sgordon1

I know the feeling yes you are so right. When our class first started we had 30 students by midterm so many had flunked on the tests that they just gave up. We were shown skills one time and the next day we had to go into the lab and demonstrate it for a grade. Some of us had never seen or heard of these procedures before but we had to master them. The students that did master them were previous students that flunked out in a diffrent college. Our clinicals were the worst we were taken on the floor given the clients chart and then told to go to our clients room and take care of them. We were scared out of our pants and we got a grade for it so you know what our first clinical grade was. We had at least 6 chapters to go through and we were tested on them three days later every week. We also had drug calculation class and we had to be graded on skills right along with our nursing fundamentals skills so you are not alone. Today was our last day out of the 30 students we had only 14 left. Get this some of us may not even get to take Med Surg 1 because we are afraid of our drug cal grades. The two students that are doing good are the ones that don't really have a routine of studying they have seen it done so many times they tend to get frustrated with us when we leave out simple steps. I have been out of school for 15 years also and i find it very difficult also. What the few of us did was we got study groups together we all found out what areas we were having the most problems with and we only focused on that. We called each other to compare answers and if we found out any new source that was helpful we let each other know. The way we got on top of our skills were by watching YouTube demos. That is very helpful , some of the skills had one or two diffrent steps but it helped us master them. Today we had finals in all three classes back to back and all the test had 100 or more questions on them. I feel that LPN's have a lot of responsibilities and we have to know alot. We did not know what we were getting ourselves into until we got into the classes and we had to spend over $400 in uniforms and nursing equiptment. I wish you all the luck and please don't give up............