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I could use a nursing buddy as well. I'm in my second semester now and I did horrible on my first exam in Adult Health 1. I can't really give advice because I am struggling myself, but I can take advice however and I also just want others to talk to about nursing school. Although I have a great support system (parents and boyfriend) they can never understand what I go through as a nursing student.

Hello everyone I am currently in my second semester of nursing school and I barely made it through first. I am already failing. I made two D's in two different classes I think my problem is studying and test taking. When I study I tend to forget what I learn and when I'm taking tests I tend to get easily distracted or some how get tired. I was wondering if anyone had any advice in how I can retain information and if anyone has suggestions on test taking as well. My study habits are reading the book and PowerPoint and I'm just starting to do test questions. I really need help. I have no one to talk to about it not in class nor at home and I'm just so stress and do not want to feel like I did first semester. Please help.

Hey everyone, I'm a first semester student and I'm doing a teaching project on choosing nutritional foods for elderly diabetics. I was wondering how can I make this teaching project fun and understandable for them. The only thing I have in mind is the food pyramid. I'm lost. Please help if you can and thanks in advance.

Thank you so much for sharing this post and I would like to thank the author of these study tips and everyone who gave me tips as well. I've been so busy with finals ( mainly pathophisiology) that I didn't have time to respond. I plan on using these tips and printing it out sort of making it my nursing commandments :). Thanks again!!

So I just got accepted into nursing school for the Spring of 2014. I am taking six classes. The classes are health assessment and lab, nursing concept and lab, prospective of nursing, and dosage calculation. I was wondering if anyone could help me by giving me ideas on how I can manage my study time for all six classes. I have do study a lot but I always seem to get distracted. If I'm studying, I just start to think about everything that doesn't have to do with what I'm doing. Sometimes I can force myself to focus, but it always happens no matter what. And also I'm excited about getting excepted into the program, but I'm also nervous about it as well. I've never really worked in a nursing environment. I've just had one mere experience where I went to the nursing home two days out the week in high school for a health class I was taking. We really didn't do any hands on work, we just saw how the CNAs cared for the residents in the nursing home, such as changed diapers, moved them every number of hours, and bathed them and we saw the duties of the LPN. The class was actually the reason I wanted to become a nurse. What I'm basically saying I'm alittle scared about going into the program because I'm worried about how to manage time; not only with classes but with family and friends as well, and I'm worried about whether I would make it as well because I'm not the most outgoing person. I believe I have the brains for it but being a nurse is beyond that.