Honey Clover

Come, come! You can ask any questions you like. í ½í¸‰ This is coming from a current sac state nursing student. í ½í¸ƒ

Perhaps I should have elaborated. It's not just lack of eye contact. It was purely ignoring her. When questions were asked, all she got was silence. Just wanted to clarify. We are humans. You can't expect a new young student to be perfect with her emotions when dealing these situations. You seriously cannot expect them to go in there, know everything, and be this almighty tough person with a thick skin already. She asked some simple questions from more experienced nurses, ended up being ignored completely the whole time, and feeling completely useless and worthless from an unsupportive environment. How would you feel? Does anyone even have feelings on this forum? Or have we all suppressed our emotions?? Lol!

Ideally, were would respect one another and help each other out. Unfortunately, the world isn't so ideal and many people have to live with fact that they might be targeted and isolated. It's not something I like to see either. I'm just a student but I've seen my classmate cry on her first day just because her nurse outright ignored her, wouldn't even look at her from the very moment clinicals begin. It's so sad really... I mean they teach us all about empathy, compassion, and understanding towards our patients yet somehow when it comes to coworkers, we can't/won't do the same??

He's deflecting his insecurities onto you. Not good. You are right, you're not his ex but because he continues to be afraid of what might happen due to his past, this will blow up eventually. You're trying to establish a career for yourself. Nursing school has no time for drama from relationships tbh. If it was me, I'd walk if my guy stops supporting my goals and starts acting like his immediate needs are more important than my long term goals. And to say he hopes you're rejected from the school?? That is disrespectful and a no brainer there to start walking. Btw I do have a significant other and we are two hours apart. We only see each other one time a month because of school and work but we are committed to making this work despite the distance and our hectic lives. It's not ideal situation right now and we both hate it but we know that you have to make do with the best you got so that one day, we'll have a better life with each other.

Yeah, I took A&P 2 during the summer and although it was supposed to be intensive, it was fairly simple and straightforward. The professor was very laid back type of guy and he babied us for sure. I got over 100% in the course. I'm in nursing school now and you are expected to know your body systems and how they work. Honestly, I don't remember much from A&P so now I study how the body works along with the different disease processes and nursing diagnosis. So I'm not gonna blame my A&P class. It's how much effort you put into it, regardless of the class workload or structure, that really matters. Keep studying beyond the test scores. Study the stuff with the mindset that you'll be using them in nursing school and beyond.

Whenever someone brings up formula milk, it reminds me of the Nestle Boycott... Looks like this topic quite touched some people's sensitive side. For this topic, it would be better to use journal articles for the statistics between formula/breast milk and obesity. But if you wanted to get a gauge of how people may feel about it, perhaps surveying is okay.

I think being flexible in our communication is a good skill to have. The ability to talk to everyone about anything with an open mind and heart will ensure you'll get along with most people and to some degree, connect to them in some way! Perhaps it's time to stop molding everyone to fit into your world and maybe start becoming more like water? 😆😄

30 minutes is okay, 45 is "meh" and > or = an hour is the worst. You're stuck in the "meh". If they haven't changed it yet, accept what happened, let go of those frustrations and move on. Why deprive yourself of a peaceful state of mind by holding onto these negativities and feelings of unfairness? I've had over an hour commute to class (one way) before and that was the worst; my clinicals now are only 40 minutes away. I'm so grateful for that lol.

Admittance of a student into a program is an investment. If you start to drop students right off the bat, obviously that is detrimental to both the student and the school. That can lead to poor school reputation too in my eyes. Time is wasted, resources, money too. Also, a school that strictly follows policies and procedures without care for their students' successes is not a good school imo. I wouldn't want to attend a school that only follows the rules without consideration for anyone or anything. Of course, I get that you don't want unprepared students to pass and become less than able students but I think students can be trained to be good nurses. Just because you fail one test does not mean you're incapable completely and should stop pursuing nursing. There are many reasons why someone may not pass an initial exam or fail a math test too. My schools math test is pretty confusing. Not the actual math problem itself but the way the problem was worded that is the issue. Our instructors make pretty badly worded, unclear questions often but I assume that is part of training for the NCLEX. (Lol). But anyways, that and my friend went through one program and when she was supposed to be kicked out, the school gave her another chance. Reason why? She was depressed, was afraid of taking antidepressants and didn't have the courage to tell anyone and also was far away from her family/usual support group from home. She pulled through in the end with that second chance (while on meds) so that's all that matters. I'm just wondering myself how you were able to know exactly who failed and who didn't and who had to appeal. That is theirs and the faculty's business, not yours. Just my opinion...

I don't believe in weeding in general but I can see why people would think that. There's a ton of students wanting to be a nurse but the schools cannot make everyone a nurse due to faculty shortage and negotiations with hospitals. Nursing is very scientific based anyways so the harder the science class, the better imo. If you can get through that, you'll have better chances to get through a nursing program because nursing school is no joke. You can't complain in nursing school either. You're expected to study to succeed. You're expected to do the best you can to be a great nurse, not to take the easy way out. I find a lot of prenursing students tend to just want to do the least work possible to maintain an A but nursing school is not like that at all. You have to learn as much as you can. This work ethic should be applied in all classes, imo.

Some programs only look at your prereqs GPA like CSU Sacramento. If you have their bonus points and you've obtained all A's in your science prereqs, I think you can get into that one. You can check out their stats and compare yourself to make sure. I don't know about the others though. You can also try for an even higher TEAs score and that'll add much more points to your total score for sac.

I was one of the most quietest kid from middle school to the first four years of my college experience. People rarely heard me speak and I didn't have much initiative either. Plus I was shy and very reserved. What helped me was working at a social job and continually going out of my comfort zone. I worked as a sales associate at the mall for some time, then as a care manager/CNA, and now I'm in nursing school and have no problem volunteering to go first and doing things in front of the class with everyone watching. I suggest you getting a very flexible part time job that will moderately expose you to social situations. It'll be very difficult at first and you'll have lots of anxiety but over time, you'll get used to it. Learn to ask lots of questions and learn to approach others. If that's too much at first, then start small and just go up and talk to one person each day or every other day. Have no expectations but to just talk. I find that people love to talk about themselves and they open up more and make conversation when you continually ask them questions. Build some confidence in yourself and never take someone's words to heart much. Yeah, I was pretty sensitive to how others thought of me too but at the end of the day, you're not perfect. You have flaws and they have flaws too and that's okay! Self esteem and self acceptance is first step. BUT it's just figuring out ways to constantly improve upon yourself is what really matters. Sure, you can say I've always been this way and its hard to change. Or you can say, it's about time I should tackle this issue if I want to become a nurse who can easily speak to my coworkers, patients and their families someday.. Communication skills are an absolutely necessary since we are after all social beings. Trust me, you can do this. If someone like me who no one ever paid attention to back in grade school/first college years was able to overcome being in her shell, and now takes initiative in almost everything, and people actually pay more attention to me, I'm sure others can too. It just takes a certain drive and determination to do it.

In class, my instructor had us make a lab notebook and we had to draw out all the cells, body parts and bones and label everything. That helped a lot. I color coded it too. To memorize for lab practicals, I like to repeatedly test myself by pointing and verbalizing everything during lab time. I had my classmates test me too. For class exams, it was merely taking good notes and reading the power points or class notes. I didn't really read the book. I occasionally skimmed it. If the professor gave an optional study guide, I do those very thoroughly before tests. At home, I like to draw and label on my bedroom mirror. That was pretty much what I did and I got an A in both classes.

It's easier to be rude and to say whatever you want when you're anonymous. Trust me, this happens on all forums. In real life, you'll want to discuss your issues and ask questions to people you trust or advisors, both are much more supportive and accepting of your feelings. But on an anonymous forum, never expect people to always be kind and nice. I'm not saying that it is okay to be rude on a forum; I'm just saying it's human psychology. We spill our thoughts out more easily when we know there's some distance between the people we talk with. Messaging via a screen makes it much easier to say whatever the heck we want, disregarding the emotions (the real person) behind the words on the screen. They don't see your tears, hear the sadness or frustrations in your voice or observe the emotions on your face so the response you get back is not always empathy, especially from people who tend to be more critical towards others. Well that being said, don't take it to heart too much. No matter what anyone says, if you feel some hurt from it, take some time off the internet. Go out and talk to your real friends, family, mentors or whoever you trust. They are worth much more than random people's opinions on a forum.

Yeah. My program. CSU Sacramento looks only at nursing GPA (pre-requisite/co-requisite courses). However, if most of your courses that you did badly in were pre-requisites for nursing school, that'll be quite difficult to make up for. Do very very well on the TEAs. Try private universities and be sure to talk to them about your situation. Take more courses to raise that GPA or retake the ones you failed in.