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And at my facility we use OB TraceVue to chart, which makes you pick-list everything in great detail anyway.

I feel like you can never include "too much" detail. We all know OB is the most sued specialty in medicine and it is your license to protect!

It's not that the faculty deliberately tries to "weed" out half of your class in most cases. Nursing school is hard, mostly because of the amount of information you have to be able to absorb in a short amount of time. It takes many hours of studying just to get by and only the very best in our class manage to get A's. I am in a BSN program and half way thru as of last semester and we have lost about 15 of 40 since starting. They have all been for different reasons as well besides failing courses. At my school we have to take a dosage calc test before every semester and not passing it is one of the ways we've lost classmates. So, my point is that to make it through nursing school, you have to have a lot of discipline and spend a lot of hours with your text books.

I feel for you but I can understand how a teacher can incorrectly make this assumption. There are several people in my program who fit the stereotype to the letter. They blow us away on the tests and memorize all their stuff but for some reason when we go to clinical they "turn dumb". That, or sometimes the really book smart ones have zero common sense. It's awesome that you can be good at both. You just have to prove yourself to your clinical instructors. I also agree with someone else who posted earlier that maybe the teachers are the problem, because if your school has the lowest NCLEX pass rate in the state then something is not right within the faculty or the staff. Or both. Just hang in there and good luck!

Facebook alone is not the cause of trouble. It is people who put themselves in compromising positions when they post too much information. I am currently in nursing school and all my classmates have a lot of fun using facebook but we don't ever post anything incriminating to ourselves or our classmates and we definitely don't post information about our patients. As for when I graduate, I don't plan on friending any coworkers. I keep my social life and working life separate and so far life us good :)

Think of the amount of studying hours you put into anatomy as a preview for nursing classes. For me, it was a wake up call that teachers really meant what they said about reading the material if you want to pass! I had another teacher tell me to think of my brain as a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes. For example, at the beginning of the semester, you may only be able to read (and retain what you read) for 20 minutes at a time. But the more you push yourself, soon you can sit for 30-45 minutes and then eventually your brain will be able to absorb hours of reading... With LOTS of practice. Which you will get when you start nursing classes :)