What are you all up to? It has been quiet on the blog from your class. What is the time line for your last 2 weeks?
We have until this Friday at noon to turn in our patient care studies and then we have a week to get ready for our last 2 tests which will be 3 days apart. (NO stress there!!!!!!!!!) These tests will cover the endocrine and musculoskeletal systems.
Lets get together at the end of our classes and heave a big SIGH of relief upon completion of another N class.
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Hi Bonnie,
I'm sure you'll be glad to be done with N4 and ready for a break with N5. It is the easiest rotation in the program. I have to say I am dreading N4 after the nice break.
We have Exam 3 on Monday, and the final the following Monday (Oct 10). Hope your tests go well. Thank you for all of the N4 posts! :)
Hi Shelby, I can't deny the fact that I am looking forward to a break. Do you have any study ahead tips that you would recommend for us? Are learning the drugs the highest priority?
Don't stress out too much about nursing 4. I bring alot of my fatigue on myself. The pathophys book is helpful and portable. With Mrs. Prieto, her tests are mostly from her lectures. She will tell you if she wants you to read further on other stuff. Recording lectures is recommended to give you peace of mind. I recorded every one of them, but did not relisten to any of them. With Mrs Dennison, it is lecture also but some reading can also help. I don't suggest that you just flat out read all of the assignments unless you have a really good memory . Looking at charts and things is usually enough. Practice all of the questions on the blog and Mosby's study guide questions. Don't just look for the right answer, talk about each choice and think about what is going on there, what makes one right and not the other, what would have to happen to make the other choices right. Cover the choices and know what is going on in the question before you even let yourself get distracted by your choices.Slow down and don't be in too much of a hurry to choose. After you choose, go back and read the question again and make sure that your choice is answering it. I don't know about you, but it is very easy for me to read a question wrong, backwards or as a positive question instead of a negative one.It's kinda fun though,like a mystery to solve. Study groups really helped, for me, not in the studying part, but in the listening to what other people had to say. All sorts of things get brought up that you realize you had not really studied. I have enjoyed this class, it just goes very fast.If you need me at all when we change classes, I will still be in the tutor center.
Bonnie, just read the first chapters and start the study guide. The tests can be challenging because they are, as always, NCLEX type questions, but if you read and do the study guide you will do fine. Remember to check the ETUDEs site when Karen opens it up for you. There is work on there too that is critical thinking type stuff and is a lot of fun. We did post some of each study guide so that should help a bit. Do not stress the class; it is different from all others in that you have to use all your interpersonal skills during clinical, and then use clinical skills too. No blood pressue is going to help you here, but listening and talking to the clients is the best learning tool you have. Above all, enjoy yourself! Debbie
I agree with Bonnie, FORM A STUDY GROUP! It helps so much in that its so hard to try and retain all the info. on your own. We usually studied the night before for about 3 hours just to sort of review. AND...You leave feeling like you really do know what your talking about! Oh and the pathophys book helped, I hardly read the med serg book. One more thing too, look at the practice quetions in the med surg study guide book.
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