Hi there!  I am a recent graduate of an LPN program and newly licensed as of November 08.  I am 30 and I have 4 babies ages 13, 10, 8, and 5.  My husband stays home with our babies since I started working as a nurse because I make more money than he can at this time.  I made it through nursing school without ever getting less than a B on anything and I have one really good piece of advice.  When you are looking at all the medications or all the disease processes...  things start looking the same and its hard to remember what goes with what so look for the odd parts, especially with medications and their sideeffects and contraindications and adverse reactions...  Look for the info that stands out as odd or unique.  That was definetly the winning ticket for me.  Good Luck!

 The thing that really helped me while I was in school was to draw a picture of a body for each condition that I learned about.  I would then write the meds on that same sheet, as well as the signs/symptoms, and any other pertinent info. If something affected the heart, I would add a heart and draw an arrow from what I wrote to the heart, etc.  I seemed to remember it better after I would draw the pic and write everything on it.  It also made it easy to review for each test.  Instead of rereading everything, I could hit the highlights by looking at my pictures.  I'm not sure if it will help you, but it did me.  :)

We must be.  :)  I didn't learn about it until second semester, but after I did, it made such a difference.  I would actually remember my bodies when taking a test.  hehe  Good luck and if you ever have any questions, please feel free to write.  :)