Why does sleep deprivation have to be a part of my LPN training?

[username44]

Why does sleep deprivation have to be a part of my LPN training? I'm told it is necessary to do massive amounts of homework the night before a clinical in order to get the "total clinical picture" for my patient. But that rationale is not plausible to me. I retain very little of what I study after about 10 PM. I retain very little of what I learn at the clinical site after having slept only 2 or 3 hours the night before. It hurts me that the quality of my homework is not what it could be. I would like to take the time to get a little more in depth knowledge about certain disease processes or drugs. But instead I take every available shortcut in order to complete all the assignments. Sleep deprived medical students used to be one of my pet peeves. Now I am one.

I know darn well there is a better way. It is possible to learn more and sleep more. So why? Is it a throwback to the days when nurses were sisters and self-flagellation was in style? Is it the perverse preference of the head teacher at my school? Or is this the norm?

I will have to endure this ordeal one night a week almost every week between now and October. I keep wondering if I should drop out and try some other type of program. Medical assisting? Medical lab tech? Do I want to be a nurse this badly?

[Nurse-One]

you are not alone.

sleep deprivation, i'm begining to accept

as part of my life as a nursing student.

Although, our clinical rotation did not

sound like your description. We had

nurses notes and drug cards, but most

of the other info they taught it to us, but

was told its mostly for RNs to do.

I stay up all night studying nclex questions since

we're a few months away from graduation, they are

giving us nclex exams that are back to back...its crazy.

the average nclex book has at least 2000 questions

which take about half and hour to go through 90 questions

(this is without reading the rationales)

But its paying off, my finally improving in my grades

the more questions I review the better I understand HOW

to best answer them, i writing to much...like someone

mentioned earlier in this thread...its only temporary:yawn:

[MattiesMama]

I'm wondering if it depends on the program...

I go to a private LPN school that touts it's "100% pass rate" on the boards...but 70% of their students drop out or fail out before they even take them. And we also have ridiculous amounts of, what I consider to be "stupid" homework (busy work that doesn't teach us much of anything)

Then I have a friend who goes to a public LPN school...and she has barely any homework.

I think some schools give you massive hoops to jump through in order to get the high pass rates on the boards, because they figure that those who can't hack it will drop out or fail and those who have gone through that much BS to make it to the end will have a better chance of passing the boards...but that is just a theory =)

[username44]

Nursing darwinism

it's time for change