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Tips for helping my GF get through nursing school?
Posted on 1/12/16 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 1/12/16 at 6:23 pm
I usually don't come here for this kinda shite but idk what else to do, she's only got one semester left and is having a major freak out about failing her first test of the semester
She's totally different from how I am as I don't worry about things, in school I just did my best and let the cards fall where they may but she's totally different and has tons of anxiety about it all and worries about shite she can't control. It ends up costing her study time cause she's upset/worrying instead of focusing on the material. I just don't know what to do to help
She's totally different from how I am as I don't worry about things, in school I just did my best and let the cards fall where they may but she's totally different and has tons of anxiety about it all and worries about shite she can't control. It ends up costing her study time cause she's upset/worrying instead of focusing on the material. I just don't know what to do to help
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Posted on 1/12/16 at 6:27 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Offer to help study with her if she needs it. My wife went through a difficult program for her job. Also encourage her to get involved with study groups within the class. Reassurance helps some people greatly too.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 6:28 pm to Hogwarts
Yea I've done all that, it's just frustrating cause all I can really do is encourage her which I know helps more than we really see but I just feel helpless
Posted on 1/12/16 at 6:29 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Just listen to her and let her vent. It's going to sound counterproductive but comforting her will probably just make her freak out more. There's an episode of Parks and Rec where Chris deals with this with Ann. The best thing to do is reply to everything with "that sucks".
Posted on 1/12/16 at 6:35 pm to UMRealist
Ughhh
Posted on 1/12/16 at 6:36 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Put it in her butt.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 9:14 pm to Wishnitwas1998
My wife is the same with anxiety. As dudes, we try to fix everything and what they want is just for us to listen and feel sorry for them.
Just tell her that you will support her and then get her a Xanax.
Just tell her that you will support her and then get her a Xanax.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 9:39 pm to Supravol22
Tell her to take the nurses assistant exam and get a job as a nurses assistant in a hospital. That's what my sis-in-law did and aced every test. If your surrounded by it and do most of the work in the hospital class will be easy
Posted on 1/12/16 at 10:00 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Blow all the instructors
Posted on 1/12/16 at 10:06 pm to Tiguar
Came here to post that. Nice work 
Posted on 1/12/16 at 10:39 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Does she know how bad you are at halo?
Posted on 1/12/16 at 10:51 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Mine Just graduated from nursing. Just be there really, although we live 6 hours apart so I couldn't really do that
Posted on 1/12/16 at 10:55 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Would second the suggestion for study groups. I know what youre going through, there isn't anything you can do except be encouraging.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 11:10 pm to Tiguar
quote:
Put it in her butt.
As I scrolled down the responses, I knew this was coming sooner or later.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 11:14 pm to Robert Goulet
Tell her that God gave her free will so she could take some action, as in studying, rather than inaction, as in sitting there worrying. Then tell her that if she fails, then she'll be like billions and billions of other people that have lived on this earth. No one is perfect and sometimes a person fails. It may help to inform her that many of the most famous leaders and many of those with world-changing accomplishments have suffered monumental failures along their paths. Failure was often what galvanized them and made it possible for them to succeed later.
There's a time to stand by someone and be there for them. There's also a time to put a foot up their arse and push them in the direction of being productive, not counter-productive. The worrying is counter-productive.
To be brutally honest, unless she's had a silver spoon all her life and this is truly her first bit of adversity so she's just now learning to deal with it - then this would be a bad sign. If an exam is freaking her out, how will she deal with relationship issues, marriage, kids, problem patients, etc. Surely she must have enough perspective to realize those exams are just small bits of textbook knowledge that she will conquer, even if it's not on the first go.
There's a time to stand by someone and be there for them. There's also a time to put a foot up their arse and push them in the direction of being productive, not counter-productive. The worrying is counter-productive.
To be brutally honest, unless she's had a silver spoon all her life and this is truly her first bit of adversity so she's just now learning to deal with it - then this would be a bad sign. If an exam is freaking her out, how will she deal with relationship issues, marriage, kids, problem patients, etc. Surely she must have enough perspective to realize those exams are just small bits of textbook knowledge that she will conquer, even if it's not on the first go.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 1:02 am to Wishnitwas1998
My wife is a nurse and nursing school is no joke.. She has/had anxiety and freaked out if she made anything less than an A.
I tried to help anyway I could. I didn't dominate her time when she needed to study. I would try and cook dinner a couple of nights a week for us. Help your woman focus on the positive, and try and relieve any external worries that may come about. If she's freaking out because she's got a test and her apt. Is dirty....just go over and straighten it up. Chicks love that...and you'll probably get some head out of it too. She's in her last semester....remind her of that. She's made it this far...she can do it.
I tried to help anyway I could. I didn't dominate her time when she needed to study. I would try and cook dinner a couple of nights a week for us. Help your woman focus on the positive, and try and relieve any external worries that may come about. If she's freaking out because she's got a test and her apt. Is dirty....just go over and straighten it up. Chicks love that...and you'll probably get some head out of it too. She's in her last semester....remind her of that. She's made it this far...she can do it.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 6:16 am to Wishnitwas1998
Hate to say this and i don't mean it sarcastically either, she needs some weed.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 7:12 am to DannyB
When my ex went through nursing school she was a basket case. Help out around the house as much as possible to take some of the pressure off, let her freak out and vent. The last semester was the most challenging.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 8:10 am to Wishnitwas1998
Sounds like you aren't providing enough doctoring.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 8:30 am to Wishnitwas1998
I would recommend she meet a doctor and marry him. Then she won't have to worry about nursing school.
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