i'm so happy i found you guys! what a wonderful resource for everybody! i didn't start nursing school yet, and still, after reading all your stories feel i know so much already!. thank you
i just received my letter of acceptance from the local adn program! :yeah:i start on august 20th! if you wouldn't mind i have a couple of questions for you:
1 for moms with young children - what do you do when your kids get sick? mine (age 5 and 9) get sick quite a bit, with high fevers and such. 104 or 105 is a common thing in my house during a flu season. until now i tried to manage my prereq's around them and so far when they were sick my instructors were very understanding. but nursing school is different. i do have somebody that will help me with taking care of them when they are home. it's not family, but it's a help. my question is how do you cope when they are really sick? i understand how important attendance for nursing school. but is there really no room for emergencies like these? how did you moms cope? what did you do in situations like this? moms, share your stories, please.
2. changing gears here - to how do you study. i've read on this board about enormous quantities of reading of material that you cover in short period of time. along with all the other important busy work of nursing school. many of you wrote that you make flashcards and rewrite your notes, something i've been doing myself in prereq's. what i was wondering about is - after you've done your reading (i'm a slow reader) and assigned work, how can you still find time for making flashcards and rewriting notes? what are your secrets?
I have to add about having kids and studying. It seems that there were a couple ways moms went about this dilema but my choice was to do pretty much the same things with the kids as I used to do before nursing school. I still volunteered at their school weekly, still went to all their activities (the ones where i wasn't in school that day), still did things with them after school and on weekends. However, I ended up losing sleep due to having to stay up late many nights to study and do school work. My good friend in nursing school could not and would not stay up late to do school work so for her, she chose to miss out on many things with her family. It is a toss up and I've seen moms handle it both ways and you will find what works for you. Many can't handle missing a lot of sleep so they are better moms when they get their 8 hours! I can get by on 5-6 hr a night so I stay up at least a few hrs every night and study/do careplans/homework etc. I did not want studying to take over my personal/family time. OF course I have missed things but I wanted to minimize that.
:yeah:i start on august 20th! if you wouldn't mind i have a couple of questions for you:
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I have to add about having kids and studying. It seems that there were a couple ways moms went about this dilema but my choice was to do pretty much the same things with the kids as I used to do before nursing school. I still volunteered at their school weekly, still went to all their activities (the ones where i wasn't in school that day), still did things with them after school and on weekends. However, I ended up losing sleep due to having to stay up late many nights to study and do school work. My good friend in nursing school could not and would not stay up late to do school work so for her, she chose to miss out on many things with her family. It is a toss up and I've seen moms handle it both ways and you will find what works for you. Many can't handle missing a lot of sleep so they are better moms when they get their 8 hours! I can get by on 5-6 hr a night so I stay up at least a few hrs every night and study/do careplans/homework etc. I did not want studying to take over my personal/family time. OF course I have missed things but I wanted to minimize that.