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Crazy day. Hey, Christina, by the way, you should turn your sound off your phone so that we go. Hey, do you remember the time I'm Everyone, do you remember the time my mom called during our live video? That was super fun.

I do not remember that. When was that?

I think that was maybe just me doing a live.

Oh, okay.

Super fun. Lives are fun because anything can happen.

Yes. You know, because they are live.

Because they are live.

It's live. So you get to see us unfiltered.

Unfiltered.

As they would say hashtag, no filter.

Oh, I was gonna say hashtag. Unfiltered.

Unfiltered.

Wrong. Because I don't know. Yeah, hashtag things.

I think. I think it is hashtag morning, Barbara.

Happy Wednesday. All right.

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Hi, guys.

Happy Wednesday.

So Wednesday. Hump day. Happy hump day. I love that commercial.

I do, too. Matthew Rafano.

Hi.

We are married together. I am a nurse.

Welcome to the nursing school show. Live amma or ama? Ama. Ask me anything.

Ask me anything. Ask him anything.

Yeah, when I say ask me anything, I do not mean ask me, me anything. I. I mean ask Christina anything.

Hey, Barbara, loves your haircut.

Thank you.

Yeah, ask him nursing questions. That's fun.

You can. And I can answer. I just wouldn't recommend you necessarily follow my advice. So, I mean, you could. If you want to specifically ask for wrong advice for some odd reason, you can. You can definitely ask me.

So maybe not. I would say, you know, I don't know. Half the time I feel like I don't even know what I'm talking about, you know? Hey, Instagram. I saw you, friend. Good to see you. Hey, I know. We were just talking on Instagram. Never mind.

Awesome. All right, well, let's dive into the. Let's dive in. We try and answer as many AMA questions as we can. We actually have a couple from last Monday that we wanted to revisit, and we're actually going to start with one that we ended with last Monday. Ama.

Yep.

So I will read the question over again and we'll kind of just recap where we are and talk about it a little bit more.

And if you guys have questions, leave them in the chat.

Yes, definitely. All right, so for Monday, any advice or motivation for sitting through a 12 hour class? My program's response to this situation we're in right now is to have us do online every other day and two 12 hour classes a week and it's med surg and then a follow up. They don't start clinicals until October. So these 12 hour classes are lecture in the beginning.

Yeah. So can you guys tell me. This was actually a really quick question that we got on Monday and weren't just able to fully answer in that time because we're just coming up on the end. Can you guys let me know in the chat how long your classes are now in the fall? Like, what are your school's planning? Can you tell me, let me know in the chat how, like how long your classes are, what days. There they are. And like what you're taking, how your instructors are handling the whole online transition. If you're going to class, if you're online, like, tell me all the things, tell me everything about your classes in the fall. Barbara says 12 hour lecture. Oh my. Yahoo. Bay,

go ahead, quick tangent. Someone just asked me on Instagram, how do I ask a question? So just go ahead and write in the comments right where you asked that question because technically that is a question. Actually, how do I ask a question? So you ask it in chat and

then if it's YouTube, the chat's over there. There.

I don't know. We're looking at the screen. So anyway, ask it in the chat and then we'll, we'll try and sift through them and get through as many as possible.

Perfect.

Sorry for that tangent, but go ahead.

I don't think that was a tangent.

All right.

Okay. Pace. I don't know. PAC. Yeah, 12 hours, summer, four to five hours, four days a week. Sorry guys, I'm so bad at your Instagram handles. So, yeah, let me know in the chat what your classes look like in the fall, what your instructors are planning, how, you know, tell me all the things. 12 hours. Some are four to five hours. Four days a week. Okay, so 12 hours total, four to five hours, four days. No, that's not right. So are you saying summer 12 hours? Some are four to five hours, four days a week. So how, like how many hours do you have per week? I'm just curious, but do you have some 12 hour days? Lectures are 3 hours online twice a week. Labs. Oh, labs are in person. So I've heard that labs are in person. Oftentimes in your, you know, skills lab, you can, depending on how your school is doing it. Some, some schools are allowing you to go in and practice your skills. You can also practice your skills just at home as well. Let's see, clinicals are online. We are doing lab and Campus for the first time. Perfect. So lab and campus. Yeah, so that's, that's kind of clinicals online. Okay. Skills lab at. At school on campus. Perfect. Alrighty. I don't think I missed any of those. Let me wave to you guys on Instagram. Hi, Instagram. Okay, so with everything moving online in the fall, one thing that I've always said is to not psych yourself out because classes have been online. Like nursing school. There's been, There's. There are nursing school programs that have been online this whole time. And the rest of us in the world have just been doing our own thing in class. So it's not like this is a brand new thing happening. Yes, it might be a brand new thing for your school. Brand new thing for students and the instructors. But like, nursing education online is doable. Like, it's totally fine. The only thing that I think that people, People will get tripped up on. Not the only thing, but one thing, is that when you pair those two together. Right. Your school has never been online. Students are not used to online classes, nor did you guys really sign up for online classes. Like, you didn't go and say, like, I want to do an online program. No, you said, I want to do an in class program. But then your school moved online. So you combine those two together. Instructors having to figure out and pivot exactly. You know, how to do and navigate this whole online space. Same thing with students. That can be very difficult when you pair those two together because neither side really knows what they're doing. Can be more difficult. Right. So the biggest thing to remember is that we talked about this a couple of weeks ago. When you hear the phrase we're all in this together, like, we're all in this together. What does that mean? Well, that means that your instructors are going through the exact same thing that you are. Just because they're an instructor doesn't make them different than you in other aspects. You know, they are still a person, right? They're still a child of God. They are still a person. They're still trying to do their best to move, to handle all these students that they have. Move, move it online. And so I think that it's very, very important for. For us as students, because I'm not a student anymore. I still identify as a student, as students, to give them grace. Right. We want to make sure that we're not being mean to our instructors or, you know, whatever, what have you. Like, don't get angry, don't get upset with them, you know, for things like just, you Know, give them a break. They're doing the best that they can. And I think going into it, realizing, understanding and just thinking that your instructors are doing the best that they can, that's going to really, really help you succeed. So you're not going to go home every day or like, you're not going to, you know, shut your laptop on your bed and be like, forget this matter here, you know? No, just, you know, one day at a time. Everyone is doing this together. So with that, that's the biggest thing that I want you to remember is just that we're, you know, your instructors are the same as you. We're all navigating the space together. So any advice or motivation for sitting through a 12 hour class? Now, let's see. My program's response to the pandemic is we have to do online every other day and it's two 12 hour classes. So you're online and you're in your house and you cannot leave. So that can be tough. Basically, I really like this question because it's kind of like working from home, which we've been doing for forever. So you have to, to really train yourself to focus. That's really the key. Hey, side note, we didn't go to Starbucks this morning.

No, we did.

You just put it in your cup. So you just put your coffee in your cup.

We got coffee yesterday or.

Yeah, we got coffee yesterday.

Yesterday, yeah. And I drink my coffee kind of slow, so I only got halfway through. So guess what? If you're only halfway through, you can fill it. Oh, that's.

And now it's an iced coffee.

So. Life hack.

That sounds gross to me. I don't know if I would like keep it for 24 hours and be like, I'm gonna save this for. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah. So focusing at home can be a really. It's a process. It really is. It's a process as you're, you know, as you gotta find a space. Like find your own little space. If you've got kids at home, if you've got family there, you have to have tough conversations with them and establish boundaries, right? Like the kids aren't gonna disturb you while you're studying or in your 12 hour class, things like that. Hey, by the way, did you know that zoom, you can mute yourself. So you shouldn't mute yourself on zoom. You should mute yourself on Zoom so that, you know, everyone else doesn't hear your kids if you don't want them to. It's totally a zoom feature.

That's something That I think everyone's learning is remote work or etiquette. Oh, yeah, etiquette.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. So, like, when you enter a Zoom room, you have your video and your audio off. Yeah. Then you turn it on when you get there, if it's appropriate. So, yeah, just a little advice for you. Yeah. Cause we've been. I mean, we've been in the online space in Zoom. We did Zoom before. It was cool. Like you did.

Like I did. I did zoom since 2016.

2016.

Apparently it's not.

Welcome to Zoom World, everybody.

Yeah. Hey, Rachel. Yeah. So we are discussing your question right now.

Oh, sweet. Rachel's on. Hi, Rachel. Yep. So this is your question we are answering. So 12 hour clinicals, if it's at home, which I know that you had said your class is online, so I'm assuming you're going to be home. Just make sure that you have a separate space as much as possible. Make sure you have those serious conversations with your family. Establish boundaries, like, Hey, 12 hour, 12 hour day. My snacks. Make sure you drink a lot of water. Make sure you're eating healthy food.

Yep. No, go ahead, Rachel. Just clarify. The 12 hour classes are at school, so.

Oh, 12 hour classes are at school. Thank you. Two days are at home.

Okay.

I think that's easier. Yeah, I would say that's easier.

I mean, I know all. A lot of people are different and like, when you go to college, there is always that question. I know a lot of people are forced to do online right now, but there is always that question because there has always been online classes asking yourself, okay, do I want to take online distance ed, as they used to call it before online. So distance ed versus in class, and everyone's different. Some people actually do prefer the distance Ed, but I think that for the most part, being forced to go to class does have its benefits of being. I mean, it's. Yeah. Being in a specific place at a specific time and having to be somewhere and having to study. So, yeah, I think it is. It is easier. So the 12 hour days, they are long. The two days at home, everything that Christina has been saying, find a dedicated space. Make sure that everyone in the household is aware of your situation and can accommodate you. Yeah. And just kind of put. Put guards in place.

Sorry, Barbara, your comment got hidden, but I'm gonna show it because it's hilarious. Sorry. Apparently YouTube has a very strong filter, but there's no. There's no bad words or anything. Barbara. Sorry, it's just. Yeah, okay. I. I accepted your comment because it's funny.

So put, put guards in place so that you can study and your online class at home in a more focused environment.

You have to make sure that you can stay focused. That's really the key. And if you, Rachel, if your class is like 12 hours at school, I think that's perfect. You know, I think it's going to be a lot better being at school with other people. That's a lot easier than it is like 12 hours at home, let me just tell you. And then, you know, when you start your clinical at clinical, you will, I would say most likely, if not, you're probably already planning on 12 hour clinical days at a clinical facility, right? So kind of the same thing. I mean, whether you're going to school or go into a clinical site. 12 hours, 12 hours. You know, if you're around people, it's a lot easier to stay focused. If you're 12 hours at school, most likely they're going to have lots of breaks for you throughout the day. So same thing. Bring lots of water, tons of water, healthy snacks. You make sure that you are prepared. You don't. So here's some great advice. Listen to this, please. This just came to my mind. Make sure that you are prepared and really highly prepared when you go. Because what happens is when we condense our classes like say that your school just went from five days a week now down to two now, you only have, you went from five options, five options, five days a week that you could physically in person talk with your instructor. Five days, five opportunities. Now you're down to two, two days, two opportunities longer period of time. So make sure that when you go to those, those classes, those days that you are prepared with whatever questions you have, make sure you have everything done more, as much as possible beforehand so that you're prepared. Because you now just have less. Do you understand what I'm saying? Like less ability to talk with your instructors. It's like if we plan like a meeting or whatever for, you know, I don't know. This is how I'm equating it to, for like nursing sos, right? If I have like a meeting once every two weeks, I'm going to be more prepared for that meeting. I probably shouldn't be more prepared for that meeting than if that meeting were like three days a week. You see what I'm saying? So just make sure that you are really prepared. Going into your 12 hour lecture days at school, you have the questions you want to ask your instructor. You know, you've, you've done, you know, You've printed off everything you need to print off. You've got your supplies prepared like you are good to, to go, ready to learn, which we should do anyway. Always. But I think it's more important here. Does that make sense? Rachel, was that helpful?

And I think just, just one last thing. Yeah, it is a longer period of time. So is that worry. Oh, we talked about it a little bit before. Just keep in mind the end goal and what you're, what you should stay focused on in your mindset. A lot of this is mindset work and looking at the bright side of things and looking at the positive side of things. It may be a 12 hour class, but again, it is condensed. So just think about it this way. If it was five days a week for an hour or whatever, two hours, there's always that spin up time that people need to get into it. Kind of like we're just getting into the AMA, just kind of recapping. There's no recap for 12 hours, so you actually save time in that way too.

Right.

So just try and find those little nuggets of positivity too and just try and change your focus. And everyone's trying to get through this and everyone's trying to help. And this guy, the professors, they're there to help even though they don't seem like it sometimes. So, and like we said, we're all human and we're all getting through this together. So give each other grace, give your instructors a break, even though they don't reciprocate it, that's fine. You can only control yourself.

So, and like, for example, like nursing SOS as a company, like we are, I feel like we are very well known for our, I would say exceptional customer service. And I would imagine that all of our members, anyone who has contacted us would say the same thing, that our customer service is just super, super great. So I have a point, I promise. Last night, Nicole, who's our community manager, if you're a member, like, you know who Nicole is. If you've ever emailed us, you know who Nicole is. She lives on the east coast and with all the storms and everything, like that's like, you know, we were down for the count, right? So it was Matthew and I, you know, like that's a third, a third of us that's down. So it really, it extended our time, our response time basically for like emails and comments and things, which was a bummer. So in the same way, like your instructors, the same thing is happening. They're out there in the World trying to manage all of these things, I would say, basically alone. Because to be honest, you guys, like, just think about it this way. Your instructors work in a school that also has no idea what it's doing. Right? Like, we're all learning together. So your instructors are working for a school that doesn't know what it's doing. They're trying to manage things. The school's trying to manage things. So when you don't get an email back from your instructors, you know, within a week or two, whatever, like, give them a break. Give them a break because they're. They're working, you know, super, super hard as well. Everyone's trying to move to online classes together. It's just. It happens. Things happen. So just like last night, I just kind of felt bad because our response times were a lot longer yesterday than they, I would say, probably ever have been. Yeah.

Long time. It was just.

We just had so many. I don't know. There was a mix of, like, two things. We got inundated with emails, you know, yesterday. Tons of emails. Way more than I think we usually get. And then also having Nicole out. So I was trying. If you emailed yesterday, you probably got a response back from me, and that was fun. So there you go. Barbara. Baby storm. I slept through it. Nice. Yeah. I hope you guys are okay in the East Coast. I know it's been rough. Lillian, she doesn't like that. With her coffee, too.

Yes.

See?

Awesome.

She says it. I don't know what that is. Is that a thing? I don't know what that is.

Oh, etiquette. Online, on the net.

Oh, online etiquette. I was like, I like it. I was wondering. Thumbs up for that word or something. No, netiquette. Like the Internet.

Yes.

That's hilarious, Lillian. I love that so much. So when you guys are on Zoom, turn off your audio, turn off your video. When you join a Zoom call, that's called netiquette. Get it?

That's pretty funny.

Get it. Lillian, you're the best.

All right. Alita just joined the community. Excited. Hello. Welcome.

I know exactly who you are.

Membership closed last night.

That. It closed last night, but I'm still going to talk about it anyway. So that's the thing. We close enrollment for the vast majority of the year. So when I see your names, I know who you are. You know, like, when we get members enroll. I know you. Like, I know who you are. Our community. Yeah. We have, like, hundreds of students in our community, but I know you. So it's like. I think it's it's not like we have. I think that's so important. I just don't. I mean, yeah, we could. We have thousands and thousands and thousands of students join every single day. Sure would I like, that's not. But then I wouldn't like know you. You know what I'm saying? Like I want to know you. I want to know your name. I want to, you know, know how

to pronounce Santa Claus.

Santa Claus. Just.

She knows you. So. Yeah, that's, that's great. Yeah. So definitely we love you guys joining Barbara, Alida, just, yeah, we do recognize names and thank you for joining and we're glad to have you. Alida, you had another comment. I just found out that I need an 85% on my dosage calc and I have clinical and lab at school for this term health assessment and fundamentals. And funny that you should mention that because along with what Christina was talking about, about our delayed response and kind of being down a person yesterday, something that was not posted either was our YouTube video. And so watch out for that because after, after this, we'll get that up pretty shortly after that. And that has everything to do with what to do with dosage calc.

Yep.

So I just wanted to call that out because I didn't see that come through. So be sure to be on the lookout for that. We do talk about dosage calc.

Perfect. Yeah. And your follow up question, what should I expect as a new nursing student, you know, for fundamentals of nursing? I talk about it in the YouTube video that we will post up today. So if you are just starting nursing school in the fall or like everyone's August 17th, like I feel like the entire world is starting nursing school Aug. 17. That seems to be the day. If that's your day, let us know. In the chat I pulled our members and yeah, most of them said August 17th. We started August 17th. So if you're starting nursing school in the fall, then definitely check out the YouTube video that we have going up today. It was not posted yesterday because yesterday was just. We had things, we had things going on yesterday. Sorry about that. On the dose count thing though. Can I just do. I'm just, I'm going to do this when you. The biggest mistake that I've seen nursing students make when it comes to dose calculating. Well, okay, two things. Not practicing enough. Practice, practice, practice. But then also when you practice, start with the end in mind, you have to figure out what is the question asking you for if you don't know what the question is. Asking you for you will get it wrong. So that's why we have an entire six step process that walks you through dos calc step by step. Hey Matthew.

Yes?

Can you post that on the YouTubes? We have a brand new dosage calculation cheat sheet for you somewhere else. Okay, I think it's up now. Brand new dosage calculation cheat sheet that we will post up. Is it in there? I think I did it. Oh, bummer. I don't see it. I think it's. I'm gonna have to put it in there later. But we have a brand new dose calculation cheat sheet. What we're going to do is in the comments after the AMA on YouTube. I'm going to put it in the comments because it's so good. It walks you through step by step. How to ace your dose calc exams. You have to start with the end of mind if you don't know what the question is asking you for. Oh, yep, that's it. If you don't know what the question is asking you for, then you will get it wrong. So okay, Matthew found the link. So perfect. We are posting it inside YouTube right now in the YouTube chat. So make sure that you get that ghost count sheet because friends, for real, it's going to be very, very important for you.

All right, since we're on the topic of kind of what to do before starting nursing school, this is just another question from Addie. Any advice for A and P? I am a pre nursing student but I love your videos so I know amp is not. Well, it's pre nursing. So any advice for A and B though?

Memorization. So A and P, anything, Anything in nursing school? Pediatric vaccination schedule. That's a big one. Infectious diseases for pediatrics, Mental health, anatomy and physiology. Anything. Physiology, anatomy, anything you just wrote strictly have to memorize. Flashcards, friends. And whiteboards. I've got two huge Costco whiteboards. That's what I use throughout nursing school. Writing the concepts over and over and over again. And I feel like sometimes students think that, well, I, Christina, I am a kinesthetic learner. I'm not a, you know, like I'm not a visual learner. Like looking at words doesn't help me because I'm not a visual learner, I'm a kinesthetic learner. And to that I would say that is like, that is the physical act of writing it out will help you so not only just seeing the words on the page but actually writing them out like flashcards and whiteboards. For me in nursing school, I Did not even really go through my flashcards.

Yeah, I didn't have to. I. I was still kind of amazed at that. I know I've mentioned this before, but we have mountains and mountains of flashcards that. That Christina used to write through. And I was confused because she never looked through them again. And I thought that that was the whole point. Silly me, having never studied.

Unfortunately, he wouldn't know.

I do not know this whole studying thing. But yes, she wrote it through and through and wrote them over and over again. And just that act of writing it just really committed its memory.

So it's really just that physical act of writing it up. This does not work on a laptop. This is why we don't type. Like. Like, this is why I do not recommend typing your notes. Physically writing it out will help a ton. Quizlet. Everyone's saying Quizlet. Boom. That can help. Hey, quick thing on that. Quick thing on that. Someone asked me if we're on Quizlet. We are not. But I think it's cool enough that I might consider it. Would that be helpful for you? Can you guys tell me in the chat? I'm going to take a little poll.

Okay.

Because someone asked me a few months ago and it kind of. It's just. It's in a pocket in the back of my mind that I've been thinking. Someone asked me if we were on Quizlet, and we are not. However, I really like Quizlet. I think it's cool.

Did you use Quizlet?

I would. Yes, I did. I used Quizlet in nursing school. People are saying yes, Quizlet would be cool. So I don't. I might consider being on Quizlet. Oh, and Instagram is doing lots of hearts, so apparently Instagram, everyone on Instagram says yes, of course, Quizlet. So I don't know. We might. I would. I would strongly actually consider that because I used it in nursing school. I really like it. Or I liked it back then. I think it's really cool. So. Hey, there's an idea. Thanks, friends. I really appreciate that. Let's see.

Yeah, why don't you.

Can I do one on. Definitely. Oh, when you post videos on YouTube, do you put those in the membership? No. None of the videos on YouTube are in the membership community, and none of the videos in the membership community are on YouTube. They don't go together. However. Can you explain your question? Do you want that? Because I have considered. Here's what I've considered, you guys. If you're a nursing SOS member or want to be a nursing SOS member, can you tell me, would it be helpful for you if we have, like, here's what I kind of envision, Matthew. I kind of envisioned like in all of our courses inside the membership community, because we have a lot of cardiac, respiratory, you know, all the med surg courses, fundamentals courses. I was thinking that we could actually put just a section of videos of like a YouTube playlist to kind of categorize it for you so it was easier to find. So not only would you get all the videos that are, you know, specifically inside the membership community, but then you would have this whole category of videos of our YouTube videos that. So you didn't have to, like, search on YouTube, right? Barbara says yes, yes, yes. So, like, you don't have to be like, search on YouTube. I thought that was a pretty good idea. So can you clarify that for me? I'm just wondering if you want that, Diana.

Yeah, so, definitely. I think that, that, that.

Yes, most definitely. Okay.

Apparently everyone's like, that is something that we are considering. And there's. Again, that's why. That's why we only do launch. Do launches and not Evergreen so that we can focus on doing these kinds of improvements and taking your guys's advice and seeing what we can do to make the membership always better. Yeah, so definitely write about that. I do have some ideas on. On membership. I don't know what version, but membership 2.0, 3.0, whatever.

It's always getting better.

But yeah, we're always improving on it. We love hearing your suggestions. So.

Yeah, yeah. So, so good.

Awesome. Did you have.

Bye, Selena. You're the best. If you guys need to go, just let us know and I will wave you off. Can I.

Any other one?

Talk about asking. Oh, this is a really good question, Savannah. I don't know if I've ever gotten this question before. So hearing you talk about asking questions, how do you know what questions to ask? Savannah, this is from Instagram. Okay. Oh, bye, Lillian. Lillian says goodbye to you. So, Savannah, I'm assuming you should never assume in nursing, but I'm going to assume right now that you are talking about asking your instructors questions. Is that correct? Can you tell me in the chat if you are still here, Savannah? Can you tell me if that's what you mean? How do you know what questions to ask your instructors? Such a great question. So let's walk through it and you know what, Matthew, can you write this down as another idea for me? I would like to create an entire, like a cheat sheet of questions to ask because I'm pretty Good at asking questions. And I think I can teach you to ask questions too. The right questions. I think it's very, very important that we're always asking the right questions to our instructors. So the biggest question that. Hi, Francesca.

Hi.

So the biggest question that is so important for you to ask your instructors is what am I missing? What do you see? These might be two separate questions. What am I missing? What am I missing? So if you, let's say you go into their virtual online office via email and you write down, you give them your whole study process, your question should be and could be, what am I missing? How can I study better things like that? So open ended questions, friend, what am I missing? Where am I going wrong? You know, I think those are really the two biggest ones that are coming to my mind. Where am I going wrong? What, what am I missing? When you are in, when you are in lecture class. Let's go back to Rachel who was asking about your 12 hour clinical day or 12 hour, I guess it was lecture. So if you are in a 12 hour lecture class and you are, you know, sitting in class, whatever, because I know actually, actually several of you are actually in class coming in the fall, not just online, but this stands for either either email your instructor or raise your hand in a physical class and say let me see if I understand this right. That is powerful. What do you think? Yeah, let me see if I understand this. Here's what I hear you saying. So like you know, and then you just kind of recap what they were saying in the way that you understand it and then ask them, am I missing something? Am I missing anything? Like I don't quite get, get it. Is someone really asking us when the PS5 will come out?

Yes, I was.

Do I look like a person that knows when the PS5 is going to come out? I don't know. He looks like a person.

I was going to answer that, but maybe we'll just let that hang. Maybe we'll just let that hang.

This is your life. This is your time. This is your moment.

It's all right. I am digging the white color as opposed to the black color of all the previous PS's. So the white one book's pretty cool. But anyway, I think that that is a really good point and I think

such a great question. I love it. This is the best live ever.

I think that along with that the main question is how do you know what questions to ask? But I think kind of related to that is knowing how to listen.

Yeah.

And we, we hear all about this or I. I have any way about active listening. And really, the key thing for listening is active listening. Well, and that's great, but how do you communicate that? Especially when you're online or especially if it's in a lecture format, how do you communicate that you are active listening? And that is exactly how you do it, is what Christina was talking about is that you recap. You recap in your own words what you think you heard and then ask. After that, you ask your question, what am I missing? Or did I understand this correctly? Because that shows your instructor that you are critically thinking or you're trying to learn how to critically think, which is a main part of nursing as well. So learning how to ingest what they said, put it in your own words, say it back to them, and then ask the question of, did I understand this correctly? What am I missing? That shows them that you are looking, learning, and you're trying to learn, that you're putting in your best effort instead of just saying, hey, what do you mean by this? Or what, what did you say here? Or, oh, I missed that. What is this? No, you want to show them that you are actually listening and trying to understand and that you just need a little bit more help. So I think that that is a really good point. Show that you're. You're active listening, and that goes a long way on getting them to understand your point of view, too. Not only that, but you reiterating it in your different words will probably get you to understand it better too.

Barbara says almost like, okay, when I read your comment, Barbara, I was like, repack. I don't know what that means. Read back. Which is exactly right. Like, you know, if you're on, you know, the. That your. Your whole Sbarr thing, you know, it is constantly changing. But, you know, have them, you know, read back, or you read back to them. Whatever order you want or, you know, whatever instruction you need. Anyone on the healthcare team, read back. Perfect. Just like that. Read back to your instructors. Here's what I hear you saying. Perfect. I love it. Okay, I want to address it. Can I do an Instagram?

Yes, definitely.

Lexi. Lex. Just kidding. Not Lexi. There's two Js in there, so there's no way to enroll. And where do I find the cost? And more details on enrollment. So our nursing SOS membership community is closed for the vast majority of the year. We only open it up a few times a year for the reasons that we mentioned. We're constantly putting out new stuff for our members, and that is Our main focus, our main focus is not to get every single person in nursing school inside our community. No, that is not. I don't think that would be helpful. What I think would be the most helpful is if I establish a personal relationship with every single one of our members and help you through nursing school. That's what I think is the most helpful. So that's why we keep it closed for the vast majority of the year so that we can do that. So you have, when you join the nursing house membership community, you have a lot of ways to have touch points with our team. So not only do you have a Facebook group, you. You have these live AMAs. We actually allow our members to submit questions beforehand and we'll chat with you. You also have tutoring calls every single week. So we've got lots of different ways, you know, prior to email. Like, we have actually a separate inbox for, for our members. You know, we have lots of things. So no, there is no way to enroll right now. We do close it down every single time. We get emails last night too, right after that 5 o' clock deadline, like right after people email me, we start getting those emails and they're like, oh, no, I missed it. I didn't see my email. I missed it. And I'm like, it happens every single time. And yet we have to see an integrity and we have to still close it. So enrollment will open again in the fall. So make sure that you get on the wait list. Nursing school of success.com forward/wait list. Make sure that you get on that. I think it's waitlist. Maybe it's. Do you have it? Maybe it's member waitlist. I'm gonna have to check that out. Well, you can just do. Yeah. Nursing School of success.com forward/join. Nursing School of success.com forward/Join. Matthew will put it in the comments on Instagram and that will, that will get you to the wait list right now. So. And then, Lex, you were also wondering about pricing. It's $39 per month or 390 per year. We were going to raise the price this year, but we did not. It just didn't feel right with everything going on in the world. So we are. We have not raised the price yet. And to be honest, I don't have plans to raise the price for the next enrollment, but I cannot say for certain for the one after that. So for currently, right now, like in August, $39 per month or 390 per year is what it's at right now. Then that's that. So if you, if you want to join the wait list, you will get emails from me talking about about it. So that helps. How do you stop second guessing yourself? You don't. Sorry, Francesca. I love you, Brad. I had to answer that one. That's a mindset thing. I'm constantly second guessing myself.

Definitely a mindset thing.

But I'm working on it. Every time. Every live. I mentioned Brooke. So my life coach, Brooke Castillo, I'm in her self coaching scholars program. Boom. Look it up. It's amazing. I am in ses your self coaching scholarship program. So what she has taught me is that when you make a decision, you have your own back. Have your own back on your decisions. So whatever decisions you made in the past, whether it was to study a lot, whether it was to study, hardly at all, that was the decision you made in that time with the information you had. Have your own back on that. Don't second guess yourself. Don't feel bad about it. Don't beat yourself up about it. Have your own back. I think that's super important.

I think along with that, something that I like to think about too is always do your best in whatever you do. Always do your best. So when you look at yourself in the future, future, you can look back and say, you know what, it might not have gone completely how it wanted it or whatever, but all I know

is that hashtag 2020, all I know

is that I did my best and I did everything that I could have done and so everything else is out of my hands.

Yep.

So as long as you're confident in, you know what, I did my best and leave everything else up to God.

Yep. Leave everything else up to God. Should I sing my song? Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart. As working for the Lord and not men. That's from Shirley over at home and arrows. I love her. Thank you, Shirley. So I'm gonna reach out to her and be like, I've talked about you on lots of our AMAs.

So I know that we haven't talked about it in a while. We've been live for 40 minutes. But anyway, if you guys are just joining us, Hello. If you do not know who we are, thank you for joining the nursing school show ama. We are trying to answer nursing school questions. We meaning Christina. I just give my two cents here and there. But welcome. Thank you. Welcome for joining. As I like to say. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. We try and answer as many questions, questions as we can and kind of expand on it to Be helpful for everyone. We can't get to all the questions, however. And some people even answer your questions in the comments, as I said.

So if you comment, people answer each other's questions.

Just answer anyway. Or ask anyway. And ask odd questions too. Like when the PS5 will come out and someone actually answered perfect that it will come out in the holidays. So see, even though we might not know, people in the comments might know. So go ahead and comment it away.

He's the one that would know about that. I am not a person that knows when the PS5.

We're on the fifth one. We're on the fifth one dot I

don't even know what that is, to be honest. I've heard it. Is it like a video game?

It's a video game.

It sounds like a video game thing.

So also nutshell asked the question a formula thing. But I don't.

Don't use formulas for dose calc. Use dimensional analysis. That's you do. Please, friends, please. I have seen so many nursing students get stuck with formulas for dose calc because it. It doesn't often transfer to other questions. Like between an IV to a heparin drip to giving Pitocin. Like, there are so many types of dose calc questions you have to answer that if you are relying on a formula, you might get it wrong. However, if you are using dimensional analysis, which is what we teach, you will get it right every single time. Hashtag free dose calc cheat sheet that we have for you. So I posted walks you through, step by step, how to ace your dose calc exam.

We're also posting a YouTube video today about it, so be sure to check that out.

Yep.

It's not up now, it will be up later. Yep.

And like I said before, when you're doing dose calc, start with the end in mind and I walk you through how to do that.

On that.

On that gg. Okay, can I answer this Instagram question? Because we got this on Monday. I saw it come through. You might be the same person. Emily's Emils. Okay, sometimes the Instagram handles I don't and I also can't. The Instagram handles are tough to equate you to an actual person. So maybe put your names. That's helpful. Have you ever failed a class? If so, how did you move forward and stay motivated? I saw that come through on Monday.

I actually did have that for us to talk about.

Yeah, perfect. I have I ever failed a class. I did not fail a class in nursing school. I got straight A's through nursing School. Have I ever failed a class?

I have, by the way.

There you go. He's failed.

That's what happens when you don't study.

Yeah.

And when you decide that class is the best time for sleeping.

Is that what you did? Class was the best time?

Not really. But I just sit in the back and play games all the time, so that might have caused it. So.

Oh, man. I feel like, though. Okay, so here's the thing. Here is my $0.02 on failing a class in nursing school. I don't hold. I think that that is true for college. Like, you fail a class if you don't study a ton. I feel like in nursing school, sometimes, not all the time. Sometimes it definitely is because you're not studying, but sometimes it is just like it just hasn't clicked yet for you, you know, like. Like if you fail an exam, then when you get to that exam, even though you feel like you know the content so well, sometimes you can just get tripped up. It's fine, move on. Move it right along. It does not mean that you are a failure. Does not mean that you're going to fail out of the program. It just means that you need to work harder to have it clear.

Click.

For you. Some students, it takes longer. Some students, it takes a shorter amount of time. So don't compare yourself to anybody else. Everyone's strengths and weaknesses are different. I always tell this story. Me and my bestie in nursing school. She is a stinking rock star at clinical. I mean, that girl was meant to be a nurse. Me, not sure I was meant to be a nurse. Just kidding. I was totally meant to be a nurse. But her at clinical, oh, man. Friends, you would just think you like. You just look at her and you're like the best nurse ever. However she struggled with her exams, I was opposite. Clinical, not my thing. Skills lab, not my thing. I failed every single skill in skills lab. I have failed a test. Does that mean that I have failed?

You failed the test?

I did not pass my skills exams the first time, okay. Because skills are the worst for me. Not my strong suit. Sterile gloves. What are those? Like, I just. Nursing school and me and clinical and. And skills lab, not mixed. However, lecture class, that was my forte. That was where I was at. So we really helped each other. She would help me with the skills because she's so good at them, and then I would help her with lecture content. So everyone's strengths and weaknesses are different. Don't compare yourself to other students because everyone is different. What someone else succeeds at might be your weak area, but you might succeed at something that someone else is their weak area. So yeah, I feel like I can do skills, but books and tests are scary for me. Yeah, yeah, Alita, that's. I would say that that's probably more common than my situation, which is why I teach lecture content.

Yeah, that's funny.

I like to teach it for you.

That actually kind of dovetails pretty good into Selena's question just now. Have a question. Visual. I'm a visual and auditory learner as well. I can go over the. Go over on the whiteboard. I get Cs and recently got 1B but 1A better grade. Is there anything else you would recommend? And I just want to throw out there what you were talking about with you and your friend. And really one of the best ways of internalizing the information is teaching other people. So find someone else that has a weakness that you're strong in or vice versa and then teach each other. Teaching each other. And if you're a visual learner, write it out on the whiteboard again and teach them in front of whiteboard. Because also hearing yourself talk, that's auditory, right? So auditory, visual, just being able to go over the material as many times as possible in as many different ways as possible and definitely teaching other people. So you might want to try that a little bit. I just wanted to say that because it kind of went along with what you were saying.

Absolutely. No, it's so true. We talked about this on Monday. Because when you can teach somebody else the content, that means especially a layperson, like if you can go home and teach your non nurse spouse or a friend who has no medical background at all, if you can teach them and have them understand it, that means that you are ready for your exam. Because that means that you took all of these concepts, all of these difficult concepts and you broke it down into simple terms and simple, you know, words to simple understand English. You made it very simple for them to understand. And so that means that if you can do that, then you're very, very well prepared for your exam. That makes sense. If that makes sense.

Yeah.

How far into school do clinicals start? It depends on your program. Some programs start right away. My program, I think we had two weeks and then we got into clinical. So two weeks, not two weeks, not clinical. Two weeks and then we started clinical. Have you done all your farm videos on your site? We are working on it. Those are being released right now. So we. I'm assuming you're referring to the medication database. So we are working on the medication database. We are getting those out to you as we get them done.

As we get them done. So super stoked. We'll, we'll message it probably on, on the Facebook group or.

Yep.

Email send out emails or whatever. But yeah, we are, we are chugging through so thank you for being patient too. We're getting them out.

We are releasing those videos. Super excited. And I also have. Okay, so we have a lot of really great things coming for you guys. So definitely get on our email list. If you are not on our email list, definitely get on there. Go to nursingschoolsuccess.com checklist. I will send you a full study checklist. US have had a study in nursing school. Then you will also be on our email list and get free resources delivered by yours truly every single week. And I will let you know when we have super special surprises and secrets coming up because we have a lot going on behind the scenes that is coming for you over the next I would say. Yeah, I mean we've got, we've got big plans. Big plans, big blams.

So. All right, another question from Anna. What is the best way to study for final semester of practical nursing college? What books are best to study from?

That's a really good question for practical nursing. So practical nursing is like LPN or LVN is what I'm assuming. I'm assuming you're not meaning capstone Best minute study for final semester. It depends. I mean so here's the thing. When we get get questions like that, oftentimes students will message us like how do I study for my third term? And always, always, every time my follow up question is well, what is your third term? Because my third term in nursing school is different than your third term in nursing school. So whatever you mean by that, you know your final semester. In our final semester, what did we have? We had like mental health in our final semester. So it's like we did, we did like critical care advanced med surge even before our final semester. So final semester for us was like, I don't know, it was a lot of like ethics things. I think we had some mental health stuff in there. So it's very different for everybody. Barbara, you were totally right that one

not going to get it back there.

The Saunders Comprehensive Review Guide for the PN exam. Practical Nursing exam. So if you are studying to take your NCLEX RN or pn, that book will super, super duper help you out as well as the NCLEX RN Mastery App or NCLEX PN Mastery App. I'M assuming is what it's called.

Okay, awesome.

Yeah.

And then I think this will be our last question, wrapping it up. It's from Gabby. And actually these last two ones came in through our, through our email. So I'm not exactly sure if these were members or.

Oh, did it or not.

But yeah, Nicole actually put, put that in here. So wanted to make sure that we grabbed these. But last question for this time from Gabby. I graduate nursing school in March. I am anxious about basically being good enough. I want to know, what if I don't know how to do something? What if I can't remember a medication? Is nursing school like being a nurse? I love your advice because my instructors are nursing, not supportive, I think.

Yeah, yeah, I like your last line. I think I'm being triggered by my anxiety.

Yes.

And I think that that's right. There is always going to be that fear. And what I tell nursing students all the time, always, if you are not scared of hurting a patient, if you are not reasonably cautious, I don't want you as my nurse. You know, you got hearts.

You got hearts.

I want my nurses to be reasonably cautious. Not anxious, but reasonably cautious. Like, I want you to triple check your medications before you put them in my body, you know, So I think a healthy level of cautious caution is important, but I would say that for sure. Being triggered by anxiety. That sounds right. That sounds right. This is a mindset thing.

Yeah.

Oh, Emily. Yeah. Thank you for the words of encouragement. Let's see, can I do one from Instagram?

Oh, yes, go ahead.

How can you start studying ahead of your OB or Peds Farm class? In OB or Peds Farm class, you are actually having a specific, specific pharmacology class for obnp. Whoa. Your program is serious, my friend. Same thing with pharmacology. Or do you mean OB, PEDs and pharma? I don't know. That sounds more like it than like an OB in pediatric pharmacology class. That sounds like you're probably in like pharmacy school or something. But pharmacology for sure. Go to YouTube and search Nursing SOS, Pharm, Nursing SOS, Pharmacology. One of those things, because the videos will pop up for you. We have a whole step by step process that walks you through how to study pharmacology. Boom. Basically, what you're going to want to do. I will recap here because I can't help myself. Basically, what you're going to want to do is focus on the mechanism of action first of the medication. And not only the medication. But the drug class. So can I just, can I just, can I can. Christina, just have a moment really quick? Guys, Can I just have a moment?

Yep. Oh, okay. There we go.

I'm gonna walk you through something super important. This is called a drug guide. I recommend you get one very, very highly recommend it in the. If you get the Davis's drug guide. In the first section of the book, there is a little red tab section called classifications. So classification section here. That is where you will find the drug classifications, both therapeutic and pharmacologic. I'm going to go rapid fire because I know we're running out of time. General action and information. That is where you want to be. So general action information, that is the mechanism of action of the drug class. That is what you want to read. And then when you break down, when you break down your medications into drug class, you can go to the specific mechanism of action. So it's called action here in the drug guide. That is what you want to. That's what you want to say. That should be your priority. Remembering the mechanism of action of the drug class and the individual medication will help you then to understand the side effects, the nursing assessment and the nursing considerations that you have to do when giving the medication. So I talk more in depth about those things on YouTube. Nursing sos.com nursing I would say nursingsos.com YouTube. Go into YouTube. Search nursing sos pharmacology or nursing sos medication, something like that. I would show that.

All right, Barbara, I'm showing your. Your message. Here we go.

Sorry, Barbara, you've been. You've been. YouTube is.

Thanks, Barbara, for helping out and Selena. Yeah, glad you guys can connect.

And awesome.

So we are coming up on the end of our hour here before Instagram says. Nope, nothing. Over an hour.

Yeah, apparently you can't go live for over an hour on Instagram. Instagram.

Thanks everyone for joining us. It's been a blast. Everyone on Facebook. This is probably the most on YouTube comments. So awesome.

Thank you guys for hanging out with us on YouTube comments. Matthew does document the question questions. So in the future AMAs that we do, we try to hit them. So if we missed your question, definitely check us out Monday. Hang out with us every Monday and Wednesday at 9:00am Pacific Standard Time. Then if we didn't hit your question today, we will most likely hit it Monday or, you know, Wednesday or whatever. It's kind of a rolling thing, right?

Yeah, definitely.

If you are a nursing SOS member, go into your membership dashboard. There's a form. Form there where you can submit your AMA questions. So we always give our Nursing SOS members a priority. So there you go.

Awesome.

Submit your question there. All right, friends, why in the world is YouTube keep hiding these?

All right, sorry. We'll show it. And there you go. There it is.

Sorry, friends on YouTube who are getting for you. So, okay, final thoughts, final thoughts, final thoughts. The nursing SOS planner is out and it is available for you and it is amazing. Matthew has the link. He's going to post it in YouTube. If you go to nursingschoolofsuccess.com planner or if you just go to nursing schoolofsuccess.com there's a. There should be a button at the top that says planner and you should get it because it's a amazing.

So if you are a member, you also have a special thank you inside the membership course or membership site under bonuses. If you need any more help, you can just email us.

So do not. If you are a Nursing SOS member, do not go to that public link. Do not do it. Because you have special bonuses that you get as a Nursing SOS member when you buy the planner. So members, members don't buy through the website or anything. Go to your membership dashboard and buy it there because you get extra special things from us. So cool.

Cool.

Thank you.

Happy hump day. We'll see you on Monday.

You guys are the best.

Take care.

Wait, where's it? And. And Instagram is going, going and going and going.

11.

It's so interesting because when the countdown starts, Instagram gives us like 30 seconds. Oh, no. Six seconds. Five seconds. Bye, Instagram.

Bye, guys.

Bye, YouTube. Barbara.