How to prepare for nursing school - ASK ME ANYTHING

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Good morning. Welcome to our Monday morning Ask Me anything. Today in this video, we are going to talk about how to prepare for nursing school. Oh, wow. I can see my phone on YouTube.

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There you go. Okay. Hello, YouTube. Sorry, Instagram. You're like, way over here right now. Oh, man. All right, this is. This is a work in progress, friends. A work in progress. Good morning, everybody. Can you create a video about pharmacodynamics, says Instagram? Yes, I can. I will add it to our list. Matthew, can you add that to my list? Add that to the list.

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All right, Pharmaco dynamics. All right, friends and family, let's talk about how to prepare for nursing school because we're in July and then we're coming up on fall. Alrighty, let's do it. So the first thing that you absolutely have to do, and this is like priority number one, dose calc. You absolutely have to learn dose calc before you start nursing school. Here's why. So dose calc. If you've been in nursing school already, let me know in the chat. Let everybody else know in the chat how important dose calc is. So it's not just me saying this. The dose calc is super important because when you start nursing school as a little nursing newbie, a nurse, sling a nursling. I really like that term. If you guys like that term, can you let me know? Because I want to keep it around nurseling, but. But Matthew keeps telling me that it's maybe a little bit degrading, but I like.

I think it's all right. But yeah, I do want to hear from you guys whether you think nursling is a good term or not for little baby nurses. I don't know. I come from a different background too, because A little bit more of a gamer. Gamer background.

She loves it.

Oh, I love it.

All right, awesome.

Gamer background and probably talking to. I don't know if there's any other gamers out there but Starcraft, there were Zerg and Zerglings. So I'm just talking, Talking out there, but. So that's whatever I think of when I hear nursling is zerglings.

So I don't know what that is.

Yeah, I know. That's okay, though.

I have no clue.

Probably no one else. No one else.

Does you like the term nursling? Because I love it. I think it's Adorable. I think it's super precious. So if you like the term nursling and we want to keep it, let's vote.

Yeah, you can vote.

Raise your hand. Raise your hand if we're keeping it. Also hit that, like, button.

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All right, so dose calc. You've got to know Dose calc. So let us know how important dose calc is if you've been in nursing school for, like, two seconds. I said I did 5. 2 seconds. Dose calc is so important because pretty much every term you are going to have a dose calc exam and you have to get 100% on it. If you are in a nursing school and they allow you to get, like, 90% right, be blessed, my friend. You are blessed because many, many nursing schools require you to get 100% correct. We get messages from students all the time, Christina. You have no idea what I'm going through. I have a dose calc exam coming up in a week, and we have to get 100%. And I'm like, friend, is that just.

About everyone else I know?

It's like, everyone else. It's not just you. I promise you. Everybody else, too. It's so very important. Thank you for agreeing with me. Instagram. Perfect. Instagram says they hear you just fine.

Oh, Instagram does.

Yeah. All right, perfect.

No one mentioned anything in YouTube, but there are comments coming in, so I'm going to just assume that they can hear me.

Perfect. Sounds good.

I could check on my own, but the headphones are way down there, and I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna go way down there.

Not gonna do the effort. So. Dose calc is so important, and we've got some really great videos on YouTube for it. So if you want to get some help, if you want me to walk you through it step by step, how to ace dose calc. YouTube. Nursing SOS dose calc. Like, search in the search bar. YouTube. Nursing SOS. You don't have to put the YouTube in there on YouTube. Nursing SOS dose calc or nursing SOS dosage calculations up there on YouTube going to be super helpful if you are a Nursing SOS member. Log into your dashboard and we have two dose calc workbooks for you to go through with a bunch of practice questions. So, boom, That'll help.

Thank you, Brittany. I feel better now knowing that we're not talking to ourselves.

Thank you, Brittany. Too perfect. All right. As a patient, I wouldn't want a nurse that didn't get 100%. Amen to that, friend. Amen to that. If you did not know I was a patient before I went to nursing school, I did not want to be a nurse ever in my life.

No. A's for effort for that one. I tried really hard, but I missed all of them.

Because you didn't get nurses in school, does that mean that you missed all of. Does that make you miss all of them if you just don't go to nursing school? Forget about it. I was a patient before I went to nursing school, and I never wanted to be a nurse. Fun fact. Until, like, I almost died. I'm a pacemaker, by the way, so heart issues here. And then I decided to go to nursing school. That was the trigger for me. Because everything your parents tell you to do, you don't do.

Yeah, because didn't your parents. Your parents were saying.

My parents were like, oh, Christina, it's a stable career. Don't have to worry. You know. You know all the things like, oh, you should be a nurse. Like, I'm sure everyone tells everyone that they should be a nurse. Sure, everyone's a nurse. I feel like everyone in my life is a nurse except for you.

That's right. You know, I am not.

Now I'm kind of scared. Oh, don't be scared. No, no, no, no. Don't be scared about discounts. Go to YouTube. Go to YouTube and search Nursing SOS. Dose calc, and I will walk you through it step by step. Don't you even worry, my friends. Do not be scared. The mental analysis is what you want to do, and that is what I walk you through. So easy. Do it. No big deal. Okay, so that's the first thing about how to prepare for nursing school. Learn dose calc. Now, the second thing. What do I want to be? The second thing. What's the. What's the second most important thing? If you have children. If you have children, you need child care. Someone to watch your said children while you're in school. But not only do you need child care, you need a backup, and then you need a backup to your backup. Would you agree?

I'd say so, yeah.

You need. You need backup plans.

Making sure you have backups for the.

Kiddos because, you know, kids get sick. Can we say the word S I, C, K lately and not think of the Rona can be other things. It could be other things.

There are Other things they could just.

Have, like colds and stuff.

It might not seem like it, but.

There are other things that can get you sick. Oh, what a world. You know what? You just gotta. You just gotta have a plan. Back up to your backup, to your backup, to your backup plan for the kids. Because if you have a clinical day, you have to go to clinical. Right? You can't miss a clinical day, you know, so you can. People are laughing at me on Instagram. All right. I know. I'm ridiculous. It's the best. Let me just tell you. Yes, you've gotta have a backup. You know, so many times I think that's a big thing that stops students from going to nursing school is that they don't have a plan. Make a plan. Make a plan for your kids. Make a plan for your life. Go to nursing school and have a plan. Is very important now. Hello, YouTube. We are in the U.S.

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Yep. But hello, hello. Wave at everybody online. Hello, hello, friends. Welcome to Monday. All right. Yep. Dose calc. Have a backup plan for your kiddos. Now. Tip number three, meal prep. I always say to plan your meals for the first two weeks of the term. So no matter if you're just starting nursing school or if you've been in nursing school for a while, every new term is different. So, like, if. Especially. Oh, my gosh. Especially if you go from, like, fundamentals to med surg. Med surg is, like, totally different. It's just totally different. So you've got a meal prep, like, plan out what you're gonna do when you get to nursing school that term. Right. It's gonna just keep getting harder throughout your program. So it's more and more important to plan. You want to make sure that you can devote as much time, as much energy and as much focus to nursing school, especially in those first few weeks. So I always recommend that you plan your meals. Meal prep for the first two weeks of the term. So at least have your meals planned out for the first two weeks of your term. By the way, do you like my hair? It feels a little frizzy today. I don't know.

It looks good. It looks nice.

Thank you. Yes. I. You know, it's so funny because I really actually like how it looks in real life, but then I get on video sometimes and I'm, like, not doing it for me.

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I. I don't know. I. Does my hair look good on videos? Someone tell me. Oh, you look YouTuber so nice. Okay, well, I'm glad. So I Don't know. I have a YouTube video to record today. Maybe I will just. Yeah, you know, just keep it, like the sweetie stuff. You know, maybe I'll just keep it the sweetie stuff. All of my hairs are looking great. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Instagram. Yep. Number one, dose calc. Number two.

Thank you, Jessica.

Thank you, Jessica, for keeping me on track. Number one, dose calc. Number two, childcare. Have a backup to your backup to your backup. Number three, meal prep. You know what? Okay, I tried this. I don't know if I would recommend it. Do you remember the My. Was it over the summer? I think it was over the summer where I was like, I'm going to buy all the food at the grocery store, and I'm gonna pack all of the food from the grocery store into Ziploc bag Ziploc bags and freeze it all four, crock pot.

So we have 1, 2, 3, 4. Four crock pots. least.

Oh, at least. No, no, no. Are we counting crock pots? Yeah, no, I've got, like, probably seven of them.

Okay, so we have a lot of.

Crock pots and all of various sizes and for different purposes. So I'm not totally, like, crazy.

When Christina says meal prep, what she means for us, anyway, what she did was meal prep is using our crock pot. So we have them all, like, lined up, and you just kind of dump the food in, which is great because you just kind of leave it alone, and it slow cooks the rest of the day. So that is really great. So she was thinking, you know what? By meal prep, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to buy all the things beforehand, stick all the ingredients into Ziploc bags, and then freeze them all. And then whenever we want something, we just get the Ziploc bag and dump it out and wait a couple hours. So I think, in theory, it worked.

Perfect system.

It worked pretty well for some of the meals. Some of the meal, it kind of depends on exactly what you're cooking. Yeah, but it did work for some of them. Some of them, not so much. If there was, like, a lot of soup, it got stuck to Ziploc bags. And, yeah, that was hard to open up and things like that. Or some of them pretty dense ones. It was uneven cooking sometimes.

Yeah, it didn't really work with, like, the dump technique. Also, I think where I really went wrong was some of the meals that I had created in those Ziploc bags. I had never tried before, so they weren't so good. And I ended up making, like, five or six of them. So Matthew ate those. So I did not. Because they were gross.

So by meal prepping, I mean not necessarily plan out and cook everything or what you see, kind of like portion everything out.

You can totally do it that way.

You can do that if you'd like.

You could totally do it. But. But really just make sure you're planning out your meals. Like, what are you going to eat on Wednesday of week two of nursing school? Yeah, you know, that's really. That. That. That's okay, I think. And then plan your grocery trips. Like, do your all your grocery shopping for the first two weeks of the term. That would be probably ideal, too. So you don't have to, like, do a grocery trip.

I think the main point of that, the main point of planning ahead with childcare and for meal prepping is that you just want to decrease the things that you're thinking about so that you can focus on nursing school. So the more that you can kind of preset things, automate things, kind of put it on the back burner, plan everything out beforehand, the better that you can focus on the things that you need to focus during that time. So I think that's the main thing.

Absolutely. Pound it.

Boom. On a side note, I did see those memes popping around on, oh, what is meal prep? And they just have a Tupperware, and next to them is a giant pizza. And they're just putting one slice of pizza in each Tupperware and putting a Coke in it. I guess technically that's meal prepping.

I consider that.

So you can do that all the way up to planning and then cooking and then going all the way to the other side.

So somewhere in between various levels of meal meo prep, from the pizza in a Tupperware container or a Ziploc bag, all the way to the fancy Pinterest stuff, which I never do. So there's that. There's such good memes out there. Oh, man. Now, was that three? That was three, Jessica. Thank you, Jessica. Jessica's the best. Thank you, Jessica. Number three. Number four. Oh, have you made adobo in the crock pot? My husband is Filipino.

Hi.

Your husband's Filipino? There you go. I don't think I've made adobo in a crock pot.

I make adobo the super, super, super duper easy way. I go to my mom's house. Because I actually don't know how to cook adobo, and she keeps saying it's super easy, and then I never do.

So, yeah, that's funny.

Yeah, but it's good.

It's a shame to say that we have been married for a long time. A long time. Is that a good thing? You say that's a good thing. Hey, I'm Filipino, bro. You've got friends.

So I do.

Like, we've been married seven years.

Yes.

And I have never once met a domo. Does that make me a terrible wife?

So favorite.

And I have. No.

Okay.

I have no idea how to cook rice. Shameful. You have no idea how to cook rice.

That's fine. It's all right. Adobo sinigang, I'd say, are my. Probably my. My two favorite Filipino dishes.

So they're good. I like pancit. Did I say that right? Yeah. That's my favorite. I like the noodles. I know how to cook noodles. Rice is not my specialty, which is so funny because you just put rice in a rice maker with water and just turn it on. We don't have a rice maker, though.

We don't have a rice cooker. We just do it in the pressure cooker.

All right, now the next thing I'm going to talk about. Tell me, Jessica, is this four or five?

This is four.

This is four. Thank you, Jessica. Number four. Do not read ahead if possible. I say if possible, but, like, like, really don't read ahead. So here's what I did in nursing school. I had my big, big fundamentals book, you know, a month before nursing school. I go through and try to read it all. I got so lost friends. Like, it's not an efficient use of your study time. It's not an efficient use of your study time because you don't know what you don't know, and you don't know what your professors are going to focus on when you get to nursing school. You don't know what's important. You don't have the foundational knowledge to read your textbooks. Just don't do it. It's such a waste of time. Personal opinion. If you guys have any other different advice, let me know in the comments. Jessica, you're the best. Seriously, friend, I love you. Thank you.

So I like that advice. Any advice that allows me not. Not to read things is good. So I like that.

I need to stop drinking coffee. This coffee is going to come out my nose one of these days. You crack me up. Okay, let's take some questions. Actually, I have a question here from. From the last video. Someone was asking if your professor doesn't. Yeah. Can we actually, like, pull it up there? Because I want to Say it like word for word.

Oh, what did you want?

Just upload up, up. Because they can't see it here with the.

Are. Oh, up on here.

Yep.

Okay.

Basically asking what happens if your teacher has not touched you? Especially so basically, what she teaches. If your professor doesn't test you on what she teaches, well, your professor, if you're not tested on what you're taught in class, what in the world do you do? Now, the first thing I want to say is that there will always, always, always be questions on your exams that are like, totally from left field, completely. Like, you don't even know. Like they're from the footnote on page 1102. And that's just how it is. Like, there will always be the case. So don't freak yourself out. If you get to your nursing school exam, you get a question that you. No idea at all. What in the world is that saying? It's totally fine. Like, don't even worry about it, do your best, move it right along. It does not mean that you're not going to do well on your exam. It does not mean that you're not going to do well on the, on the next questions. It just means that you just don't know that one. That's totally fine. So if you get to a question on your exam that you don't know the answer to, totally fine, move it right along, do your best, and then just keep going. That will always be the case. You're always going to get questions on your exam that you. That just come out of nowhere. Now, if your professor, if you're, if you're finding your Exam is like 90% things that you did not talk about in class, like, definitely possible, right? Four main things that you have to focus on. Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Those are the four main things that you have to focus on. This goes for med surg, this goes for OB, this goes for PEDs. This goes for fundamentals. This goes for mental health. Everything, my friend, everything. Pathophysiology or the physiology? I should note the physiology because in fundamentals, what you're going to focus on more is the physiology for things like fluid and electrolytes, things like that. So physiology or pathophysiology, signs and symptoms of whatever's happening, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Those are the four main things you have to focus on for everything you're learning in nursing school now. That goes for, like, things that are, like critical thinking based, for example, fundamentals, fluids and electrolytes. You have to know those four main things. ABGs, metabolic, acidosis, alkalosis, all those things, your basic med surg disorders that you will learn in fundamentals. Stroke, diabetes, heart failure, copd. I learned about COPD and my fundamentals. Maybe you will, too. And then when you get to med surg, this is for sure what you have to be focusing on. For sure. Full stop. That's it.

Full stop.

Four main things. Patho signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing intervention. So if you don't feel like your instructor's teaching you in class, everything she's teaching you is not showing up on the exam. Those are the four main things that you have to focus on. Now, after your exam, walk into our office, set up an appointment, or do it right then and there and go through your exam item by item with her. Sit down, have an office meeting, either online or in class, whatever your school is doing these days, set up a meeting with your instructor. Go through your exam item by item so that you know the content for the final, so that you know, like, why you got questions right and why you got questions wrong. And then it's also going to help you, you figure out, where are they getting questions from? Where in the world are these things coming from? How in the world can I study for it next time? It's going to help you so, so much. Okay, next question. We did talk about fundamentals in nursing school. I'm going to skip that one because that was my fundamentals spiel. Focus on those four main things that will help in dose calc. Make sure that you know your dose calc. Solid, solid, Solid. Hello, Billen. Good morning, friends. Good morning, Instagram. Good morning, YouTube. Everybody that's just joining us, welcome to Monday. We are talking about. Well, we already talked about how to prepare for nursing school. And now let's take some of your questions, shall we?

All right, so I'm not sure exactly which ones you want to do. There were a lot that came in this morning.

How to deal with a difficult instructor. Give them grace. We don't be mean to people. Right. Don't be mean to people. I've seen this so many times. I don't know. Don't be mean to your instructors. Come on. Don't be mean to people in general. Don't be mean to people. So, how to deal with difficult instructors. Give them grace and talk with them openly and use facts, not emotion. That's all I'm going to say about that. Thank you for all. You've helped me and gave me so many tips. I'm Almost finished with my second semester.

Hooray.

I'm so excited for you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Instagram. Sugar plum. Congratulations. All right. Good morning. Let's do YouTube. Let's find one on YouTube. How do I become a successful nursing professional? Is that really. Is that that question? Did I go right? How to become a. Go to nursing school. I guess that's my. Okay. May we have some spam comments today? That's exciting. Oh, I'm curious. Did you go straight RN or LPN to rn? I was never an lpn. I did. Not around here. In our area, we only have one LPN school that I'm familiar with, and I think it was being phased out. We actually don't really have a whole lot of LPNs in my area. I know this is different throughout the U.S. but here it's primarily CNA. RN teams is what we have here, so. And RN programs or CNA programs. So I just did the RN program and I have a bachelor's in. So this was like my. Yeah, there's my third degree.

Nursing was my third degree pushing more towards the RN bachelor.

Yeah, RN bachelor. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Then. So rn, then RN bachelor, and then beyond, if you would like. Yeah. So that's kind of how we do it around here. How was your third semester? I'm kind of nervous. So this. Okay, this is from Instagram. This happens a lot. Students will message us and say, like, you know, oh, my gosh, I'm so scared about, you know, fourth term or my second semester or whatever. That doesn't mean anything. That doesn't mean anything when you talk to anybody outside of your program, because all programs are different. So can you tell me what your third semester is? What do you study in your third semester? And then I can tell you what it is, because my third semester was beginning med surg. Because I believe we actually didn't. We do. Am I getting this wrong? No, I think I'm getting this right. We did PEDs and OB in second term, so it's kind of flipped. Usually you do those later in your term, but my program did them, like, right away. So I had fundamentals, and then I did peds and ob, and then my third term was basic med surgical, and then fourth term was advanced med surge. That one fourth term for my program everyone said was the hardest. It's the worst. You're never going to pass. It was my favorite. I loved it. I got an A. No problem. Easy peasy, easy breezy. I loved it. Med surg. Advanced med surg. And that was the best it was hard for sure, but it was the best. Hmm, let's see.

I like that one. This one?

Which one? You tell me.

Yeah, the two part question about the membership community, actually. So we'll jump into that. How many people are in the membership community? And once you get in, is it lifetime or period of time? And if it's period time, you can get readmitted. So I think those are all really good questions.

Yeah, lots. I don't know, but lots. Like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. Yeah.

So our nursing community definitely is growing. And whenever we open it, it definitely jumps up in sizes. So it is.

You guys are awesome.

There are a lot of great people in there and it's a very supportive community. And we also have a Facebook group, private Facebook group, and lots of positive discussions going on there. So while it is a large community and it keeps growing, it also does still have the feel of really personal connection and smaller group because of our personal connection with you guys and then also the private Facebook group and things like that. So it's big and it's getting bigger, but we're also pretty personal about it too.

Yeah. I never ever wanted. So when we started this, I never, ever, ever wanted anybody to feel like they were just one person in a sea of nursing students. Absolutely not. That is not what we do here. That is not how we run the membership community. So when you join the membership community, it is like personal interaction. It's like amazing. So via the Facebook group, you can email us anytime. There's. There's things that we do, so I'm not going to talk about it, but there are things that we do to help make it super, super personal for you. So there. I never, ever, ever wanted it to feel. Feel like you were alone in nursing school. Like, that's the whole point. Right. Like you're coming into our community. You're. You're not alone in nursing school anymore. Like, you're. That's why we call it I coddle you. It's a community. Yeah. Yep. So that's how that is. Once you get in, are you in there for life or is it a period of time? So we have two membership tracks, monthly and then yearly. So if you want to subscribe for a month, totally fine. It's. Or like month to month.

Yeah, that is month to month. So every month it just keeps re upping kind of like, I don't know, whatever, Netflix or something like that.

So it's the Netflix of.

Netflix of nursing.

Or you can pay for a year. Hey, princess. Awesome. Okay, we Talked about that before. Sorry, guys. Right, I digress. Yes. So a year or month subscription, term, and our nursing regulatory body and our being.

Hold on, we're not done.

We're not done. We're not done.

And then if you do leave the community, you're. You're always allowed to come back for the most part. So. Yeah, yeah. So if finances are tough or you are going to take a break from nursing school or something like that, you can leave and then when our nursing community opens up again, then you can get back. So.

Absolutely.

All right, now we're done.

Therefore. Okay, I see. That was the third part of the question. What is a nursing regulatory body? Depends on what country you are in. Here we have kind of several. So it just depends on what country you're in. Nrb, a nursing regulatory body can be anything. Like, like here in the States we have something called the ncsbn, which is a regulatory body for nursing schools. Then we have, you know, nursing, you know, practice regulations and things like that when you get into nursing practice. So, you know, there's. That, there's a couple different. Depends on the country you're in. Let's see. Hello, good morning, Instagram. And I love how everybody's, you guys are awesome and you say, oh, peds and ob. Okay. Yeah, okay. So peds and ob, I believe that that's what you were saying is that that's what your third term was, my third semester, so that would be my second. For PEDs and OB is fine. You know, those are, you know, PEDs and OB, we have a few videos on YouTube on.

Pediatrics, we have a whole section on. On OB.

On YouTube. Oh, no, in the membership community, we have OB. We have an OB course in the membership community on YouTube we have a few peds videos. So check Those out on YouTube. Nursing SOS, Pediatrics. I hope that helps. I love being a member. Welcome, friend. I'm so glad you're a member. Yes, it's the best. I'm so glad that you are a nurse business member.

Just real quick, someone said that they didn't see a month to month. It was either three months or a year. So probably that was not us. We've never done a three month at a time. So I just put in the link to join the wait list because we're currently closed right now. So you can't even join right now if you wanted to. So be sure to get on that wait list and next time it pops up, then you'll see those two options either month to month or year Yep, absolutely.

Oh, perfect. Okay, I'm just going back. Okay. ATI, we've got a couple questions on ATI, right? On YouTube.

Not so much on YouTube today.

Okay, maybe not. I've got. I feel like I've gotten a couple on Instagram. So let's talk about ati. So for your ATI or Hussey programs, the number one thing that you absolutely have to do and make sure that you do is to re read the rationales. Do practice questions and read the rationales. Friends, you absolutely have to do those practice tests. Practice questions. That is not busy work. Do not consider that to be busy work. Do the practice questions as many as you can and then read the rationales. You have to know why you're getting the question right or why you're getting the question wrong. So important. Then you'll know for your exams how they test, what they're looking for in their answers, and then you'll understand the content better. Three things. Super helpful. Okay, let me scroll back. You can scroll on YouTube.

I don't know.

I'm just trying to find questions. You look fabulous. Oh, thank you. You guys are so nice. I love you. Great.

Oh, another membership from Jessica. Do you keep content if you leave membership temperature temporarily? So when you do leave, it saves kind of how far you are because it does give you tracking on how far you are in each of the videos that are in the membership community. So when you do come back, all that is saved and you just jump in right where you were.

Hi there. I am. Excuse me. Still having trouble in pharmacology to link the medication with the patient diagnosis. Still having trouble in pharmacology to link the patient medication to the patient diagnosis. Okay, I'm just saying that again because I'm trying to think about it. So that's not. If you're like trying to study pharmacology by linking the medication with the particular diagnosis, like, I guess that's fine, but that's not what I teach. So the way that I teach pharmacology is to. To learn the mechanism of action of a drug class. Learn the mechanism of action of the drug class, and then you will know the mechanism of action of the medications within that drug class. And then if you guys have been around here for. You've heard my spiel about pharmacology. The mechanism of action is how the drug acts in the body. And when you know that, then you will be able to critically think more about the side effects of the medication. The nursing assessment that you'll do for that medication, the nursing considerations and interventions. Right. Like if you're giving a beta blocker, which is a blood pressure heart rate medication, it's a cardiac medication. So like a patient diagnosis, you know, something cardiac related beta blocker. But a beta blocker is, you're going to need to assess their blood pressure and their heart rate for sure because it's a blood pressure medication. Right. But you have to understand what that drug does in the first place. How does a beta blocker respond in the body. Then you're going to understand more of the side effects. Hypotension, right. So a side effect, this decrease in blood pressure because of the blood pressure mitigation. Then your nursing assessment will follow through that. Obviously you're going to want to assess their blood pressure and their heart rate. You see how it all connects back together. So that is how we do that. So I don't necessarily teach or really recommend that you study pharmacology based on a patient diagnosis because patient diagnosis are going to change like from patient. Right. If you're learning medications for heart failure, you know, certain medications are going to come up but then there's also going to be other medications that might be used for something else and could be used for heart. You know, it just gets kind of messy. Mechanism of action. That's what you're going to want to study.

Moa Moa as we called it.

As we called it. That's great. That's great.

Paul, not exactly sure what you're. You're talking about with doing discussions on the memberships. So if you can elaborate and what.

What to expect are you, are you like wanting to know like what to expect as a member, what to expect in the membership community. Just clarify for us. Anything on YouTube when I answer not.

Too, too many questions.

You guys are the best. Wow, look at all you go this morning. I think we answered a lot of your questions. Meds difference between about med surg and other nursing. I don't know. That's kind of a typo. Okay, Jaden, can you explain your question? Clarify. I don't know what you're saying. On YouTube. Yes, we just started our online class here in the Philippines and we're taking pharmacology and nutrition. Yeah. So pharmacology, those will help you a ton. Those tips definitely learn the mechanism of first. Also, if you need more pharmacology videos, head over to YouTube, type in nursing sos pharmacology, nursing sos pharmacology and that'll do it for you.

Oh, there you go, Jaden. E.R. nursing.

Oh, E.R. nursing. Well, okay, so E.R. nursing is going to be more acute med surg. But still, I mean, you're still dealing with patients that come in and have like mega disorders, right? Like, it's just more critical. Like, it's just, it's, it's. I would say it's the thing. I am not an ER nurse, so someone might disagree with me, but that is my understanding of it.

All right.

Acute nursing. It's. But it's med search. You know, it's like, I mean, heart failure is heart failure. Heart failure. Whether it's like acute heart failure, patient is currently dying from heart failure, or they're on a less acute med surg floor and you know, we're managing their heart failure that they're not currently dying from. Do I want to say the word dying on YouTube? I don't know. It's hard because, like, YouTube doesn't really like those, like, words sometimes. You know, like anytime we talk about medications. Actually. This is so funny. This is so funny. So we have some really good pharmacology videos, like I talk talked about up on YouTube. So if you type in Nursing SOS Pharmacology, you will find those. But we did a pharmacology video a few months ago and it was like, you know, how to study pharmacology or like how to study particular medications or how to learn your medications. And then one of the YouTube searches that people were searching for to find that video is how to make drugs.

We do not make drugs, nor condone making drugs in your bathtub or sink or bathroom.

But apparently YouTube thought we were talking about making drugs.

We do not condone that.

So funny.

We are not the breaking bad of nursing school. So please do not.

Yeah, please do not do that. And the more you say that word, the more YouTube doesn't like us. So, you know, okay. The more we say the word M E D or D R U G S, YouTube doesn't like it.

Does YouTube know how to spell? That's the other question.

So it doesn't even matter. Whatever YouTube's gonna like, not like us.

Hey, Jessica, thanks for saying that. We're awesome. And a blessing.

And a blessing. You're the best, Jessica. Jessica. Love you. Oh, man.

What to expect in the membership. So, yeah, it's a step by step guide through nursing school with a bunch of different courses, really quick video snippets of different topics.

Yep.

Yeah.

Yeah. So if you like how I teach on YouTube and you wish there were more videos on YouTube, a step by step guide on YouTube. Congratulations. There is, and it's called the Nursing SOS Membership Community, but it's not on YouTube. So if you like how I teach on YouTube, you are going to love the Nursing SOS Membership Community because it's basically all the videos you've ever wanted for nursing school in one place with me teaching it, which is pretty great. So how we do it kind of each video really takes us about 10 hours of our team's time. From research to writing the transcript to all the things and then we make sure that it's the information you need need for nursing school. You don't have like Arrhenius. Is that the right word? Arrhenius? I don't know. I don't know. Words, words, you know, there's not a whole lot of fluff there. Like there's no fluff. Right. It's what you need to know in one condensed video with me teaching it to you. Now here's really my value add. Here's what I'm super, super good at teaching. So I have a gift. I can say that. I mean it's not like, it's not like, like this is just like, like God has given me the gift of teaching. I can break down a super difficult subject into very simple terms for you to understand step by step. So if you find our YouTube videos helpful and you learn best that way and you like how I teach, the Membership community is for you. That's how that works. And then this is awesome. Paul, it's amazing. Do not hesitate. Get on the wait list. Thank you friend. I love our members. You guys are the best.

Side note, we are slowly as we get them done like Christina says, takes takes quite a bit of time to get each of the videos done. But we are working on releasing a pharmacology course and a med database on Dr. U G S's that we cannot. Or say those. Yeah say those anymore here on why O U T U B E. So yeah, that's another reason for the membership community is that we can add things that the algorithms might not like. So yeah, so we are releasing those things there. So that's another reason for the membership community as well.

Yeah, so we have that database coming. So if you guys want to learn we really get to spell it out all the time. If you want to learn your toddler. So we know how to spell around here, then we have a full database for those coming for you. We're releasing more every week. Super, super fun. Do you guarantee passing the NCLEX when you're in the nursing community. So the nursing SOS membership community is for nursing school. So we don't really focus as much on the nclex right now but we do guarantee you pass nursing school. So if you do not pass nursing school you can like, you can check out our full terms and conditions and stuff but like if you don't pass nursing school, you get a refund. It's like we have our 100% pass guarantee which is I think pretty great. So if you don't pass nursing school, like, like it's genuinely no risk to you, right? Like you join. If you don't pass, then you just get your money back.

So another question is, is there an app for your phone or something there? There is currently not a dedicated app but if you open up in your web browser it is mobile friendly and then phones out there, you can most time pin it or add it to your homepage like a link to go straight there.

That's what I do.

It's basically what they call a web app or something like that.

Any advice for HESI Fundamentals? By the way, Jessica, you're my favorite person ever.

Thanks Jessica.

Love you. Any advice for HESI Fundamentals? Yes. So I talked about Hussey and ATI already. I will recap. Again, make sure that you answer the practice questions. I already talked about this this morning. Right? I think so. Answer the practice questions as much as possible and then read the rationales. You've got to know like spend time reading the rationales. That's, that's what it is. Like don't, don't skip the rationales. Do the practice tests. Read the rationales. So important. Please heed that advice because so many nursing students doubt then you don't do well on your exam. That's that. All right. Oh, that's a good question. We have been doing online classes including labs and clinical since March. How much of a disadvantage would you say we would be in apartment upon graduation when seeking for an RN job? Stay in hospitals? I think right now is a great time to become a nurse because I think hospitals are just eating you up right now. That's what I've heard. So you know, I don't think it's a disadvantage to graduate right now because the NCLEX is shorter.

Oh yeah, yeah, you, you were mentioning.

That N Clux is shorter. Friends explain that like if you graduate now, I don't know how long they're going to be doing this for but that's what I heard is the nclex is Shorter now. So if you graduate and take the nclex like yesterday, today, maybe the shorter. So that's pretty great, right? And then, you know, the hospitals really need you. Like if you want to become a nurse, now's the time. So don't let that stop you. A lot of the mindset stuff around clinical, like, I totally get, I totally get that having patient interaction on the floor is so important and so valuable for your nursing school experience. But I don't want you to stop yourself and hold yourself back by thinking that you're not going to be a good enough nurse on the floor. Because everyone graduates not knowing anything. Everyone graduates with the same, like, lack of confidence. You, you know, so you're not expected to know everything in nursing school. You're not expected to know everything your first year as a nurse. You know, you will learn, you will continue to learn all throughout your nursing career. It never stops. So that's my advice for that. Do not let it stop you. It's just a thought in your brain. Let it be there and move it right along and keep doing your best. That's it.

I do like that. I think, yeah, really important to note that it is a mindset thing at that point in time and everyone has, has those mindsets and have to have that shift. No matter whether you had all the in person contact or not or did all the classes or not, or did really well in classes or not, everyone just has their different mindsets and it's just getting past those. So everyone's unique and everyone's in the same boat. So just kind of get past that mindset and you're going to do great.

Absolutely. Do your best like you can do. Oops. Open the membership doors soon, please.

You want to do one more? I think this one's, this one's a good one.

Do you take notes and study? Do you rewrite the notes into one thing with everything together to study? So how do you take notes and study? Do I have my. Okay, grab a piece of paper over here. So when I take notes, here's what I do, guys. I print off three slides for PowerPoints. So if your professor gives you PowerPoints to like PowerPoint slides for class, what I do, draw my paper, print it off three slides.

Yes.

I don't know how this works.

So if you go into PowerPoint or whatever, there's. When you go to print, you can print it out as slides with notes or something. And usually it does three slides, three.

Slides on one side, lines here for notes, lines on the other side. What I would do. Here's my exact note taking process in nursing school, what I would do when I go to class or online. Now if you do your lecture online, it's totally fine. Same thing, Print off your slides, 1, 2, 3 slides on 1 side with the note section on the other. I think it's called like notes taking or note taking. Something on top of.

If you do need more space to write, there's also like a one slide.

Per page slide up here.

You can do that too.

Notes on the bottom. That's not what I did, but three slides on one side, notes. If you need more space, that's a good way to do it. But when I went to class, whether your class is online or in class, I would use like a black pen, one color pen for lecture class. And then I would take notes on whatever the instructor wrote or what the instructor said in class on the lines, I would stick on the lines for what the professor said. And then when I got home, all the space around all those notes and on the back, I would only print out my slides on one side of the page. So I had all the back to write. I would go to my textbooks and I would write in a different colored pen the notes of things that we talked about in class. I wouldn't read other sections of the book. Only focus on the sections of the book that you talked about in class. That was my process. So I know one color pen on the lines like black pen is what the professor said in class. Everything around the periphery of those notes and on the back in a different color pen, say it was pink or purple or whatever that came from the textbook. So this is really important because your professors teach in class what they believe is to be the most important. And what they believe is the most important thing for you to know is what they're going to teach you on and what really the NCLEX is going to teach you on and things like that. Because there are really some foundational things in nursing school that you have to know that's what they're going to teach you on. And so when your professor says something in class, you want to know and write it down what they say in class. So you have to know what they said versus what you read in the textbook. And you will prioritize studying what they said in class. Now here's a huge caveat to this that I don't talk about very often, only when someone brings it up, but it's a really great question. If you find something conflicting between what your professor talks about in class and what you read in the textbook, go with the textbook on the exam. If you don't have enough time to verify it with your instructor, go with the textbook. Because this is so important. You guys, go with the textbook because that is backup. You can physically bring in your textbook to your instructor and say, that's what the textbook says. That's what I went with. And they should give you points back for that. If you get it wrong, like if they said something different in class, but your textbook said something different and you didn't have enough time to talk to them about it or get clarity on it, go with the textbook because that is actual physical evidence that you can present to your instructor afterwards. Do you agree?

I do agree.

Yeah. Yeah. There's definitely solid advice.

Definitely good advice because it's there. Oh, my God. You can. You can bring it up. Yeah. So awesome.

Present it to them.

Yes.

There you go. Okay. I think that's.

Yeah. So I know that there's a lot of questions and we don't want to go too much longer here for today.

Sorry, guys. We have a really busy day today.

But really busy day.

Video to record after this.

Yeah. We will be going live again on Wednesday on hump day. Wednesday is the next time we're gonna.

We're gonna go camel.

Huh? So we're gonna post on YouTube anyway, the schedule. Schedule it up. So be sure to go there and ask your questions there beforehand. You can go there before we're even live and post questions and we'll see them.

That is so, so cool, you guys. So, okay, so Wednesday live. We will be right here again on Wednesday at 9:00am Pacific Standard Time. What is that? 9, 10, 11, 12, 12:00pm Eastern. And I will post that video up today. So it will be like, on our YouTube page. You can go in and ask your questions in the chat, like, before we go live, which is super cool. So, like, ask your questions in the chat before we go live. The member thing, the.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, by Wednesday it should be.

Yeah, okay. And if you are a member, do not post your questions there in the chat.

And there's a couple other other you guys out there. So I saw you guys.

Yeah, we know your members. If you are a nursing SOS member, do not post in that chat. Because what we're going to do is we are going to send out a.

A form of some sort.

A form of some sort. We haven't quite figured it out yet. A form of some cert for our members to ask. Ask their questions and you will get priority. So nursing SOS members, if you are a nursing SOS member, check your, check your. Check the Facebook group and we will have that form there for you to. To fill out for, you know, for Wednesday. So I'll make sure to prioritize your questions on Wednesday as we make sure to get our member questions answered. But if you are not a nursing OSOS member, totally fine. Post in the live chat on YouTube. YouTube? Before the video goes up, before we go live on Wednesday. Is that clear? Does that make sense?

Yeah.

So, okay, cool.

YouTube. We're gonna schedule it. Post questions there. If you're a member, watch out, because we're going to add a forum on Facebook group or somewhere so that you guys can put your questions there. So we'll answer membership first and then other questions for next. And then obviously, since we are live like we did today, just go through and talk to you guys and yay.

Have fun. Yeah, have fun kicks and giggles. All right, you guys, I hope you have a fantastic rest of your Monday and a fantastic week. Go become the nurse God created you to be. You guys are the best. Seriously, like, we just. You guys are so great. Okay. All right.

All right. Talk to you guys on Wednesday.

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