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Has anyone out there ever completed all the reading required of you during nursing school? I'm in an accelerated program, and with 19 credit hours, multiple clinical rotations, papers, care plans, projects, and oh yeah, a life, it seems utterly impossible to keep up with reading. Yet it seems as though the professors think we have 48 hours in a day and no classes other than theirs! Just wondering... :confused:

In my department we HAD to do all of the reading.The instructors would seriously (no joke) pull very random things from the book to test us on that were not discussed in class or even mentioned once. Often times it would be from a small very small paragraph. I absolutely hated it DURING school, but thankful we were forced to read everything after we graduated. Because I had read everything thoroughly, I had pretty solid knowledge of everything nursing related. I didn't have to take a review course and ended up passing the NCLEX the 1st time with 75 questions in about 40 minutes. If you cut corners now, you'll more than likely regret it later on.

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It's not as much about cutting corners as it is about getting everything done that needs to get done while still maintaining sanity. I would LOVE to have the time to read everything, but I literally don't. I'm with you- doing all the assigned reading would, I'm sure, prepare you very well for the NCLEX... I just wish I could! Thanks!

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BEFORE EACH CLASS I skim the chapters, but never read word from word. I focus on charts and diagrams. I do read the powerpoints from instructors faithfully. I don't have time to read three different chapters in three different books !

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BEFORE EACH CLASS I skim the chapters, but never read word from word. I focus on charts and diagrams. I do read the powerpoints from instructors faithfully. I don't have time to read three different chapters in three different books !

Amen! With Medsurg II (2 books), Psych (3 books), Gerontology (1 book), and Research (1 book), keeping up is virtually impossible! Perhaps I'll give your suggestion a try- skim and focus on the key points... and of course the PPT's are always a good place to focus.

Thanks!

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