Just really need some motivation here. I am in my second semester of an ADN program and I'm just starting to really get sick of it.
The first thing that happened was we were given a new instructor from a different college in the middle of our first year. This instructor did not assess our knowledge base and is testing us on things that were not in the readings (yes I actually read all of it), and not to mention things that were not in our notes. We had our first test this semester two weeks ago. There are only 39 of us left out of 59 (6 of which came back that failed last year), and on our first exam 32 people failed. I literally passed by the skin of my teeth.
Last semster I had a B+ in fundamentals and now with the new instructor I missed 9 out of her 17 questions on the exam. Some of my classmates did not miss any of the other instructors questions and missed 15 of hers. She also writes for NCLEX and is giving first year nursing students level 4 NCLEX questions on exams. So needless to say the whole class had to go to remediation together and when she went over her test questions she told us that "they are what they are, I'm not taking any questions or arguing". We just wanted to know were she got the questions from, because they sure were not presented to us is lecture or independent study. She also made it a point that we must have horrible study skills. O.K. we have a total of 3 instructors, I missed 1 question from each of the other 2 instructors and 9 of hers. Does this mean my study skills are bad?
I always get in a slump in the spring semester because I just start to get worn out with working plus going to school, but this is really disheartening. The whole class has lost their morale and none of us know what to do. One of the girls is going to write a letter to our nursing dean and also send a copy to the dean of the university, but I feel like they will just treat us worse. Has anyone else ever been in this situation? What did you do? How in the world do you keep going? I want to be a nurse more than anything, but I am starting to feel like I can't keep doing this to myself. I know that I'll be fine after this semester is over, but I am so worried about this new instructor, that it's killing me. Sorry so long and whiny, but all the other students and the boyfriend is getting sick of hearing it.
I just finished Maternity at McGee and I absolutely loved it!!!!
A few of the people in my lab just finished their Materinity rotation at St. Claire. They said that the Maternity wing was so nice looking, all that $$ from Upper St. Claire, hardwood floors, private suites, jacuzzis in every room. My instructor told my group that St. Claire and Butler County Hosp. are rated as the two nicest birthing centers in the state. The people at St. Claire did complain though, that there weren't many people there giving birth. I think they said that only half of their group got to actually see a birth, where as at McGee I saw a VBAC and C-Sect. in one day and everyone in my group got to see both a VBAC and C-sect. maybe not on the same day but definitaly during the 4 weeks we were there. We also were able to carry two Post Partum couplets at a time, doing routine assessments on mother and child and I don't believe they did much of that at St. Claire.
I guess my advice is that you keep your eyes and ears open while at St. Claire so that you can get in there and experience some different things. You may want to be prepared to stay after clinical to see a VBAC too.
Did you feel that the reading assignments for Med. Surg were not difficult too keep up with? The reading assignments for Maternity were insane and we just got our syllabus for Peds. yesterday and we have 7 chapters to read this week. Next week isn't too bad, just 4 Chapters but then in Week 3 we have 11 chapters to read.
colleen10
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Hi Cheripa,
I just finished Maternity at McGee and I absolutely loved it!!!!
A few of the people in my lab just finished their Materinity rotation at St. Claire. They said that the Maternity wing was so nice looking, all that $$ from Upper St. Claire, hardwood floors, private suites, jacuzzis in every room. My instructor told my group that St. Claire and Butler County Hosp. are rated as the two nicest birthing centers in the state. The people at St. Claire did complain though, that there weren't many people there giving birth. I think they said that only half of their group got to actually see a birth, where as at McGee I saw a VBAC and C-Sect. in one day and everyone in my group got to see both a VBAC and C-sect. maybe not on the same day but definitaly during the 4 weeks we were there. We also were able to carry two Post Partum couplets at a time, doing routine assessments on mother and child and I don't believe they did much of that at St. Claire.
I guess my advice is that you keep your eyes and ears open while at St. Claire so that you can get in there and experience some different things. You may want to be prepared to stay after clinical to see a VBAC too.
Did you feel that the reading assignments for Med. Surg were not difficult too keep up with? The reading assignments for Maternity were insane and we just got our syllabus for Peds. yesterday and we have 7 chapters to read this week. Next week isn't too bad, just 4 Chapters but then in Week 3 we have 11 chapters to read.
Good Luck!!