Nursing School - ASK ME ANYTHING

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All right, thank you guys for joining us. Welcome to the nursing school show, Ask Me Anything where we ask questions of Christina and she answers them.

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And I join along for the ride.

There you go, Barbara.

Hi, Barbara.

Welcome back.

Welcome.

So no class today, huh? It's so fun because we've got obviously nursing students. Yeah, definitely your nursing students. So it's tough to do exam as because some of you are in class some days, some not in others. So, you know, you know, we do our best. 9:00am yes, usually we do our best.

So we've been going live every day this week, which is fun. Glad that you guys could join us.

I think that's about it.

Yeah. Let's dive right into our first question from our members. So we do get questions from members. We have a form for you members that you guys can fill out. And we look at all those and compile them and put them in my little note here so that we can address those first. Everyone else, we're kind of changing up some ways things are happening. So. So if you have a question before the AMAs, you can go to our page, right? Go to our YouTube page. And we will be posting up scheduled lives. So usually we go live every Monday and Wednesday at 9 Pacific. So we'll be kind of adding those in. And if you have a question and you know when you're going to be around for the next ama, you can go to that one, click on it and ask your question in there so that when we get to it, we will say it. And you can also put it in the appropriate one where you'll, you know that you'll be there.

So, so when you go to YouTube there will be like a section for like lives, like upcoming live videos. So that's where you're going to want to click. So if you ever have a question for us that you want to submit beforehand, go to. You can see just the schedule. It'll tell you like, hey, this live is going to be like two weeks from now or whatever. It has the date and the time on there. So just pick whatever video and in the chat it'll let you comment. So definitely do that. And then also make sure to set reminders to it. You can set reminders for the live so that you don't forget and don't miss out, especially if you ask a question.

If you haven't subscribe, hit the bell so that you are notified as well. So that is the way for public, you are followers to go ahead and ask your questions. Of course, you can always ask your questions in the comments below. We'll get to those as well.

Like during the live.

During the live. So you can do that. That would be great. But so members have your own form. Others you guys can comment here or before the AMA is on the YouTube channel. So that being said, we did have a question from a member that came in. Side note, membership is also open. So if you're not a member, you can always go to nursingschoolsuccess.com join join and then you can ask a question as a member and we'll get to that first.

So is someone calling you a cutie or you.

Oh, thank you. I'm a cutie. Hooray. That's probably the first time that someone said that. So awesome. I am looking beautiful. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All right, question from a member. I like to know if you can help with assignments and open book quizzes. I'm really looking forward to this. Hope it will help me.

Yes, absolutely. Okay. So yes and no. So inside our nursing SOS membership community. So this question is specifically from a member. I would like to know if you can help with assignments and open book quizzes. No, we are not going to help you with open book quizzes because that would be cheating and that's not okay. So no, we're not going to do that. So if you get into the nursing house membership community, do not expect me to help you with your exams. Actually, we had. This is really not something, thankfully that comes up for us apparently, until now. So with everything moving online now, though we did talk about it last spring, we're like, wait, what if people post their exam questions as they're doing their exam? You know? You know what I'm saying? So we actually don't allow that. We don't allow inside our Facebook group you to post screenshots of exams. That's a hard no. For that reason, like we just, we can't tell. We just don't know. So if you get in the nursing SS membership community. No, I am not going to help you cheat on your test. And here's the thing, here's the thing with that.

Okay, you're going to talk about it.

Let's get on a soapbox here for a minute. I am a patient. I was a patient before I was a nurse. If you are a patient, do you want the nurse who cheated on their exams? Let's just, let's just say a round of applause. No on that. Like just the whole round of. No, you want the nurse who passed nursing school, did the work and knows the things, right? Like you want that nurse who knows what they're doing. So no, I'm not going to help you cheat on your test. There you go.

I like that answer. Very straightforward. We do not help you cheat on your test. So here's the thing too. I agree with you definitely from the patient perspective that you want the people that actually learn the material. And that's what we're really here for as the nursing SOS membership community. And for you guys also out there in YouTube, Facebook, Instagram. All right, good. Got them all. So everyone, we are here to help you learn. We're not here to do your questions for you. That does not help you. So at the end of the day, we want to help you succeed. And us just doing your problems does not help you succeed. It may be easier, but like we've said countless other times in other AMAs and other platforms, it's easiness is not a good barometer. Sometimes, sometimes you need that difficulty so that you learn, which is why it's difficult, which is why you're going through nursing school. So no, we do not help you cheat. Also, for everyone that is a member, we do have a great private Facebook group where we do help work through questions and kind of kick around ideas. And you definitely go there for supportive help and support. And we have a really uplifting group. So if you need encouragement, go there definitely. Also, that's not to say that you can't ask nursing specific questions in there. What we do ask though is give some background as well. Show that you tried solving it, show what your work up until that point so that we can help you find out what point you deviated from what your supposed to be doing and we can help you determine that and help you critically think with future answers and that will help you learn. So definitely we help you through questions, but we want to know that you are trying, that you are putting in the effort and that you are critically thinking and getting to the point where, okay, this is what I've done. Can you help me with that? It's the same thing that we talked about yesterday when talking to your professors. If you were confused during your class, if you're understand a question or whatnot, openly ask the professor, go email them, reach out to them, but restate it in your own words. Show that you were listening and that you're trying to understand. It's just a little bit of a leap that you need help with. So that's what we try and help to do for you, to help you understand, get different perspectives. It's always good to hit a problem from multiple angles as well. So we are here to help. We are here to support, we are here to encourage. We are not here to do.

Yeah, I can't do it for you. Yes, I can't do it for you. I want to know where you're getting stuck. So a great example would be like dose calc. We answer dose calc problems basically every single day inside our Facebook group in the nursing SOS membership community, students get stuck on them and all the things. But if you post a dose count question in there, my expectation of you is that you solve it to the point that you can no longer like where you're getting stuck.

Yes.

So solve it. Do the work first so I can see where you're getting stuck and then I know how to teach you. Does that make sense? So we're not just going to go in there, post your question up and be like, hey, can I have the answer please? That's. That is not how we roll. It's not how we roll.

And one final part on that too. Yeah. Just don't post screenshots of your computer or screenshots of your paper. Write it out and show that you're doing the work. So again, we want to be here to help. We want to help you succeed. We want you to be the best nurse possible. And that's the way to be the best nurse possible.

Yep. So I hope that was helpful in clarification. However, I don't like, with all that said, I don't believe that that was a heart behind the actual question simply because it said like, open book. Like do you help with open book questions or open, open book quizzes? I don't know. I, I'm not going to judge the heart behind that. So I, that's just, you know, that's our stance is for all Nursing association. So there you go.

I definitely want to have that discussion because like I mentioned, our membership group is open right now and so there are a lot of people joining and props to all the members that are in the Facebook group that are being encouraging, that are saying hello and, and helping out. It's, it really is a, an environment that we do love to foster also here on the lives, we, we have side conversations, people answering questions that we couldn't even get to. So I really love that. And this group, too.

Integrity folks, you know, I love you, Barbara. You're the best. Yeah.

So, so fun. We will get to a couple more questions, however, before then, let's do a couple shout outs for the new members that have joined within the past 24 hours. If you joined before that, go to our previous AMAs. We are shouting out left and right and trying to get to everyone. If we did not get to you or have not gotten to you, shout us out and we'll say hi.

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All right. Welcome to the nursing SS membership community. Jen, afi, Maria, Jessica, Allison, Lauren, Adrian, Brittany, Heather, Danielle, Tawana, Jenna, Rebecca, Carolyn, Ariel, Tony, Keely, Lindsay, Felicia, Ladera, Nicole, Rachel, Taewu, Mariah, Irene, Nicole, Alyssa, Versha, or Vishwa, Amy, Amanda and Dara.

All right, and I think that's good for now and we'll hit up the rest later.

That's a lot.

All right.

Okay. Okay.

Thank you for joining. Let's get to more questions. Questions. So.

So if I did not shout out your name, those were just half of the students, maybe a little less than half that joined within the last 24 hours. So if you joined before yesterday or like before 24 hours ago, I gave you shout outs on yesterday's live or earlier in the week. So, like, if you joined Sunday, we shouted you out on the Sunday live. So all those things. So we're trying to hit all our members this week, man. It's insanity how many members we have joining. So anyway, I got on the. I got on live video on our. Inside our Facebook group and I was literally crying. I'm like, you guys have no idea how much it means to me for, like, you as nursing SOS members and as nursing students to spread the word about our community. And then it's just amazing to watch God multiply our ministry because I do believe that this is a ministry. Would you agree?

I do. Yeah. I do believe that this is a ministry. Everything that you do is a ministry. Yeah.

If you do it for God.

If you do it for God.

Yeah.

So, yeah, no matter what you do, someone is watching. So you are a ministry.

Yeah.

And so we are blessed to have his platform and that we can talk to you guys and hopefully be a blessing to you. And so this is our ministry.

So thank you.

All right, next question. So actually there's a bunch of questions that were.

I've grouped together because that live made me cry. You're the best, Barbara. We're best friends.

Questions that were all grouped together because they are all in the same category. Right. And I think that it will help a lot of people because a lot of people are asking it. So I'm going to ask all of them and then just kind of sum up. Hey, guys. I start nursing school next week and is so nervous. What do you suggest I do to get prepared? Good morning. I'm starting nursing clinicals this fall. I'm conflicted regarding working prn. I am in an oh prn.

Working as needed.

You nursing terms. Working as needed. I am in an accelerated online program. Also, how to study all the materials how to survive nursing school. Any tips? What is the best way you found to study as a freshman? And from YouTube just now, clinical will be online as well. Does anyone know how online clinicals work? I'm freaking out. So just people getting started. How to study, how to get ready.

Congratulations, all you new nursing students. Is it offensive if I call you nurselings?

I would like to know the answer to that because I like it.

I like it. I loved it when I was in nursing school, but I am not sure.

How everyone else feels about it, so.

But we don't want to like, you know, make you feel like a baby or something.

Yes, like nurse laying.

Like a little like duckling or whatever. Nurseling. Do you like the term? Is that fun? Super curious about that. So, okay, that's a lot of questions.

That is a lot of questions. Generally, everyone's nervous. How to get prepared, how to start, tips, et cetera.

Jessica says she loves our nursing. Oh, thanks, Jessica. You're the best. Okay, so when you were starting nursing school, actually, there was another comment that I saw on YouTube that I want to address with this too. Someone on YouTube. I think it was YouTube or maybe it was Facebook. It was somewhere over on this half. Okay, so it's either YouTube or Facebook. Someone commented and said that they don't know how to critically think. Who was.

Who are you? I actually have that question down here that I was going to ask separately.

Okay, let's ask.

How do you learn to think like a nurse? We're one week into the program and answering the chapter book questions are so intimidating.

Okay, here we go, friends. You ready?

Soapbox time.

Soapbox time. All right. When you get accepted in the nursing school, here's what happens. It's like the entire world expects you to be able to critically think. Think like a nurse. When you go to your mailbox and you get that acceptance letter. It's like it was supposed to completely, like, shower you with the ability to critically think. That's kind of how it feels, right? Like, you walk out to your mailbox, you get the acceptance letter, and now you're suddenly required and expected to know all of the things about all the things and to be able to critically think on top of it. Stop it. You are not expected to do that. You are just starting nursing school. If you are just starting nursing school, you cannot expect yourself to be able to think like a nurse because you just started. Of course you cannot critically think. You have not had the experience or you haven't learned the content yet to be able to put things together. You are just starting out. You are just starting to learn. So do not put that on yourself. Do not put that pressure on yourself to that requirement that, oh, I don't know what I'm talking about. Obviously I'm going to fail because I don't know how to think like a nurse or I don't know how to critically think because I'm in my first week of nursing school. Of course you don't. Of course you don't know how to critically think. If you are just starting nursing school. Give yourself a break. Give yourself a break. So that's what I'm going to say about that. All right, what were the other questions?

Just getting started or in first week?

And any.

Just general tips for both lecture and cycles?

Maybe Nursing fundamentals. Here we go. For just starting nursing school. Nursing fundamentals and beginning med surg. So people in those camps, Here you go. When you are studying a disorder like heart failure, stroke, diabetes, those are kind of the things that you will learn in fundamentals. And then you're beginning med surg classes. So things like that focus on four main things. Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Now, I know that your instructors are going to tell you to read the entire textbook. I'm telling you that they are wrong. You need to focus on those four main categories. They need to tell you to read the entire textbook. I'm here to tell you that it's not possible to learn everything in there during nursing school. It's just not. Focus on the core content and the most important things that you have to study. Four main things, Pathos, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. For other things that you just need to rote memorized, focus on reading the sections of the book that your professors talk about in class. So in nursing Fundamentals, you're going to have other things. Like, you know, you're going to learn intake and output and inflammation and some fluid and electrolytes and some pharmacology things. So focus on studying these sections of the book that your professors talk about in class. Focus on those most important things, because here's why. The things that your professors talk about in class are the things that they feel are the most important for you to know. Therefore, those things are the most likely to show up on your exams. Does that make sense? Nursing content is nursing content. So here we are also talking about ATI and hesi. They're going to test you on the most important things as well. I mean, it's not like nursing changes. I feel like we often get confused about going from a HESI program, ATI program, or just like a program where your instructors put the curriculum together for you. So if you're, Are you in an ATI or Hussey program? Can you guys raise your hands if you're on ATI Hussey? Throw your hands up. Throw your hands up. Like send up an emoji.

Yeah. Also comment or send them an emoji, because if you're just raising your hands, we cannot see you.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. So, yeah, raise your hands if you're in Hussey program. Yeah. Thanks. Okay. We've got lots of hussy.

I really like the hand raising emoji.

That's great. All right. Hey, so. Hey. That's so funny. So Barbara says, this is why Barbara and I are best friends. All right, that's great. Yeah. Ati. Lots of ati. Anybody who's hussy. Hessey. Anybody who's hussey. I was in a Hussey program. So the thing with HESI and ATI that's different from a regular nursing school curriculum where instructors put it together is that they can really test you on anything. And your instructors might not necessarily know what they're going to test you on. However, here's the thing. I don't want you to get stuck on this because nursing content is nursing content is nursing content. It doesn't change. So it's not like what you're learning in class is going to be totally different than what they're teaching on. ATI or what ATI is teaching you is going to be totally different than, you know, what another school is teaching in class or what your instructor might test you on. Like, nursing content is nursing content. Medical content is medical content. Does that make sense? Is that like, does that, Am I communicating that?

Yeah. So no matter what Program. Nursing information is nursing information and it.

Kind of is universal. And like if you're, if one instructor that you have in school is teaching it one way and another instructor is teaching it a different way, like nursing content is nursing content. Don't get stuck, like focus on both of those things. But it's going to be pretty aligned. If it's not aligned, I would definitely question that. There's a thing. There's a thing. So yeah, okay, so we do have some hesi. Yeah, I was in a hussy program, so that's kind of fun. Yeah, so don't get stuck on that. Nursing content is nursing content. So focus on the main things. Patho signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Now if you have anything that you just need to rote, memorize flashcards and whiteboards. Those are the best things to do. When we talk about fluid and electrolytes, which we don't a whole lot we really should because that's so important. Fluids and electrolytes. The best thing to do for fluids and electrolytes. The best thing to do is to join the nursing house membership community because we have an entire course on fluid and electrolytes where I basically do the critical thinking for you and tell you how everything links together, how it all flows. Like it's just, it's amazing. You definitely need to check it out if you are at all confused about fluids and electrolytes. However, if you are not going to join, that's totally fine. You need to focus on why do things happen. That's where the critical thinking comes in. So if you are in fundamentals, if you are in beginning med surg, you are not expected to fully know how to critically think. However, you are expected to try. So when you are studying things like fluid and electrolytes, ABGs your met your beginning med surgical disorders. Like you'll study these in fundamentals to stroke, heart failure, you know, kidney issues with the intake and output, things like that inflammation like pathophysiology happening in the body, you will study that stuff. So you need to start challenging yourself to put the concepts together and start connecting the dots. So inside the nursing SOS membership community, we walk you through that. I basically hold your hand through all critical thinking. Like I tell you why, I tell you the why behind everything everything. So you can really understand it. If you're not inside the community, you're going to have to do that yourself, which is totally fine. Hey Matthew, can you post the critical thinking sheet up on YouTube, please?

I can do that. Critical thinking.

So we, we have a. If you are not. If you are a nursing SMS member, it's inside your dashboard already under bonuses, you just go to the nursing SMS membership. You click on the bonus course. You have the critical thinking cheat sheet in there for you. If you are not inside there, you can get it. It is free. So it's on YouTube here in the chat there. Yeah, I'm pointing at YouTube. But if you go to YouTube.

That's great.

That's great. So Matthew just posted on YouTube in the chat. So nursing schoolofsuccess.com forward slash. What is it? Critical thinking. Yeah, forward slash. Just critical thinking. One word, critical thinking. Nursing schoolofsuccess.com forward slash, critical thinking. It's a whole critical thinking cheat sheet for you. Download it. It's going to change your life. So I definitely want you to do that. Did I miss anything?

I think that's really it. As far as fundamentals. Yeah. How to study tangent before we kind of circle back around because I think that this helps too. Someone on YouTube also asked Tangent question. They're currently in biochemistry and finding it really difficult to remember things requires lots of memorizations. What are our tips and tricks? And you mentioned it and that's why I want to circle back around is really repetition, repetition, repetition. Big, huge whiteboards, lots of flashcards. Write it down, write it down again, then write it down again and again and again and again and again and then again.

So, hey Jennifer, he's talking about chemistry right now.

I am talking about chemistry.

There you go.

So memorization, lots of memorization, rote memorization. Memorization comes down to repetition, comes down to you talking it through, depending on your learning style, teaching it to someone else, taking it to your dog, teaching it to your cat, teaching it to. To the random person walking down the street. If there's anyone walking down the street nowadays, just, just getting it out there and talking and talking and memorizing it, repetition over and over again, teaching it is a really, really big deal because that is part of critical thinking. You're going to start and put your own terms into it, rephrase it in your own words so that you understand it better and then you understand it. So really that is it for memorization. I know that it's a lot of memorization, but that's, that's really. Those are the best.

Did I take biochem? I took chemistry and I took biology. Did I ever take biochem?

Yeah, I don't think so. No.

I don't know. Yeah, so I don't really know a ton of that.

As far as your question, specifically in the nursing SOS membership community, is there anything for chemistry specifically?

Oh, no, there is not. Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I just saw the word chemistry and I was like, hey, that's where. No, there's not. No. The nursing associates membership community, we focus on helping you through your core nursing classes. So when you start fundamentals and beyond, that's when you're going to want to join. So not before that. Like when we don't have things on amp or microbiology or chemistry or, you know, basic biology. I mean, we have all the pathophysiology videos in there, so that's nice.

But yeah, my kids are about to know all the nursing things. That's right. Teach your kids.

There you go.

Like I said yesterday, double up. What? Math for their math classes. Teach them dosage calc.

Yep.

They may use it.

Double up friends.

So, yeah, dosage calc for kids. That's a great idea. So I did want to circle back around on the other thing. That's kind of the general premise of everyone that's asking about starting out is they're freaking out or testing or anxiety. A little later on, someone's asking specifically, they're having test anxiety. There's their first test coming up. So test anxiety specifically. But yeah, just freaking out and worried, nervous, all those things. So we talked about the practical material of nursing school and nursing fundamentals. But let's talk about the mental part of nursing school as well. And we talk about that a lot is mindset. And it is really all about your mindset. Yes, it is a big deal. You are starting something new. Obviously, new things make you nervous. It is stressful. That's okay. Like we said, hard things are hard for a reason. If it's easy, I would question that even more. So, yeah, for sure. Definitely lean into it and change your mindset. Change your thought process. Oh, this is a new experience. New experience. One thing that I use sometimes is reframing the stress for excitement. Oh, I'm excited to go to this. I'm excited. I can't wait. So reframing those thought processes. Yes, it is new and exciting for you and it's a new journey.

So you guys have heard me talk about it all the time. Constantly. Brooke Castillo and the life coachschool.com so I am in her coaching program and I have been for over a year now. And if you knew me two years ago, you know, slash, remember how much anxiety I lived with? And now it's so much. So Much more under control now. It's crazy because I have that program. I've done the mindset work and will continue to do. I mean, it's really a whole, whole lifetime journey. It doesn't go away. So I deal with very severe anxiety, like, to the point where a few years ago, like, I would just have panic attacks on the floor, could not move, literally. So, like, coming from that place, being in that place in nursing school, we had a question a couple of weeks ago. Someone asked, well, how did you get through nursing school with such bad anxiety? I think for me, I learned how to, like, if you have anxiety, you know how to cope with it. Kind of like, you know how to. You know how to live your life with it like everyone else. Like, you don't have anxiety, Matthew. So you know how to live your life how you are. I know how to live my life, and I did know how to live my life and get through nursing school with my anxiety because I had you just learn to, like, live with it. Because I've had it my whole life, you know, it wasn't really different for me. So when you are dealing with anxiety in nursing school, just like Matthew said, I mean, it. It is a whole lot of just trying to calm yourself down and realizing that it's gonna be okay.

I'll just say something there with calming yourself down. That's why what I said, reframing as excitement could work even better. So it depends on you and whatever works for you. Sometimes it is easier to redirect a thought process than completely changing it. So calming yourself down might be harder than just reframing. Oh, this tingling feeling as excitement.

Right.

So anxiety.

Anxiety and excitement, like, those are very. Two very interlinked pathophysiologies in the body or like, physique physiology. This is not patho because it's not like, well, I guess anxiety. Yeah, you could. You could argue both ways. So it's. It feels very similar in the body, anxiety and excitement because, you know, heart rate increases, you get sweaty, and like, you feel like. I don't know, for me, it feels like I'm vibrating. When I have anxiety, it feels like literally my body is like moving at a very fast pace. So that's how it feels for me. So anyway, I know, I know. I can tell. I can really catch it really fast. But Brooke. Brooke castillo, life coachschool.com so she's my life coach, and I love how she says. She says, what if it was just fun? Like, what if you just decided. What if you just decided that it was fun. What would it look like? What would it look like for you? Like, challenge yourself. What would nursing school look like? If it was the most most fun thing you've ever done in your life, what would that look like? And then make it happen. Like, challenge yourself. Think in the future. Think to your future self in, like, three weeks. What would it look like? If nursing school was the most fun experience you've ever had in your life, what would that look like? And then get about the business of creating that for yourself. Just decide that it's fun. What would that look like? What would it look like if it was fun?

So I like the quote that I saw floating around somewhere. I think I mentioned it a couple Amys ago, that you've gotten through 100% of the hardships that you've lived through.

Yep. I believe that's a Michael Hyatt quote. I've posted it on our website before and I've sent it out via emails, but it's. Yeah, you've gotten through 100% of the hard times. Like, you've made it through 2020 so far.

Friends, if you can make it through.

2020, if you can make it through 20 20, you can get through anything.

So, yeah, there you go. I think that that's really good. And, yeah, people, it's. It's normal. Normal. I don't know. People starting things new. It is a new experience. So you're going to have these feelings. So you are in control of your feelings. You determine what you're going to do with those feelings. So they're just all thoughts. So you have the power to determine what you're going to do with those. So nursing school is great. Nursing school is fun. Nursing school is hard. Those are not mutually exclusive. They can be all of those all at once.

Yep. Oh, for sure. Oh, that's. Boom. Did you hear that? Not mutually exclusive. It can be hard and fun at the same time. Yeah, nursing school can be a challenge, and it can be super, super fun at the same time. I just saw a good Facebook. Oh, I need to scroll up.

Okay, all right, let me scroll up.

And he's gonna scroll up on Facebook. That one. How does the program help with nursing school? School? Is it study tips or extra material? So basically, the nursing SOS membership community is. Is like me teaching you everything you need to know through nursing school, which is pretty great. So if you go to class online or in class, you go to class and you don't understand something, that you're in Searcher's Ed, you don't have to learn it through a textbook by yourself. You don't have to look up things on the Internet trying to find an answer. You can just come home or, you know, if you're home already studying online, you can just pull it up. Watch me teach it to you in a video. That is the nursing associate community. Super fun. Someone just sent us a screen.

Yeah, that was. That was cool.

Someone just sent us a screen screenshot of their online class and it was me.

So apparently the teacher thought, hey, let's just put Christina up there for all you guys to watch.

Literally.

Apparently Christina's teaching a course somewhere out there.

Have a video of Christina teaching this to you. She literally said that to us. She's like, oh, by the way, you were teaching my online class.

Yeah.

Yesterday.

So, Barbara, it's a good supplement to class. So. Yes, it's a supplement. So there is a lot of material in there. That doesn't mean you have to watch everything. That's another question that some people get caught up on as soon as they join and enter in and see all the stuff there. There's a lot in there. That doesn't mean now you have all this new stuff that you have to go through or else we're going to shake our fingers at you. No, that's not it. It's a supplement. If you're having trouble in a certain topic or in a certain place, go there, find it in the nursing SOS membership community. Watch those videos, ask questions in Facebook group. Get it as a supplement so that you get another. Another side of. Side of it. And.

Or if you just don't understand, like, I'll understand it through it. Step by step.

Yeah.

If you like how we teach on YouTube. Step by step. Like, you guys know I am all about the steps. All about the steps. Like, I break things down. Super simple for you to understand. Like, that is my spiritual gift. That's what I'm good at. That's what we do. So if you do not understand something, just pull up a video inside the nursing office membership community. I will teach it to you.

Kathy, we have definitely watched some of your videos in class.

Thank you, Kathy.

That's hilarious.

Yep, I read good supplements class. So what was I going to say about that? I had something else to say. Okay, so like, if you're in nursing fundamentals and you get inside the nursing SOS membership community, you're going to see we have full med surg courses, we have advanced med surg courses, we have critical care, we've got ob. We've got ob, maternal, newborn, all the things. But if you're just starting, like focus on the fundamentals course, right? We have a fundamentals course in there. We have fundamentals for you. We have care plans, we have fluids and electrolytes, we have pharmacology. We have all that stuff in there for you. So if you are in fundamentals and you don't need to know about advanced med surgery right now, then don't watch the videos in that course. Like you don't need to know how to do ventilators and blood transfusions and stuff. But when you get there, which you will in nursing school, when you get to blood transfusions, then you'll go to, you know, the more advanced courses. Watch that video on blood transfusion. So it's there for you as you progress through nursing school. You do not have to and nor should you. You should not get inside the nurse GASOS membership community and watch all the videos. That would be like reading the entire textbook. That's not helpful for you. Information overload. Do it as you need it and I will teach it to you step by step.

All right, so a couple things for those just joining. Welcome to Nursing School Show AMA Christina, Nursing school questions.

All right.

Just wanted to throw that out there. This is Christina, by the way. This is Matthew, by the way. All right, Membership community is open. Go there if you want to look at it. Nursingschoolofsuccess.com join it's open till Friday at 4 Pacific. Only till 4 Pacific. Then it will close and we're not sure when it will reopen. It will not be available after 4. After 4 on Friday. So everyone always asks after that will not be available. So just want to make sure. Make sure that's clear. All right, Last thing we do, shout outs. We shouted out some people at the beginning. I want to shout out the second half of the people that have joined within the past 24 hours and then we're going to circle back around and answer more questions.

Oh, go to. Okay. Can you post the join link the. Because it depends on. Yeah, just make sure you go to the. Maybe I have to fix something on the website. That'd be great. Okay, where did I end?

I'm thinking around here somewhere. I'm thinking right here.

Nikki. Did I say Nikki? And Caitlin. I know I said Dara.

Okay.

Caitlin, Nikki, Kia, Daisy, Shirley, Natalia, Angela, Poi, Samara, Charles, Sherry, Jessica, Elizabeth, Sylvia, Kelly, Erica, Kristen, Jamie, Crystal, Irma, Ariana, Vanessa, Yanette, Leon, Lauren, Mackenzie, Lacey, Kirsten, Jessica. It's like where is the I and where is the he? Okay, Kirsten and Jessica. Okay, so that was the other half of the list. Welcome to the nursing episode community. Yay. If you joined earlier, like, if you joined yesterday, we shouted you out yesterday in the ama. So like every day we're doing shout outs.

So yeah, you guys. So definitely go Back to other AMAs if you want to hear anything.

You want to hear your name.

Also, just circling back around on a previous docket, we were talking about test anxiety or anxiety a little bit today. Go to one of our previous AMAs. We talked at length about anxiety. So if you want to learn more about anxiety or our thoughts about it.

Two weeks. I think that was last week. Last week, Monday.

Okay.

But here's the thing, you guys, if you ever want to rewatch the AMAs, or if you, like have class and miss something, Matthew always goes back 24 hours after the AMA. So, like when YouTube is post it for us because it doesn't let us edit it until 24 hours later, unfortunately, he goes back and does the description and he will timestamp it. So as we do this, he's like keeping track of all the time.

I am keeping track. I have not timestamped anything from this week because we've been doing AMAs every day this week. So that is on my plate today. So hopefully I'll get those all updated. So definitely check that out at some point in time. But I just wanted to know AM anxiety is a big deal for a lot of people and we did talk at length, so about that, which I think is really good on another ma. So go ahead and check that out. One more question about the membership community, then we'll get back into other questions. One time, fee, membership or what's the fees like there? So membership community is a ongoing subscription subscription, either monthly or yearly. If it's monthly, then you'll just be billed every month. Yeah, and yearly every year. So there you go. If it's year, then you get like two months free along with that.

So, yeah, so if you pay for the year, you get two months free, which is pretty great. Monthly right now is $39 per month or 390 per year for the annual. So that will be changing. We do not decrease prices, we only increase. So. And we don't have discounts and we do not have scholarships. So yeah, that's. That's another.

If we do increase the prices in the future, everyone that's joined stays with their.

Yes, yes. Like we are never gonna.

We're not gonna increase, you guys, if.

You join now or if you have joined, like, that would be so mean. It happens. That would not be nice.

I remember Netflix going up on us.

Really?

And then now we don't have Netflix.

No, we don't have Netflix. So, yeah, no, if you join now, like, your price is not going to increase. We are not those people. Come on. Come on, world. All right, all right. Just so you know, to be very clear, price will not increase. There was a question on pharmacology.

Yes, that's what I want to go for right now.

Wait, go same.

Do you review or in the membership community, do you review specifically through each pharmacology med.

Boom. Yeah, so we are actually putting out an entire medication database as we speak. Like not right now. Like we're not like posting videos right now. But we are, we are working on getting those out. Working on getting them out. So we have a whole medication database for you that we are releasing as we get those videos done. So. Yes. So instead of like learning medications from again, a textbook, which oftentimes is not very helpful. Right, right. So you can just pull up a video and I will teach it to you. Now if you're not in the membership community, that's totally fine. I want to give you a really, really great tip that another nurse on our team taught to me. Or like she just has really good teaching methods and I love her. So she's, she's actually a nurse practitioner. She's amazing. So, so she told me, she's like, okay, so when you think of a medication, especially medication side effects, you have to think in your brain. What happens if the medication works too well? What happens if the medication works too well? So there's your pharmacology tip for the day. Did you guys take note of that? Take note of that. What happens if the medication works too well? And that is oftentimes where you will see your side effects. So when you're looking at a medication, like we always teach, always teach, learn the mechanism of action first. So you have to understand how the medication is acting in the body first and then you can learn everything else, including side effects. So let's take Lasix for example. Furosemide. Furosemide, Lasix. It's a powerful diuretic. It's a loop diuretic.

So term that you don't want together powerful and diuretic. Usually. I mean, I'm sure there's actual cases for that. But me as a non nurse, I just had to chuckle that a powerful diuretic is probably not something that I.

Wanted to just say.

Sorry.

See comedic value. That's what happened. So I mean it is, yeah, it's a powerful diary. It's not as powerful as like mannitol or some other one. So furosemide diuretic loop diuretic. So it's going to kick out water and electrolytes like nobody's business. Right. So Barbara says, oh, Matt.

I know.

Oh, Matthew. So into the best. So when we look at the side effects, Jennifer's laughing at you too. When you look at the side effects of furosemide, what would you expect to see? You're gonna see things like, oh, dehydration. Because what happens if it works too, too well? It gets rid of too much fluid elect low electrolytes. Right. Because it's going to get rid of too many electrolytes. So there's your pharmacology tip for the day. Huge pharmacology tip for the day. When you look at your side effects, when you are learning your side effects, think about them working too well. What happens if the medication works too well? Then that is where a lot of your side effects will align with. Okay, cool, that was helpful. But yes, to answer your question, yes, we do. We are currently releasing a whole pharmacology database, medication database. So you will not have to, you will not have to look up medications in a textbook or anything. So if you, Jennifer, you're a nursing assistant member. So if you go to Barbara, you two and anyone. We've had several that I've seen pop up. Okay. So if you're a nursing SOS member right now, you can go to the. The how to study pharmacology course. Pharmacology course. Click in there and you will see the list of medications that we have right now. I think today, or at least by tomorrow we will have a bunch. We've got what insulin. I think I did the. A lot of ans ones. Yeah, we've got my. I did a lot this week. So yeah, we've got. We've got a lot. Yeah.

So on that note, kind of related adjacent to pharmacology and that course and the medication database, someone was asking, do we have in the membership a mental health course? And we do not. But a lot of mental health. I'm just, I'm just talking from what I've heard Christina mention. So don't. I'll ask her to confirm this, but just to make sure that I'm not misspeaking. But yeah, mental health has a lot to do with pharmacology and providing medication. So we do not have a specific mental health course in the membership community. But as we are putting out the medication database, we will have mental health medications there, which is a big part of that.

Absolutely. So mental health is a lot of medications. So if you are in mental health, you probably will want to consider joining because we are releasing that medication database and you'll have the meds for you. Did you mention peds? We don't have a peds course.

No, we don't have a peds course either.

Don't join. Sarah is in peds. Hello, Sarah. How do you suggest to study for peds? This is my first day and I'm so lost. So here's the thing. With pediatrics, we don't have a pediatric course inside the membership community yet, but with pediatrics, it's the same thing. So if you look at any of our videos for med surg, the advice still stands. It's basically the same disorders, a lot of them, like dka. Asthma is huge in pediatrics. In pediatrics, you will see a lot of the congenital abnormalities. You know, any of the, like the septal defects, you know, ventricular septal defects, atrial septal defects, asd, vsd, those things. So the congenital disorders, you still have to understand pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Those four things. So it's. The advice still is the same whether you're in pediatrics or Med Surg. However, where pediatrics does differ is you also have to learn like developmental milestones and the immunization schedule. Those things you just have to rote memorized.

So back to our whiteboards and flashcards.

Whiteboards, good old flashcards.

Also kind of pro about the membership community. While we do not have a peds course, we have Nicole.

We have Nicole.

So there is that.

Hi, Nicole. Nicole is a pediatric nurse and she is our community manager. So we do have actually several students who are in peds inside the nursing house membership community. Because you get access to Nicole. She's the best. I always like to run like, hey, just ask Nicole. Ask Nicole everything she knows everything over on Facebook.

There you go. Yes. Get the Davis drug. Get Davis's drug guide. Get the right edition. Get the edition with the upcoming meds database. Do I still need to get the Davidson's drug guide?

Oh, yes, you will still want to. You will still want to get the drug guide. First off, because like, we're not. There are so many meds in here. We're doing like the a hundred and how Many are we up to like 138, something like that of the most common meds that you're gonna.

Yeah, that was part of the question. Do you go through every single med specifically? No. And we.

There would be like thousands. I mean, I don't know how many medications are in the world. Someone look that up. Can you google it for me?

Basically anything can be considered medication.

How many medications are in the world? Yeah, so we're not going to go through everything, but we will give you the vast majority of things that you are going to give at clinical. So this, the thing is, is that like there's a lot of. There's also a lot of combo meds where, you know, we're not going to go. There's so many meds for like nursing specialties. Like if you're in an oncology unit, man, you're given a lot of, a lot of very specific medications that we might not cover in the membership community. But if you're like on a med surg floor at a clinic, you know, we are even critical care, like if you're icu, you the ed, you know, just that these are the most common medications you will give as a nurse. If you're not in like some super specialized place. Even like, you know, we're going to talk about like propofol and things like that. I don't know. YouTube doesn't like it when I say medication. Sorry, sorry.

YouTube, sorry.

YouTube. YouTube doesn't like it when you use the word word med and medication too many times in your video, you know. Okay. Anyway. All right, that's what I'm going to say.

Onward to our new topic.

Okay.

How do you keep yourself organized? I'm so overwhelmed as a first week, first semester student.

Yeah. Did you see the, did you see the picture that someone posted in the Facebook group of the her planner?

Yes.

Well, we have like so many students posting their planners.

Yeah. So we, we do have a nursing school planner that is available to purchase either in the membership community or somewhere out in public too. I think I have a link somewhere that just goes directly to that. It is a planner. If you don't do that, just get a planner. Doesn't matter what, but definitely plan out your day, track down where your time is going. Yeah, you need to have a baseline before you move forward. You always have to try and find what the starting point is so that you can decide, oh, you know what, I actually do have X amount of hours left over or oh, you know what? I actually did over schedule myself at this Point in time. I need to move stuff around. But you do not. You cannot know that unless you have a planner or some way of keeping of track. Track. We do have a planner. I also saw someone else in the Facebook group that just pointed posted a screenshot of their Excel sheet.

There you go. They did it that way too. So perfect.

Yes. Any way you can. You need to schedule out your day and figure out.

Okay, it's gonna change the crazy. It's gonna make us super dark. But here we go. Can you guys see that? Schedule your time hour by hour.

Hour by hour.

School planner. Part of it. It's one page of it. So we give you. I mean the thing is like a beast.

Yeah, we. The one that's for sale is an 18 month planner and it's like over 400 pages long.

We recommend printing it off in like three or six months section. Yes, like six month sections printed off in six month sections. So it's a full 18 month dated planner.

Does this link still work?

Yeah.

Okay. I can just throw that up in YouTube if you want to take a look at it.

Nursing school of six.

But yeah, no matter what, get a planner, fill it out, discover where your time is going, and then you can figure out what to do with your leftover time. Because a lot of times you do find out that, oh look, I do have leftover time.

That's what happened in the community. One of our members, she was like, I just did it hour by hour. I had no idea how much free time I had. I was like.

So that that overwhelmed feeling is the not knowing.

Oh, is the not knowing.

Yep.

Boom. Say that again.

That overwhelmed feeling is the not knowing. Which is why I feel overwhelmed all the time.

Because you just don't know.

Just because I don't know.

So yeah, you feel overwhelmed all the time.

I just don't know anything. So no. So definitely that's why we suggest applying planner so you can actually write it out and get everything down. Also, once it's out of your mind, it's not taking up mental brain power and you can use that for other things. So once you get it down on the paper, you can just let it leave your mind for a bit because it is now elsewhere and you can refer back to it.

So yep.

I definitely suggest a planner of some sort.

Perfect. So that was about managing time.

That was about managing the time.

Yep.

I did see this question.

Okay, let's do it.

So I'm going to ask it anyway. So I capture your questions even if.

You reject them, even if you don't.

Want to ask them anymore. And if I like them, I'm gonna ask them anyway. So here we go. How early would you apply for nursing jobs? I graduate with an ADN in December.

Oh, that's a really good question. Have we ever had that ask before?

No, I don't believe so.

I would say, well, okay, this probably depends.

So, again, how early would you apply for nursing jobs?

I think this depends on if you're working now because a lot of students actually are working in the facility that they want to get a job at as a nurse. Nurse, if that's the case. Definitely. I mean, when you start nursing school, start talking to them, you know, start talking to your manager. Start talking to whoever. Whoever you need to talk to. Hr, you know, say, hey, I'm going to nursing school. I would love, you know, XYZ position. And then ask them how to make that happen.

I think part of that too is, I mean, if you know what you're going to want to go into, that that's one thing too. Sometimes a lot of people don't. We were having a conversation about that the other day about, oh, I don't know what I'm going to go into, etc. So, yeah, if you definitely know what you want to go into, then no time like the present to start digging that well. So you want to dig that well before you're thirsty.

That's the second time you've used that.

Rawr. So, yeah, I like that quote too. I think I first heard it from Jordan Harbinger, but I don't think he made that up. I'm pretty sure he did not, but yes, so dig your well before you're thirsty. So get to it in December. That's really not that far away. So definitely make your connections networking and.

Who'S as excited for Christmas as I am. Okay, sorry.

So, yeah, no, I think I was about done with that. So just network and reach out to your professors or the clinics around. In your area that you want to network. So.

And yeah, I mean, if you know what you want to go to. If you don't, like, I don't. I don't see an issue with applying. So I guess it depends on where you live. But like, around here. Around here, like, they just kind of eat you up, you know, I don't know. We have. It's not like a nursing shortage or anything. I don't. I don't think, but I guess. Yeah, but they do. Like, nurses are always kind of in rotation here, so, you know, I would. I Don't think there's any issue with applying, like, three months before you graduate? I don't think there's any harm in that. Yeah, at least, like, get to know people.

No, definitely get. Getting to know people.

Your, like, last term preceptorship or whatever your school has where you have like your. Your mentorship or preceptorship, whatever they call it, that's a good networking opportunity too. You know, if you end up in a placement where you really want to work, just get to know people. So. Yeah. Interested in Nikki?

Interested in nicu? Yeah. That's. That's amazing.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

The little babies. Who doesn't love little babies?

Let's see. Going through. Is there anything up here? What? Oh, no, the time. Let's see. Actually, there is a Preceptorship is a.

Good place to play. Plant the seed.

Planting the seed. I like that. Oh, okay. So we are going to wrap it up for today.

I have a coaching call.

Instagram. You made it to the end of our AMA for once. Yay.

All right, friends, we'll see you Tomorrow morning at 10:00am Pacific Standard Time, 12:00pm Eastern. If you did not get your comment answered, Matthew made a note of it. I did. Please show up tomorrow and we will hopefully answer that. And like we said earlier on, if you have a question for a future live video, you can go to YouTube and look at our live video schedule. It'll say upcoming live. Upcoming live streams. And you can post your question in the chat for whatever video.

Yeah. So if you know that you're going to be available for that time, go ahead and post your questions during that time.

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All right, Take care, guys.

Later, I'm gonna click it.

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