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First take a deep breath... after you have calmed yourself I recommend you take the time to decide if you think nursing is the best career choice and make sure you want it. If you are this freaked about and only doing prerequisites nursing school is really going to make you lose it girl. I can relate about feeling confused if i should even take my chances and get rejected from MSU since the average accepted GPA was 3.87! Idk how the other schools you applied to weight grades but I know they are all different. The important thing is that if you want it go for it and if you get rejected the first time try again! My grades were not as good as I thought they should have been and I made it in. Plus as scary as it is classes and life gets stressful and crazy once you get in so you gotta get it together now before you take that leap. I have also repeated classes and done crappy and cried a lot...But I still love it and work harder then I ever thought I could to be successful. So decide what you want and think you will enjoy and be good at! don't ask others to decide for you it's only makes it more confusing trust me, I had professors telling me to take a semester off or consider other options...but now I'm more determined to succeed. So try and figure out how to shake off your blues and focus on what you want. It will be a challenge but it will be worth it. I know its not a clear cut answer to your question but I hope some encouragement helps!

For my med-surg course I am supposed to partner up with someone and do research on anything that is done in the hospital that is evidence based. Basically pick a topic that makes me think "hmm why do that do that or give that medication and what if any is the evidence to support that?" my conundrum is that I have little knowledge still as a student and don't know enough to question the way things are done. Any suggestions on things that I could research that anyone as a practicing nurse has questioned the research behind it? Just hoping for suggestions thanks!

As or right now I am a 2nd semester nursing student who is retaking her medsurg course. the paperwork that is involved has been giving me worlds of trouble and despite the endless amounts of feedback and tutoring etc, its like my brain doesn't think how they want it to. I had my mid-semester eval with two instructors to talk about my situation. since i am still failing my second time around. I havent given up on myself so far and i don't want to either i would hate to waste all my hard work so far. What I am wondering is how do I know if I should become a nurse truly...? i talked with one of the staff about my paperwork and and then she said well it sounds like your heart is in it to succeed but why do you want to become a nurse? Right now and ever since my last semester i think i have been struggling with that very question. When they major i had originally chosen closed and i was in limbo i felt like i needed to chose something and nursing was the next best thing and im scared i did it as a back up plan. it would also allow me to have a career in the military as a nurse and joining the military is something ive wanted to do for a long time. I know this is a question only i can answer and im having second thoughts.. what are some moments that others had that made them realize nursing was meant for them?? I'm trying to answer this question before i continue with something im not truly committed to...feeling lost and unsure of myself..

well i have ordered two new books that are specifically for care plans and concept maps. so far i am choosing that appropriate nursing diagnoses with regards to the medical diagnoses which is good. But i am struggling to get all the details from daily assessments that support my diagnosis and say this is the info that supports my choice. I think what i am struggling the mot with is i dont have any ideal models of what they expect us to produce and I do the right assessments and the info is in my head but important details get lost in my head at 12am and doesnt make it on to my paperwork so i feel like i have a mental block i guess. oh and how everything connects to everything else...

Right now I am a BSN student doing my medsurg course for the second time. I have been successful in theory and my clinical skills. My stumbling block though continues to be the CSA's specifically the concept maps, the things with my nursing diagnoses and the information subjective and objective that supports why they are the correct choices for my patient. Even though this is round two for me I am still right around the same area as far as scores on my paperwork. i am seeking tutoring from instructors and EVERYTHING they suggest to help me succeed and now I am beginning to question myself. if i can't do paperwork how on earth can I care for people?? The feed back I have been getting so far is partly organizational issues and I am taking steps to help me gather information so i can be more thorough and not feel so lost in a chart. the other thing that i have been told without fail is not enough detail!!! I don't know if maybe I am not seeing the patient as a whole person or that my critical thinker doesn't work how it should? I just need so thoughts on how to see things different or ask questions differently to get around my serious mental block in order to succeed at this. I would greatly appreciate anyone telling me what their AHA! moment was like when they finally had one i'm still waiting for mine. :confused: