In this instructional YouTube video, the presenter addresses the common frustration of nursing students whose professors provide little teaching during lectures. She outlines a concise, repeatable study system that works across major nursing courses—Med‑Surg, OB, Pediatrics, Psychiatric, and Fundamentals. For disorder‑focused topics, she recommends mastering four key elements: pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment, and nursing interventions. For topics that don’t fit the disorder model (e.g., perfusion, oxygenation, nutrition, patient positioning), she suggests a three‑part approach: definition/description, nursing assessment, and nursing interventions. The video promotes a free "Nursing School Study Checklist" and a paid "Nursing SOS" membership that offers video breakdowns of each disorder following the same framework. A brief personal segment gives a shout‑out to a viewer and shares a pregnancy update, building community rapport. The presenter concludes by teasing a forthcoming video on how to ace ATI exams and encourages viewers to download the checklist, subscribe, and explore related resources.
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In this video, I'm going to tell you exactly what to do if your professor doesn't teach during class. It is so frustrating when you leave class feeling more confused than when you went in, right? So I am going to walk through how to study even when your professors don't teach. This is a highly requested video and I am going to talk about a lot of things that I've never mentioned before, so make sure to watch the entire video so you don't miss out on these tips. Now hit that subscribe button and click on the notification bell and dive in. The way that you'll study will change depending on the class you're taking, whether it's Med Surg, ob, Fundamentals, Psych or something else. So I am going to walk through how to study for each one of your classes so you never feel lost if your professor doesn't teach during lecture. I've listed all of these study tips and more out on a free nursing school study checklist for you, so make sure to download that after you watch this video. Now let's start with medsearch, since that's the bulk of what you'll do in nursing school. Med Surgeon nursing is heavily focused on disorders like heart failure, stroke and kidney disease. So these include things like cardiac disorders, respiratory, renal, GI and neuro disorders. Even burns, immunological disorders, and types of cancers. So even if you don't get much guidance from your instructor on what to study, thankfully there are only four main things that you need to know about each of these disorders. The pathophysiology, the signs and symptoms, the nursing assessment and the nursing interventions. That's it. It really is that easy my friend. So after you leave lecture class, take a look at all of the med surg disorders you need to know about. And yes, there are going to be a lot of them. Just focus on learning those four main things about each one of those disorders. The patho, the signs and symptoms, Nursing assessment and Nursing intervent. So that is the best way to study for Med Surg Nursing. If you're a nursing SOS member, we make this even easier for you because I basically give you all of the answers. Just log into your dashboard and find the Med surg disorder that you're studying and you'll see that we have a separate video on each of these. You don't need to dig through a 30 minute video to find exactly what you need. In our nursing SOS membership community, I walk you through it all steps, step by step in individual videos. And thankfully the same study system applies if you're studying ob peds and psych nursing too, and even some fundamentals topics. If you're an ob peds or psych, you'll find that a lot of what you're studying are disorders like gestational diabetes or anemia during pregnancy, or a ventricular septal defect that a baby might be born with. Or bipolar disorder. If you're studying psych nursing. All of these courses are packed with disorders that will follow the same study system. So study the patho, the signs and symptoms, the nursing assessment and the nursing interventions. Now, the same goes for fundamentals too. If you're in fundamentals, you might be surprised at how much of what you're studying actually follows this system, like acid base imbalances and fluid and electrolytes. So take a look at the topics that you need to learn about and see if they include these four main areas. Patho signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Now, there will be some topics that don't follow this system exactly, like learning how to position patients, or studying nutrition or oxygenation or perfusion. But hold on real quick. Before you give up, even for these topics, you still need to know the nursing assessment and the nursing interventions that you would do for your patient. But before we dive into those, I want to give a shout out to amara for our YouTube comment of the week, which says said thank you is a lifesaver. And omg, congratulations on baby number two. Thanks so much Amara. And yes, we are having baby number two on the way. We are super stoked about it. We are due in early April, so maybe late March or early April. Baby will be here, so leave a comment. If your birthday is in March or April, Baby Rafano might just get to share a birthday with you. Alrighty. So here's how I recommend you study. If the topic doesn't follow that four part system, you'll study three main parts instead. The description or the definition of what it is, what nursing assessment you would need to do for it, and what nursing interventions need to happen. That's the simplest and easiest way to do it. Focus on learning about these three key areas for each topic. So for something like perfusion and oxygenation, you'll study what that means. So what's the description and the definition of those things? Then you'll also study what you would need to assess for and the nursing interventions that you would need to do if something were to go wrong. The same goes for things like nutrition. What's the description of the nutritional deficit? So what is it? What would you assess for and what nursing interventions would you do? Now by this point, you might be questioning if it really is that simple. Can you really focus on just three or four key things when studying? And here's my challenge for you. You think back to the nursing exams that you've had so far, or even do some NCLEX practice questions and you'll find that the vast majority of what you're tested on fall into these four main categories the patho signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Your exams are going to be filled with questions that ask you what your priority nursing action would be. They're talking about interventions there. Or maybe they'll give you a list of patients and ask what patient you would prioritize and see first. Ding ding ding. Nursing assessment. And better yet, they'll throw those select all that apply questions at you and ask you to choose all of the signs and symptoms that you might see in a patient with a certain condition. You see the pattern here. You have to know these four key areas for everything that you're studying. The patho signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. If you know those four main parts, you really will be able to critically think during your exams and you'll end up doing so so much better. Now in the next video, I'm going to show you how to pass your ATI exams in nursing school. So if you're in an ATI program, make sure to watch that video because it is going to be gold for you in nursing school. And don't forget to download your free Nursing School Study checklist where I lay out all of these study tips and more for you. The link is down below in the description for you to get it and make sure to like comment, subscribe and share this video with a friend. Now click on one of these videos right over here so you can keep rocking nursing school and go become the nurse that God created only you to be. And I'll catch you in the next video. My friend. Take care.
