HOW TO STUDY PHARMACOLOGY in Nursing School!

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Study pharmacology in nursing school. It's Christina, by the way. I'm Matthew. Christina's the nurse. I'm the not nurse.

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So in the pharmacology box we've got a bunch of awesome things. Yeah, we don't read paper towels. I don't know what those are there for. How to study pharmacology. So in the pharmacology box we have everything to help you study pharmacology in nursing school. So in this video, I wanted to walk through the step by step process for how to study pharmacology. And so we give you this process inside of the box, but I want to talk about it today as well and give you some really good tips to help you study pharm. And then I guess I can show you the box.

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And then we can't show really the secret surprises. There are secret surprises. But we will always show you surprises, the things that are not the secret. So we do have a medication reference guide for you. Do we have an open box?

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Okay. Medication reference guide. So this is going to walk you through exactly what you need to know for your clinicals when you're on the floor for your medications. So we have a guide contents guide in the front so you know where to find your medications and then you can flip through it to find them. So that's super, super handy for clinical.

And again, we'll be going over this more in depth and go through, through some tips and maybe go through some specific meds. So also throw down any meds that you might want to take a look at too. That might be fun.

And then medication, we have a medication badge card for you. So it has really like key points that you need to know for your medications at clinical. So you can put this on your badge card. I've got insulins and medication endings. And then we have a flashcard deck. Should I open this? I'm going to open this.

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So we have a deck of flashcards for you. So these are like, if you remember, there is a YouTube video that he did, I think last year on med cards. It's one of our more popular YouTube videos. People love that video.

Actually, I believe if you go to the, the homepage of our YouTube site. So YouTube.com nursingsos it's the pinned video right now. I was actually talking to you about that.

It is the pin video up there. So if you go to YouTube.com nursingsos you'll see that video right there. So if you have any questions on how create med cards, that is the video you want to watch if you want to create them yourself. Now if you don't want to create them yourself, no problem. We do it for you. So we have flashcards that have all the information that you need to know as you are studying in nursing school. So as you guys know, if you have been around here for two seconds, you have heard me say again and again and again, focus on learning the mechanism of action. Right. Of the medication. So medications, you'll see they all have a mechanism of action. Do you see that mechanism of action right there at the top? Oh, YouTube. Sorry, YouTube. It's clear on Instagram, I think. But YouTube's a little bit blurry. I'm sorry about that. But the mechanism of action is how does the medication act in the body? So you really need to. I'm just going to mess up all these on the flashcards, you have to understand how the medication acts in the body before you can understand everything else about it, like the side effects. Let me just take this. What's a good, like the side effects, the nursing assessment and considerations, patient education points that you need to teach your patient about. So, example, like insulin, right. If your patient is, is a. They are recently diagnosed with diabetes, then they might be on insulin if that's something that the doctor prescribes for them. So you have to do a lot of patient education around administration at home. Right. Because your patient is going to have to be doing that. So we have all of that stuff for you on the flashcards. But again, you know, we have our YouTube video on how to make med cards as well. But this is so helpful because you don't have to do it yourself. Let me do it for you in the beautiful flashcards. So there you go. So I want to walk through the. Okay, don't want to like, I'm gonna just gonna like keep this out because I am going to use it all. So also in the pharmacology box is the guide on how to study pharmacology step by step. So like I said, if you guys have been around for two seconds here, you know that we have our step by step guide on how to study farm. Like, we have a very, very simplified process of studying pharmacology. Simple is always good in nursing school. I love simple.

And before you do that, just quick tangent. Ashley from Instagram was asking. She did notice that there are specific colors. So on the flashcards, if you can see that. Yeah, yep. Different colors. Yes. They are specific to the system of whatever the med is for. So I think red is cardiac.

You know, you can kind of identify it based on endocrine, renal, gi, all this stuff. So all the body systems is broken up by color. And we do have it like in the med guide. And actually here. Oh, there you go.

Oh, there you go.

We have a key card for you. So it is broken up there. And you can, you can, you know, you know what flashcards you're looking at, what body system it's part of. So we make it super easy for you. Awesome. Perfect. All right, so the first step of our process is always, always, always make a list of the medications that you need to know. So you need to make a list of all the medications that you need to know. So, okay, here's what I would do in nursing school. Um, when you go to your clinical site, your patients are going to be On a gazillion medications, to put it nicely. There's a lot of medications that are given at clinical. Right. A lot of medications that you have to know. So what I would do that was really helpful for me is to write out the whole list of medications. And then I kept like a. It wasn't an Excel spreadsheet because I wasn't all that fancy, but it was a Word document that I put a table in. Okay? So it's like, it's like the non Excel.

I use Excel version.

I am not techie. I don't understand Excel. So I just listed it out in word on a table. Like, I created a table in Word or like Google Docs or whatever and created a table. So like medication name and one column, like the class and another column so you can make a list of your medications. So do it that way. Create a Word document, created Excel spreadsheet if you're fancy like that, and then put the medication in that first column and say, like, you know, this is the medication name. These are all the medications that I need to know for nursing school, for this clinical. And then what you're going to want to do is break them up by medication class. Now, this is where I think a lot of nursing students get kind of stuck, is the having to learn medications individually. And that is not what we want to do. So maybe you know this, maybe you don't. But if you learn medications individually, that's going to take you a whole lot of time. But if you can group them by pharmacologic class or therapeutic class, that way you can learn your medications by class and not individually. So every medication that is part of a medication class will all act the same or similarly in the body. So. So they basically will do the same thing, right? They have the same or similar mechanism of action. Okay. So when you look at a, you know, if you look at our flashcards inside the pharmacology box, if you look at, you know, your, your drug guide or, you know, our med guide, you know, they will all have the mechanism of action. So, so all medications have a mechanism of action. And medications, when they're all part of one class of drug, pharmacologic class, or therapeutic class, they will act the same or similarly in the body. So that means they have similar side effects. That means that you can assess for similar things. So let's say we're giving a cardiac medication. You know, you're going to want to assess their heart rate, pulse their blood pressure, right? If you're given a cardiac medication you want to assess those things. So if they're part of the same medication class, then they'll have similar things to assess for. They will have similar nursing considerations, similar patient education, all of that. So here's really what this does for you. This really will cut your study time down by a lot, really by a third or a quarter of the studying that you will have to do when you learn it in this way. So that is why we teach it that way. So instead of learning your medications individually, there's a gazillion of them. All of these we have here for you, 129 meds. Instead of learning them all individually, group them by class. So either pharmacologic or therapeutic class, group them in that way so that you can learn them all together rather than individually. And that is really, really, really going to save you a ton of time. So that is step number two, categorize them individually. Now, step number three, before we go.

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Yep. So number three, step number three is the mechanism of action. So learn the mechanism of action of the medication class. So like I said, when you are. Oh, I don't. When you are re. Oh, that's a good one. When you are learning pharmacology, you absolutely have to know the mechanism of action of the medication. Like we said, when you are learning it individually, it is such a waste of time because like I just said, There's. We have 129 medications here for you. 129. These are the medications you need to know in nursing school. And if you are going to learn 129 medications, you need a better way of doing that that does not take up 129 million hours.

Again, we want you to study more efficiently and smarter, not necessarily harder, if that will work. So that is one of the tricks tips that we have for you.

Absolutely. So when you are learning them, like we said, break up the medication by pharmacologic or therapeutic class. And then that class, that pharmacologic class or that therapeutic class will have a mechanism of action. It's going to be the mechanism of action of the class. So, for example, ferros of my furosemide I always use because pretty much everybody knows it where is. Okay, you find it.

Okay, I will find furosemide.

So furosemide or Lasix, you've probably heard it as Lasix, but it is furosemide is the generic name. So furosemide is a loop diuretic. It. The class is diuretics. And what do diuretics do? Well, diuretics kick out water and electrolytes. So fluid and electrolytes from the body like nobody's business. Okay. So that is what they do right here. And that's totally cool. So the mechanism of action. So that would be its mechanism of action, right? So diuretics kick out, you know, fluid in electrolytes, like gangbusters. So any diuretic medications that belong to. Well, diuretic medications belong to that class. You just know that that is what they do. They kick out fluid and electrolytes like nobody's business. So when you know that mechanism of action, do you then need to go through your whole list of diuretic meds to know what they do? No. So you don't, you know, you don't need to itemize them out and like, frozen my. Does this, like all the diuretics do this. You don't really need to do that because if you know that it's a diuretic and you know the. The mechanism of action of that class, you know that it cooks out two things, right? Fluid and electrolytes from the body like nobody's business. If you know that that's what it does, then you don't have to memorize it for each individual medication. Does this make sense? So, Ariel, perfect. You are studying antihypertensive medications, right? So what are anti hypertensive medications going to do? They're going to lower blood pressure. So if you have an anti. Diet. Antidiuretic. Sorry, anti hypertensive medication, you don't need to. Or if a list of antidiuretic medications, you don't have to memorize their mechanism of action individually. Right. You know, wait, hang on. This is an antidiuretic medication, or I keep saying antidiuretic.

Anti hypertensive.

Anti hypertensive medication. So I know automatically because it's an antihypertensive medication, it's going to lower blood pressure. Right. Does that make sense? So this is beautiful. Like, this is a fantastic way to study pharmacology, because how many. I mean, how many literally anti hypertensive meds do we have? A gazillion. Like, there's a ton of them all on the cardiac color red. So there are a ton that you need to know. So as. But as long as you know that it's antihypertensive, you know that it lowers blood pressure, there you go so nice and easy. So there you go. That is the process for that. And then, of course, step number four is to connect everything back to the mechanism of action. Okay, so, Ariel, I'm gonna blow your mind right here. You ready for ferrosamide? Let's keep jamming on furosemide, because it's the card that I have up. But furosemide being a diuretic. So diuretics do two things, right? Remember, kicks out fluid and kicks out electrolytes from the body like gangbusters. So when you look. When you know that mechanism of action and then you look at the side effects, you look at the nursing assessment and the considerations for it. What kind of side effects would you expect to see? Well, if we're getting rid of a ton of fluid from the body, we're going to expect the patient, perhaps. Well, a side effect to be dehydration. It's exactly what we see. We would expect a side effect to be all of the decreased electrolytes. Right. Oh, so hypotension, Right. Dehydration and hypotension. Hyponatremia, hypocalcemia, hypochloremia, hypokalemia. So it's just all the. The hypos, right?

Hypovolemia.

Yep. There you go. Fluid volume deficit. Boom. See, you guys are so on top of it. I love it. Lolly and Ariel, Fantastic. So hypotension, right? Decreased fluid volume, those things that happen with dehydration. If we're getting rid of all of that fluid and all those electrolytes, that's exactly where we're going to see hypotension. Then all the hypos. I just call it the hypos. You know, hypocalcemia, hypo, Hyponatremia, hypokalemia. All the things. So that is exactly. Exactly right. Lolly and Ariel, good job. Yes. Oh, and then, of course, you know, what are we going to assess for. For a medication that's a diuretic? Well, the biggest thing that comes to my mind is intake and output and daily weights. So we want to always make sure that we are assessing a patient's intake and an out. Intake and output. And then, you know, of course, assess their daily weights. We know the daily weight is the most sensitive indicator for fluid status, so we want to make sure that we are, of course, assessing those. So sweet. Everyone on board with that?

That's what it says right here. Cool.

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Oh, yeah. So, Ariel for you. For antihypertensives. Right. So if we know that we are giving a blood pressure medication like an antihypertensive, we know that the mechanism of action is to declare decrease their blood pressure. What in the world are we going to assess for blood pressure? Right, Right. So you've got to connect everything back to the mechanism of action. Okay? So make sure that as you are studying medications, you are not memorizing. Okay, so all of these. All. All of your medications. Right, All. Can I have a couple of them, please?

Okay. Which ones?

You? I don't know, any of them.

Gotta catch them all.

Gotta catch them all.

There you go.

So, I mean, look at all the. Look at the list of side effects. Like any. Any medication that you, you know, are trying to learn in nursing school will have a very long list. YouTube. Can you see that? I think it's. It's blurry on YouTube. I'm sorry. But Instagram, it's clear. Sorry about that. It's a long list. It's a long list of side effects. Right. I do not want you to memorize a list. That is not what we do here. What we do here is the critical thinking behind it. And how you do that is learning the mechanism of action of the drug class. So knowing what the medication does, learning what that class of medications does, and then connecting everything else back to that mechanism of action for the class. Okay, so literally, when you break your meds up by class, it will save. I will literally cut your study time by a third, maybe even a quarter. So. So helpful. Okay.

Just really quickly, Lolly. Understandable. You have a med surg exam tomorrow, so good luck.

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Okay, interesting. What is the time difference between here and there? That is a really great question. What time is it Ciscana in the United Kingdom right now? Tell me. You said it's morning. It's got to be pretty early morning. I think it's pretty early morning.

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Farm class yesterday and I don't think I clicked on this live fast enough. Awesome. How'd the first class go? And what questions do you have for us?

In the United Kingdom it's 3:26, 7:00am that's what I was thinking. Like it's gotta be so early. Wow. Why are you awake? Are you going to clinical? So yeah, in nursing school, I just remember, man, I was up, up so like at 3am, genuinely, 3am getting ready for clinical. Because it was about an hour drive and you had to be there at like 5:30 for pre conference. Right. Like, okay. What time do your clinical start? No.

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Med math help. Yes. So the dose calc box will absolutely help with that. And then we are going to do a live. I was just talking to a nursing student today, this morning about it. We are going to do a live video on dose calc as well to help you with that. But we are going through the steps for pharmacology and I do just have some other pharmacology tips that I want to share with you. Really? Of course. Like, I really, I really just want to drill this down, you guys. I really want all of you to hear me right now. Okay. Learn your medications by class, not individually.

I think that's probably your, your, your top thing. If you don't remember anything else about this live, remember that.

Yes.

Group your meds by class. It will save a lot of time.

And so much time. So much time. It will save you literally by a third or a quarter. Depending on how many meds you have and how nicely they fit into classes. So the medication class, either therapeutic or pharmacologic, the medications in that class will act the same or similarly in the body. So instead of learning them all individually, you can just learn them by class. Learn the mechanism of action for that class, and then you will know the mechanism of action for all the medications that are a part of that class. Like Ariel, before you were asking about hyper anti. Hypertensive medications. I do not know what is happening with my words tonight. I'm sorry, you guys, it's a little bit late. Diuretic medications we talked about. So, you know, these are the classes, right? The therapeutic classes. When you can group your medications by class and then learn them that way, it's just going to save you so much time rather than having to learn them all individually. Because seriously, how many antihypertensive medications are there? How many beta blockers are there? Right? How many diuretics? There's a lot of medications that fit into one class, but they all do the same thing, right? They all do very similar things. So then we're going to move on and talk about how does the mechanism of action relate to everything else. All right, guys, this is the critical thinking of nursing school. This is the critical thinking part that's really, really important. You are not going to be tested on how well you memorize a list of side effects. You're just not. You are going to be tested on how well you critically think through what that mechanism of action does. And then what side effects could potentially occur because of that mechanism, of what assessments you should probably do for that mechanism of action, how to give the medication, you know, what considerations you need to take into consideration. You know, all of those things. That is the critical thinking part. But it all stems from the mechanism of action. Okay, so tie it all back to the mechanism of action now. So that's like Matthew said, that is my big, like, if you don't take away anything else from this, live, take away that. Please, please, please group your medications by class, whether it be the pharmacologic class or the therapeutic class, what have you. Group them by class. Okay, now the second tip that I really want to talk about, because I think it's really, really cool, is side effects. Okay? So side effects, like we talked about already with furosemide, I use furosemide, Lasix, because most nursing students have heard of it before. When you just start nursing school, it's one of the first medications you usually learn because a lot of your Patients are going to be on it. So furosemide is a diuretic. Okay? It's a loop diuretic. It's going to kick out fluid and electrolytes from the body like nobody's business. Right? We said that earlier. So the side effects. If you are studying side effects in nursing school, I want you to be thinking about what would happen if the medication worked too well. Like if furosemide just went gangbusters and just worked way too well than we wanted it to, what would happen? And so if furosemide's mechanism of action is to kick out fluid and electrolytes from the body in massive quantities, then what would we expect to happen? If it worked too well, if it kicked fluid and electrolytes out of the body in massive, massive, massive quantities, really, what would you expect to happen that will be your side effects most often? Okay, so exactly what we'd see if you're kicking out a lot of fluid from the body, hypotension, dehydration, right? Patient doesn't have. You don't have fluid in your. Pulsing through your veins. You know, you're going to be hypotensive, low blood pressure, okay? Dehydrated. And then if you're kicking, if we're kicking out, if we're getting rid of a whole lot of electrolytes, we're going to see all those electrolyte levels drop, right? The hypos, I call, I call it the. I call them the hypos. The hypos of everything. So hypotension, hyponatremia, hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, hypochloremia, you're going to see all of those drop because we're getting rid of them via the medication. Okay? So side effects, when you learn side effects, when you think about side effects, connect them back to the mechanism of action. And also just keep in your mind what would happen if the medication worked too well. And that will oftentimes be the side effects that you will see. Huge, huge tips. Okay, so if you are just joining us right now, I know that a lot of you are just coming on. I see a lot of you joining on Instagram and YouTube right now. Please, please, please go back and re watch this live video just because I don't know if I've ever taught it in this way before. And I think this was really helpful. So I want, I just want to make sure that all you guys here right now, if you missed, if you missed me going through these steps, if you missed Some of the tips. Please please re watch this live video and take notes if you need to. Because I mean these like this is how you need to be studying pharmacology. I get so surprised that they don't teach it this way in nursing school. I did not learn this in nursing school. I came up with this myself. Like these steps is how I studied in nursing school. I created this process because it works. It worked for me, it works for our nursing SOS members. It, it works. So following these, these four steps, the step by step process for studying pharmacology is just going to save you so much time. I really wish they taught it this way in nursing school. So.

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Yeah, I think the cards help you kind of visualize it for sure.

Yeah. Let's see how much for the whole set. I think it's 129 for again the flat bars, the box.

So it comes with a guide and the medication reference guide. So this I didn't talk about too much but this medication reference guide is what you would take with you to clinical. So in your like drug guide, like your, your main textbook. Right, Drug guide, it has, it's going to have a ton of information in it. A lot of that information you might not need. So we have condensed it down to like the must know clinical info for you. Okay. In this medication reference guide, this is your clinical guide. So this is what you would take to clinical with you and then as well as the badge card. So you would put this just on your name badge and keep it with you as a reference. And then of course flashcards as you are studying at home. So there's 129 meds, 129 medication flashcards for you. So if you don't want to have to make right out, make and write out 129 med cards for yourself on your own. That's okay, you don't have to because I did it for you.

Susanna has a good point. We should try and get it on Amazon for the uk.

So yeah, I wonder how that works. I'm not sure.

We only ship to the US so.

That'S a great idea.

But yeah, we're looking at different options. So let's.

Yeah, we're gonna write that one down.

See that, that's my job as not a nurse is figuring out things to do as not a nurse. So there you go.

How to be helpful.

How to be helpful as not a nurse.

I think you're very, very helpful. I think you're very helpful.

Well, thank you.

So, okay, let me know if this was helpful for you. How to study pharmacology. We walked through the step by step process. Like I said. If you were just joining us right now. Please, please, please go back, rewatch this live. Watch the steps. Queen Carol, what comes in the pharmacology box? So of course you get the. Get the flashcards that we've been going over. There's 129 medications that we walk you through. And then the clinical guide, the medication reference guide. You'll get the step by step process. You'll get special surprises that I'm not going to talk about because of course we have special surprises for you. Get the badge card.

Oh, the badge card. I wanted to. It goes along with the grouping by class. But the meditation.

That's true. I didn't mention that. So we show you how to group your meds by class on the badge cards. Okay. So the badge card walks you through the medication endings so you can group your medications by class. Got it. All right, so that is what is in the box. While we are live on this video, you can get 10 off the box by entering the code live. L, I, V, E. Okay.

And Marina. Yeah, it does come in a box with it all together. We don't sell it separately. No. We don't package it all up together. So we have a couple. We have the two boxes. The farm box is what we're study or what we're focusing on. Now. If you go to a shop, you'll also see the dose calc box. So we put them in boxes because there's a lot of fun, exciting things in there. Jerson from Colombia.

It's 10:38pm 10:38. See? Yeah.

Very cool.

Yep. Closer time zone.

I still like hearing where everyone is. That. That is good. We should keep track of where everyone is. That'd be fun.

Yeah. I really, really like this. I don't know if we've ever asked that before. So I don't know. Does anybody here remember when we were doing lives about a year ago? Was anyone with us back then? Because that was so. I don't know if we actually ever.

Texas.

Texas. Miami. Hello. That's fantastic. I. Okay. I Love this. I don't know if. Yeah, I don't think we've ever asked that question before. Where are you? Yes, Queen Carol. We are going to save the Live. We'll save it both on YouTube and on Instagram. So check it out after saving sometimes. Okay, here's the thing. Sometimes Instagram can be a little. It has its moments. So the Live might not save or it might save. If it doesn't save, just check it on YouTube.

Definitely go to YouTube.

YouTube's a little more stable, but with.

Its personality, we'll try and get it up on Instagram. Usually it works.

I keep telling Matthew, I recorded some really fun, fun reels for Instagram. And then one day they just. Instagram deleted all of them, all of my drafts. And then, like a couple days later, they all came back and then they got deleted again and now they're back again. So it's like it happened like twice in a row. So it's like they. I recorded them, they got deleted, then they came back, then they got deleted again, and now they're back. So.

So, guys, if you haven't yet, be sure to follow Christina on Instagram too, because there's. There's a lot of fun, fun, exciting things there. She really likes doing the reels and stories. Also on Tick Tocks as well. I think we're. We're nursing sos. Official.

Official, Right. Yeah. Because someone else had nursing sos, which is kind of funny.

Boston, New York City. Minnesota.

Minnesota.

Yes.

Yes, yes.

Congrats and welcome everyone, to our channel.

Awesome.

Be sure and subscribe and hit the bell if you like what you're hearing.

Yes.

And also what else you guys want to talk about for future lives, too, and any other farm questions, too?

Yeah, we're at it. So, future Live videos, we have two topics that we need to talk about in the next, like, few days. So Dose Calc. We're definitely going to be talking about Dose Calc soon. And then we had a lot of questions last night about the nclex.

Oh, yes.

So the new NCLEX that's coming out, you guys have probably already heard about that, right? So we are going to be doing a whole live video on what the new NCLEX is going to look like. I'm going to give you tips for how to answer those types of questions. And okay, so here's the thing. I have a very different opinion about the nclex than a lot of other people. So I'm going to share that with you on the live when we go live on that topic. Okay, so. Oh, this is really great. So make sure that you follow along on Instagram and all my Instagram stories because usually, although I didn't do it today, but usually I'm pretty good at telling you when I'm going to go live on Instagram. Okay, so, so make sure to follow. Make sure to follow us on instagram @nicingsos and follow along with my stories because these are kind of fun.

They are kind of fun. Can you guys do video tips on med surge? So we did talk about. Yes, we, we will talk about med search a lot.

I can. Yeah, we can do a whole live on med surge. Yeah, I think that's a really good idea, Ariel, because I have. I just have so many tips. Like, you guys know me. Like, I'm just like overflowing with study tips for you for nursing school. Ariel, can you please tell me a quick question for you. What are you taking in your med surg one? What does med surg one mean to you? Because different schools do it differently. I actually did. I don't even think they called it Med Surg One. They called it something else like Nursing 201 or something. You know, it wasn't Med Surg One. So just let me know what are you covering, like topic wise in your Med Surg 1 class? Just because different schools call it all different things. I just want to make sure that I'm helping you as much as possible.

Also, another question for people while Ariel is getting back to us on that farm related. We asked this the other day, but we didn't ask it tonight. People that are taking farm, is it an individual class for you guys or is it broken up into. Yes, all your classes kind of like sprinkled in everywhere. Or is it a specific pharmacology class? Yeah, I'm curious. We asked that the other day and I want to know this group.

Does your school. Do you have. Do you have to take. Are you required to take a pharmacology class that is separate from all your other classes? Or is your pharmacology like coursework broken up between all of your semesters or terms in your nursing program? Because sometimes it goes both ways. Actually, a lot of students on the live that we asked that, I think most. Didn't most students say that they had a separate class?

Yes.

Yeah, I think most students said they had a separate class, but mine was not. Mine was not separate.

Okay.

Mine, you know, the first term we asked them why, like we asked our instructors, why is there no pharmacology class? And they said it. It's broken up all through the program. So we had to go through like our whole pharmacology book a little bit each term. And that was so frustrating because it's like you can't get away from it. Every single new term, you had a new section of that pharmacology and you just feel like crying all the time.

Let's see on YouTube. Mine is with pathophysiology. My university has a separate pharmacology class, so that's what we're hearing to. Mine chose a separate class a whole semester along with med surge.

Yeah.

Yes. Let's see. And Ariel, back to Ariel's question too. Let's see. Concept based Med surge. So instead of actual disease process, it's perfusion, skin integrity fluid, electrolytes.

Yes. Yeah. Concept based. So you're, you're. Yeah, so that, I mean, that's pretty much how most of them do it. So you're. You're learning all the concepts. Right? That is, that is really how nursing school is structured. Because they want you to what? We want to know how to critically think and so. Well, I mean, really, who's the nursing SOS member here? Like if you are a nursing SS member. I know I've seen a couple of you on YouTube, but I don't know if we, if I've seen any members pop up here on Instagram yet, actually. Oh, no, I did. Yes. Sorry. Yes, we do have some members on Instagram. So inside our membership community. That's why we teach it that way. We. We walk you through med surge. We walk you through fundamentals and it is concept based. So we walk you through the path though the signs and symptoms, the nursing assessment and the nursing interventions that we critically think through all of it. We walk you through the critical thinking for all of it so that you can pass your exams with, you know, with your nursing program. So most nursing programs are concept based in that way. Yes. Amber, I'm a member. Yes. Hand raised.

Hello.

I know we have some of you on Instagram too. Ciscana, you're a member too. Yay. Awesome. I'm so glad to see you guys on here. You are fantastic. Thanks for joining and love having you here.

You. You quickly mentioned those four things about med Surge, but Ariel, and on Instagram, someone was asking about med surgical. So we'll probably your next one.

We need to do a whole.

Yeah, we'll do a whole live. Just like how this live was mostly about pharmacolog. We'll do a whole life about med surg. And dive into those four things.

Yep.

And more detailed about tips on how to study med surg.

Absolutely. Yeah. Oh, I should mention for pharmacology because we have a lot of members on here. I know more of you guys are on YouTube than are on Instagram. I, I only saw maybe one or two of you guys on. I know who you are. You can't get away from me. So inside the nursing associates membership community, as you know, but just a reminder, we have a whole medication database for you. So just go log into your dashboard. If you are struggling at all with learning pharmacology, just let me teach it to you. You do not have to be confused or overwhelmed about it. If you are a Nursing Assist member, log into your dashboard, click on the pharmacology course that we have for you in there and we walk you through all your meds step by step. We, you know, we help you with the critical thinking, you know, connecting things back to the mechanism of action. Like we do that for you. Like we walk you through it. So just make sure if you're a nursing SMS member, check that out. It's inside the pharmacology course in your dashboard. There you go.

Yeah. So I, I think our next ones will be our, our Med Surge Live. What do we want to.

Yes. Okay, just follow me on Instagram please, because for us, unfortunately right now in this time of our life, we have littles and it's kind of hard to really pinpoint exactly when we're going to be live because sometimes, you know, little kids need you at the time that you planned to go on live video. So that's why we do it at night. So follow me on Instagram because I will usually post on stories that we're going to go live. So just follow all my stories on instagram @nicingsos and you will get. Well, I don't think you, you won't get notified on Instagram. But just follow along with my stories and I'll let you know when we're going live and what the, probably even what the topic's going to be about because we will have, we're going to talk about Med surge pretty soon, probably our next one. Let's talk about med surge on our next one. We'll talk about dose Calc soon. We're going to talk about nclex soon, the new nclex as well. So those are, those are I think, really the three topics that we're going to have coming up pretty soon.

Jennifer, hello, welcome.

Hi, Jennifer from Vegas.

Vegas, desperately looking for clarity on my farm med cards. So that's what these are.

Yep. There you go.

So again, right now, while we're live, if you go ahead and go to nursingsos.com shop, we have our whole pharmacology box that has these for you. If you want to take a look at those and see if those will help you use code LIVE for 10 off for the whole box.

Okay. I'm gonna take out the secret surprises. So, yeah, you will get the box with like, it comes with the flashcards. So, like, this will be packed with goodies for you, which is so exciting. So flashcards. We've got the medication reference guide for you.

Has all the medications.

Clinical, your badge card with, you know, key points and things that you have to know for clinical. So you will have this on your badge, your name badge, and then you'll get the step by step guide and some secret surprises as well. All right, so what course is that? Oh, our nursing SOS membership community. That is that. So it's the pharmacology course inside of our nursing SOS membership community. So we have a subscription membership. As you know, that's what we do. So we teach nursing students. Hello, my name is Christina and I teach nursing students. If you are new to our world, we have. It's called the Nursing SOS membership community. So we have. I mean, we have helped thousands of nursing students.

We have a bunch of people on right now, part of our members.

Hello. We have helped thousands of nursing students through our nursing SOS membership community, help you pass nursing school. So if you do not want to, you know, just sit in a class and be confused about what your instructor is teaching and leave class feeling even more confused than when you went in. You can just come home, watch a video of me teaching it to you, and I will walk you through what you need to know for nursing school step by step. It is that easy. So insider Nursing SS Membership community. We have a whole library of, you know, like we said, pharmacology videos, but we also have med surg videos, fundamentals videos, mental health, critical care, like, all the things. So.

So our community is really the one that Christina walks you through. Yeah, Nursing by step, all together. There's a bunch of people in there in our private Facebook group. We have a lot of fun and help each other out.

So if you want me to hold your hand through nursing school, that's where you want to go.

If you are interested in that. It is closed right now, but we do open it a couple times a year. So go ahead and go to nursing school. Success.com join.

Yep.

Nursing school of success.com join to join the wait list and you'll be the first to know when it opens up again.

Yes, we, we do keep enrollment closed for the vast majority of the year simply because one reason, I like to focus my time on helping our members. So I don't want. I. I don't want. I want to make sure that I'm not splitting my time between, like, trying to, you know, get new students in the door and keeping our member or helping our members pass nursing school. That's not what we do. So when you are a nursing SOS member, like, we literally, we help you so much. Like, you have access to our nursing team to ask questions. It's incredible. Like, it is amazing how much value you get from our nursing associates membership community because we literally walk you through nursing school step by step. We are holding your hand through the whole thing. So we, that's what we like to do. So we don't keep it open for the whole year. We actually only open enrollment for one week at a time. Just a couple times during the year. So make sure that you get on the wait list to be the first to know when enrollment opens. And then, of course, we will be talking about it on the lives. I'm sure we do this. And so you'll know, you. You'll know when enrollment opens if you follow us on Instagram. Tick tock. I love Tick tock. So just follow us in all the places and then you'll know when enrollment will open again. Yeah.

Hey, Sando, Congrats. Yay. We'll ship it out. It's kind of night time here, so we'll ship it out in the morning and.

Okay, so Sandal, you got the box? Okay, so sorry, sorry.

We're kind of switching, so. Yes, the box. The orders that we get tonight since it's nighttime. And the post office probably sleeping.

The post office is closed.

Yeah, they're closed for business.

I will drop it off tomorrow.

And they usually get there in like two to three days, depending on where you are in the domestic us.

Yes, I will. Awesome. So you got the farm box and the doc box. So I am per. I am so excited for you. I love these boxes. Okay. And that dose calc box. You guys didn't see what's inside. Maybe we'll talk about that sometime because it is fantastic. I love that box too. So you're going to be so excited. I'm so excited for you. So I will drop that off at the Post office tomorrow. So, you know, if you guys ordered a box tonight, I will drop it off tomorrow. Don't worry. And usually the post office takes like two to three days to get it. It's pretty quick, which is quick. Really, really nice. Yeah. All righty. So that is pharmacology. Next live that we do. We are going to talk about med surgical.

Med surge. I think that that is the topic of the day or next topic. So med surge.

Amber, definitely worth it if you can become a member. Yes, I, I, it is amazing, like, what our members say about our community. Like, they love it. It is fantastic. It makes me so happy and it keeps me motivated to keep, you know, obviously helping you. This is what we do. So I love to be as helpful as possible. So thank you guys so much for joining us tonight. Just a couple minutes left. I know we have a lot of people on coming on, so I'm gonna say it one more time. But we did talk about our pharmacology box tonight with the flashcards. The medication reference guide, your clinical guide. Secret surprises that I keep having to move out of the way because I'm not going to show them to you, but you get secret surprises.

Badgie card. Again, not a nurse. I don't actually know where this goes, but it's pretty cool. You can, you can carry it around with you if that's, that's what nurses do. I don't know.

But if you order it while we are on this live and until Matthew goes from here to his computer to turn it off, you will get 10 off your box if you order right now with the code. A coupon code live. So L I V E. Okay. L I V E. So use that coupon code. Go to nursing sos.com forward/shop and coupon code. L I V E. You can buy the farm box and the dose calc box. You will get 10 off. Off your whole order while we're like. But just while we're live.

Yeah. And people were asking how much it was. I looked it up. The farm box is 129 and 10 off that. I'm not gonna do the math because I'm not a nurse, nor am I anything else.

You are so good at math.

So I am just here smiling.

He lies. He is so good at math. Cool. All right. So I hope that that helps you guys. Like I said before, if you were just joining us, please, please, please go back. Re watch this live. Okay. Go back. Re, re watch this live video because I walked through all of the tips for you that really, really, really going to help you. Really, really, really.

I do the maths. You do the maths for me. I appreciate it.

You're awesome. Yes. That's so funny. That's great. Tried to order, but it won't allow you to put in your brother's address. It's probably like a billing address issue. Just so if you have any issues with the order form, just make sure that the billing address for the card is. Is the billing address of the card. So that's usually what happens is that it's the wrong zip code or something. So just make sure that the address is correct, the one that's attached the card. So I hope that helps. Yes, Marina, sorry about that. But now it has to like be the, the right zip code and everything, so. Okay, you guys, thank you so much. The next live video, we are going to talk about med surge. So follow me on Instagram. I will tell you when we're going live. And let's do it. Let's jam on med Search next time.

Again, we are doing more lives, so be sure to subscribe and hit the Bell on YouTube. Follow us on Instagram. Scott, especially, like I said, I've been capturing all these questions that we can't get to. And Scott, I like your question. We just can't get to it right now. So I have copied that on subscribe. Hit the bell. Join us for future lives and we'll get to that. That's a really good topic. That will help a lot of people for sure. So thank you for asking that and we will, we'll get to more of your questions and help you guys out. So thank you very much.

All right, you guys, we will see you next time.

Take care, guys.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye, Instagram and Bye, YouTube. See you later.