CRITICAL THINKING for Nursing Students!

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Okay, first I have to tell you the story. I have to tell you guys the story. Who was on our coaching call today for our nursing SOS membership community? Raise your hand. Who was on the coaching call? Better question. Who tried to get the coaching call today? It was Nicole texted me after. She was like, that was a literal technology dumpster fire.

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We have had. We have been having a big tech issue day. So let me just tell you what happened real quick. Story time. All right, so we. I tried to get on Facebook Live for our membership community coaching call Wednesdays. So fun. So I jump on live. I try to bring Nicole on and there's literally like a five minute delay between me talking and everyone else getting what I'm saying. So that's not live.

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We found out it's apparently not a live experience. It was like such a long delay and I could not bring Nicole on to do our coaching call. And so it was very tough. So we switched over to Zoom. I tried to do Zoom and then Zoom was not working either. I have got to tell you, like, Zoom has been crashing ever since the whole everything started two years ago. Zoom has been not fun to deal with.

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So we've had an awesome day. Comment down below. How was your day? Any, any, any exams going on? Any, any fun, exciting things like Christina had today?

Christina's kind of brain dead. Maybe we just turn this into a chat session.

Would you like that too? Just chat sessions. Just chat sessions with Christina and Matthew.

I gotta tell you, that could work too. I gotta tell you. Okay, jam on critical thinking.

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You are awesome. All right, so the first thing I want to talk about. Oh, where did I put my DRC model? Okay, so I have two things, three things actually, to talk about with you, about critical thinking. So critical thinking has two parts to it in nursing school. The first part is planning ahead. So you need to be able to plan ahead, know what's coming up for your patients when you're at clinical, when you're, when you get case scenario questions at school, during your nursing school exams, you need to know, kind of like thinking through those questions, okay, what, you know, what could happen? What is going on with this question? You always need to be critically thinking in that way, like planning ahead. So for example, when you're at clinical, you can't just, like, you have so many patients to take care of, right? All at the same time. And you can't just go into this room and then go into this room and go and do one thing in each room you like. You have to batch your, your, your tasks together. You have to batch, batch your nursing care together. So let's say you have a patient, you know, you're giving meds. You need to make sure that you have everyone's meds that you've, you know, that when you walk into the room, you're going to assess them, do, you know, get their vitals if they need like a blood glucose done. You know, you, you have to batch your tasks together all at once. You know, you're not just gonna go in and, and grab one person's blood glucose and then go do one vital sign for someone else or like, one vital sign. Like, is that a vital. So that'd be crazy. If you're like, I'm just gonna take your heart rate, then I'm gonna come back and, and do your blood pressure in a minute, you know? No, like, you know, we want to batch things together, right? So it's just a better use of our time. So that is really planning ahead when you're, when you know what's coming. Let's say, like, yeah, you need, you need a blood glucose before, you know, you give your patient their, their afternoon medications or something or, or, you know, it's, it's morning. You know, if you're giving their AM meds, then you need to get their blood pressure before you give their meds something like that. So you have to batch your things together and then you're going to, you know, make sure you have the vital signs cart with you when you go into the room. Right? So you're always thinking ahead of, okay, what do I need? What. What am I going to do when I get in that room? What do I need to bring into that room? What could they possibly need for me right now? Let's say it's morning, you know, do you want to bring them a wet washcloth so they can, you know, wash their face? Do they need an extra gown? You know, do you. Do they need some water? Like, anticipate their needs? Right? This is nursing care. Like, anticipate what your patients will need. And so batching your care together and planning ahead. So that's the first part to critical thinking. Now the second part is more complicated. It's where you connect the dots between everything that you're learning. So when you are, you know, studying the cardiac system, you are not only just studying the cardiac system, but you are also studying how the cardiac system integrates with the respiratory system and then how the cardiac system integrates with the renal system and the neurological system system and all these things, right? So we're going to connect the dots with everything else you're learning about in nursing school. So that is the second part to critical thinking. So we have one planning ahead and then we have two connecting the dots. So those are those two parts. So remember those, okay, as we go through the next part of critical thinking. So I have two. I have two really good critical thinking exercises. I'm going to call them exercises for you to do. Or like what I want to call them, like study aids. I don't know. Critical thinking. Study aids. Sure.

I like that. Study aids are fine.

Good. Okay, so the first one we're going to talk about to help you really connect the dots between all of the concepts. Right. Who has taken a med surg test? Raise your hand or send up a like. Like us on YouTube. Like the video on YouTube. Or send up hearts on Instagram. If you have taken a exam so far in nursing school. So if you have taken an exam in nursing school, give us a heart. Give us a. Like. We've got lots of likes on.

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Hi, Marcia. I pass. Hi, Sarah. Mar for Joe's. Hello, my friend.

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Yep. So yes, when you have taken a exam before. Right. Seesaw. You have. Let's see. Marcia has. Let's see. Rita. Oh, I'm not reading that right. Rumana, Kenyatta and Eniola. Hi. Paz. Did I say pass? Similian. Hello Mar. For Joe's, of course. Sarah. So you guys have all taken exams before.

Lots of tests.

Let me scroll up on Instagram. Oh yes, Sarah, that was you. Okay. Yeah. You guys have all taken nursing school exams so you know, oxygenation is next for you. Okay, fantastic. That's great. If you have taken a nursing school exam, which most of you guys have, you know that they're not just going to test you on how well you memorize a list of, of things or a list of topics or a list of facts. You know they're not going to do that. Even in fundamentals, that's not going to happen. You are going to get a case scenario question or you know, this like patient situation question and then they're going to ask you critical thinking questions. You know, like what would your first action be with this patient? Or what would you expect to happen? Or like what would your nursing care be? Or you know, things like that. Select all that apply. You know, you really have to think like this. Takes a lot of brain power to answer nursing exam questions like this, which are all of them unfortunate reality. So you have to be able to connect the concepts together regardless of if you're in fundamentals, med surge, critical care, what have you. Hey. Yeah. So all of you guys have taken exams where, what, what term are you in right now? Are you in fundamentals? Are you in med surge? Are you in critical care? Are you about to graduate? What are you in right now? Tell me in the comments.

Let's see. Sarah, going to semester three.

So what does semester three, I always ask. Okay, because you're, if you're in like an accelerated bachelor's, that would be like your last semester. But if you're in, you know, a four year program, that could be your second year, third year.

Seesaw's in first semester. Joshua, prepping for the nclex. Yeah, I think tomorrow is our NCLEX topic, right?

Yes, we're going to talk about. So yeah, so tomorrow Matthew and I are going on live again at 7pm Pacific time again just like today. But tomorrow's topic will be the nclex, the new nclex. So we're Going to kind of jam on that. So actually, if you guys have questions about the new nclex, leave them in the. The comments and I will take a look at those before we go live tomorrow, and hopefully I can answer as many as possible.

So Joshua's prepping for nclex. I don't know how to say that one. Studying for nclex Excel. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

A lot of you guys.

Senior semester. Three. Cool.

Okay. Sarah, you said. Oh, three out of four. So, yeah, you're almost done. So med surge and lnd, let's see. Justlyn, Hello, Med surge. Mark for Joe's. Where are you now again? Are you still. Are you in med surge? I forget. Where are you at? Yeah. Okay. Is there more SATA questions? We're gonna jam on that a lot tomorrow for sure.

Sarah, questions ever go away?

Static questions are never gonna go away. They're gonna haunt our dreams for forever. Sarah, I'm glad you're looking forward to tomorrow's live. Pay attention to the not part of the question. I agree. So, you know, if you are in fundamentals or if you are in med search, the critical thinking tips stand regardless. It's going to get more intense as you progress through your program, though. So fundamentals is going to be more basic simply for the fact. The fact of the matter is that you don't know as much. You know that you haven't done the deep med surge study on all the body systems like cardiac and renal and endocrine and all those things that you'll get in med surg. So you will still have case scenario questions. You will still have to critically think, however, like eniola, you said oxygenation. You know, you're going to be critical, critically thinking around topics like oxygenation, fluids and electrolytes, intake and output for a patient. You know, fluid overload, fluid deficit, you know, all of these things that you learn about in a fundamentals class. And then as you get into med surg, it gets a little more intense. Then you have to connect and say, okay, well, how does oxygenation then connect with what I'm learning about with the cardiac system, them and how, you know, how would I help a patient with, you know, oxygenation for that disorder or, you know, how does, how, yeah, same thing. I mean, kind of how does like fluid balance, cardiac system so good? Because everything really just the cardiac system is impacted by so much. Right. And it impacts so much. So I like to use that as an example because we all know about it. Go ahead.

No, I think that that's really good. Just. Yeah, just really connecting the dots is really important part about this whole critical thinking. And yeah, I think that's just general guideline for going through nursing school in general is just try and think outside the box. Just don't get to tunnel vision on exactly one thing or just the list of signs and symptoms for this one disease disorder. Think about how it actually interacts. Goes to go back to pathophysiology and also how it connects to the rest of the body because you're. You're going to be looking at the patient as a whole.

Yeah.

So yeah, everything connects together. And just realizing that and realizing that nursing school is getting you to be the best nurse out there. And that's really just the whole care. The whole package.

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Yep. Okay. Marfa Joe's I have a big question for you. You said you're taking pathophysiology next semester, but you're in med surg now. Is that common to take pathophysiology after you take med surg? Because that does not make sense to me. Can any. Okay. Has this been anyone else's experience? Because this kind of. This is something I will have to think about if this is the case for some of you. When do you take pathophysiology? Do you take pathophysiology before med surg or after med surg? I just find that really confusing. Mar for Joe's I'm a little confused by that because that kind of changes your critical thinking strategy if you are taking pathophysiology after you take med surge. That doesn't really make sense to me.

Marcia take took patho first. Which patho first makes more sense.

Yeah, because like you because to me, I mean you have to know the path before you can do med surge. No, but I didn't before. Now Med surge going to take patho next semester. Now Med surge. Clarify. I'm confused now.

Oh, okay. Down.

Oh. Alexander, you said you didn't have a patho class. I didn't. Well, I had anatomy and physiology and then our patho was actually kind of merged, blended in with our all of our med surge content. So we actually learned patho right alongside of it. Yeah, thought it's before med surge. Similian. Am I missing? And I know I am. Okay, so millionaires, yeah, pathos should definitely be before med surge. So, okay, so here's what you're going to want to do. So this is a really good. This is a. This is exactly what I wanted to talk to you about with pathophysiology and with med surge or fundamentals. So even if you are in fundamentals, if you're in med surg, if you're an OB peeds, critical care, what have you use this model, okay? This is what we call the DRC Critical thinking model. Okay? So like Matthew said, don't worry, you don't need to write this down because this video, we're going to post it up on YouTube, we're going to save this live. It's going to be up on our YouTube channel for forever. And so you can watch it later and take notes on it later if you want. So here's the DRC Critical thinking model. I will just run, run you through it real quick. So the first part is the D. And that means description or definition. So, so high level, what is the description or the definition of whatever you are learning about in nursing school? I think that is backwards for you guys, but that's fine.

You know, not on YouTube. YouTube is the right way.

Not on YouTube. It's the right way, apparently. I don't know if you can see like the tiny little gray words, but it says description, definition. All right, so high level, what's the description? What's the definition of whatever you're learning about? So let's say, you know, if you're learning about heart failure, what is heart failure? What's the description of it? What is going on with a patient with heart failure? Okay? And then reason or rationale is the R. Now this is the pathophysiology. So, Mark, for Joe's seesaw, you don't have a path of class A million is before med surge. Marcia, before med surg. So if you guys are in patho now, or you maybe struggled with patho and are now in med surge and need to kind of like refresh on it, here's your R. This is the patho part. Reason or rationale? So if we're talking about a med surg disorder or a fundamentals disorder like heart failure or stroke or diabetes, something like that, up here you would put the definition. So what is the definition or description of whatever you are learning about? Okay, so like high level, what is going on? The R is your patho. What is the Reason or rationale that that thing is happening? What's the rationale for it? What's the reason for it? So here is where you really need to dive deep into the path, okay? So I really. It's so important. It's so important that you guys know your pathophysiology about what is going on with the patient, because the pathophysiology is going to be the foundation for everything else that you're learning. And we'll talk about that in a minute, okay? Because here, when we get down to the sea, this is connection. You have to connect the dots. This is really where it could stand for the critical thinking part too, because it's a C, but connection. C stands for connection. Connect the dots back to everything else that you're learning. Okay? So description or definition for the D, reason or rationale for the R, and then C for connection. So this is where you're going to connect the dots with everything else. So how does that patho of this disorder relate to the path of other disorders? How does heart failure as a topic and as like the signs and symptoms that you're gonna see? How does it relate to a patient with diabetes? What would you see if you had a patient with both diabetes and heart failure? What would you see in a patient with, you know, diabetes and hypertension? They often have both. So what does that look like? Okay, so that is your C. You really have to connect the dots. And that is what nursing school is all about, is connecting the dots between everything that you are learning. Okay? So. Excuse me. So pathophysiology here for the R and then connection. Now there are. So when patho comes, comes up here, there's three things that you're going to write down here. Okay? Four key things that you always have to study in nursing school. Okay, you ready? Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Those are the four main things that you always have to focus your study time on. Even if your instructor doesn't teach in lecture class, even if you walk out of class and you are so confused and just have no idea what just happened. Doesn't matter. Focus on four main things. Okay, you ready? Someone write these down on Instagram. Someone write them down on YouTube. I do this every time. Patho signs and symptoms, nursing assessment, and nursing interventions. All right, Patho signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. So when you're looking at the DRC critical thinking model and you've got drc. So description or definition. So what is heart failure? What is diabetes? What Is high level. Okay. The r. What is going on? What is the reason that it's happening? Pathophysiology. What is the reason? Connection. So your patho is here and then connection is going to be the other three categories. Okay. Signs and symptoms, the nursing assessment and the nursing intervention. That is where this goes. Any tips for respiratory stress?

Let's run through it.

Yes. For respiratory distress, do the DRC Critical thinking model. Well, there's a lot of reasons for respiratory distress. Someone give them to me. Why could a patient be interested?

This is a.

Live. Yes. So patho is the reason. So the reason or rationale. So when we talk about a disorder, when we talk about any med surge disorder, fundamentals disorder. So like there's. There's disorders that you'll. You'll study and. Sorry, I keep like banging on the desk. I. Okay. I don't know. I like to like sit up on my knees. So. Sorry. I hope you guys can't like hear that in the. In the microphone. Thanks, Alexander. Pathos, Science and symptoms, Nursing assessment and nursing intervention. Someone read it on YouTube. Okay, four things. Patho, signs and symptoms, Nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Okay. Fundamentals test on Monday too. Hey Jana, can you tell me what disorders or what. What is your fundamentals on? Can you tell me what is your fundamentals test on? Yeah, so I mean, let's just do heart failure. Because fundamentals is going to cover heart failure most likely. That's why I asked you, Jana, because oftentimes in fundamentals you're going to have. You're going to learn about this high level disorders, right? Diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, all those things. Stroke perhaps too. So I always like using heart failure as an example because most people know about it. Respiratory distress, you don't really get to until you study respiratory system in med surg. So let's just use heart failure so everyone understands. So the D here, like what is heart failure? What is going on? Well, in left sided heart failure, which is normally what you would start with learning about. So the. The left side of the heart cannot pump blood out to the body. There is something going on with the loss of the heart and you. It's not able to pump blood out to the body anymore. So the heart is really going to struggle to get that blood flow to the body. So high level overview. Okay. Yeah, description. So D. So what is the high level overview? What is going on in a patient with left sided heart failure? Okay, so the heart is really struggling to pump blood to the body.

Thank you.

You guys are awesome. So description. Or definition. Okay, Reason or rationale? You know, why would that happen? Well, heart failure can happen for a lot of reasons. Someone give me some interactive again. Lungs. Yeah. Excuse me. Yeah. Does that make sense? So then that would be your patho. So you could use this for also any of your clinical patients. So whatever happens. Thank you, Samantha. Perfect. So any of your pa like, whatever your patient situation is, too, you could put the patho here. Like, what is going on with their particular. I love Samantha. Samantha, you're fantastic. Samantha knows all the answers tonight, friends. So whatever is going on with your particular patient, the pathophysiology, what is happening in the body. Okay. With your patient. And then the connection. You guys are awesome. I love it. And then the connection, how do those things all play into everything else that you're learning? So let's say you have a patient like Samantha. Like, for example, you have a patient with both hypertension and heart failure. Okay? Then in this connection part, you're going to write how those things play together. Is hypertension going to help or hurt heart failure? Is heart failure going to help or hurt hypertension? What happens if the patient has too much fluid? What happens if the patient has too little fluid? You know, what is going on with their blood pressure? What signs and symptoms would you expect to see? What nursing assessments would you expect to do for a patient with both heart failure and hypertension? You know, things like that. What nursing interventions, like, what medications would you expect to give? You know, all that stuff. I feel like I've been talking so much today. I'm sorry. We had, like, our group coaching call, and I've been on Instagram all day and.

Jana, you came back. So I'm not sure if you heard Christina's question, but she was curious about your fundamentals test and exactly what you're going over on your fundamentals test.

Yeah, I'm curious, Jana. So, Samantha, apparently you're the best.

Is the teacher's favorite. According to Scott.

You win tonight. That's so funny. Did she. Did he call her teacher's favorite? That's so funny.

Okay, Scott's calling out the T shirt pet.

It's all right. I missed. That is so funny. I love it. She's got. She's literally has all the answers. You guys are awesome. Oh, it's so funny. Thank you, similian. You're great. Currently studying hypertension. Perfect timing.

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Do you guys want this? Because we can figure something out. Ran out of stock on them. And I just have a couple more, really. But I have to keep these for my examples, really? So, you know. Yes. Yeah. So would the DRC model help connect why you do assessments and interventions? That's exactly right. Like you. That's the whole part of the. I'm gonna call it the critical thinking part, the c. The connection. Because you have to really. This is where you dig deep, right? Like, this is where you have to. You have to think. Oh, okay. Actually, this is fantastic. Fantastic segue. Who said that? Just. Justlyn. Fantastic segue into the next part of critical thinking that we're going to talk about. Okay, so nursing school study system. This. It's on page, so make sure you get this. Okay, so this is on our shop, nursing schoolofsuccess.com forward/study study system. Okay?

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So you would think I would have this memorized by now. Okay, so on page. Okay, critical thinking starts on page 17 of the Nursing school study system, and it. It goes to, like, page 21. So I literally walk you through how to critically think step by step.

Ah.

In the study system. So, Jesselyn, you asked, would the DRC model help connect why you do assessments and interventions? And the answer is yes, because here in the C is where you're going to write that down. Like, why, you know, why are you doing the assessments? Why are you doing the interventions? What are those assessments and interventions? But also in the study system, there are nine critical thinking questions that you need to ask yourself as you do the DRC model. Okay, so this is only half of it, you guys. This is only half of it. So go to the nursing school study system, and on page 17, starting on page 17, you'll see that there are nine key critical thinking questions to ask yourself. So I'm going to go through just a couple of them that relate to Jessalyn, your question, because I don't think I have time to go through all of them. Okay, so question number two. How does this disorder. So how does the disorder that you're studying, right. The disorder that you wrote about in your DRC critical thinking model, how does it impact a patient without comorbidities? And then question three. How does it impact a patient with comorbidities? Okay, so that's the c. Like, you have to ask yourself, how do these disorders play together? Okay, how, you know, how does this topic interact and impact a patient with another disorder? Or how does this topic impact a patient with no other comorbidities? Like, let's say they're a healthy, you know, 22 year old, but they just happen to have, you know, cardiomyopathy, which happens. So, you know, what, what interventions, what assessments are you going to do for that patient versus, you know, a maybe, perhaps an elderly patient who also has hypertension and diabetes? Okay, does that make sense? So question number four. What interventions are most likely to be ordered by the doctor? All right, so I actually like questions four and five. You have to be asking yourselves this, and I'll tell you why in a minute. What interventions are most likely to be ordered by a doctor? And then the next question is, what interventions are within my scope of practice to do without a doctor's order? Okay, so these are things that you have to think through as you go through the DRC critical thinking model. Okay, so these nine key critical thinking questions, they're inside the nursing school study system. So make sure you get that and check those out. It is. I'm just going to jam on this real quick. It is so important before your exams that you think through. Okay? What nursing interventions can I do without a doctor's order? And I'll tell you why. Because you will get to your exam and you will have several questions on your exam that ask you what your action is going to be like, what you would do as an intervention. And one of the answers is going to be, call the doctor. And I'm telling you right now, favorite answer, it's not the right answer. Oh, do not choose it. Do not be a. Matthew. Yeah. Do not choose that answer. If. If you see a nursing school exam question that has an answer, call the doctor. You need to make sure that there is nothing else you can do. Right? You have to think through that question. Okay? What interventions are within my scope of practice and as a nurse, to do without a doctor's order? So you better be thinking about that question before you go into your exam, because you will get tested on this. Okay, good. How does this intervention impact a patient without comorbidities? And how does this intervention impact a patient with comorbidities? Jeff, you said so would you do this for every disorder? Seems like a lot of DRC models. Yes, it does. Yes.

Here's the thing, though. Critical thinking is something that you practice, too. So this is to get you in the mode of thinking through these steps so it happens more automatically. The. The notepad is just a. A tool to help you remember those three steps and work through it. And you'll also get faster at it, too, as you get used to really talking about the. The main thing is the connection and how everything connects together.

Right.

So, yes, it's a lot, but also it'll get easier and it'll start clicking a lot quicker for you once you start doing it this way.

And, Jeff, kind of like what we talked about, you're basically doing, like, three things at a time. Right. So, like what we said, I mean, on your DRC model, do heart failure, do diabetes, and do hypertension all at the same time. You know, I mean, that's. Yeah, yeah. I mean, they all flow together.

Jen and Seesaw has some side discussions going on. I see you there. I see you there.

Never call the doctor unless someone is dying. And there are no orders in place that you can do on an NCLEX question. Yes. So that's really kind of the rule, like, don't call the doctor. If you get an NCLEX question that says, like, call the doctor, don't do it.

Don't pawn off your work on the doctor.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's something that. That a lot of, like, that's a phrase, you know, don't pass the buck. Okay. Don't pass the buck on an NCLEX question. So we're going to talk about that more tomorrow night, actually.

All right. Yeah, Tomorrow's the NCLEX night, so be sure to subscribe. Hit the bell. We're talking more about the nclex, the new nclex, and nothing but the NCLEX tomorrow. That's not true. We'll probably talk about other things, too.

We're going to talk about other things. Let's just be honest.

Yeah.

Yep. So funny.

Let's see. Jenna answered back. See, Jen and Seesaw had a side discussion because Jenna was talking about what was in her fundamentals test nursing process. Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Okay.

Critical thinking and planning.

Yes.

Nursing interventions. Hey.

So, yeah, awesome. So everything we're talking about, actually. K. Janna, you're gonna want to come. Samantha, you take your NCLEX tomorrow. That's why you know all the answers. You're gonna do fine, my friend. That's hilarious.

So what you should do is join us tomorrow on our nclex call and yes, tell us how you did.

Tell us how it went.

The live is 7 Pacific, right?

7 Pacific is tomorrow. Yeah. So we'll be on. Yep, 7 Pacific tomorrow night. And Samantha, good luck on your answers. Nclex. No, you cannot talk about the nclex after the nclex. Yes, but tell us how you did, Samantha. Okay. Come back tomorrow unless you're, you know, out with friends or something, so. That's so exciting. All right. There was one that I wanted to touch on. Oh, yeah, it was. It was Jana. Yeah. So nursing process, Maslow's hierarchy, critical thinking and planning and nursing and critical thinking and planning and nursing interventions. So all that we're going to talk about probably tomorrow. Jana. So if you can come back tomorrow for our NCLEX discussion tomorrow, there's a lot that is really going to be helpful for you and all of you guys because actually tomorrow we're going to jam on how to answer nursing school exam questions. And that's pretty much all you need to do to pass your exam. So know how to do that. Like do the DRC model, do the, you know, watch our video tomorrow and I'll give you some nclex hacks and you'll be good.

Yeah, that sounds fun.

Yeah. You need more help? Join the membership community and I'll coach you on things. It'll be great.

Yeah, yeah. So the study systems is just kind of like your DIY setup of everything from Christina's own experiences and how to study in nursing school. If you want a more guided. What? Holding a hand.

If you want me to hold your.

Hand through nursing school digitally, hold your hand.

Join the nursing association.

We also have the membership community.

Someone asked if we have. Yeah. Videos on respiratory. Yes, we have a whole course on the respiratory system. We have a whole course on endocrine, on cardiac, on neuro, on gi, renal, everything. Did I say neuro already? You know, you've got. We've got. We've got it all. We have fundamentals, we have critical care, we've got all the things. So inside the nursing SOS membership community, you will definitely want to join. If you want. If, you know, if you're struggling with learning, patho. If you're struggling with learning, you know, signs and symptoms of things, nursing assessment, nursing interventions. You're going to want to jump into the Nursing association membership community and I will walk you through it all. Yes, ob. We have a whole course on ob, labor and delivery.

Yes, it's closed right now, but join the wait list and you'll Be the first to know when it opens. Nursing schoolofsuccess.com join.

Yes.

And those two links are in the description in YouTube, so you can just click on those guys.

Yes, we have all the complications for OB in the community. Yep. Yes. Yes, yes. You guys.

All right, Samantha, take care. Have fun studying.

Good luck. You're gonna do fantastic, Samantha. Like, seriously, you're gonna do awesome.

Oh, here you go.

Cool.

Just to throw one your way, though, Agatha, how do you answer questions and fundamentals? I mean, knowing which one to choose when they all look alike? So we're going to be talking about. Oh, there is sounds coming.

I hear the baby. I hear the baby every time. So, Agatha, it's like a timer. Yeah. 7:40 every time. It's like a little. A little alarm clock. Okay.

Let me copy that down, Agatha. And we'll put a pin on it and we'll answer that.

How do you answer questions and fundamentals knowing which one to choose when it all. You have your tips alike.

You have your tips on what the answer.

I've got it all in the study system, Agatha. Actually, so if you go to nursing schoolofsuccess.com study system, there's a whole chapter in this book on how to answer nclex style questions. So nursing school exam questions, there's a ton of hacks in here for you. And then tomorrow I will jam on a few as well, probably. Is there a good one, though, for fundamentals when they all look alike? So, okay, so, all right. I can say a couple. I can say a couple things. So, Agatha, if there are any nursing school exam questions that you get where two of the answers look identical and are very hard to tell apart, they're both most likely incorrect. However, if there are two answers that are direct opposite or stark contrast to each other, one of those is most likely the correct answer. Okay. Yeah, baby's waking up. So, okay, one more thing real quick. If there. There's something called an umbrella answer. So. So if you see an answer that is significantly longer than other answers in that question, and it contains pieces of other answers, but it's like longer, let's say, like the longer one is D. And then it contains pieces of answer A and answer C. Do you see what I'm saying? That's called an umbrella answer. That one is most likely the correct one because it kind of covers everything. Kind of covers all the other things. Okay, now I'm gonna take that.

Yeah. Take all the information and don't do what I did. And for all of my multiple choice questions on all my exams. I just chose the longest one because I didn't want to read it. So I just don't do that.

Hey, by the way, did we ever introduce ourselves? He's not a nurse, by the way.

I'm not a nurse. So take everything I'm saying with a, with a grain of salt. I'm just here for the, the kicks and giggles. So yes, but definitely those are good tips. And tomorrow we will have more tips for you and we're going to be diving into the nclex so be sure to subscribe. Hit the bell. And again, we are wrapping up here for tonight but for a little bit longer. NurseSchoolSuccess.com study system get $10 off the study system that we've been talking about and jamming about and it's going to.

Help you so much through nursing school. I've got to tell you. Yep, the DRC critical thinking model following the nine key critical thinking questions on page 17. Starting on page 17. Just going to help you so, so much. We also have examples here in the study system of DRC Critical Thinking Model Walkthrough. So we did, we did some tonight. But then there's also more in the study system system as well. So there you go.

Awesome.

More help. And then of course, yeah, for sure. I mean get on the nursing SOS Membership community wait list. You for sure want to join that. Like you do not want to miss out on enrollment for that. So enrollment will be I don't know.

When in the future.

In the future. As soon as. But get on the wait list for that. Okay. So that I can hold your hand through nursing school. You know we have a nursing team with us as well. So you can always some of your questions to us and we will get back to you. We are literally here to walk you through nursing school step by step inside the nursing SS membership community. So go to nursing school of success.com forward/join and check out the details on that.

For sure.

Get on the list to be the first to know when enrollment opens because seriously my friends, you do not want to miss it. I just. Okay, real quick. I know he's waking up, but I just need to say something.

He's fine.

So I literally received multiple emails last week. Nursing students telling me that they didn't join, that they did not join the nursing SOS Membership community the last time enrollment was open.

Happens every time.

And then they failed out of their program or they failed their class. So I literally got, we got like three emails all in a Row of students telling me, okay, I didn't join. Like, they didn't join. And then they failed like friends. And I literally told Matthew, I was like, this has to stop happening. Like, we cannot let this happen. This is. This is the problem. Right? We do not want nursing students to fail a class, fail an exam, fail out of the program. Like, that is not what we want to happen. Right? So please, please, please do not put off joining the nursing SS membership community, because we will help you through it. We will help you. We will help you get through nursing school.

I'm here for the laughs and giggles.

I will help you get through nursing school. Our nursing team. Well, so, you know, you're going to love the videos. You're going to love our nursing team. You're going to love, like, you can submit for a tutor form to us. You can submit your questions and a nurse on our team, you know, gets back to you answering those questions. So, you know, make sure to join nursing schoolofsuccess.com.clam.

Not.Clam. Oh, nursing school success.com/join for more information. And get on. On that. Wait.

Yep. Get on the waitlist because enrollment will open again in the future. So I was gonna say something else about that, but now it lost me. Okay, just please join because I do not like getting those emails. I do not like getting the emails of students saying, oh, no, I missed an enrollment. It happens every single time. Literally. Like the minute, the minute we close enrollment, we start getting emails of people saying, I missed it. How can I get in? And so please don't miss it.

And we do close membership because we focus on the membership. We focus on all the fancy, fun, new things that are coming out.

Yeah.

As well. Like Christina said, they just had a coaching call today where they were talking about things.

You weren't there.

I was. I was not there. They were talking about things. But that is fancy and fresh and.

So every week, every week now. So that is new. So if you are a nursing SOS member, that is brand new that we just started doing is coaching calls. So weekly coaching calls, I'm getting on live video. Nicole, our lead nurse on our team, is getting on live video with me. And we are coaching you. We are coaching you. So today we talked about time management and how to plan your time, how to save time, studying how to save time in nursing school so that you can actually have a life. So that was our coaching topic for today, which was really fun.

So that was brand new. And we have more things in the works. And so we do focus on the membership, and that is why we closed the membership so we have time to develop these new things for you guys.

Yep. So. Yep, for sure.

That's how we do it around here.

That's how we do it. That's how we do it. All right, you guys, nursing School of success.com forward/study system. For the study system, you've got to get this and use the coupon code study for $10 off. But that's only good while we are live on this video.

Okay, right after we're live, I am going to slowly walk, look over and turn that off.

Turn off that goop on.

I will walk slowly to give you guys a little bit of time, but definitely jump on that for sure.

Yes. Nursing School of success.com forward/study system. Are you a member? Are you a nursing SOS member? Are you a member? Do you remember? Are you remember?

It's all in there.

It's all in there. Yep. Respiratory course.

All right.

Okay, Ashley, so good. I'm glad you enjoyed this live video.

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Oh, actually, hey, yeah, follow me on Instagram, please, because I've been doing lots of Instagram stories and that's really fun. And actually, I was just going to poll everybody to see what they wanted us to do lives about.

Mm, yeah, maybe a short or a community post or something.

Mm, yep.

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That's a couple people. It's a few. That's a few people.

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We're talking about nclex tomorrow. Diva.

Wow. Nice.

I love it. Tomorrow is our next slide.

Tomorrow, 7 Pacific, which is 7:00pm Pacific.

10:00Pm Eastern Time, because I can add seven and three together.

All right, 7 Pacific, 10 Eastern.

And that is p. M. That is in the nighttime. All right, take care, guys. Can you guys tell that it's night? Because we're kind of going down here. All right, you guys, we'll see you tomorrow. Take care. Bye. Bye.