Fabian06

Hi there I relate to you in ways that it's scary! My passing grade is a 77 and I have a 76. We too have 3 exams total. I got a 72 on the first and 80 on the second. What I did differently on the second exam...1st of all we had two more weeks to study for that one. The first exam we had one week and 24 chapters talk about going insane. As soon as I found out I failed I went to staples spent 30 bucks and bought myself a tape recorder. WORTH THE 30 BUCKS. consider it insurance. you can spend 30 on junk food or i tunes and what are you left with? I spent it on the recorder and I was left with hints that i didnt write down in lecture, stuff i simply didnt even hear and a better grade. Listen to when you go on a walk. Take a couple of walks a week. Excercise is seriously important to stimulate the brain. Listen to it while you are cooking, taking a shower. I plugged mine in to my car radio and on the way to work which is a 1/2 hour commute each way I got an hour of extra easy "study time" in without doing anything! Eat salmon the night before the exam if you dont like it/allergic etc. find some omega 3's somewhere. BUY some kind of herbal tension/anxiety tea. I got tension tamer celestial seasonings I drank that the night before, because I was panicing I was going to fail. APPLES each slices of apples when u study, great short-term memory booster. Chew mint gum during exam. Most of all take a deep breath. When you are taking that exam think of it this way. I am the nurse, this is MY patient I had in clinical last week...what would I do/have done? Believe me I sound like I know what to do and I am in the same boat...maternity is hard! Its a speciality. If you dont put the time in you can only blame yourself and it sucks but its true. Unfortunatley time is an issue because like you, we are cramming an entire book into 6 weeks! Good luck post how you did, I will!

i have been been told that as a cna (i work at a hospital in MA) we are being forced into drawing blood and theyre getting rid of all lab techs. anyways because of how nerve racking this is and for 5 hours of class time they had us stick eachother, my hand that i use to go in with the needle shakes so bad i shake the patients arm....i successfuly get blood and somehow manage not to pop the needle out of the vein, how i dont know, and after each success it doesnt get better. im starting to think there is something wrong, someone suggested practicing over and over threading a needle just getting a grasp of doing something meticulous without shaking hey, ill try ANYTHING