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So. So how hard is biology? Depends on how good you are at biology I suppose. I did not like biology. It was not my favorite thing.

Hello. Yeah. So biology, that's usually a prereq, correct?

Correct.

Correct. All right. Are you in pre nursing? Getting ready for nursing school. Where are you at with that? In biology?

How can I pass my nclex please. We're going to talk about NCLEX today and you guys talking. Today's the NCLEX video, right? Yes, today's on the YouTube channel. Today Matthew will be posting an entire video about the nclex yet it's a.

Pretty me media video so I edited it yesterday.

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Pretty. Pretty cool. Yeah, it's a good video so definitely do that. I am planning on taking my nclex. Good.

Woohoo. Yeah, we have several nclex questions.

Nclex questions. We will be doing that.

India, New York. Yes, there was someone from New York earlier.

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Welcome friends. Okay, so.

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Richmond, Virginia. Hello. Richmond, Virginia. Sorry I missed you. Yeah. Okay. There we go.

So let's see. We're talking about nclex. I need study tips while in nursing. So just general study tips. Or anything specifically about study tips, let us know. We are also probably going to talk about what fundamentals.

Yeah, fundamentals.

Fluid electrolytes.

Fluids and electrolytes. Med surg. These are all the questions that we got in from last week that we weren't able to cover on last week's show. So first question that we have, can you explain comorbidities? Now, you guys, comorbidities are very, very important to understand in nursing school because that just means that the patient has multiple things going on at the same time. So let's say that they have a med surgery disorder, but they also have a psychiatric disorder or they have two med surgery disorders like diabetes and hypertension or stroke and hypertension. You know, like they, they have multiple things going on with them. So it's important to know for your critical thinking skills, you don't want to learn things in isolation. When you are learning med surge, when you are learning fluids and electrolytes, man, especially fluids and electrolytes. Like when you're thinking of any of these disorders, you want to be thinking of them as how they relate to other things. So when you're, when you're talking about diabetes, okay, how is that affecting their fluid and electrolyte status? Okay, when they have a stroke, how is that affecting their heart, their blood pressure, obviously, if. And their neurological status too, like intracranial pressure and all of that. You, it's, it's difficult to learn things in isolation and pass your exams because what happens is you're going to get case scenario questions. You're going to have to be critically thinking about these things. So you have to understand, like we always say, like, follow our four core method. That's inside our membership community. Okay? Follow the four core method. That's insider nursing as membership community because that's going to walk you through how to study, like, literally, like what to focus on. For med surg, for fluids and electrolytes, for fundamentals, all of it, it starts with the pathophysiology. You have to understand what is actually happening. So simply be from last week, can you explain comorbidities? So comorbidities just means that there are two things or more happening at the same time. So the patient has like a lot of disorders at the same time. Maybe not a lot, but, but multiple, you know, and often, like, who doesn't really these days? So like when you're, when you're especially in a hospital setting, like most often your patients are going to have multiple things going on. Okay. So it's very important to understand the patho behind all that.

Yeah. So comorbidity is co. Multiple. What are. With morbidities, whatever. So. Yep, multiple things. Actually, it's kind of funny. We were just Talking about the YouTube video that is going to be posted up today is about the nclex and there is something that you mentioned about comorbidities and nclex and answering NCLEX questions or NCLEX tips.

Oh, yeah.

In that. So I just found that interesting. Interesting because that was just on top of my mind because I just heard.

It because I just edited it.

So definitely take a look at that.

John. Hello. On Instagram, our YouTube is nursing sos. So go to our YouTube channel. We're live on YouTube as well. Hello, YouTube.

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Amy, you posted a comment, right? I saw.

I thought I saw that.

I think I saw that come through. Yes, I. I think what you're. Okay. If I'm not mistaken, maybe I need to go look at that video again. But I think maybe there's a typo in there. But I think what you're talking about is. Is total parenteral nutrition tpn. Oh, am I. Is that. Am I. Am I wrong? I just. That's like. When I saw your comment there, I'm like, I'm pretty sure it should be TPM and not T. T. T. Sorry. TPN and not tmp. Maybe there's a typo.

Maybe I made the typo.

We're gonna.

That is that.

We're gonna look at that, Amy. But thank you for bringing that up. Okay. But yes, tpn. I'll have another look and see. Thank you. Yeah, I'm assuming it's tpn. It pro. It should be tpn. I think. I can't think of like off the top of my head right now, like tmp. I can't. Especially for colitis. Perfect. Can't wait for that. Yes. Eccentric. And I'm so glad you're here. Hello. Yes, we have that nclex today, which is very exciting and that's fun. Hey, you know what, you guys? We are trying to post more shorts on our YouTube channel because. Fun.

Do you guys watch shorts? Let's. Let's. Let's just ask that and throw that out there. Do you guys watch shorts on YouTube? Yeah, I want to know because I do not, but they probably don't either. And I'm wondering if that would be helpful for you guys. Little tips and little what? Nursing school nuggets.

I don't know, nursing school nugget. And so what I'm trying to do on shorts is like condense the information in very. In like 30 seconds. And I think that's helpful, right? Like, it's helpful especially when we take like these big nursing school concepts. And if I like, I'm really challenging myself to like break it down into 30 seconds for you, which I think is really nice. So if you guys want to check out our YouTube channel, we are going to start posting more shorts. Actually, Matthew just, we're going to post different ones this week. So just stay tuned. Like the ones coming are like edited by Matthew. They're really cool.

Yeah. So yeah, we're trying different things. So let us know in the comments what will help you. Extensions, everything and anything will help. Okay, well that's. That is good.

So the first try new things we have coming. Our finals. Right? How to study for finals.

Yeah. So last week on YouTube we posted a video about finals.

If you have not looked at that.

Go check that out. Well, we are also going to post some shorts with just some quick tips if you don't have the time to watch the whole YouTube video.

Yep.

But we will do that.

Yes. Next gen we're going to be talking. Okay. I'm in our. In today's YouTube video over the NCLEX piece. Did I say that right? We're talking about the next gen nclex. I'm going to walk through some of the changes with it and, and everything that I talk about in today's video on the NCLEX that we're going to post on YouTube applies to next gen. Okay. Next gen is a huge thing. Like if you guys haven't heard, everyone's heard. The NCLEX just changed. It's totally fine. Like, don't freak out about it. Okay. All right. It's totally fine. Just make sure that you are following the tips in that. In that video that we're going to post this afternoon, this morning sometime. If you're on an email list, I'll give you an email about it.

Yep, yep.

It's gonna be good.

So yeah, we'll definitely take a look at that. So yeah, be on the lookout for that. But short sounds pretty cool. I'm not sure if people watch them, but it sounds like people do. So if it will help you, let us know in the comments that it would. Will help you and what you'd like to see there. Philamine. Guys, I've asked you about nursing interventions to malaria. So we are talking about.

Thanks, Vanessa.

We're going to be talking about probably med Surg and R Core 4 and basically a little higher level on how to critically think. So that we don't tell you just the answers for one specific disorder. Right. Because that will just help you for malaria. But we want to give you the tools to be able to critically think about nursing in general and nursing school in general to help you out with all the disorders that you might encounter. So stick around. We are talking about med search. We are going to be talking about NCLEX and some fluid, electrolytes, fundamentals. All that will come together.

Yes.

In a mesh. So stick around just for a little bit. Yes. And thank you, Vanessa.

And we can do that first. Actually, we can talk. I could jam on med surgery.

All right. First, does that sound good?

That's cool with you?

That's fine with me. If that's fine with you guys, let us know. Shoot up an emoji. We'll talk about med surge. And then nclex. Let us know if that order works for you in five seconds or else we're just gonna go with it.

Four, three, two, one.

All right, we're going to talk about med search.

So philamine, actually, what I want you to do, can you go on our Instagram and find, uh, I just posted a study guide this morning. Just post in the comments on that study guide that you're hoping to see. A study guide on malaria. Okay. And then we will add it to our list. So that's how to get your recommendation in. Because. Because our team will go through that and then we have a list. So definitely post there on our. On our Instagram. You know, find that study guide post that I just posted this morning. Then just comment and say that you want one for malaria and we can add that to our list. But you guys. So when you are studying. I just posted about this on Instagram, which is so cool. So you guys go like, look at that. It's very, very important that you focus on the pathophysiology and critical thinking especially. You guys have so many questions about the next gen, right? Like the next gen N class, the ngn. It's all like, it's. They. They changed it so that it's more like real life. You actually get to click through a patient's chart. You get lots of case studies and stuff. I mean, they didn't change the entire test, but they changed a good portion of it to make it be more case study based and patient scenario based. And so you have to make sure that you are, like we said at the beginning, not learning things in isolation. You want to make sure that you're connecting the signs and symptoms, the nursing assessment and the nursing interventions back to the pathophysiology. Okay. You have to understand what is actually happening with this disorder so that you can critically think through the signs and symptoms. Because what's going to happen now on the next gen and the NGN is that you. You're going to get questions that are. You click through a patient's chart and then they say, what would be your priority nursing intervention for this patient? What would be the signs and symptoms you would expect to see? Like, those things, Those are critical thinking questions. And you have to be able to apply what you know. Like, here's the problem. If you are just doing flashcards and if you are just, you know, trying to memorize stuff out of a textbook or a random YouTube video that you saw, it's not going to be helpful when you get to the NGN because. Or when you get to your nursing school exams. Right? Because it's. It's all those critical thinking questions. If you are just memorizing lists of signs and symptoms or memorizing lists of assessments to do or nursing interventions to do, like, that's not helpful for you. Okay? We have to get out of this mindset. I know a lot of you guys are in biology right now or chemistry or microbiology, all of that, your prereqs, that is memorization. Nursing school, like your core nursing classes. When you start fundamentals, when you start med series, you have to start making that leap to critical thinking. That's how you're going to pass. Like, that is how it works. So it's very, very important that you do that so that you really can pass your exams, go in more confident and more prepared. Right? Like this, this next gen is changing a lot. So.

So specifically filomena for malaria, right? You're asking for what are the nursing interventions of malaria?

Yeah.

Instead of giving you just a list that's probably not a complete list even of all the nursing interventions that you could do, the better thing to do is start from the beginning. What is the pathophysiology of malaria? What is going on in the body when someone has malaria? What's wrong? Right?

Yep. It all starts with the pathos.

So what's the path? And then basically from that path, okay, now that I know what is wrong, what are the signs and symptoms? Because that's what's wrong. These are the things that we'll. We'll see. And now with those signs and symptoms, how do I, how do I assess for it and how do I. What are the interventions that I'm supposed to do in order to address those signs and symptoms that is coming out of the pathophysiology?

Yes, 100% it really? And you guys, if you're a nursing us members, we have a lot of members on. So make sure that you go through, make the study plan that we have for you inside the community. Like make that study plan go through our study frameworks.

Right?

The four core method, the DRC critical thinking model, the FARM four method. We help you understand what to study, we tell you exactly what to focus your study time on, we tell you exactly how to learn pharmacology faster. We tell you exactly how to critically think. It's all inside the community for you. So watch those videos. Make your study plan, which we walk you through inside the community. And that's really going to help you. So this four core method that we're talking about for med surge, for fluids and electrolytes, four fundamentals, it all is, it's all about critical thinking. Yeah. Okay. And this like for fluids and electrolytes. That was a big question last week. Fluids and electrolytes is no different because you have to understand what is the pathophysiology behind hyperkalemia? Why is it happening? Why is hypernatremia happening? You have to understand what's going on in the body so that you can then understand what the signs and symptoms might be, what the nursing assessment would be, what the nursing interventions would be. But all starts with that patho.

Another question we had last week was involving pediatrics and what happens with different pediatric disorders. Guess what? It's all the same. It's the same thing. The first thing you look at is what is wrong in the body, what's the pathophysiology of whatever it is disorder you're looking at now. Vanessa, you're asking a kind of tangent question. Do you have videos on chemistry and biology at this point? We, we do not have like the prereqs or the pre nursing things. We have path, we have patho videos. But chemistry and bio, we do not.

No, we help with your core nursing classes. So when you get accepted into nursing school, you're starting your core nursing classes. Fundamentals, nursing assessment, nursing process classes, med surg, all of that. Critical care, pediatrics, ob, mental health, all of those things. That is what we help students with.

Again with chemistry and biology. That could be a little bit more on the rote memorization. You do want to make sure that you have a solid understanding of chemistry and biology, because that is really important moving into nursing school and moving into your. Your core nursing classes. So definitely focus on, on chem and bio and make sure that you understand those mechanisms so that when you start critically thinking, when you start thinking about the pathophysiology, you can. You know what's right. So you know what's wrong.

Yes. And that's exactly why we start that way.

Right.

That's exactly why you have to do your prereqs, because you have to understand what is normal before you can get to nursing school and understand what is abnormal. Right. Like, those are very important things. You have to understand what is actually happening in the body with that silly Krebs cycle that they test you on a thousand times. You know, all of that. Like, you have to know what's normal with going on with ATP and all the things until you get to nursing school. And then you can learn, like, what happens when it all goes crazy and wonky. Right. So, Vanessa, that's a good thing to know is that. That a lot of chemistry, a lot of biology. So it's going to be a lot of memorization. Like, you really just have to memorize that because it's not like you're not applying it to a real patient. It's like this is just normally what happens. You know, it's kind of funny.

Yeah. But definitely keep that in the back of your mind to really keep that in your back pocket and learn moving towards that critical thinking on things. And that leads to Christina's question. Actually, I work at a hospital, so are you just starting nursing school? Should I start following RNs around and have them explain the process to me on how they. On how they would critically think? If this is such a.

Now, Christina, remind me where you are in your program, because, I mean, you could, like, you could. It's just. It's more helpful if you have a knowledge base already. So remind me where you are in your program, because if you're in like med surg. Yeah, absolutely. Do that.

Yeah.

And do that every day. If you are in fundamentals, it might just be a little overwhelming. Yeah. Second semester, it might be a little overwhelming for you if you are not in med surg yet. Because it's not going to make sense. That's the thing. Like, it's. It's not really going to make sense because you don't have the, the base knowledge that you need for it to make sense. Does that make sense? So you can't critically think if you don't know what the. Like, if you don't have the base knowledge, does that make. Yeah, does that make sense? Christina? Okay, good. I'm glad. I'm glad that helped. Vanessa. I was just accepted in the nursing program here in Texas. I had no idea that bio and chem were merged into the program. I'm assuming it's a BSN program, Vanessa, because. Yeah, that, that is what happens oftentimes. So when you are in like biology, chemistry, microbiology and stuff, you will also be taking a fundamentals class or you'll also be taking your nursing process class as well. That's pretty common. So. Yes, yeah, exactly. So, yeah, BSN program. So that is typically how it goes. Which is a good thing because when you are in your nursing fundamentals class or when you're in your nursing process class or your nursing process or nursing assessment class is what I should say. It's helpful when you're going through biology at the same time. Because in your nursing process, nursing assessment class and nursing process class, let's say when you're learning how to assess a patient, you're learning what is normal. So you can learn those two things at the same time. It just makes more sense that way. So. Yeah. So in BSN programs for Vanessa and I were just talking about, it's merged. So biology, you often take biology, you often take chemistry, you often take microbiology with your nursing assessment class. Yep.

Yeah. So I, I don't know what you guys talked about because I just came back, but I think my 2 cents on that is. Yeah, just, just remember to, to move. Move towards the critical thinking. Move towards how that applies to other things.

Yes.

Yeah. And that will be great.

Yep. For the nclex. You guys like this? I mean, this all goes into the engine, right? Critical thinking all goes into the engine because it's just, it's all critical thinking. Right. So make sure. This is why this is so important. You have to actually make that leap to critical thinking. Make sure that you are actually doing it and that you know how it works. Okay. That you're familiar with case studies. Actually, we have a case study video on YouTube, don't we? It's like case scenarios or case studies, like how to answer case study questions. We have that video on YouTube. Go check it out. Like, go to our YouTube channel, you guys, if you are confused about studying in any capacity, like, we've probably got a video for you.

Probably.

Have a fun YouTube channel. Dose, calc, pharmacology, Med, Surge, fundamentals, all the things. Yeah, Got it all there to help you just the point. So yeah, med surge. Nclex. Nclex is very, very heavy especially now moving forward with the ngn. Very heavy on case scenario questions, priority questions, select all the apply questions. We're going to talk about the kind of, some of the changes that they made. So in today's video that's going up on YouTube today. Okay, we're going to talk about those changes. I'm going to walk you through how to answer priority questions. What else, how to.

Yeah, so it's interesting how you break it up. It's, it's, it's really a good way that you broke it up actually on this, on this video. It's actually broken up kind of into two parts. One is some, some general rules to follow.

Yes.

In order to really answered nclex questions. So these are general rules to look out for. And then after that the second half is some tips on if you don't exactly know what to do. Some tips on, on finding the right answer as well. So yeah, it's, it's really good on a good overview on what to expect and how to answer NCLEX practice questions and, and get ready for, for it.

It might be one of the best NFL X videos we have. It's quite, it's a, it's a little, it's beefy like it's a beefy video that we're posting today. So just make sure that you check that out later today. Like Matthew said, I walk you through some really critical rules that you need to like remember when you are taking the nclex like if you break these rules you're going to get these questions wrong. Okay. So like make sure that you are following those NCLEX rules and then we give you, just like Matthew said, we give you those test taking strategies to make sure that you are thinking through the questions, that you understand the strategy behind the questions so that you can pick the best answer, the most correct answer even if you're not entirely sure what that correct answer is. So that video will be very, very helpful for you. Like I said like priority questions, case scenario questions, SATA questions, all of the stuff that they throw at you. Those are very common. So we talk about all that in today's video. So we're not going to cover it here just because we have that video posting in like a couple of hours. So make sure you just check that out. Okay. Matthew, you did mention pediatrics when we were talking about med surgery because those are very similar. So just know you guys, I Know that it's funny. This is kind of what happens when you get into a new term in nursing school and you're taking like psychiatric or psychiatric mental health or critical care or pediatrics. Like our brains kind of freak out and tell us that we need a completely new study strategy in order to pass. And sure, while some things we might tweak a little bit, like we do this a lot, insider community, like students will come to us and we'll go back and forth like, okay, how can we optimize your study, study plan? Okay, so we help you do that inside the community. But by and large, like the, the biggest thing to remember is that once you understand our four core method, you are just going to do so much better in nursing school than everyone else in your class. Like that four core method that we teach inside the community, making sure that you know exactly what to study, what to focus your study time on. Like that is what you need to do. And like we talked about at the beginning of this video of this live, it starts with that patho and it is all about critical thinking. So when you are in pediatrics, any of the pediatric disorders, you guys, like, it's not different, it's not different than med surg. It's not different than critical care, it's not different than mental health. Okay? You, you basically are taking the same study strategies and now we're just going to optimize it for a different course, like a different class. Okay? So any pediatric disorder, let's say you're learning about, I don't know, appendicitis, pretty common pediatric disorder, epiglottitis, tetral allergy of fallow, you know, or VSD or asd, any of the congenital cardiac disorders, anything like that. Like those follow the same structure like any disorder. You could say the same thing for OB and labor and delivery, okay? Any like placenta previa or, or gestational diabetes or preeclampsia, like it's all disorders. It all follows that same structure, that same four core method of studying. So make sure that you are following that so that you can actually learn more effectively, more efficiently is so important. So don't think that like because you started a new term that you now have to throw your entire study plan out the window. That's not the case, okay? Med surge, fluids and electrolytes and fundamentals, the fundamental disorders that you learn about anything in OB with disorders, pediatrics or critical care, like it's all, it's all the same, okay? So don't freak yourself out that you Need a brand new study strategy because you do, you have, you have the basics, like, you know, you know how to do this. All right. Now we just need to optimize it.

Yeah. So that's what's really helpful about the nursing SOS membership community is that we, we do have these frameworks available and that's really what they are. They're frameworks that you put your study, or you build your studying around. That really, it is the core, it's the basis, it's the, the, it's the foundation. Yes. Are there special scenarios or a little like, like Christina says, some tweaks maybe, but the core, the, the, the framework stays the same.

Yeah.

So that is great.

And we have so many students. I mean, it's so fun to see our members like use these frameworks. Like man, our, our farm for our four core DRC critical D model. Like we had a student who had messaged us following the four core method. It's like, I can't even believe, like it's, it's once you know it, like once you get it, it's like everything makes sense. And that farm for man, it's like you guys, like, you realize, right, you guys, you do not have to spend a thousand hours studying pharmacology. You don't. So it's these frameworks that we have inside the community study frameworks that we teach. They are so, so important to know in nursing school if you want to learn things faster and not burn yourself out like, it is just, they're like necessary, they're necessary to know, they're necessary to follow. Hello, Nehru. Good morning.

Good morning. Josie listening from the uk.

Hello.

How the UK nowadays? I guess. How's the weather over there? What about supporting patients with behavior change? That actually piqued my interest. Did you have anything more specific about, about that? And tough one. It is, it is a tough one.

It depends on what specialty you're in. Because like if, if you're in a hospital setting, like you get your patients for like a day, it's about it, you know, maybe two if they're not discharged by the time you come back, you know, it's just, they're, they're in there for such a short time. Time really what you do is education as much as you can when you're with them. And then it's just like it's on them, you know. I really like community nursing for that reason because I like being more proactive with people I do. Like, I, I tend to be more like coaching, you know, and I kind of. I kind of default that way, I guess would be. Would be my kind of demeanor. And so, like, for me, like community health nursing just fits a lot better than, you know, someone coming in and needing, you know, immediate help, and then we just send them on their way. I like being more proactive.

So I have a PowerPoint presentation to give around behavior change for a patient. I have chosen asthma. So behavior change, that falls under nursing interventions.

Nursing interventions, yes.

Yes.

Which would be the education.

Yeah. What are the educational things that you can provide. Provide someone with asthma? So again, we're talking about our core four or four core. Or just driving back to the pathophysiology. What is the pathophysiology of asthma? Right. And if that. What's going wrong with someone with asthma? And if that's the case, what behavior changes will they have to make so that it's not exacerbating those. Those things?

Yes. And it's very important, you guys, that when you. When we talk about patient education, this is why the four core method is so important, because it also plays into patient education. You. The patient also has to understand. So just you remember this. The patient has to understand what is actually happening. Okay. So, like, they have to understand what's happening in their lungs with asthma. You know, it starts there. If they don't understand what's happening, then they're going to be less compliant with any interventions that you give them. Right.

And this is actually a really good point. And probably why they're asking you to make this kind of presentation is so that you can learn to describe and to explain it to a layperson, which is one of the core things we suggest when learning your disorders. When learning something is explain it to someone else as if they don't have any background in nursing, as if they are a layperson. Because getting you to be able to describe that asthma, for example, describe what's going on in the body in a way that a layperson can understand. That means that you understand it as well. So that's probably a core thing that they're trying to get out too. So, yes, compliance really follows that they understand what's going on.

I just graduated adn. Yay.

Congratulations. Yes, I. I think that's a very good point about behavior change. And make sure that they understand what's going on so that they understand the importance of the changes that you're suggesting for the behavior.

Absolutely. I think. And that's actually in a. There's a lot of different. Different things that a program can throw at you to do that critical thinking. Like, for us, we had some, like, research papers and stuff where we did have to connect the path and physiology to all these things. It sounds like for you, like, this is, like Matthew said, a really good way to do it. So just, just keep those things in mind. Josie, as you're writing your paper or, sorry, writing your presentation and presenting that you are, you know, that is probably a key thing that they're looking for. I think Matthew's right to make sure that, that you really can, you know, apply what you know. Yep.

Anissa, I have adhd, which is a good way to organize myself.

Yes. So anything like that. Where is that? Sorry, why am I not seeing that? Oh, okay. Okay. What is a good way to organize myself for school with anything like that, where you actually have like a diagnosed something, you know, whether it be anxiety, whether it be adhd, whether it be autism, what have you, it's going to be very personalized. Very personalized. You do have to really know yourself because what works for someone with ADHD is not. It might not work for. For you. So you really have to understand, like, how your specific brain works and what, what is the thing for you that will help you. Like I could say all the tips that I have, but you are going to need to take them and leave them, depending on what works best for you personally. Okay. Leslie, I will start a nursing program in the fall. The program is partnering with local hospitals to retain nurses. They are giving you a full scholarship in terms of 4,000 hours in the course of three years. That's awesome. While in the two nursing school. While in the two nursing school and a year of apprenticeship after receiving the nursing degree. They choose hospital and unit. Should I take it? Depends on your goals. I would not have, because hospital is not my thing. I'm not going to work. I'm. I'm not going to have them choose the floor that I'm on for three years. So, like, for me personally, no, that's a hard pass. But for someone else, you know, if you're interested in, like, if you're. If you just don't care, that's great. Like, there's like. Sure, I would totally do that if you especially. Okay, here's a big thing. We don't talk about this very often, but, like a core thing for Matthew and I is being debt free. If you can go to nursing school debt free, do it. Like, do not. Please, friends, we have a whole YouTube video on this. Like, do not take out debt in nursing school. Okay. Don't do it.

Yeah. So it again, it's kind of the same, same answer with that we gave with Anisa is you need to know yourself and understand where you are and what your goals are. And the, I don't know, pros and cons. Make a list. Pros and cons and see where you land. But definitely take everything into consideration.

Here's a good, like, here's a good thing like for good example for us personally, like we had. So I was pregnant our last year of nursing school. We had the baby right after I graduated. I was not going to take a hospital position where, where they could just choose where I would be and basically like also like the specialty, like the floor you're on. It also depends on like what hours, you know, because I could, if that was our situation, they would have just picked like night shifts, day shift, you know, Saturdays, you know, all of those. Like they could choose for you where our life was when I graduated nursing school. That would not have fit. So just like Matthew said it really. That's going to depend. That's going to depend for you, which. What might work for someone else might not work for you. So you just have to know those things.

Yeah. Yeah. That's great. A couple more people were joining from. What did I see? Iraq. So. Hello and welcome.

Hello.

Oh, someone from Instagram talking to someone on YouTube. So I am going to translate. Instagram is suggesting their daughter uses color coded binders and folders to stay organized. Index cards and notes.

We're in files.

We're in files. So yeah, definitely that, that could be something that is helpful if, if color coding is helpful for you, Anisa.

So, yep, I.

That's why I really like this communication as well. And Instagram and YouTube. You guys are very uplifting and supportive. So thank you for that.

Yeah, we don't talk much. So how does your role differ from a resident versus a doctor to a nurse practitioner? We don't really. I mean on this channel we talk about nursing. I certainly have opinions about nurse practitioners and like the capacity. Like it's, it's kind of funny like nurse practitioner versus pa. Like nurse practitioner could do nearly everything. You know, it's so great. Like, nursing is wonderful. I. We don't really post videos on like resident versus doctor because that's all we do. So yeah, that's a question for a doctor who has done residents. But yeah, nurse practitioner. Man, you guys, like, that's amazing. I really, I. Yeah, I think nursing is just one of the greatest professions because there's so many different avenues you can go down. It's wonderful. So this is running along.

Yeah, this is running long. But I did want to ask a question. Maybe we'll circle back around that. On. On. That is. Yeah, we've had this. This question come and go, and I kind of want to turn it around on everyone that's. Everyone that's on. People are asking, what's the best specialties or what's. What are some of the specialties? You recommend going into nursing school? But I am curious, people that are in nursing school and going into nursing school, do you have an idea of what you want to go into? Are you going in with kind of an open mind and just kind of deciding after you go through nursing school?

Yeah. That's a good thing with, like, Leslie, right?

Yeah, it kind of ties back in with Leslie. Like, do you have an idea of what do you want to do when you come out? I am curious.

Yeah. Public health. Okay, so public health, but open.

Yes, that's something to be aware of. Just be open, especially when you're doing your clinical rounds. Be very open about any. Where they place you, because you might find another one that you. You fits with you better. So I'm just curious, what are your thoughts about it now?

So midwife practitioner. Oh, okay. Perfect.

Transplant icu. Wow. Awesome.

Yeah, that's awesome. Yes. It's a. You can go to nursing school. Like, there's a lot of students that go to nursing school and say, like, they want to do this when they graduate. Was I. I was not really one of those.

Nurse practitioner.

I knew a lot what I didn't want to do.

Yeah. Or that that's something else, too. All the things, you know, you don't want to do, but maybe there's something out there that's for you that's another.

Way of going about doing it. That's fine. Know your boundaries. That's for sure. And then actually, it's funny because when you go to nursing school, you do your clinicals, you're gonna learn your preference preferences, too. Because it is interesting because you might go to nursing school and you might say, I want to do this. And then you go to clinical and you do that thing, and you're like, I absolutely do not want to do that. So it can change. My.

Goes both ways.

Yes, it can change.

Yeah.

Yeah. I. We see that a lot with hospice. A lot. It is very interesting. Students go into nursing school and they say, I want to work in a hospital. I want to work in the icu, in the emergency department, or labor and delivery and then they go to nursing school and they say, wow, I really like hospice care. Like, that is a. Like, that happens all the time. Like, I think the number one specialty that people, like, transition into is hospice. I just, after nursing school, like, that's the number one that I see. Like, people say, I absolutely didn't want to do it before, and then they did it in nursing school, and then they love it. It's like God taps you on the shoulder and says, this is what you're doing. It really takes a special person to do that.

Yeah, that's awesome. But, yeah, definitely, like I said, keep an open mind as you go through clinicals, because that could happen. Then you find. You find a specialty or an area that God points you in.

So someone was asking about, like, oncology or. Yeah, pediatrics. Definitely don't want to do peds, et cetera. That's funny that you want to be a midwife, though, but you don't want to do pediatrics. That's awesome.

Anisa. Hospice is another one.

I wonder why you draw that line. Like, why midwifery but not like, pediatrics? I deliver babies, but you don't want to take care of it. Too touchy. Yeah. Okay. And here's the thing, too. Like, I know a lot of pediatric nurses, and this was me as well, having children. I would have a very hard time on an oncology floor, especially pediatric oncology floor. On pediatrics floor. I just. I not like it's too close to home, especially when you have little. Too close to home for some of us. I know a lot of peds nurses who do leave the pediatric units when they have young children because it's hard. It's very difficult emotionally to see that at work and then not see that in your children. You know, it's just.

That's the thing, June. I just graduated nursing school. Congratulations. Another organization tip. You use bullet points. Can't do colors because it distracts me. So everyone is different, as we said. So definitely find the way that works for you and lean into that. So definitely now waiting for ATI to test.

Yay.

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Awesome. Wow, you guys, this is long. Thanks for being here.

Thank you for being here on Wednesday.

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