The most frustrating part of NS..

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... Is that they don't round.

0.1 point away from an A this semester. I don't know if I should celebrate for all the hard work to earn that B+ or be annoyed that I'm so close yet so far away from that A.

:eek:

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

Honestly, it's your choice. Personally I'd celebrate the fact that I got a B+ (and therefore didn't fail) and be annoyed at not earning the A. I'd take a minute (or a few) to review what I'd done during the semester to see if there's a way to improve my studying and test-taking skills for the upcoming semester.

It is what it is... you came close, but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

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I am happy that I passed. I'm blessed and thankful to have the opportunity to even be in nursing school & succeed to the next semester. I'm just venting at seeing my grade being that close; don't mind me. I have three weeks off for winter break and plan to use that time to relax and occasionally read in my med surg book before the upcoming semester.

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I watched my grades carefully. Once I passed the point of no A in one class, I adjusted its priority. I am happy with my As and Bs.

Celebrate!

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Specializes in L&D, infusion, urology.

Been there! I think I was 0.3% away from an A- one semester, where I had ONE exam that I bombed because I was very ill (and I had studied so hard, but rushed through it and didn't read the questions thoroughly). We have to work hard to earn what we get in nursing school!

Great job getting through another semester!

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Specializes in Neuro, Telemetry.

I feel your pain. I was mere points away from an A last semester in fundamentals and I was SOOOOOO irritated about it. Don't get me wrong, I was super great full that I passed and felt like I learned a lot. Its just frustrating to be so close. I studied my butt off for the final in a last attempt to get the A, and missed it. Such is life. This semester, I can only lose 2 points between my HESI exit and final to get an A for MED/SURG 1. Together there are 150 total points available. I decided not to kill myself studying and just accept the likely B. I don't want to be disappointed in a B again. I am happy with a B knowing Im not stressing out and living with my notes this past week and this coming weekend. I am still studying because I don't want to bomb the 2 tests. But it's nice knowing I don't HAVE to do fantastic on them. Maybe next semester. We can do this!

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I definitely agree with policies about rounding up. We are dealing with human lives out in the real world, the difference between a B+ and an A student might be what saves or kills a patient. Gross exaggeration I know, but it happens. When I was visiting a friend who was in the intensive care unit and was on an automatic pain pump machine, I saw that the nurse had inadvertently clamped the IV line when she closed the pump machine that locked the morphine drip in it. There is an indentation on both sides of the machine that forms a hole for the IV line to pass through when the machine was closed. Well the nurse clearly didn't put the line there, so when she closed it, the medication never got out cause she had clamped the line! My friend suffered through the night in agonizing pain, with the IV pump beeping every few mins, and not a single nurse or aide that came in caught the mistake. When I visited the next morning I saw it and had to inform the nurse of it, cause she kept looking at the machine and was even banging on it when alls you had to do was trace the IV line and see where it was clamped.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

If you agree with rounding up to get that A....should they round up on the student that just failed?

You get the grade you earned.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
I definitely agree with policies about rounding up. We are dealing with human lives out in the real world, the difference between a B+ and an A student might be what saves or kills a patient. Gross exaggeration I know, but it happens. When I was visiting a friend who was in the intensive care unit and was on an automatic pain pump machine, I saw that the nurse had inadvertently clamped the IV line when she closed the pump machine that locked the morphine drip in it. There is an indentation on both sides of the machine that forms a hole for the IV line to pass through when the machine was closed. Well the nurse clearly didn't put the line there, so when she closed it, the medication never got out cause she had clamped the line! My friend suffered through the night in agonizing pain, with the IV pump beeping every few mins, and not a single nurse or aide that came in caught the mistake. When I visited the next morning I saw it and had to inform the nurse of it, cause she kept looking at the machine and was even banging on it when alls you had to do was trace the IV line and see where it was clamped.
For future reference...be very careful on pointing a finger....those stupid clams WILL bite you in the behind....and for what it is worth...the IV is NOT the CNA responsibility.
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Specializes in ED.

Been there, done that. When I was in school, I had an 89.4 in one class. My school didn't recognize the +/- system either. I was one test question away from an A in that class. Several of us were. There were four questions on one test that almost the entire class got wrong because she lectured one way and the book said something different. She tested on what the book said vs her lecture. We tried to drop at least one question and she just wouldn't budge. It was so frustrating because so many of us were close to that A. The fact that we just got a regular ole B was like a slap in the face too. At least gimme the +!

Does it matter today? Nope. Not even a little bit. I know how you are feeling tho. Don't be too hard on yourself. Not once have I been asked what my grades were in nursing school.

Enjoy your little break from school and good luck next semester!

meredith

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I never said I agreed with rounding up. I only said it was frustrating. I didn't ask for an extra 0.1 to be given to me, nor have I ever argued for points back on a test. I accepted my grade because that's what I earned, but nevertheless, it is still frustrating to look at your grade and be so close. Like I said, I'm just venting but still very thankful to move on.

and keepermom, I know how you feel. My teacher would lecture and many people would miss questions because she would contradict what our book said. She was in school herself for a phd in nursing & from a lack of sleep, would have to go back and correct herself after she had told us something different. I learned to always follow our book over the teacher because that is what we are tested on.

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Specializes in hospice.
My teacher would lecture and many people would miss questions because she would contradict what our book said. She was in school herself for a phd in nursing & from a lack of sleep, would have to go back and correct herself after she had told us something different. I learned to always follow our book over the teacher because that is what we are tested on.

Yeah, I'd be in the Dean's office on that one. That's utterly ridiculous. If the instructor has too much going on and can't do her job effectively then she needs to be relieved of it. If students can't trust their instructors to actually be correct, what's the point of the instructor?

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