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I am a new grad and I just recently got my first job as an rn at a community home. I had a brief 2 week orientation and was put by myself to work a busy floor my first day alone. I was told to focus on passing medications only because this particular...

I am in my last semester of an ADN program. At this point we are doing advanced med-surg and we have clinicals twice a week. However, I always tend to make mistakes and just one mistake starts to make me nervous and i continue to make mistakes. We st...

Thanks for the pointers! Yes I tend to forget sometimes about the Iv sites and what solution is being administered and when my instructor asks me I think to myself DARNIT!!! I was just in there and forgot and my instructor is so strict about things l...

I am a second semester nursing student. This is actually my 2nd time taking med-surg. I was doing fine my 1st time thru the course, although towards the end my test grades were going down due to stress outside of school with a bf I had. I was working...

I am a 2nd semester nursing student and this is my 2nd time taking med-surg. I still am having problems cracking down the answers on the exams but I feel like i understand the material alot better than last semester and I'm not doing as good as I wa...

kringe38-I feel the same way too whenever I make a mistake I feel really stupid b/c either I already knew it beforehand and forgot or I just overlooked it . I tend to dwell on the issue so much that it brings my self esteem down more, but I need to l...

kringe38-I feel the same way too whenever I make a mistake I feel really stupid b/c either I already knew it beforehand and forgot or I just overlooked it . I tend to dwell on the issue so much that it brings my self esteem down more, but I need to l...

Alex2010-omg did you ever report that nurse???!! What she did was just inhumane!!! I could just never imagine doing that to someone. People like that definitely do not need to be in the medical field.

Thx ham it up-I am glad for the support I'm getting from everyone on here, it keeps me at ease and lets me know I'm not the only one feeling this way. It's so much easier to explain it to people who are going thru the same things I'm going through o...

Thanks to everyone that has posted their comments, now I dont feel as bad as I did a few minutes ago since tonight did not go as good as I thought it would. I had clinicals tonight and I had the same pts today that I had yesterday, one of them was d...

Thanks! I really am trying hard to stay positive, I'm a person that sometimes takes criticism to heart but I know that in this field criticism can either make u stronger and become better or break you and I'm trying to just take the positive criticis...

I had a horrible experience this past week with really screwing up on passing my skills practical exam. For the first 7 weeks of the semester we are given some skills: the 1st set was monitoring iv site, hanging iv bags, piggybacks, flushing saline ...

Thanks everyone for the positive support! I do believe that for the 2nd time, I will do alot better!

It all depends on your study habits and organizational skills. If you feel like you will need to focus more on school and you can financially do it without work I'd say just focus on school. I was working last semester while in the nursing program ...

@cgravier-I really did unexpectedly. It was just one of those days I guess. @jmere311-Im more of a visual learner, memorizing the steps doesnt help me, thats why I was going in to practice so much and I can do the skills, my problem was that when she...

Everyone's posts has made me feel better and more positive about what I have to do. I know that when you really want something no matter what, nothing can stand in the way and if you have to work to pay the bills while going to school it is possible...

wow Emmi7, that really amazes me. I guess I'm just the kind of person that stresses myself out so much and I worry and a big part of that is wat consumes so much of my energy that wen I have to study I freak out. But that is just great that you are ...

I am a 2nd semester student taking med-surg , it is a very difficult course. When it comes down to the exam I study the information on the diseases, I do like a concept map of each and list the pathophys, diagnostics, interventions, nursing diagnosi...

Hi I am taking med-surg and I use this method for studying as well, kind of like concept mapping, however when its time to take the test the questions usually ask what priority nursing diagnoses or interventions would be done. Each chapter explains ...