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Do nclex style questions...if you have mynursing lab...use it. It helps.

Ratio proportion is my tried and true method....can never go wrong. I didn't study for them @ all...basic math no need....I love math..besides @ my school you need college level math to get in.

Inursing isn't for you, then it isn't for you. You know you best! If you want an allied health career maybe Respiratory Therapy (I used to do that....Respiratory is a great field), or maybe medical laboratory technoloy (many people overlook this but I have friends in that area and they love it). P.s nursing school isn't the greatest cause they take up all your time....but the clinicals are great....it makes me say yup this is for me.

80% no rounding for all classes excet med calc and pharmacology where it is 90%.

Discover the art of practicing nclex style questions, buy a comprehensive review book, or one from the success series by Davis...even use mynursing lab if there is one for your text....it really makes adifference.

Try focusing on learning the chapter objectives if your teacher hasn't handed out any enabling. Objectives....it should better focus your reading. Compare your chapter objectives in the textbook to your power points and see how close they parallel each other. To pare down your notes, try to summarize each section into like a paragraph or two....you may still have plenty of notes but not a textbook.

My gpa before nursing school was 3.67....but do not put to much stock in ga. Three students in my class had gpa's ranging from 3.80 -4.00 and they failed first semester twice. Its all about what you do and how you study once you get there. Keep up with the reading if that's how you best learn and just study, study, study. Don't worry about those who don't seem to study as much as you, some people are just lucky like that: )

I would learn the nursing process and all of the activities associated with it, as well as health assessment. It is what we do. I wouldn't do med calc because it is fairly easy just simle ratio and proportion.

A pass for us is 80% for all tests and assignments except medical dosaging were the pass rate is 90%. Of course you can flunk out of your clinical for failure to hand in an acceptable health assessment. Or care plan by the final clinic day (no grade...instructor just has to think it it good)...or doing something unacceptable @ clinic could also cause you to be kicked out.

@ hmccue, I prefer my books intact....easier to put on the bookshelf(plus looks better ). I actually was given a tone of nursing textbooks when friends and friends of friends found out I was in school for nursing...result= 3 fundies, two peds, w maternal newborn etc texts....my solution....duplicatesbelong in my trunk for access on the go....the ones required by the school stay on my desk @ home.....I only carry a pen, my purse and notebook to class.

My advice....or two cents worth....stop crying and feeling sorry for yourself....sometimes these things happen Pick yourself up by the bootstraps, dust yourself off and decare to yourself "next semester I will pass with flying colours!!!" Study up while your off and put your last semester behind you like it never hapened. Now you know what you must do....its just up to you to DO THE DAMN THANG!!!!!!!!!

My program was 8 weeks, we do bedside care, pass meds...including injections....and when I pass my indwelling urine catheter check off on Tuesday.....I will be doing it on the floor by Thursday....between you and me...I have wondered about unleashing us o real patients to test things out...but we seem do do okay....somehow

@ro2878, yah I guess I shouldn't complain to much.....page one only contains: the nursing system, selfcare deficit, the NANDA diagnosis with its definition and defining characteristics. The other page consists of a table with the 5 columns each labeled with one of the phases of the nursing process...simle enough

I have a tagus backpack, it fits my books and laptop easy......but I hate carrying all that stuff....soon I realized the benefit of my trunk....I keep my textbooks there and just carry my binder and pencil case (my back loves me for this).

If you don't need to take the physiology class then don't take it. Yes it can be done..but why stress yourself out. Take it when you are on a break...if your program has a break between years.