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I am in my second semester of nursing school, and I am having SO much trouble with the tests. I study my material backwards and forwards and I feel like I know it inside and out. And yet I am still not making passing grades on the tests. Apparently it is how to answer the question, not the question content? I asked my instructor for help and she told me to stop "overthinking" it. I am not sure how that helps me, lol. I need HELP! Are there techniques or anything I can use to help me answer these questions better, or understand what they are asking? I have 7 NCLEX books, I underline important parts of the question when I read it, etc. Any help would be appreciated!!!!

Well, I am in my second semester of nursing school and I am miserable. I totally expected to be overwhelmed with tons of work and tons of clinical stress, and I can handle that. What I did not expect was the way that our nursing staff treats the students! I have wanted to be a nurse for so long, and I feel like I am steadily improving. I was in nursing lab again, after spending all day at school and we were working on IV pushes and the like. We JUST got taught this stuff in a 10 hour shove information in your head day. So understandably I was a bit confused on how to do certain parts of the procedure. I asked the lab instructor for help (which is the whole reason she is there btw), and she was so degrading and rude to me.....in front of a lab full of people! She told me that I was too nervous and insecure....well of course I am, so is everyone else! We are frickin'students! And to top it all off she said " You know what they call an insecure nurse?" And I said what? " A tech." Wow. Thank you for the encouraging words. This type of behavior happens to many students in the program. One student was tapped/hit in the head with insulin pens, because she could not remember an answer. This student went to the dean who yelled at her and now is treated very poorly by all the instructors. So I guess it doesn't pay to go to someone if you are being treated unfairly. Is it like this with nursing instructors everywhere? And by no means will this BS make me quit, but it is so frustrating!!!

I agree, it's horrible how they make you wait! I am in my first semester of nursing bootcamp, errrrr I mean school, and I applied in July and found out in mid-November! Good luck to all of you!!!!