NKS82

Did you mean me? I'm from Sweden.

Well my dream job is paramedic. (I think I need to explain... In my country you need to study to RN (bachelor in medicine with major in nursing), work minimum a year on ED or ICU, then you're allowed to apply to paramedic course (Postgraduate Diploma in Specialist Nursing – Prehospital Emergency Care), which will be 1,5yrs practise and theoretical studies). I'm about half way there at the moment :)

I do my rn/bsn program in the toughest university in my country (ranked as 14th best medical university in the world). It's beyond plain torture at times, specially as I'm single mum and have two part time works too (work nights as hca/cna for my cpap dependant son and palliative care at a hospice 4 days/month).

I'd totally do it. I'm student nurse at the moment and commuting 4h/day to attend the nursing program I wanted to go. I've a nursing program in my city as well, but has not as good reputation as the one I'm in.

I think it would be more abnormal if you didn't react. Never happened to me as RN student, but I had my first death when I was only 19, working as HCA in eldercare and found one of "my" oldies dead in his own bathroom (cardiac arrest). It was truly horrible and took me weeks to overcome. Now I'm working in palliative care and see death rather often, but I'll never forget the first. If your instructor is just brushing it off you might want to find someone else to talk about it? Maybe one of the nurses working where you had your clinical placement?

82-85% depending on course, I'm not US student though.

I always listen to music, same album or same playlist over and over again (sometimes just same song). Can't do another way when studying. Had this habit since ninth grade.

And it really doesn't help when my class mates, teachers and clinical instructors are telling me that I'm in wrong education... That I'm too smart for nursing school. *****!?!? Yes, I get very good grades in practically everything even tough I'm single mother of five and my youngest is chronically ill due premature birth (he is 25weeker with sever bpd and is cpap dependant night time due apneas). But this is my choice, I want to do this and nothing else. Why can't ppl get it. I'm having really thought time and re-evaluating my decisions... Why can't I just have the confidence to not care about what other ppl say? All this combined with what I wrote before. I'm bit lost at the moment.

I'm really sorry, I should have checked the facts behind. In my university we have exams (150 to 200 sata questions and an an essay to write, I'd never pass such exam with only two weeks of studies)only in the end of course, every course is ten weeks. We have tests (50 sata questions and 1 or 2 question where you have to write the answer) every second week during the course though. I have not much to add for the advice you've got. I hope you'll find a way to study that suits you and that you pass your coming exams.

I'm sorry, maybe it's just me but " I studied everyday for two weeks." is pretty much the answer... You cant really mean that you expect to pass an exam with only two weeks of studying.

I live 2hrs away from the uni, totally worth it. You can use those hours for studying.

I'm doing it at the moment. I'm single mother of five (Kids are 11, 10, 8, 5 and 3. I started when my youngest was 1,5). It's really hard at times and requires extreme time management skills (and lots of night time studies), but it's definitely doable.

I'm second yr nursing student from Sweden, my ultimate goal is to be paramedic. (Yeah, you need to be RN and work minimum one year full time in ED or ICU before you can apply to paramedic education, which one and half year studies and training.) I've not have any luck with my clinical placements so far, all placements in geriatrics, it feels like a big joke as my class mates have had clinicals in ED, pediatrics, orthopaedicss etc. In order to not loose my mind completely when studying I'm taking an extra course in emergency and critical care which is really interesting but it's just reading having exams etc and not any clinical practice. Any advice how to get back my motivation? Minimum four more years, but it feels like light years away right now...

1. Caffeine 2. My computer 3. My kids, they kind of keep me sane and make sure I'm managing my time well.