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Starting Nursing School

Hi guys! I am looking for advice/support for someone starting nursing school. I have read a lot of these posts saying "I did great in Pre-Reqs.. but not doing well in nursing school"

Well I did OK in pre-reqs. I got mostly As and Bs and I did get a C in chemistry. But I did a ton of volunteering and loved it. I was wait-listed at my top school and got in, and I feel really undeserving! I'm so nervous to start school because I'm so scared to fail out. If people who got straight As in pre-reqs are struggling, how am I supposed to do well at all? I do admit that I could have put more time into studying for some pre-reqs, but that's something I learned from. I have no doubt that I want to be a nurse, I am just looking for someone who was "average" in pre-reqs and has advice for being successful in nursing school. Any success stories/tips?

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    I did ok in prereqs but then was doing great on my nursing tests. then an abusive instructor gave me panic attacks in clinical LOL but that was a school in NJ.. do Don;t worry ,. go for it !! I was failed in my course at 19 years old and gave up. I regret it until this day.

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    Nursing school is hard because of the sheer VOLUME of material that they throw at you all at once. Just keep up with everything and you will be fine :)

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    Just show up to class, don't rub the instructors the wrong way, don't question them, and take every opportunity there is for credit, tutoring sessions, side lessons from the professors, and remedial counseling. Be organized. Be very organized. Purchase a comprehensive study guide and look up the certain diseases you are learning.

    For example when learning about Heart Failure, your medsurg book will be 10 pages or more just on heart failure

    Pathophysiology

    And ALL the subtypes

    Clinical manifestations

    Diagnostics

    Treatments

    The comprehensive study guides usually are good at picking out what the nclex expects YOU to know as a new nurse with no experience.

    They just wanna make sure you're safe.

    If it makes you feel any better, those 10-15 pages in your med surg book hardly scratch the surface of what there is to know of HF and you will never know everything, all you need to know to pass your class and your nclex is enough to be safe.

    Like, it's a bad idea to bolus a whole liter of fluids to a patient with HF

    Like, knowing how to give them good discharge instructions on weighing themselves and signs symptoms of worsening HF.

    Take a deep breath and relax. You care about your schooling and sometimes caring a lot and giving it your GENUINE all is all it takes...!

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