Balance of work life, study and social

Re: Balance of work life, study and social

BTCC Fan RVN — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 23:29:44 GMT

I feel the exact same way. Did my vca training now on to vn training. It will be worth it in the end but it does mean sacrificing going out with friends and spending time with loved ones. In the end they know this training is important to you and they will understand. So just try to find a balance and not burn yourself out x

Re: Balance of work life, study and social

emilyjane — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:34:37 GMT

Haha, what is this "social life" you speak of? Tea breaks? :P

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zookeeper — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 22:02:03 GMT

Hi I can totally relate to this! I am 30yrs old, and have been studying for the past 3 years! Done my ANA and then VN training. I have a hubby to organise lol! Running a home and Animals to care for plus working a 40+ hour week as well as revising for exams and getting the NPL done and all these assignments and college assessments to do! But despite all of this you feel so proud and feel that you have achieved so much when you are near completion! I have had confirmation that my NPL is complete I passed my 2nd year theory exams so all I have left is my practicals in March. I was given the advice that prepared me not to have a life for at least 3 years which I do agree but the day I qualify, receive my VN badge and wear my greens, I will feel such a sense of achievement and this will all have felt worthwhile. To any student out there feeling the strain, hang in there as it will be worth it! Sarah -x-

Re: Balance of work life, study and social

NuttyNu — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:48:30 GMT

I know how you feel with your studying hard... When I wasn't studying... I had little social life anyway (OUt about 1night a week for a local first aid meeting!)... When I was studying, I had little family time, animals got a bit left out with time, and didn't always go out on that one evening.

Now i have qualified i am still studying for more nursing skills and it has been going a similar way... Little social... Birds out working with me now (and eating my notes I have finished with!) .

Main thing to remember is to have some time to relax... This was (and is) my main problem and you end up very stressed, dishartened and wanting to quit because you feel you are only going backwards!

Keep at it... 2 years will fly by!

Re: Balance of work life, study and social

Hayley Rafter — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:00:31 GMT

[quote user="Katie Mansfield"]

[quote user="sazzle RVN"]Coleville and Bassert is the best A & P book ever!!! [/quote]

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!! Expensive - but well worth the investment American so you have to swap a few words around (eg. adrenalin = Epinephrine, etc) but it reads really well and explains things simply, has great diagrams and if you buy it with the lab work book you get revision tasks and quizzes as well. It was my Bible last term

K x

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Katie! are you mad?! I hate that book! I really like the college of animal welfares anatomy book, not as much depth as Cov and Bas but gives you a good basis to build your learning on

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Veterinary-Physiology-Applied-Anatomy-Technicians/dp/0750648023

Re: Balance of work life, study and social

Katie Mansfield — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:23:43 GMT

[quote user="sazzle RVN"]Coleville and Bassert is the best A & P book ever!!! [/quote]

K x

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Marge — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:10:44 GMT

I know just how you feel, and I felt the same when I started my course a year ago. Working full time and studying as we'll as kids and animals to look after is a hell of a challenge! I'm permanently exhausted, but you know what they say - you want something done give it to a busy person!! Time flies and before you know it you'll be done.

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bongo — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:55:48 GMT

Coleville and Bassert is the best A & P book ever!!! Totally got me through my 1st year dip CVN last year. Unfortunately if studying for something u really want you have to make sacrifices such as your social life. Just think, its not forever. I am currently studying for dip CVN then hopefully AVN and am having to sacrifice many social events but it will be so worth it!

Re: Balance of work life, study and social

Katie Mansfield — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:48:51 GMT

[quote user="Kirsten Clements"]Oh gosh that's a long time! What doing ?![/quote]

BSc VN at the RVC - it's a 4 yr course Where are you doing your's?

A&P is def hard going - when I was revising it nothing seemed to go in at all. I can just remember sitting looking at my Coleville and Bassert and thinking "what the hell did I just read???!!!" I had Victoria Aspinal's anatomy flash cards all over the house and my brain felt like jelly. Still something must have gone in cos I passed the exams!! I've actually found being in practice now is refreshing my A&P knowledge (bit late for the exams tho, lol), so if you're in practice already you've got a head start

Good luck with it. You're lucky having mock test every week - we had little quizzes online every week; they were a godsend cos it gives you a rough idea of what level the MCQ part of the exams is gonna be pitched.

K x

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Mark Hedberg — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:53:26 GMT

[quote user="Kirsten Clements"]

That's the attitude I have been using for anatomy as well!

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I was a rubbish anatomist - don't worry :)

Re: Balance of work life, study and social

Kirsten Clements — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:22:35 GMT

Oh gosh that's a long time! What doing ?!😊 Unfourtunately I have assignment my cpl and revision for mock tests every week. There was me moaning! It sounds like you have more than enough of your plate but you seem to be coping with it well. That's what I keep telling myself! It's good that I have my weekends with my partner as he is currently studying in uni so that has been a massive change in spending every day together to now seeing each other at weekends. That's the attitude I have been using for anatomy as well! Possibly my worst subject but I adore the general nursing side of it all 😊 thanks for the advice!

Re: Balance of work life, study and social

Katie Mansfield — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:27:30 GMT

I feel your pain!!!!! I've taken on the degree so it's 4 yrs for me; I just started yr 2. I'm on placement at the moment so I'm at work 5 days a week. This term I'm lucky in that I don't also have assignments to do (last placement block we had 3) but we still have to do a regular reflective blog and keep up with the NPL. As well as the studying I have lots of animals at home to look after, hubby and 5 kids, not to mention the washing, cleaning, cooking etc, etc, etc. Looking at it it's a wonder I'm not a quivering hysterical mess by the weekend, but I've learnt to chill out about stuff. The house is a mess, and we rarely go out any more due to being too knackered, having too much to do and not having that much free cash cos both me and hubby are students.

To keep sane neither of us study at weekends unless there's an exam coming up and we try to have a cosy pizza, wine and TV night on a Saturday. It will all be worth it in the end though Keep smiling, Kirsten, and just tell yourself it's only 2 years, they'll fly by and then you'll wonder what all the fuss was about!!!!

K x

Re: Balance of work life, study and social

Mark Hedberg — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:56:41 GMT

With regards to your other topic on dyslexia, if you find you have it and you get help, it will go a long way tomaking your study more effective. :) good luck!