so far. Im glad I still have it. Funny thing is I have the same book as you. I used to think it was heavy and complained carrying it to class. I put it on the shelf at home last Spring when A&P was over, havent looked at it till 2 weeks ago, when I picked it up off the shelf it felt like a feather compared to some of my nursing books :chuckle:chuckle:chuckle

Is he pressuring you in some way ? Your post sounds like your really stressed over it, thats why I asked. If he is thats a diffrent issue...but if he just asked and that all...then just say NO...problem solved

I would not quit, I would figure something out. Is there a city bus terminal in your area, not intercity transportatin but like Greyhound ? I know its early in the AM...arent there any other student going to the same clinical as you ? Is there a teacher that will be at that clinical ???

I wouldnt do anything, unless another person saw her its your word against her's. I would be leary of her in the future as well. The info that she cheated on will catch up with her somewhere...and then she will realize you cant cut corners.

Im a new ADN student also, about your age, and I was lucky enough to find 3 people, out of the 70 in the class, that I knew from A&P...thats it, I know nobody else, so I understand. We also do alot of self teaching and I'm struggling as well, but back to you. If you scanned the room of 70 people is everyone with someone else ? Do you see 1-2 people who are sitting alone, maybe with their heads down as well ? If so they may be feeling the same way you are, maybe you could approach them ( I know hard for an introvert) and see if they have a study group, they may not either. I know in my class there are all ranges of people, young people who have a clique, people that have young children who fit togehter, the "older" crowd who's kids are grown and so on. I also see a few people who come to class, dont really talk to anyone, leave quielty, and then come back the next day and do it over again, never really connecting to anyone. There has to be a few like that in your class, look for them, try and gather some courage, and talk to them. They may blow you off, so be prepared, or they may be glad that another bookish introvert found them. Dont feel bad for falling apart....it happens to the best of us...my first test is Monday, so Im sure Im due for a crack in my psyche soon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Luck

This book saved my life !! I bought it used online in A&P 2 and I wish I would have had it in A&P 1... http://www.amazon.com/diFiores-Histology-Functional-Correlations-Lippincott/dp/0781770572

Im also a ADN Student and single mother of 3, 19 ( in college),16 and 7 yrs old. Although I am making ends meet with alot of budgeting , there have been times, like when I first was divorced when I felt just like you. Some things I did I cut the cable to 10 channels, with all the DVD movies the kids had there was enough to watch, and PBS was still available so they had educational shows. Bill was $75 a month, went down to $12.75 !! You have to call the cable company and ask about the BASIC plan, they have it but do not advertise it usually. We have a scratch and dent store called Amelia's. Has canned goods that have dents and cant be sold at the regular grocery store and sell for about .25 a can in addition to other things that are fine, just not perfect for the regular store. We also have a store called ALDI which sells off brand soups, cereals, rice, butter, everything you find in a regular grocery store, just off brand Had a budget of $500 a month for the kids and I ( there were 4 of us) for food, it dropped to $350 !!! I saw on Oprah once a woman who said that if she isant using something it is UNPLUGGED !!! She said that even leaving toasters and such plugged in draws some electricity, I tried it, and I must admit that plugging the can opener in to use it was a pain at first, also unplugging the TV at night when I went to bed was annoying, but I was curious so I tried it just to see, and suprisingly my electric bill dropped from $120 a month to $90...thats $30 bucks !!! I must admit I dont so it anymore, but it did save some $. Pack your lunch !!! Make sure you have plastic containers and pack left over and Peanut Butter sandwichs...I was buying at school with the other girls...cost me $6-7 a day !!! At the end of a month of school that $120 bucks !! If you have a cell phone look at the bill..do you have internet on the phone ? If so do you really need it ? I see many of the younger classmates checking their Facebook on a break on their phones. These plans can cost $20- 50 a month...and right now its really not necessary...you have computers at home and at school and changing their update to " I hate this class" can wait till they get home. Winter is coming, if you pay heat then plastic on the windows can really save some $. It is inexpensive and you can buy it at any Walmart or Lowes. A guilty pleasure of mine...Iced Tea from the convenince store, to the tune of $2.50 a gallon. When I was broke I bought a box of 100 generic tea bags and a 5lb bag of sugar at the store...cost about $6.00...made about 10 gallons of iced tea and saved $19.00 a month. I know these may seem like small nickel and dime things ...but the add up ALOT. I just showed changes that can save someone $300 or so a month !!! Nursing school is, in the grand scheme of life, a short time, only 2 years....do everything you can to make sure you can devote your time to it, so later down the road you can afford to keep the cable on

I am only entering my 3rd week of NS and I can tell you that I am overwhelmed ! Its not that what i am reading is hard, its the amount of reading. I have reading for lecture, lab and clinical each week and it comes to about 15-20 chapters of info. Then there is the skills that have to be learned and practiced over and over again so you can pass the skills check off. So I would have to say the volume of work that needs done is more of a problam than the work itself. Funny thing is I have read over and over again here that the volume was the problem. So even though I was warned and I thought I knew what I was getting into and I thought I was prepared for it...I wasnt. Nothing but actually being there can drive home how much work it really is. Juggling work and family only make it more diffucult. Even after only 2 weeks I have adopted the additude of Dory from the Disney Nemo movie, I JUST KEEP SWIMMING !!!!!!!!!!!!! I have actually sang it out loud a few times and it calms me down. Good Luck Lees

Yeah !!! You have a plan, and now you will be able to devote your time to studying... soon enough you and I hopefully will be a ....then we can buy name brand chips and soda !!! Good Luck

Congrats !! I know people work alot and are successful at school but some cant. As I said before be very frugal with your money. When you first get it it is easy to spend on things you dont really need because its in the bank, and then its GONE and your sunk. Some advise would be to pay your bills ahead as far as you can, say a few months of rent or car insurance. After that whats left divide by the number of weeks you have until your next loan check. EX: if you have $1000 left divided by 16 weeks give you $62.50 a week for groceries and gas ( thats not much). Hopefully its just you and you like Ramen Noodles and Kool Aid :wink2:. This way you can insure that you have enough to get through. Everyone I have meet in NS thus far is moniterily broke so your poorness wont stick out, mine hasnt anyway. Good Luck

I waitress Sat and Sun mornings from 8-2pm for grocery and gas money. For the rest of my living expenses I am taking a $4000 loan a semester to live off of, I also receive child support, not much, but every little bit helps. I am on an extremely tight budget and when that big loan check comes I have to be careful not to buy needless things so it last for the 4-6 months that i need. I think taking a loan is an invesment in your future and you shouldnt worry to much about it, but do be CAREFUL with the money. It is very easy to get a lump sum and think you can afford to order chinese, buy that pair of shoes you do not need but you have been looking at or get highlights when a haircut is all that is neccesary. So take the loan, be frugal and study hard.

When my sister was in LPN school she knew a girl who was pregnant and the rules for absence was NOT bent for her. I think they were aloud 1 missed clinical day for the semester. Lucky for the freind she has the baby I think on a Sat or Sunday, took off Monday as her 1 miss for the semester and back in school Tuesday. Yikes !!!!!!!!

Thanks, I was so ready for school, I cant imagine walking in day 1 and asking for any special considerations, Im just going to pray that my lostness doesnt last too long. I saw lost because thats how I feel. Im fine for a few minutes and then I find myself staring into space thinking nothing. Or like I said I can see something but cant get it out. Last night in the ER the Doc told me to remember Apple. He came back a few minutes later and asked me what I was suppose to rememeber. I could see the apple in my head, but couldnt think of the word for about 20 seconds. I feel about 20% better today, and with the exception of my on and off smoking ( lets not go there) Im healthy, so hopefully this will correct itself day by day and in 2 weeks ill be good as new.

So its 2 weeks before school starts and my daughter pulls a Tiger Woods move at the miniature golf course and I end up with a CONCUSION !!!!!!!!! Yes !!!!!! straight in my forehead with the putt putt club !!! :crying2:I went to emergency and they said that I could be on and off confused for 1 week to 2 months !!!!!!!! All I could think was how am I going to focus in school if this confusuion I feel doesnt let up for that long ? It happened the other night and I came home to sleep it off ( I know not the smartest thing, but she was hysterical that she hurt me and I didnt want to make her feel worse ) Next day things got worse, I couldnt focus on anything, the room spun if I got up to quick, I started having a hard time remebering words, even though I could picture in my head what I wanted to say. With ALOT of poking from family I went to the ER. I wasnt suprised over the diagnosis, just the time frame that it could last. Now im terribly worried about school in 2 weeks...wish me luck

I have had this problem, more so when I was younger. But seriousley, If I was at risk of getting dismissed for oversleeping, I wouldnt buy a new alarm, I would buy 3 !!!!!! They are less than $10 at Walmart...I would place 1 on the head board, one on the dressesr, one on the hamper and another somewhere...ANYWHERE... THEN, I would put my Telephone on loud ringer, and have someone call both my phone and my cell phone !!! I almost lost a job once for oversleeping, that was in my twenties, its not an issue anymore...but I did have to train myself to hear the alarm. Also, radio alarms are not the way to go. I have overslept and had the BEST dreams that i was in a club, dancing with my friends, having a great time, and it was the radio alarm that I was subcounsiously hearing for an hour !! It was great dream, but I was late for work. So ONLY buzzer alarms, and get a few of them quick !!!!!! Good Luck

Im nervous too, even more so since 9 of the required 12 books showed up at my door yesterday !!!!!!! I also have left my job full time and will only work 12 hrs a week, so failing is scary since I will have to find another full time job. Im also older, 40 with 3 kids and no husband. I do have a wondefully supportive boyfriend of 3 years who is routing me on every day. I did get some great advise from a cousin of my boyfriends who is an RN. I was rambling about my feelings and nervounsness, I dont even think I was taking a breathe as I talked about " well, if I fail I will get another job, thats my back up plan, and then my 2nd plan and so on" (I used to work in Business and I was used to having backup after plan and plans for backup plans) She stopped me in my tracks and said " there is no back up plan, you have to look at it that way, there is NO back up plan, graduation is the only plan !" WOW... I said But But But ???????? She Said again..." There is no other plan, graduation is it, with back up plans it too easy to quit when it gets tough, so SCHOOL is the ONLY plan !" And I thought, WOW, that knocks the whining right outta ya. I didnt mean to imply that the OP was whining, just that I am having the same thoughts as the OP, my BF's cousin made alot of sense to me and her advise has eleveated alot of my fears, Im still nervous, but not petrified. Good Luck

YES...mine hurt... :cry:

I bought Netters flashcards, and I used them to study with my 7 year old. It was a good way to kill two birds with 1 stone, spending time with her and studying, but I also took pics from a camera in the lab, from the Profs screen and of Bones. It was REALLY hard but I was even able to focus true slides in my Microscope, then put the lense for the camera at the Ocular piece and get the pic that I would be looking at for the Practical, that was hard, and I had to delete a few times, but I did have a pic at home to look at, things like Portal Triads !!!....the Lab Manuals have the best possible pics of them, but your school may not have the best possible slides, so taking pics helped BUT !!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!! As you take the pics have a pen and paper and write the # of the corresponding pic on your camera ( if you havent deleted in awhile it could be pic 405 !!! ) AND what you are taking a pic of. One time I took about 30 pics, got them developed and had to sit with my Lab manual and try and figure out what they were, before I could even study for the test !!! very unproductive. What happened was I came home, scrolled through my pics on the digital camera, deleted the ones that didnt look good ( ie: to dark to light) , as I deleted, the # of the pic changed, and when I developed I had no idea what I was looking at !! So after that I would write down every pic I took and the pic # it was on the camera....made things much easier !!!

OOOPPPSSS My son and I will be '11 grads....None the less it will be a busy May 2 years from now If I make it ....I know he will, he is smart as a whip

I havent started Clinicals yet, that will come August 24th. Right now I am finishing my Microbiology pre req at the CC and I am taking Soc online. The kids are mostly good but it is a juggling act. Right now for me to have a peaceful study time I look over notes, while I let my littlest in front of the TV ( I know thats terrible !) the deal is that TV, reading books, coloring, Nintendo DS is all OK till Im done, after about 45-60 minutes I close my book and say " OK, lets take a walk, go to the park, something for 30 min. When we come back we again go to our corners...she ( I think I called her a he earlier) again, has the choices I mentioned and I study for another 45-60 minutes . Then we break for about 2 hours, she helps me cook or goes with me in the car while I pick up the older kids from work, we run to the store , play a quick game of checkers stuff like that, sometimes her and I have a 10 minute POWER cleaning....I run the vacuum and do dishes and she get clothing that was left around, hangs stuff up, put towels in front of the washer from the bathroom,dusts for me, things like that. I do get help from the older kids, but they are both working full time this summer and when they come home they retreat to their rooms because they are SO tired ( PLEASE !!!! they are cluless !! , but I love them and both of them are in charge of their own wash , so thats good) When I was in A&P 1 I felt that I wasnt spending enough time with my daughter, so I bougt flash cards and since she can read I would hold the card up, with the answers facing her and the diagram with the leader lines with numbers facing me and I would guess and she would tell me if I was right....i think she learned more bones and muscles that me. All the kids seem excited for me to be in Full time school in the fall, my oldest daughter will text me on the phone and wish me luck on a test and I do the same for her as she is a Sophmore in college. My son is 16 and doesnt say much, so I though he wasnt intrested, but I had a melt down last week trying to understand Micro and said out loud to myslef, " I cant do this !" He ( my son) informed me in no uncertain terms, that I started this, I NEVER gave him the option to quit and that I needed to remember that school is hard for him too, that if we, him and I both keep moving along, We will BOTH be 09 gradutes, me with my ADN and him with his High School Diploma ( wow !!! that made we well up with a tear ! ) So I juggle, make kids do their own laundry, put others in front of the TV for a bit, then make sure I do something fun, sometimes I make crappy dinner and the house doesnt look great, and I am almost done with Pre reqs, 5 weeks to go, then 3 weeks of school off...then Nursing School August 24th....Let the games begin !!!!!!!

I also have a very supportive significant other, he works at night though, so alot of the running around falls on my shoulders. Happymom, I also did alot of my pre reques online, but some have to be taken at school, and usually the older ones will watch the little one. I thought that when i start clinicals in the Fall it would all fall into place, Ill have 1 in College ( Away) 1 in High School and one in 2nd grade, I thought it would all work out. BUT...2 days a week my Cliniclas start at 8 AM, and my 2nd graders school doesnt start till 8:30 am, also cliniclas are over at 2:30, and it is 45 minutes away. School is out at 3:10 pm, so assumming I got out right at 2:30 and there was no traffic I would still be 5 minutes late for after school pick up, and I cant assume I will always be out of clinicals on time. I also dont like day care, but with the clinicals hours Im not sure how else to handle it but before and after school day care...so I also thought that since I would have all kids in school it would just work out, but it didnt and now Im working on a diffrent plan so I am never later for cliniclas and also never late picking up my child.... your right, when there is a will there is a way.

Sorry ha ha ha to the OP before I went off on my rant, you had a question, If I only had the 7 year old, or if he was younger, I would study throught the day when he was playing, kinda like 15-20 minute power studies ( trying to nail down say 1 concept)...then I would have a strict bedtime and would study after he was in bed for 2-3 hours. All that combined can actually give you 4 + hours of studying a day... Good Luck