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Ready and set. And go. Let's just start with Renee. Do you have anything on mental health?

Ooh, so good. Mental health. Okay. If you're a nursing SOS member, yes, we have some mental health stuff now in the fundamentals course, we just released a whole, like, a bunch of new videos inside of the fundamentals course, inside the nursing household membership community. So that's there for you. Therapeutic communication is in there. And then we have our whole medication database inside the membership community as well with psychiatric medications. So that so, so helpful. I cannot even tell you friends if you are in nursing school, if you're taking mental health. So much of it is those medications and knowing you know which one is which. What do they do? What do you need to remember for each one of the side effects of those? It's just huge when you get to your exams. So that's why we did that. We have a full medication database for you with your segments there. We teach it to you. You don't need to just learn everything out of a textbook or everything from, you know, watching, you know, your instructor read off a PowerPoint or something like, let us teach it to you so you don't have to struggle with it yourself. So easy. We make it so easy for you. So if you're a nursing US member, that is there for you inside the membership community. Now, if you are not, we do not have any specific videos that I can think of off the top of my head up on YouTube. But here's what I want you to do when you are studying mental health psychiatric in nursing school, really, I want you to still focus on the four key areas that we always talk about. Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Now, with mental Health, the pathophysiology is going to be a little touch and go because oftentimes with psychiatric things, we don't exactly know what causes it. We have a kind of general idea, hypothesis or theory, but we're not specifically sure. So that might be a little shaky. Totally fine. Just do your best then. You're still going to want to focus on the other three categories. Signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. What signs and symptoms? For sure, what are you expecting to see then? What are you going to assess for? For mental health that's going to be pretty similar to these signs and symptoms, what are you going to assess for? It's going to be pretty similar. And then nursing interventions, what are you going to do about it?

So I'm going to come in right here and say that George, you, you said that I failed my med surge 2. What's the best way to tackle the subject? Exactly what Christina is talking about. She's talking about mental health, but the strategies cover med surg in general. So pay attention to this med surg. These topics is what you focus on. Also Stacy, any helpful info to prepare for Pediatrics? Same info, same thing. So I just wanted to make sure that you, you're aware. Pediatrics, anything med surge, mental health, which we were talking about. Any disorder. All of this comes into these four main topics that Christina is talking about.

Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. We should like get a sign who is really good at calligraphy out there, like you know, like the really cool like chalkboard signs or something. Like we should get a sign that this has like it all listed. So I don't know if you're really good at that. Send me one because I will show it up here on the nursing school show. Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. That's all. Like there's only four. So for mental health, for pediatrics, for med, search for fundamentals. If you're in fundamentals and trying to remember your ABGs or your fluid and electrolytes or, you know, the high level med surge disorders like stroke or diabetes or heart failure, the things you learn about in fundamentals critical care, focus on these four main categories. Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions.

Boom. All right. And Stacy, talking about mental health is rough, especially as far as knowing meds. So I know that we did talk that in the membership community we do have the pharmacology course that does have mental health meds. But now that we're kind of delving a little bit into pharmacology. Again, closely related to those four topics for four sections to study. What are the four things to go through with pharm.

With.

With medications.

And how to study pharmacology.

And how to study pharmacology. Let's just dive into studying pharmacology.

The first thing that I want to make sure you do is to get the Davis drug guide book. I know there's other drug guides out there. I like this one. I haven't used other ones, so I'm partial to the. To this one. I mean, this is the same.

Just this is the one that you used.

This is the one I used in nursing school. It's got my cool tabs on it. Yep.

This is the edition last year. And the edition this year is turquoise.

Yeah, yeah. Someone said Monday that it's turquoise. Who was that? Prima Bella? Probably. Probably turquoise. And so this. Make sure you have the updated one. Do as I say, not as I do. I do not have the updated one right now. We need to get it. But this is from last year. It's from several years ago.

Make sure you have the latest one.

Yeah. Because friends, seriously, it's crazy. Like, look the difference. So this one is from a few years ago. This one is from just last year. And you can just see, even, like, I don't think they made the paper thicker. I think that they just added a whole bunch of new meds. I don't know. It's so much.

They do things right. They put in meds. They take out meds too. So, yeah, definitely.

You want the latest and get the latest one. So, yeah, that's step number one. Then step number two, make sure that you're breaking up your medications by drug class. So this is why I like the Davis Drug Guide here in the front section, you'll see. Do you see these, like, red tabs here? I call it the red tab section. These are all your classes. Classifications for medications. It actually says classifications on the side. So classifications. This will divide them up by pharmacologic or therapeutic drug class, and that's fine. I prefer you do pharmacologic class. If you need to do the therapeutic class, it's okay. It will work kind of, but not entirely. But if that's the only way to go, if that's the only thing you can do, that's fine. So drug classifications there. Make sure you divide your meds up by drug class. And then what you're going to do is walk through and learn the mechanism of action of that drug class, not the individual drugs. And here's why. The drug classes, the pharmacologic class of the medication. If multiple drugs share that drug class, then they all have the same mechanism of action. They all act the same way in the body. So that's what mechanism of action means. Mechanism of action means how does the drug act in the body? And all the medications within one pharmacologic class share the same mechanism of action, meaning they all work the same way in the body. So Instead of learning 12 medications with, like, individually, if all those 12 medications belong to one pharmacologic class, you just have to know the mechanism of action of that class rather than each individual drugs. Because if you know the mechanism of action of the class, you will automatically know the mechanism of action for all the medications in that class. So cool, right? So that's how we do it. It's gonna save you hours, literally hours. So that's the thing with dividing it up between therapeutic and pharmacologic class. Pharmacologic class is preferred because that is kind of the gold standard for mechanism of action. All of the medications within one pharmacologic class will have the same mechanism of action. It's not necessarily true with a therapeutic class, but it's going to be similar. For the most part, they're going to be similar. So with the therapeutic class, you just have to be a little bit more careful. You will have to go through each individual medication and read under here. Let's find a good one. Let's find a good one. See, I actually tab them with names. So this is furosemide. If you look under here under action, that's what you're looking for, a mechanism of action. It's just under here called action. You will need to just look at the action, the mechanism of action of each individual drug in a class. So, like furosemide is a diuretic. Right. The pharmacologic class is a loop diuretic. So all loop diuretics are going to share this action. But if you just look at the therapeutic class of diuretics, all the diuretics are going to be kind of similar to that. They might not act exactly as furosemide does, as a loop diuretic does, because that's the pharmacologic class. But diuretics are going to act similarly to each other. So just make sure, if you are going based on the therapeutic class, you will have to read the mechanism of action for each individual drug just to make sure that it is close enough for you. Does that make sense. So that is really the best thing that you can do to categorize and learn your meds in nursing school is to make sure that you are learning the mechanism of action of the drug class, not each individual drug. Now, once you know the mechanism of action of the drug class, it's going to make it so much easier for you to learn everything else that you need to know about that medication. The mechanism of action and how it acts in the body will help you understand the side effects, the nursing assessment for it, and the nursing considerations for it. So, just like Matthew was saying, in the same way, we have four main categories for studying in nursing school. Remember, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment, and nursing interventions. The same is true for pharmacology. We have the mechanism of action, the side effects, the nursing assessment, and then the nursing considerations. Nursing considerations are basically the interventions. The mechanism of action is basically the pathophysiology. What is happening now? I know it's not the same thing, but that's, that's how we compare them. So, med surg, you'll focus on patho pathophysiology. With pharmacology, you'll focus on the mechanism of action. So let's keep jamming on furosemide, for example. Furosemide is a diuretic. It's a loop diuretic. It's going to kick out water. It's going to kick out, you know, water and fluid, electrolytes from the body like nobody's business. Right? Your patient's going to be urinating a lot. With furosemide, it's loop diuretic. So when you come over here to side effects, what would you expect to see? If your patient is offloading a ton of fluid and a ton of electrolytes, of course, we might see signs of dehydration, dehydration might see low electrolytes, and you'll look low electrolytes. Hypocalcemia, hypochloremia, hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, all the low electrolytes. So that is why understanding the mechanism of action will help you critically think through everything else you need to know about the medication. Does that make sense? That is how we study pharmacology. Know the mechanism of action of the drug class first. Know the mechanism of action of the individual drugs if you have to, and then compare that mechanism of action to the side effects, to the nursing assessment, to the nursing interventions. Now, I know I didn't jam on assessment and interventions. I know we got a Lot of questions, but yeah, I hope I got my point across.

That is great. Yeah. So really for med surg, whether it be any disorder or mental health or pediatrics or what have you, the four main topics there, patho, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment. Nursing interventions.

Yep.

And then for pharm, the mechanism action.

Yep.

Side effects, nursing assessment and nursing considerations. Hey, I know it.

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So jamming on that a little bit more. Teffy, I think this was actually from. From a previous Ask me anything said that they work 48 hours a week. They pass for a semester by one point and it's starting second semester in January. So they just want any advice to tackle med surg and pathophys physiology, which we talked about. Med surge. Are those four. And then specifically he called out, or Teffy called out pathophysiology. So just specifically, I know that we've had questions of this in the past. How to study pathophysiology.

Yeah. So pathophysiology. What I always like to do is break them up in steps. So for pathophysiology specifically, let me get. My book's here to show you.

Show and tell time.

Show and tell time. Hang on one second. I've got about a thousand nursing school textbooks. Right. You do too. And I'll show you my system for it. So here's how I studied in nursing school. I recommend that you have two types of textbooks. One high level textbook and one what I call a deeper dive textbook. So high level, this is my favorite for high level. Take a screenshot of it. If you're not familiar with this series. It's the Made Incredibly easy series. They've got a gazillion books for nursing school. Dose calc assessment fundamentals. I'm sure they have med surg ones. This is patho. It's also helpful. So pathophysiology made incredibly easy. This is a high level overview book. It will give you a very good general idea, like a good starting point on what's happening with, with each of the disorders. Now this one, the Merck Manual. See the difference? This is a deep dive book, the Merck Manual. This goes into like cellular level, chemical level, enzymes, like what is deeply happening in the body with those disorders. High level overview book is a lot thinner than a deep dive book. Right. This will also cover a lot more disorders. But the Merck manual is really good. If you need to go deeper, you want to understand on a deeper level what is actually happening in the body on a chemical level, cellular level, what's happening with the enzymes, receptors, all those things. That is the Mark manual. If you just want a general high level overview. This one. So good. So I recommend that you constrain your studying to these two types of books. It doesn't have to be this one. Exactly. Or these Exactly. But something like it. These are just the ones that I really love and I really recommend. So screenshot time. Screenshot it. Yay.

While you guys are screenshotting. Renee, if you go ahead and email us hello@nursingsos.com email us from the email that you're signed up with the membership so we can look at your account and see what's going on. I don't know why you don't see all of fundamentals course, but there's a lot in there, not just theories, so.

Oh, weird. Yeah. I don't see anything else. Oh, okay. Yeah, Renee, just let us know, let us know. So we can make sure you have access to everything. And then Nicole will also walk you through or Marilyn will also walk you through the, the meds for psychiatric. We will get those to you too. Make sure you have access to everything.

Yep. Yeah. Including your email, what you're looking for and they'll help you out.

Yep. Okay. So Mark manual pathophysiology. Really, really, really. I highly recommend that you constrain your study time to those two. Two types of textbooks. It could be other textbooks if you find one that's like a good high level overview and a good deep dive one. It doesn't have to be these two specific ones. These are just the ones that I like. The Merck manual and patho made incredibly easy. So there you go. Now if you are a nursing SOS member, we do this for you. So for pathophysiology, you guys know me. If you've watched us on YouTube, if you watched any of our lives here, if you've watched any of our stuff like you know, how I teach. And how I teach is exactly how we teach inside the membership community as well. So we really like to break things up into very simple steps for you to follow step by step, literally nursing school, step by step. And that's how we do patho. This is how we teach. So if you're inside the membership community, you do not have to spend a thousand hours reading your textbooks because we put it, we give it to you in steps for you to follow to understand. The patho faster. Like, we do the hard work for you. All you need to do is watch a video. So if you're a nursing US Member, just make sure you go to your dashboard and check out the patho videos we have and all the med surg courses. Cardiac, respiratory, renal, gi, neuro, endocrine, critical care. What am I missing? Is med surg. Did I say neuro integumentary. What am I missing? We've got all of them there, so there you go. Yeah, like burns integumentary, critical care. We've got sepsis. Oh, we've got blood transfusions and we've got, you know, heart failure and cardiac course and diabetes and DKA and glomerulone nephritis and all the things GI g u. Did I say that? I don't know. Fundamentals course in there too. Care plan course, pharmacology course. Got it all. Got it all. I need like a list.

Yeah, we need like, we need a.

Sign for that too. So if someone's making me a sign out there with my four main categories, make me a sign with everything in the membership community too, because we need like a. Here's everything we got so I can like reference it and not forget.

Also, if you're. You're interested in learning more about how Christina teaches, we do have a bootcamp up that has keep forgetting a topic, but it's a good topic. Three somethings. Three somethings. If you want to learn about three somethings, go ahead and sign up for the boot camp.

It's the top three study mistakes that you are making in nursing school.

Probably that's one of them is not remembering things I'm going to help you solve. There you go.

That's so funny. I do help you. That boot camp is so good. I help you learn how to study. It's. It's so, so good. So go sign up right now. Nursing schoolofsuccess.com forward/bootcamp Boot camp.

Boot camp.

Boot camp.

Okay.

Do boot camp.

Onward and upward. Let's just leave that alone, okay?

I am so cool.

All right, let's jam on note taking.

Okay.

Megan's asking the best way to take notes in class. And the side question, do you recommend rewriting them after class to shorten them? So I just want you to go over just your methodology for taking notes in class. Christina has a specific methodology of doing it which works like a charm.

It does work like a charm. And I am going to reference. We do have a whole YouTube video on my exact note taking. Process in nursing school. If you go to YouTube, go to YouTube.com search nursing sos, note taking. Nursing sos note taking. Search that on YouTube. That will pop up for you. So check it out for notes. I'm going to hit some really key things that I want to make sure that you are doing in nursing school. Number one, make sure that you are taking notes in class, online classes, whatever. So if you are in class, online, on your computer, at home, like that's what I mean by in class now, right? Whatever lecture you have or whatever PowerPoints or whatever your instructor gives, you take notes on that stuff in one color of a pen. And then when you go to your textbooks or whatever other information you use, YouTube channels, what have you membership from us, then you will take notes in a separate color, different color. So let's say you use one color black pen, like a black pen for the notes you take in your lecture class. And then you use a blue pen for the notes you take out of your textbook or out of a video. You watch something like that. That way you know which notes came from where. Because what your instructor says in class, if it, if it conflicts, if it conflicts with anything else, you want to make sure that you are showing that up and asking your instructor about it, right? So just make sure that you take notes in two different colors. One color you'll use for the notes you take in lecture class, whether it's in class or online, doesn't matter. And then a separate color for the notes you take out of a textbook. Got it? Good. Now the next thing I highly recommend when you're taking notes and taking notes in nursing school in class, is that you are taking as many notes as possible, like all of them, if you can. I highly recommend just writing notes as fast as you can, making sure you're trying to catch everything that the instructor says. This is really helpful because like what we've always said, what your instructor talks about in class is most likely what's going to be on your exam. So you want to know everything. If you can record lecture, that's great. Record lecture. If you need to get together virtually with other students in your class to can. What's. What's the word? Like, condense all your notes into one or two missing a word, put it all together, put all your notes and combine. That was the word. Combine all your notes together so that you know, maybe someone else in your class caught something that you missed. Maybe you caught something that they missed. If you combine all your notes together, you all have everything that's Highly, highly, highly recommended to do that. I highly recommend a Google Doc. So try to use. If you have Gmail account or whatever. This is free, right? Like Google Docs are free for Gmail. Um, on, on Gmail, just go in like your Google Drive. I don't know Matt, you could tell in your Google Drive under Google Google Word Doc. Google Docs.

Yeah, it's just Google Docs. It's basically the Google Google version of Word. So a lot of people can go on it at once and be typing at the same time. And it's a really good way to collaborate and kind of all take notes together.

There you go. So yes, if you are wondering if you should rewrite your notes after class, that would be a good way to go. If you take notes in class, rewrite them onto a Google Doc and then have other students in your class do the same thing on one Google Doc then you all have the notes from class. Right. They're all in one place, which is so nice. So that is what I recommend. Again go to YouTube.com and then search nursing sos note taking.

Yeah, yeah. See the full go into details there. A follow up question from Megan was what is the most important information? What is the most important information moving forward after farm to know.

What is the most important information moving forward after pharmacology to know? Depends on what classes you're taking after pharmacology. That's really the thing. I mean oftentimes you'll take pharmacology with like fundamentals or med surge, like beginning med surge. So then I mean after that then you do like advanced med surgery or critical care or something like that or maybe your specialties and that's the most important information to know. So really it depends on what classes you have. Yep.

Obero, Aria, can you help over medical surgery. Medical, surgical, nursing subjects. So we actually just talked about that at the beginning of this live talking about med surge and pediatrics and mental health specifically on the topics to study or the way to study and how to study it and how to study it all. So yep.

So those four key things, remember pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Four key things.

There you go.

That's how to study med surge.

Awesome.

There you go. I'm currently watching your dose calc video. So helpful. Thank you. I'm glad. Yay.

Yeah, we've got lots of dose Cherokee. Excellent advice on taking notes. It works, it works, it works. And then. Hi Christina and Matthew. It's the first time I've watched Your live. I so appreciate how clear and passionate you explain the concepts to us. I'm going to start my first semester of ADN in spring 2021.

Yay. Hooray. Now, I know different schools start spring. Like, your terms are a little bit different depending on where you are or where you're at in the world. Does, like, spring for you mean January or does spring mean like, April? Because it could be different depending on if you're in a semester school or like spring. Right. Can start in January.

Yeah, spring is usually. Yeah, spring is usually January. Ish.

Okay.

Yeah.

Congratulations.

Hooray.

So when you start nursing school, like we always say, the number one thing you need to be focusing on if you have not started nursing school yet is dose calc. Dose calc. Friends, how important is dose calc? If you are in nursing school right now, how often do you have dose calc questions on your nursing school exams? Always. Right. And when you start nursing school, and like every term in nursing school, you need to take a dose calc examine exam in order to stick in the program. And not only that, you need to take a dose calc exam and you need to get 100% on it to stay in the program. So if you are sitting here right now and you have not started nursing school yet, I highly recommend that you start practicing dose calc.

Please. Jasmine, you asked a little earlier. What materials do I need when starting nursing school? This is it.

This is for you.

This is it. This is for you. Dose calc.

Dose calc. So if you are just starting nursing school, make sure that you fully understand dose calc so that you are not running around like a crazy person. Crazy. Crazy. Rushing everywhere, overwhelmed and confused and stressed the first two weeks of nursing school because you have no idea how to answer a dose calc question and you have a exam coming up that you have to get 100% on in order to stay in the program. Don't be that person.

Tm. I start my ABM program in January and that's what I'm doing now. Perfect. Great. And then Katie, Dose calc is everywhere. Just got my packet for review for my adult health math comp in January.

Perfect.

Katie, that is great.

Yep. Yeah. Let us know if you have questions. You can submit a tutor form if you're a nursing SOS member.

Everybody, Stacy's asking, when are we opening back up the membership? Best way is to get on our wait list so you're the first to know. NurseSchoolSuccess.com join will lead you to the waitlist form thingy to sign out. So if you have not done that, be sure to do that. You'll be the first to know when it does open.

Yep.

Awesome.

Sweet.

Let me see here.

What does Starbucks put in their coffee?

What does Starbucks. Caffeine.

Yeah, but is it like super caffeine? I feel like there's been rumors about that.

Well, I mean, there's. There's different things online that show like how. How much caffeine content. Yeah, Caffeine content for each things. And different coffee places have different amounts of caffeine. So.

So where does Starbucks land? Because I'm like, I am not the same person drinking my coffee.

So if you notice, we do not have Starbucks this morning. We have water, which is good for you too, by the way.

Water is which you're probably wondering, hey, Christina, where's your coffee? Because you always have coffee and you are right. And I already drank it at 5 o' clock this morning when I was awake with my kids.

That's what happens when they wake up and will not go down.

When they wake up early. We drink coffee early. So I'm just. I'm not the same person when I drink coffee at 5am Than if I drink Starbucks later and then do the live.

I have not had my coffee yet today, so I'm looking forward to that.

Almost feeling like I'm crashing.

That is going to happen right after this live, by the way. So I am going to make an eggnog latte.

Oh.

Because holidays. And we can do that.

So holiday coffees are so good. Hey, friends, what is your favorite holiday coffee?

Oh, yes, I would like holiday drink.

So I actually do not like the eggnog latte, but I do like holiday drinks. Peppermint mochas are my favorite. I was working at your computer last. Last week or the week before and I reached and grabbed his coffee accidentally and drank it and it was disgusting.

It is great.

So yucky. I do not like eggnog.

The holiday blend at Starbucks. Everyone swears by that. I don't think we've ever had it.

I don't think we've ever had it. No.

We're more of the espresso dark roast kind of stuff.

But yes, like French roast.

Yeah, yeah.

They're Verona. We like the cafe. Verona is our favorite one. Yeah, yeah.

Peppermint mocha. You know what? If you're willing to try something that's.

All the way kind of holiday ish.

I think it's kind of holiday ish. White chocolate mocha with a pump of raspberry.

Wouldn't it be a cranberry to make it more holiday?

I don't know if they have cranberry. They can try cranberry. I always do with raspberry.

But maybe someone. Yeah, someone try it as a cranberry. Does Tarani make cranberry? I'm sure they do. I'm sure they do.

They make all sorts of things.

They make everything you can get like garlic, I'm sure in a coffee syrup.

You.

Well, I'm sure that someone.

I'm sure. I'm sure they have.

Someone has.

I don't know where we went off the trail on that one, but.

Well, I just, I. That was my question.

Okay.

Because I feel like I am just. I am subdued.

Here's a fascinating thing. Is caffeine in the Davis's drug guide as a drug?

That's a really good question, friends.

And what is the mechanism? What are four things? What are the mechanism actions? What are.

Doubt it.

The side effects. We all know the side effects of that. What are the nursing considerations and what is the nursing assessment? I don't know. I was just curious. So we were talking about pharm a.

Little earlier and to use Davis's drug guide, calcitonin.

Is caffeine something that I usually prescribe to people? Maybe not. I don't know.

It's gonna be in the back. Let's see.

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For those new welcome to the Nursing School show. Christina. She's looking up caffeine. I'm Matthew. We usually answer nursing school questions, but right now we're answering our questions of whether caffeine is in the Davis's drug diet.

I was right. It's in the back.

It's in the back.

Okay, so who's like me? And you have to repeat the Alphabet in your mind every single time you turn the index of a book because I don't actually have the Alphabet memorized, I tell you. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It's under natural stuff.

Natural things.

Oh, no. Caffeine. Caffeine. Caffeine. Oh, no. It's under the pediatric quick reference thing.

Pediatric.

No, no.

Okay.

No, to answer your question. No, it's really.

Okay. All right. All right.

That is so funny, though. What a great question. Yes, what a great question to ask Wednesday morning. Hey, by the way, we will not be here next week. We forgot to mention that at the beginning.

We did not mention that. I thought we were mentioning that at the end, but I don't know.

Okay. Yeah, we're not gonna be here next week because it's Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody.

Yes.

We're gonna take a week off, and then we will be back with you the week after, which is like before New Year's. Before New Year. Right. Because Christmas is on a Friday. Am I right? Christmas is on Friday, and then the week after is one of my favorite weeks of the whole year. Like, the last week of the year is the best for people like me who love thinking about the future. I love to make goals for the next year, and I want you to love it, too. So we'll probably talk a lot about that, trying to figure out how to have a life in nursing school.

How.

To ace nursing school, all of those things. We're going to talk about it the week before the new year. So not next week, the week after, the last week of the year, Monday and Wednesday. It's going to be so great.

Ooh, I like this question, and I'm writing it down so I can read it. But Hannah has a question. I start in January. Any strategies on how to approach group projects in case we have a slacker? And in parentheses, there's. Or maybe I'm worrying about nothing.

Oh, you're definitely worried about nothing. That's a validate. That's a valid concern, my friend. You know, I don't know. Like, I could say that it's a valid concern. But here's the thing. Like, if you're in nursing school, I think most nursing students really are dedicated to doing things. To doing things right. To, like, actually doing work. Because a nursing school is a lot of work. And, you know, if you get put in, you know, if you have to do a group project, which you most likely will, people are going to put in the effort. They're going to put in the time. Now, what we talked about before is really the biggest thing that helped us with group projects is that Google Document, make sure you have Access to Google Docs, where everyone can collaborate and you can all combine your stuff. Everyone can collaborate together. You know, divide up the work. Make sure you're dividing up the work clearly, and everyone has very clear expectations about what they need to do. Step number one. I should have mentioned that. First, make sure everyone has clear expectations about what they need to do. There should be, like, no confusion at all about what everyone needs to do. And then once you've divided up the work, everyone's really clear on what's expected of them. Then you can go to Google Doc, create a Google Doc and divide up the work and make sure that everyone uses that Google Doc together and everyone can see where everyone else is at. Everyone can. You know, it's kind of like almost like, okay, put your work in here, and then everyone is kind of keeping each other accountable. Does that help? This is Hannah's question.

Yeah, that's Hannah. So starting in January, so what we're saying is just before this is definitely focus on dose calc. It looks like you're. You're kind of worried about group projects, which you said that for the most part, you guys have group projects, right? Nursing school.

Yeah. Yeah, I did have group projects.

Yeah. So I think that those. Those topics are really a good way to go.

Yeah, it's. It depends on, you know, obviously who you get together with. Ours really weren't that bad. I mean, yeah, I did have some better experiences than others, depending on who was. Who I was paired with and how we worked together. Because that's another thing, too. It doesn't necessarily mean that someone's, you know, not doing their work or anything, but sometimes, you know, you just don't. You know, it's. You don't have that, like, chemistry together. Right. So like, my last term in nursing school, we were like the dream team. I was paired with another girl in our. Our program to do, like, our last, like, final cumulative project thing, and, man, did we crush it. Dream team, if you're watching right now, you know who you are. Love you, friend. Yeah, it was awesome. So it depends.

So definitely something to consider.

Don't worry.

Yeah, I wouldn't worry too much.

Cross that bridge when you get there.

Yeah, I like the collab working and we do a lot of collaboration working on various technological things now. So, yeah, definitely Google Docs to keep all the stuff all combined, meet often, and open lines of communication. Those are the big ones. Savannah had a question there. Like, do you recommend buying books like the ones you're suggesting? So we were suggesting a couple books earlier this live. So do you recommend buying the ones you're suggesting if your school doesn't recommend them? My school recommends different books. So I think there's a slight difference between not recommending them at all. Like saying no, do not get those versus they just have their other ones that they, they prefer. So yeah. Do you have any insight on that?

I think the biggest thing is if you have, let's see, for example, I've got so many textbooks, my friends like mental health books. Or let's use this one as an example. The care plan book. This is the care plan book I always recommend. But if you have one that is similar that your school recommends, you do not need this one. If it's similar like this one has the NANDA diagnoses in the front and it walks you through care plans, you know, for all the diagnoses. If you have what book that's similar to this, then you don't need this one. But if you don't highly recommend getting it, the same thing for the Davis drug guide. There's like a bunch of different drug guides out there. And if you're listening here to us on these lives or in our YouTube videos and you see me using this book, as long as your drug guide book does what this one does, then you don't need this one. But if it doesn't, if it is lacking, if it doesn't have the medication classes, if it doesn't have all these like sections here to. I don't know why it wouldn't. But if it doesn't for some reason, then I would recommend getting this one. You see what I'm saying? So does that make sense? That was Savannah, right? Savannah. So I. That's kind of a yes or no or it depends answer. You know, I just want to make sure that you get the information that you need. And so if your textbooks that your school is recommending are lacking, then yes, I would highly recommend getting these ones. Especially this one. Especially this one. Also. Also these two Merck Manual and the pathophysiology made incredibly easy. The Merck manual is actually online. If you go online Merck Manual, I don't know, just Google Merc. I don't know what their, what their website is, but it's just Google Merc Manual. Make sure you're looking on the professional version and not the consumer version so you get the actual professional stuff. But these two books are really nice. But yeah, like I said, the Merck manual is online. So don't go out and buy this if you don't want it. I like having it, but that's just to me. Hey, someone asked if I had a stethoscope earlier, right?

Yeah, that's Dre. He comes in every once in a while and just asks what kind of stethoscope to use and what stethoscopes. He's really like stethoscopes, apparently. And we've answered it.

This one. Well, I mean, I don't have it with me now because it's upstairs for when I'm, you know, on the floor. But it's this one. Mdf. I have the box down here.

It's pink.

It's pink. Take a picture of that sticker there. There, if you want. I don't know if you can see it, but it's MDF and it's hot pink because obviously. Obviously.

Be sure to check with wherever you're going if they have rules and regulations on what color it should be. But if they do not have any rules or regulations, I. I'd recommend pink or orange because our favorite colors are pink and orange. Yes, they are, according to our children. So.

Yeah, well, no, genuinely, they are pink and orange. Except the only thing that's a little different with our. With our 3 year old is that if his favorite color is something, then it cannot be your favorite color. And since daddy's favorite color is orange, no one else's favorite color.

So sorry, guys. Orange is only my favorite color.

Yeah.

Not anyone else's.

That's it. Yep.

All right. Elizabeth had a question and Machine had a kind of a similar.

I know it's hard to read.

Sorry, Sorry about names. But anyway, I wanted to kind of combine these two questions. Elizabeth. First, I'm not sure whether or not to be a nurse. I'm currently enrolled in an RN program and should start in January, but I just don't feel excited. Excited about it. Should I try out another medical career before nursing? And then on the other side, the other person was saying, hi, I am a registered nurse, but I am not proud to be a nurse. Please your help so as. So I can be excited about it. So I, I like these. And I wanted to put these two together because one is from one end, just starting out, but not sure if they should go into nursing field. One is in the nursing field, but maybe not feeling so excited about it right now. So what they can do. So this goes a lot into mindset, I believe, is a lot of it. And we're, we're really big about mindset here on this channel, so we'll probably dive into that a little bit. But do you have any thoughts about both sides of those people? Some that's going to nursing or whether they should start another career before nursing, or if you're already a nurse and you're not as excited about it anymore?

Those are great questions. The first thing I want to say is that nursing is such a beautiful profession in that you can really do so much. I mean, what other profession out there can you get one degree and then literally work just about anywhere? I mean, if you didn't want to work on a med surg floor, you don't have to. You can go be, you know, like I say, like, there's. I've always wanted to be a mother, baby nurse or lactation nurse to help mamas feed their babies. It's beautiful, right? You could do that. You could go into labor and delivery. You can go do critical care, flight nursing. If you don't want to do, you know, like, trauma nursing or anything like that. You could, you know, work in a clinic or, you know, you could go be. I always get this word wrong, but is it esthetician where you do, like, Botox injections? You could do that. There are so many different avenues. You could be like a patient advocate, right? Where you just help patients understand what's happening. It's beautiful. You know, there are so many different avenues, like diabetes educators or, you know, educators for patients. You don't have to do something if you don't want to do it. Right now, it's a little different. In nursing school, you will be put in clinicals depending on wherever you want to be or where, wherever they want you to be. And so clinicals, you know, you'll have med surg experience, you'll have ICU experience. Maybe you'll have, you know, wherever they put you, mental health experience, pediatric experience. You're going to get a lot of different clinical experiences. You might not like them all, and that's okay. However, you might find some things that really, really jam with you. Like that really is something that you could see yourself doing for a long time and. But you wouldn't know that unless you try it, right? So I would be open to the possibility. Be open to the possibility and try different things. You know, just be open to it. If you really think that it's not where you want to be. If you're really not excited about it, I would still say, I mean, you are accepted into the program. I'm talking to. Who was this? This was Elizabeth, right? If you're. If you are not Excited about it, but you are accepted into the program. I mean, you might as well try it, right? What else have you had do you have going on? I mean, you've already planned for this, I'm assuming, you know, what else do you have going on over the next three to six months? You know, if, if you just want to try it, I say go for it. See how you like your first, your first term in nursing school and then go from there. So also, I want to point out, friends, that it's not for everybody. Nursing is not for everybody. So many nursing students, this happens all the time. You will hear this all the time. Nursing students starting nursing, nursing school and dropping out in the first term. It is not necessarily because they failed out. A lot of those cases where they just decided that's not what they wanted to do. That's okay. It's totally fine. It's totally fine. Not everyone wants to be a nurse.

Yeah, definitely. So I think a core part of this is the excitement, the feeling of excitement or motivation or passion. What have you about it? So you, you obviously applied for nursing school and what's the reasons for that? You want to get in touch with that and really circling back around, really get in touch for your why. And that goes for people that are entering nursing school or the other side, that is a nurse, but not as excited about it, is really reconnecting to your why. So you did apply for nursing school. So why did you apply to nursing school? And is that the why? Is that why still matters to you? If it does, if that's really your why, reconnect with that. That might spark something, even if it doesn't, if that why is really what you're hanging on to and that why makes sense to you still, then continue on. Because I've said this before, motivation or passion, those things come and go. And I think that's a little countercultural now that you have to be passionate about something like 100% of the time or else you should go do something.

Else, or you have to be motivated.

Or you have to be motivated about something 100% of the time, or else it's just not for you. Right? But really that's not the case. We go through phases, we go through ups and downs in life. That's just the nature of things. So is it just that your, your nerves are getting the better of you since you're starting so soon? That's totally fine too. So if you reconnect with your why and decide, yes, that why really makes sense to me, and I'M just not feeling it now. Like Christina said, you're already accepted. Go ahead and go through it. Your motivation, your excitement may come back, or you just might find something about yourself in that first term. And again, it's not for everyone, too. So if you're in it and you decide, you know what, my why has changed, my situation has changed, and I don't think nursing is for me. If you need permission from someone else, maybe, maybe other people are saying, well, you're already accepted. It's a good career, you should do it. If you need permission from someone else, saying, you know what? It's not for everyone and it might not be for you, you can have that permission from us. Go ahead and try it. See if it aligns with your why, but if not, and if it's not for you, it's not for you. And that's fine. That is totally okay.

Absolutely. I would really. I'm going to add just this last thing. Really. Just make sure that you're praying about it. Because if God wants you to do something, like, for me, at least, I mean, I. I just know, like, you could just feel it, you know, like you just feel it like, this is something I'm supposed to do. I don't know why, but I know it's what I'm supposed to do. And you just do it, right? God tells you to do something, I hope you do it. So it's just, that is, if it's biblical, my friends, biblical. Talk to other Christians. There is, you know, validation there. But, you know, it is that. That it really is that it is just that it's not for everybody. It might be for you, but you don't know until you try. And then, you know, just make sure that just like Matthew said, if it's just nerves getting in the way of it, don't let nerves get in the way of God's plan for you. Do it anyway. Keep going. No matter if it's scary, no matter if, you know, you're just not sure about it, that's fine. Take those steps. Just keep going. No matter what. You'll get there. It might not be to nursing, but at least getting the ball rolling. You'll figure out, oh, maybe nursing isn't it, but then maybe you will, you know, find something else that's kind of adjacent to that. I had a friend in nursing school who decided she did not want to go through the whole nursing program, so she dropped out and she went into social work. Beautiful, you know, but she wouldn't have known that had she not started the nursing program, right? So there's a lot of different. There's so many different avenues you can go in life. But we have to start taking the steps like God wants us to move in life, right? Keep going, keep taking action and then he will direct our steps. Right? But we have to take that step. We have to keep moving. We have to keep going and just keep listening to him. Just like I said, keep praying about it. Rare gem. Yes. Thanks for bringing up God in prayer. I could not do this without him. Amen, my friend. It's really important for sure. So that really is a big, big lie is that nursing is for everyone and it's not. Nursing is not for everyone. To be honest, when I was in nursing school, I had a lot of clinical rotations. It's just not for me. It's just not for me. Like it's just not. Did not fit my personality, was not what I wanted to do, you know. But you will find somewhere. God will, like I said, direct your path. You will find somewhere that will be a good fit. And it might not be nursing, but it might be nursing. You just don't know. So I recommend that you start very.

Good adjacent to this a little bit. I wanted to capture Kayla's question too. I have zero experience healthcare experience. Does healthcare experience help when starting nursing school? Should I be stressed about it like I am?

I do not think you should be slightly helpful. At the same time, I think it can be highly detrimental. To be honest with you. I have seen it more go toward the highly detrimental than it is the helpful. So Kayla, honestly, I think it's great to be completely honest with you. And here's why I say that if you are in, if you are in a healthcare setting, especially like in a hospital right now as a tech or a CNA or an LPN or something like that. If you are on the floor and you have so much of this experience like you do, it's going to be very, very difficult for you to get nursing exam questions, right? So if you are coming into nursing school and you have a lot of experience, you are going to bring that experience into your exam with you. And that is not what you want to do. Because nursing exams are going to test you on the text book answers and textbook scenarios. And if you are coming in with a lot of experience, as you know, patients are not textbook cases, right? So if you're bringing in all these experiences with you, it's going to be difficult for you to choose the right answer on your exams. We see that all the time. Seriously, all the time. So, Kayla, for you, I honestly don't think it's that big of a deal. Now, where healthcare experience can be very, very handy to have when you start nursing school is your ability to interact with patients, with people and assess them. Right? Like you have to touch people and do your stethoscope and do your assessment. And, you know, it's. That bothers people. You know, that bothers some nursing students. They're not sure how to, you know, how to talk to a patient. You know, that can be a very difficult bridge to cross. But honestly, in my perspective, as you know, as I have been teaching and tutoring nursing students for now, years now, what we see most oftentimes is exactly what Renee just said. That's your issue, is trying to figure out how to answer nursing school exam questions when you have all this experience in your mind. So, Kayla, for you, I honestly don't think it's a big deal. Just make sure that you are practicing getting comfortable with patience, and you'll be golden.

There you go. So don't let it stress you out.

Don't let it stress you out.

Don't let that SAP your excitement. If that's sapping your excitement, just do it. You're gonna start.

Don't zap you.

Don't let that zap. So. Exactly. Exactly.

I never thought of it that way. Thank you. Can't wait to be an rn.

Awesome.

Yay. I'm excited for, for you. And with that, my friends.

Okay, so a couple, couple things. People at the end here were talking about med surge and asking for med surge. We had a really good discussion about med surg at the beginning of this live, which we're wrapping up. So go ahead and go back and take a look at that. Really good information about how to study med surge. So there are numerous people that have asked about that we are not going to be here next week.

We will not be here next week for Christmas.

It's Christmas, so happy Christmas. Merry Christmas, I guess, is the term to everyone. We will see you the week after next.

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