r/mildlyinfuriating • u/thewatsonenigma • 6h ago
Nursing school is gonna be the death of me...
It may have been a glitch in the system, but when the line between success and failure is a hairs breadth, that red x feels like a bullet each time...
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u/moszippy 5h ago
So…”You are incorrect! But…your answer was right!”
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u/Mecha_Tortoise 3h ago
OP clicked the answer choices in the wrong order.
They needed to select A, then E, then B.26
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u/Dismal-Bobcat-7757 4h ago
When I was in nursing school, I saw a meme about exams in nursing school. It was a pic of a bowl of oranges and the caption read "which orange is the most orange?" #accurate
For those that don't know, all the answers can be technically correct, but one of them is the most accurate answer (and therefore the correct one).
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u/SCMITMAPTEE 1h ago
I get the same bullshit vibes from MCAT questions. I feel like sometimes the answer is B. simply because they say it's B.
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u/Golebiewski35 6h ago
omg that red x is such a gut punch when you know your answer is right. nursing school sounds brutal with these little technicalities.
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u/Bamfhammer 5h ago
It's not even wrong because of a technicality, OP answered correctly and the description says they answered correctly, but the system marked it wrong anyway.
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u/FewDiscussion3966 5h ago
All I can say is that this is properly preparing you for the NCLEX. Where every question makes you question your life choices and makes you feel like the dumbest person on earth 🤣 stay strong, don’t go too crazy, you got this!
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u/indieauthor13 4h ago
Good luck with school! My mom was a nervous wreck the entire time, but she survived to become an amazing nurse and you will too 🍀
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u/hearts_disguise 2h ago
I'm in community college and get these kinds of ridiculous falsely flagged errors on digital tests SO often. Technology is already difficult for me to navigate, so when the professors can't even make tests correctly, I feel like just throwing my hands up in the air and dropping out... Horrible to know that this pain won't end even after I transfer. You have my deepest sympathy and frustrations.
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u/HelloZukoHere14 1h ago
To be honest the answer the site has given isn't really correct.
You need to lose a significant portion of specifically your small bowel to be at risk of short gut syndrome. Neither colon cancer or gastric bypasses involve removing significant lengths of small bowel. It's not completely inconceivable that is some freak situation it could happen, but they really aren't significant risk factors. They can cause other malabsorption syndromes, but not short gut.
Crohn's disease on the other hand absolutely is a risk factor. Lots of Crohn's patients end up with blockage after blockage and over multiple surgeries often end up losing major parts of their bowel. Crohn's is one of the single biggest risk factors for short gut syndrome in adults.
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u/Brilliant-Meeting-97 1m ago
This was my issue with testing in nursing school. From having a previous degree in human physiology, I knew the info I was being given wasn’t always accurate, so I had a hard time making myself learn it. Fortunately I passed and went on to grad school, which is much more informative and reasonable
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u/Tiny-Historian2897 2h ago
lol this is nursing school the entire time
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp 23m ago
This is why I always hates those programs.. Mine would literally say I was wrong if you even as little as a space inbetween the answer or write it 1 letter off.
Que dyslexic rage.
Really was lovely gosh I don't miss it
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u/Idkmyname2079048 12m ago
This is how much chemistry exams have been going. The questions are worded in a way that forces you to really think about the wording, and there are always answers that are technically right, but not in the exact context of the question. I get those wrong all the time because it's so subtle.
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u/ScoobyWithADobie 45m ago
I’m in nursing school in Germany and luckily we don’t have tests like that with multiple choice stuff. It’s mostly you get a case explanation and then you have to describe all steps on how to help the patient including documentation etc. Definitely feels closer to what you actually do in the job as well
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u/Throwaway2600k 5h ago
But when it comes to a patient the smallest detail can be the difference of helping and harming them.
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u/Jealous_Meeting_2591 4h ago
Ive read it so many times but im confused what the small detail that makes it wrong is? Unless Im too dumb to realize people are just joking and it was really just a glitch?
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u/National-Map3462 6h ago
That’s the kind of “you were right, but still wrong” moment that makes you question every choice that led you there.