Soooo Tired....Need encoragement!!

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I just started my 2nd semster of a 4 semster program. I am soooooo tired already and it is only the 2nd week!!

I only go to school/clinicals on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Tuesday is my long day. I get home at 5pm on Tuesadys. Anyway, I studied nonstop from 10.30 am Thursday. [Typing up drug cards] To 11pm that night. I got up at 630 Friday and got the kids off to school, then it was back to the drug cards. I worked on them the entire time the kids were in school. I finally finished them at 8:30 Friday night.

Saturday, I was up by 9.30 and started typing up my lecture notes. I also typed the important stuff from my book. I stopped for the night at 8.30pm. Sunday and Monday were the same thing. I had a test Tuesday and thought that I had studied for it. However, I only got 50 out of 55 right. That is an A-!!

I came home after school yesterday, and had to cut my drug info up, so I could put it on 5x8 index cards. I got it done just in time to leave for clinical [OB]. I get there and find out that they aren't due until today. Then, she told us to do a report on Hepatitis B that was due today. I forgot about it until after I was in bed last night.

I got up and did the report. I also had a major care plan that was due today. I get to clinical today only to find out that the Hep-B isn't due until NEXT week!!

Then today I was in the NBN and we only had 2 babies. The one I got was Chinese and soooo cute, but the mother is formula feeding and she took care of her most of the time I was there. I got a chance to try and feed the baby but I could NOT get her to wake up!!. I tried everything. I changed her diaper; I undressed her; I bounced her; I even unwrapped her. NOTHING worked.

So I sat in the NBN and twiddled my thumbs! I am soooooo tired right now but need to start on my next content section 'words to know'.

Sorry this is so long, but I needed to vent!!

Specializes in Jack of all trades, and still learning.

...reduce your time constructively. I could add to the suggestions but it would basically be repeating what they all say. But if you can, try to find some time for YOU; going for a walk, or a bike ride, or visiting a friend. Doesnt have to be for long. But it will help you concentrate better on your studies. Also, make sure you have a five minute break from your studies every hour; or else you become fatigued.

Look after yourself

I rewrote my lecture notes to help cement it in my brain then what I started to do was tape myself reading my lecture notes and I would add in stories or examples that the instructor had used in class. I would put my headphones on and put that recorder in a a little fanny pack and clean house, do laundry ..it really helped PLUS I had a clean house!! Now how is that for multi tasking! Erin

Specializes in Geriatrics, Pediatrics, Home Health.

First off, I am NOT trying to memorize facts. That will not work in Nursing. I had to type my drug cards because I didn't have the $ to photocopy them. I use Davis Drug Guide w/CD. Of the nine cards I had to do only 4 were on the CD. I found out today that the bookstore sells drug cards, but again, right now I can't afford to buy them.

Second, I retype my lecture notes and add stuff from the book to reinforce what I am learning. I am not a perfectionist, but I am determined to become a nurse. I went over my test today, and one of the things I missed just really p***** me off. We had to fill in the blank on a transposition of the heart. I KNEW that it was Right ventricle and then left ventrical, but is that what I put? NO!! I put right ventricle, left ATRIA!!!!! Why in the world I put that is beyond me. I KNOW that the pulmonary vein arises from the right ventricle and that the aorta arises from the left ventricle. In a transposition they are reversed. GRRRRRRRR!!

The other four questions, I really didn't know the answers to. One was what causes the baby to take its first breath? I said the pO2 increases as pCO2 decreases. NO! Its because the baby enters a cooler enviroment!! DUH!! I tried to over answer the questions.

So I guess my next question for y'all is how do you keep yourself from over answering questions?

Thanks for reading and TIA for your wonderful advice!

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