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Oh lord. There's an endless list. Panic over fluids being complete. "How much longer will it be? I have to be to work in an hour." Family members who treat me like a waitress. Patient who won't put down their phone while I'm in their room. Patient who interrupts me to answer my question with attitude before I've completed it. Especially when the question is pain scale. Patient who tells me how to push their meds. Giving me directions on pushing your pain meds guarantees I will hang it in a 50 bag and drip it. Patient who came via ambulance at 2am for toe pain x3 weeks because they didnt wsnt to wake anyone up for a ride and expects a cab voucher home at discharge. Drunks.

My family's support, coffee and hard work. :)

Well then, happy Sunday.

It's not just nursing students. It's society in general.

At our orientation in January, our director explained their grading scale: 80-84.9 C. 85-89.9 B, 90-100 A. She said that statistically, students who score less then 80 overall did much more poorly on the NCLEX, so for my program it is to keep their pass rates up. It works for them, but it does make it stressful! We just got our final grades for this semester: 89.94. I definitely shed a tear. Lol. So close!! It was a crazy hard semester though, so I should be proud of that very high B.

I've calculated mine to 0.24 shy of A and our program doesn't round either. It stings!! Lol

To quote Ron Burgundy, that escalated quickly.

I know that I would feel exactly as you do if I were in your shoes. No doubt. (((Hugs))) I would try to focus on the babies, not the moms. I know taking care of the moms is part of it, but I would rationalize it being for the benefit of the baby. And try to just focus on it being just a small portion of time, and power through it with as much disconnect as possible. IMO, there is nothing wrong with keeping your emotional distance. Keep it clinical.

I graduate next December. The idea is terrifying! I know I still have a ways to go, but I feel like I know nothing. I can't imagine learning enough in two semesters to feel remotely ok with graduating and working as a nurse. Yikes!! I can't wait to be finished though. We take the summer off, so I'm guessing I will be spending that time reading my NCLEX review books on the beach.

I don't.

Our school practices pushing air and checking pH. We did get the disclaimer, though, that evidence based practice shows pH is the more reliable test. They only taught us the swoosh (as they call it) because our local hospitals still have that method as policy. I've never seen that skill done in clinical, unfortunately, so I don't know how the RNs do it in practice.

B rubs me the wrong way too. That's what I'd pick...

I have a 4.0 also, and everyone who knows me knows my sarcasm knows no bounds.

Last semester was an amazing clinical experience. Our instructor was very intense, but she pulled us all over the hospital finding things for us to do or watch. We didn't stop moving the entire day. Neither did she! She graded our notes and paperwork super hard, and we learned a lot from her. She wasn't the sweetest and kindest person to interact with sometimes. but she cared about us learning and doing well and moving on. She taught us disease processes that we weren't even learning in our class, and expected us to know more than what we learned in our classroom, including lab values. it translated to having an advantage this term. This semester, our instructor was in the middle of her second masters degree. She spent the entire in the break room studying her notes. I gave an injection and passed some meds all semester. That's it. We spent our days trying in vain to find things to do besides answer call lights. We never saw our nurses notes until the last day, which she spent just grading them all. She's not looked at them all semester.

Honestly, no. If I were weeks from graduating, I would not. I don't understand why you'd have to start over because of your nurses notes though. They should have corrected those from the beginning.

I read it as 1.2mg, not 2mg. 1.2 x 5 = 6mL. That's how I got 6ml. Did I get lucky by misreading? Lol

How did you work out the problem to come up with your answer? I got the correct answer, but I can't explain to you where you went wrong if I don't know what you did to get there. :) ETA: I get 0.3mL per 15 seconds. But I do see where the got 6 mL and not 7.

Your program is not unique. Our first semester was pharm and med surg together and we didn't have a choice. It can be done. It isn't easy. You aren't alone. You have no choice but to find a way to do it. We are all exhausted. We are all stressed (mostly). It is not abnormal to spend several days studying one subject! I just spent an entire week studying my notes and textbook 6 hours a day for one exam in one class. Made an A. That's what it takes! You have to buckle down and push through. It isn't easy, but that's the way it is. Your professors are giving you what we all get...loads of information in a short period of time that you are expected to know and retain.

If you fail, can you take LPN while you wait to start your next RN semester and work as an LPN when you get back in? I know at my school, the bridge program is no joke. There are several students in my class who tried to bridge and couldn't hack that course so they went with RN. No way I would quit if I was over half way. You can do it! Do LPN in the meantime if that's an option, but I wouldn't quit RN altogether in favor of bridging later. You're so close!

How many semesters if your program?? If you're already nearing the end of your third, you must be getting close to being finished. Stick it out!

You know why you'd fail? Because you refuse to adapt and use your available resources to your advantage. You're stuck on ONLY learning with power points and study guides. Those are fairly recent additions to college classrooms, so your argument that there is no other way for you to learn doesn't hold water. If you can't adapt and find new and creative ways to retain information in school for a test, then how can you expect to adapt in real life situations when they don't go by what you saw on a power point in class? Not just in nursing, Emily, but any profession. You are doing yourself a disservice by not attempting to find new ways to retain information. Record the lecture. Write the power points as notes during class. Follow along with the lecture through your book and highlight key points for later. There are plenty of non-auditory ways to learn without handouts, and you're screwing yourself by refusing to use them and instead being pig-headed about your professor not doing what you want.

Our professors give us their power points. We still use our books. Everything on their powerpoints is a verbatim from the book, or a condensed version of a paragraph in the book. The book expounds on things more and paints a clearer picture. Yeah, I use the power points, but only to guide me through the book (because we don't cover every topic in the book each semester). I don't study them. I'd be fine without them. I do much better in class when I don't bring them with me, but instead take handwritten notes and highlight in my textbook. All that to say, you can pass the class without power points. For most people, writing their own notes during class helps them retain information better anyway. Does for me. Everything in their notes/power points/study guide is in your book. You have to learn how to read the book. You will get the hang of what to focus on and what you can figure is FYI as you go, but it IS your responsibility. As many people as are telling you this here can't be wrong. Instead of playing the poor me card, sit back and think about what YOU could do for yourself in this situation. Put on your big girl panties and pull yourself out. The information has been given to you, just not in the specific form you want. Adapt and use what you have to learn. We all are. You can too.

I've been given a break once in my school scrubs. I think that was more because I honestly didn't realize my mistake (brake light was out) and he was being a nice guy rather than because I was wearing scrubs. It depends on the cop, and probably the infraction, too. Some subscribe to giving professional courtesy (right or wrong) and some don't care what you do for a living. My husband is a firefighter and he has gotten a few breaks while in his uniform too.

I respectfully disagree. I have a 4.0 right now in my program. I have no problem reading and comprehending, and I am pretty intelligent (at the risk of sounding arrogant maybe?). My stress comes from test anxiety, constant deadlines, and a home life that includes two small children. Test anxiety is the biggie for me. It's a little offensive to say I stress because my reading comp and intelligence are below yours. Some people have irons in multiple fires.