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Hi everyone ! So this may come across as ranting but I am fed up with a nurse I have had to give report to recently and I need some advice! So I work in an icu and I have been off orientation for about a month now so I am still very new , but I know report is one thing I have down pat . But when I give report to this nurse , I know I will be there at least an hour past my shift and I can't take it anymore . Everybody fights over who has to give report to her and I always lose because I'm new . She will just not let you begin report until she's gone through the entire room and inspected it with a magnifying glass and normally she will start her patient assessment while you're standing there waiting to start as well. She will then open the computer and go through every single order and question me on it , then scroll through my assessment and tell me things she doesn't agree with in it. She also asks very irrelevant questions at times. I understand she is trying to be thorough but literally nobody else does this and it takes a full hour to give her report . Since I'm new and kind of naturally quiet I don't know how to speak up, or if I'm wrong and this is acceptable practice . I also don't want to cause any kind of problem or make her think I'm incompetent or be talking about me badly but I cannot stay an hour late every time I have to give her report . Is there something I can do? If you have been in this situation what did you do? Sorry for the long rant I'm just very frustrated ! Thank you !:)

So I just started my first job as a nurse this past week. I will be working night shift, so I did one week of days to meet everyone and I had the sweetest and most helpful nurses, and I learned so much. Last night I was put with the nurse who will be orienting me for the next three months on nights, and I am very upset. He was constantly running away from me, acting like I wasn't there, ignoring my questions, and doing everything himself without letting me do anything. For two hours I sat in a chair in dead silence and watched him eat his lunch. I feel like I am not learning anything, and he does not care to teach me at all. I do not know what to do, because the manager loves him, and she will not take too kindly to me complaining about him, and also I don't want him to be upset with me. I just want to learn an become a competent nurse! What should I do?

Thank you !!! I was having a very rough day and the stress of studying gets to me very easily so I am going to seek helpor coping mechanisms . I very much appreciate the support I know I can get through it I just have those days sometimes

I'm just wrapping up my second semester of nursing school, and I am a mess . I still have another year to go and I don't see how I am going to do it . I'm living in a state of constant stress to the point where I started pulling my hair out and not eating for hours. In clinical I am made to feel stupid and lazy and unwanted every time I go there so I started having anxiety attacks before clinical too. I just feel completely overwhelmed . I've **** out all my friends because I can't do anything ever because I'm always studying and I snap on my loved ones all the time or just break down crying once a week. How did anyone make it through this ? I need help

I know this sounds horrible but I need to vent . I'm almost wrapping up my second semester of a 5 semester program and I am up to my neck in frustration . I dread clinical every day because I feel it of place there and my instructor gives us no guidance, but expects us to learn everything on our own and yells when we aren't up to her standard . I'm sick of having to run around all day pretending to do things and feeling like a big awkward block in everyone's way. I don't like how the nurses act like we're such an inconvenience to them . I can't stand the fact that I can study for two weeks straight 6 hours a day and still fail a test. I'm sick of getting no guidance or structure from my teachers on how to study or information that may be on the test . I'm sick of my overly competitive classmates who formed cliques and will do anything they can do get to the top even if it means pulling others down. I'm sick of crying every Sunday because I know I have another week of hell ahead of me . I'm miserable and overwhelmed and constantly stressed and I don't know what to do . How. Did anyone survive this ?

I am currently in MedSurg two. I passed MedSurg one with an 85 and though it was very difficult for me I studied a lot and I'm happy with my grade. MedSurg two in my program has been the only thing anyone can talk about because of the horrible reputation that the teacher and the class has for failing. We have taken three test so far and I have gotten high b's on all of them. I spoke to my instructor before the second test because it was supposed to be very hard and she scolded me for not being in a study group and that maybe that's why I have to study so hard to get good grades. I have studied alone the entire time I have been in school because it has worked for me and I don't get along with a lot of the girls in my class so I tend to be by myself. I I tried to take her advice and join a study group because she and almost every other person I have asked for advice has stress that study groups are needed to do well in nursing school but I tried to study with two different groups and it seems that either they want me to teach them the material or they just want to gossip the whole time and it seems counterproductive I don't know if I missing something and I really want to do well and I don't want to give myself more work than I have to but groups really don't work for me and it makes me feel like the odd man out that I am not in one when every previous student and instructor I've talked to has said that study groups are the best ways to pass through nursing school. Did anyone else have this problem ? Is it okay to study by yourself ?

So I passed my year of pre reqs with flying colors . I started an rn program in September and I was completely floored. I failed the first exam and struggled through the rest of med surg 1 but managed to pass. I am in my first week of med surg 2 and I am terrified. The instructor has the worst reputation of picking stupid details out to put on tests and not listening to any arguments on questions while breezing over difficult material. I asked upper class men for tips and they scared the crap out of me saying it would be the worst semester of my life and half their class failed out . I'm so scared because I nearly failed Ned surg one so I have no clue how I will make it through this one ! I don't really have a study strategy which I know is my downfall but i just get overwhelmed with the material and don't know how to start. Any tips from anyone who's made it through ?

I am just finishing up my first semester of nursing school. I will pass with a low B. I have noticed the entire semester that a lot of girls in my class run to the upperclassmen to ask them what they remember from the tests before we take them. Some of them even get full study guides the upperclassmen have used on their exam when they took it. These girls have been doing significantly better than the rest of us, an dt is seriously frustrating. I don't think it's fair that some of us have to do all of our own work and study non-stop just to get mediocre grades, while others get word for word questions and answers on the test, already filled out study guides, and tips and secrets about each test just because they know an upperclassmen. How do i deal with this?

I go to st lukes school of nursing . It's a very accelerated program and you have to have an 80 average to proceed

I failed with a 72. I am so devestated

I just got my grades back from my first nursing exam for fundamentals of nursing and I am devastated . I got a 72. Anything under an80 in my program is failing. I would be less negative if I hadn't studied for two weeks straight for this exam. I did practice questions read the book studied my notes and made flash cards and I still failed. I don't know what I did wrong because I felt great after the test and I did way worse than most of my classmates. I am so scared I'm going to fail out of this program and I feel completely overwhelmed and stupid now. Any advice ?

I just got my results back from my first fundamental nursing exam and I failed. I cannot believe it I studied for two weeks straight knew all the material did millions of practice questions and still failed . Even during the test I felt great because I knew the answers but every question I got wrong there was a better answer. I am freaking out now and feel I put myself in a hole o can't get out of. People around me all passed and I failed. any advice ?

I live in the dorm at a small nursing school and we have our first test today. I've been studying since the first day we got the material and have done a bunch of practice questions, read the book,made flash cards, etc. there are four girls on my floor that have been bullies about this test. They got the upperclassmen to help them because they knew them before hand and have been studying every hour of every day, pretty much rewriting the book. They have said multiple times to me it seems I barely studied and now I can hear them two hours before our test studying outside my door. Now I feel super underprepared, but cramming before the test won't help. I can't deal with this every test, but they make me feel like I'm barely doing anything compared to them and they also do not let me study with them. Please help

My class is fundamentals of nursing or nursing 1 depending on what you call it !

So I just took my first quiz in nursing school and I got an 80. I am freaking out because there is a test in 2 days and I really thought I knew the material, but I guess I didn't. Now I am starting off with a low grade, and failing is a 78 so I am two points above failing at the moment. I have been studying for two weeks straight, and I am so discouraged with the quiz grade. It didn't help that the girls in the dorm are all best friends and took the quiz together, and they want nothing to do with me, so I had to take it alone. They all got 90s and 95, and I have an 80. I am so scared I am going to fail the test now! Any study tips or words of wisdom? I feel like a total failure right now and that maybe I am not cut out for this.

So I made it through my first week of nursing school and we have a test next Friday. I am freaking out because we have so many different resources to study from and I do not know where to begin! We have three different websites (ATI, Shadow Health, and Evolve) a whole set of ATI books, NClex books, test success books, my textbook for Fundamentals of Nursing, my notes, and a powerpoint. Everyone told me different things when I asked the upperclassmen! Some said don't even open your textbook, just use ATI, and others said the notes don't add up to the test. I am so anxious because I feel there is not enough information in my notes for a whole exam, andI don't know how to study for this! I am so nervous that Iwill study all the wrong things and waste my time and fail. Any suggestions, tips, or things that helped you in nursing school? Thank you!

So I just started my last two years of nursing school, for which I had to transfer. I am at a small school an hour away from me, so I am living in he dorms. there are only 150 people in the school, and only 60 in my class. There are about 12 girls from my class also living in the dorms. Since I have to spend all my time at the dorms, I figured I would try to become friends with these girls, but they want nothing to do with me. They were all friends before this, and are a little older than me(Im 19, they are 21-25). I tried studying with them, talking to them, or going on trips with them but they ignore me, leave the room, or talk about me. I feel so alone and overwhelmed with school work, and I am scared of failing out because of a failed social life! I am getting so depressed hearing everyone go out without me, and Im scared if I study alone for tests, I will get lost. Please help any tips? Can I do it by myself?

Hi Everyone! I just started nursing school last year, and we have just begun the actual nursing classes this year. I had to transfer schools to get that, and I was just wondering if you had any tips on how to get through nursing school because I got very overwhelmed on the first day because they were throwing a lot at us about our books, tests, homework, and access to a million websites we need to be on. I do not know anyone here, and I am freaking out! Any tips would be awesome thank you!