Hey gang.........how's it going? Can you see the light at the end of the tunnel of first semester? 5 weeks to go for me (not that I'm counting...lol).
We just finished our clinical rotation at the nursing home. It was an experience, but also heartbreaking too seeing that this is how many people live out their final days. We start at the hospital on Tuesday for 4 weeks. I love my clinical group, we mesh so well & have fun together also. Our class as a whole seems to blend pretty well also & we help each other out. We've had 5 drop out so far, started with 30. Not quite sure how the other campuses are doing. I believe all of us are passing too...well until this happened....
Our instructor was 6 months pregnant when we started this semester. She had the baby a couple of weeks ago so we have a new instructor......one that seems to think the art of teaching comes from reading the book to us (word for word). We aren't happy at all....our first test with the new instructor consisted of 36 questions instead of the usual 50. We get our scores on Monday & I'm sure the complaints will be flying.
I'm curious to hear about how the rest of you are doing!!!!!
Specializes in Adult Med-Surg, Rehab, and Ambulatory Care.
Forgot to mention, we also have practicums in lab...basically skill assessments...you have to pass the practicums to perform the skills on the clinical setting.
So far clinical is good, except I forgot to do my first care plan so I worte a really bad one while the instructor waas collecting them
with all my other paperwork & drug sheets to turnit it all averaged to an 85.5 so not too bad I suppose
We have practicums too...
we get grades on them Ive gotten mosly As & Bs on those but mostly high B's & low A's becuase I always forget some stupid thing that other people doing practicums seem to get Hinted at by the teacher
Overall Nursing school is more work & a bit harder than I expected. I thinnk Ill do better know because we are doing musckoskeltal which is like A&P so I should do good
We seem to have at least 1 quiz, exam & practical each week
Just got back from a refreshing spring break and Tuesday start three weeks of clinicals at the hospital, a big step up from long term care! I'm still shaky on some things but looking forward to the change.
As far as tests- I'm doing OK, we've only had one test so far actually (besides math and terminology which we do on our own time in the nursing lab), and we have two more I think. Plus we just turned in our first care plan, hope it was OK, they never taught us too much about how to do them.
But I am defintly not bored!! don't have time to be!! But I am excited and for the summer looking for a camp job, probably a counselor at a special needs camp, then next summer do an internship
Good luck to all the rest of you w/ the rest of the semester! Take care and don't get too stressed out. :)
maire, ASN, RN
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Yes...4 exams total (last one is cumulative), plus quizzes twice a week, that's it!