Nursing School Questions and Answers!

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Hello. Sunday.

Sunday. It's a Sunday.

It's Sunday. Ready for the week.

Oh, yes. Is everyone ready for the week?

Good question, actually. Okay, so what day is it now? Today is the 23rd. So most of our nursing students have already started nursing school this term. Right. Like last week and the week before.

Pop it. Pop in the comments and say maybe let's say when you started or when you are going to start or when.

You'Re going to start. Because I've heard still from several nursing students who start like the first week of February. So here's the thing. I have noticed this with some nursing programs. Tell me if this is true for yours, because I think it's kind of cool. I. And it's quite rare, actually. I think that you take January off and it's like a mission.

Oh, yeah, yeah. There was a school by where we are that did that. Right. Where January is kind of like. Yeah, yeah.

I wonder if it's for private schools. Actually, that might be more of a private school thing. So like having a mission month where you like go or like do. I don't know if they. You. You can go on like a mission too. So for. I was like reading about it online. Like you can go somewhere for a mission, but you could also do stuff locally.

Yeah, it's just like helping out at a spot.

I don't know.

All right.

Laughing at us. She says, haha. No, we start in January.

Oh, January. January to May and graduate in December. Nice. All right, people on YouTube, let us know if you've already started or are going to start and when you're going to start this next semester, slash quarter February.

Yes, because that's a thing. I've heard. I've been told that starting in February is a thing. And put your questions in the comments, please. I. I want to talk about med surg.

Okay.

I think we should talk about fundamentals.

Med surge. Fundamentals.

So, okay, those are kind of the two topics that I have in my mind right now. But if you have questions, please pop them in the comments.

Pop them in the comment. Agnes started September 2021 and you're in your second semester. Barely. Yeah, barely passed fundamentals. Well, congratulations. So when did your second semester start? So did you just started. Did you. Did your second semester start like last week or. When was that? I started in May, graduated in December. Hey.

All right. See. Hi. And shellbus. Hello. Bless you, love. Hello. Okay, so Instagram's kind of funky. It's like, it's hard to scroll. It's actually hard to scroll through the comments. Ms. Libra. Hello.

Welcome. Two weeks ago, all. So maybe, maybe I wasn't clear, like your current semester or your current quarter. Your current. What do you call it?

Term.

Term. Term, yes. Great. Your current term. When, When. When you start? Started in January. Okay.

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Started in January. January 5th. January 10th. Okay, so most people have. Have started already. Today's what, the 23rd? So.

Jennifer. Hi. Hello. Grammy Barbie. Hello. I love, love these names. Caitlin. Hi.

So you wanted to talk about med surge and fundamentals, and he's asking about peds and child development, so maybe we can.

Yes. Oh. Oh, this is perfect. Okay, I have five chapters to read in fundamentals.

Wait, no, no, no.

Where'd your comment go? Okay. Hmjmv06. I have 5 chapters to study for fundamentals. My teachers just reads away. Okay, so here's the problem in nursing school oftentimes is that inst. Unfortunately, will just read from the textbook in class, or they will just read from PowerPoint slides and not really teach anything. Right. So they're just reading from PowerPoints, which you could have read yourself. And that's a little frustrating because you're not, like, actually teaching.

Shoot down in your comments if you have noticed this or have you experienced this frustrating.

So I know. Okay, like. Like thumbs up hearts on Instagram, thumbs up on YouTube. Yeah, it's tough because it's just. You have to figure it all out yourself. Right? And that is not like. That is not what we do here. Right. If you are in our nursing assistance membership community, you know, we hold your hand all the way through nursing school, so you do not have to figure out anything alone. Like, you're not left to kind of be, you know, do it all yourself. That is absolutely not what we do. So if you are in our community, um, and you know, you obviously don't have to go through that. However, if you are not in our nursing as well as membership community, like, that's kind of. That's because sometimes what happens in nursing school is that you are just left to figure it all by yourself, which can be really frustrating. So that is why we have all these. Well, we've got all, you know, our whole YouTube channel, obviously with a bunch of study tips and stuff for, for like what to focus on. So let's walk through some things to focus on. Let's start with fundamentals, because that was the question that popped up first. So when you are in nursing fundamentals, there's going to be kind of two parts that you are going to have. There's the critical thinking part and then there's the just rote memorization part. So in nursing fundamentals, yes, you do still have things that you need to just straight up memorize. It happens in fundamentals just because there's, there's like really basic things. You know, intake, output stuff, you know, just like, you know, gauges of 5Vs, you know, things like that you just have to memorize. And it's. So there are, there is that. So two recommendations for memorizing things. Whiteboards and flashcards. So whiteboards and flashcards. And I actually, I should really bring a whiteboard up and kind of show you guys. So maybe next time we'll do that. We'll remember that. But just having a whiteboard and like an expo pen or you know, you know, whiteboard marker to write out concepts over and over and over again is so helpful. So did you do this when you were in college? I mean, okay, so I am a nurse. Hello, my name is Christina. This is Matthew. He is not a nurse. I'm sorry, we did not introduce ourselves.

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But yes, I am not a nurse. I did go to college. Yes, I went to the schooling. You did the school. I did the schooling. And what was your question?

Actually, now I forget what was. Oh, whiteboards did you use? So basically, did you study in college?

So backing up. So we're talking about the things that you need to do to just do the rope memorization. So just things that you do need to memorize. And there are things like that that you do. And so the main tip that you have are whiteboards and flashcards in it. And it all boils down to the same thing, which is repetition. Just lots and lots of repetition, lots and lots of writing over and over again and just drilling it into your long term memory. And that just happens through rote memorization, rote time, rote repetition. And it'll get there. That being said, no, I did not because I am a C get degree kind of guy.

And it works for you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I'm here and that's what matters. So good job. Yes.

Bonus points.

I kind of did the whole osmosis. Put the book on top of your head while you sleep and hopefully it falls into your head. I do not recommend that, by the way. Do not recommend that at all. Do the flashcards. Do the whiteboards instead. It will work a lot better for you.

Yeah, for sure. It just, it helps to write things out. Hey, I actually did a whole Instagram story about this. What? We went to Target and did a whole like Target haul.

Oh yeah, that's a really good one. Yeah, you went through and just kind of. Yeah, we just always find ourselves at Target.

Always.

Comment below. If this happens to you sometimes and you go to Target for one thing and come out with a cart full of stuff, which is always fun and.

You'Re like walking up and down all the aisles. Target is amazing. Okay, so they have like the big whiteboards there. It was. They were bigger. But actually the whiteboards that I used in nursing school were the Costco sized ones wholesale, like huge. I mean they're what, 3ft by 2ft, something like that?

They're pretty big.

So I have two of them. And so I recommend checking out Costco for the big whiteboards because the more you just write things out, this really helps if you are a kinesthetic learner because you're writing it down, that can really help. It also helps if you're a visual learner because you are seeing it as you are writing it. And even if you're an auditory learner, you can actually say it while you're writing. Because like auditory, even if it's yourself, even if it's just you like saying it and you're hearing your own self talk, that's still helping you auditorily. Auditorium. That doesn't sound right, but I feel like that might be right. I don't know. Anyway, you know what I'm saying? So if you're. No matter what kind of learner you are, that's really going to help you is to just write things Out. Same thing with flashcards. Matthew always thinks it's kind of weird as I study that I don't actually go through the flashcards afterwards. Like, I. I just write them out and then that's about it. So I have, like, stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks of flashcards all through our house in nursing school. And I never went through them because for me at least it was good enough to just write. Write them out. Like, write out the flashcards, write out the topics, and that was enough for me to study. But you might need to actually go through them, which, again, another level will help you.

Yeah. So you definitely need to learn your learning style. That's kind of the meta of learning how you learn things, but kind of backing up. So the general question is, okay, my teachers there, they're for those that just joined. So my teachers are just there. They're just reading out of the textbook and they're not really adding anything and just. Just wrote reading and telling you, you need to know everything. What do you need to learn or what do you need to do for fundamentals? So we're talking about part one. Anything with rote memorization. That's a good way to do it is repetition and knowing your learning style for getting that into your head. And what is the second part of flashcards? No, just the what, the other part of learning. So there's a rote memorization and then there's actual critical thinking.

Actual critical thinking, yeah. And I actually want to mention, before we get into critical thinking, Dashington on Instagram said, I bought a whiteboard on Facebook Marketplace from a preschool teacher. So there's another idea.

You know, that whole Facebook Marketplace has kind of blown up lately.

I keep hearing about it.

I've never used it.

I have never used it.

What do you think, guys? Have you used it?

But it sounds really cool. Are you a couple? Yes, we are. We go together. We are together.

I just found myself here. I don't know. I don't know what's going on. I saw a camera and decided to jump on.

We are married to each other. Yes. Let's see. Oh, yeah. So for critical thinking. Yeah, Sorry. I hope I'm not, like, moving the Instagram camera. So our. Our setup's a little funky. We're gonna get better at this setup. So critical thinking. Now I want to mention this. Where is Paige? Okay. Who has the nursing school study system? I know a lot of you do. So if you have this already, if you remember from our. Our YouTube Lives, Instagram Lives from before. So we actually had our live show like a year ago. If you're just joining us, if you're new to our world, we have been doing this for a while. We teach nursing students and we used to have a live show that we did and that was super fun. Anyway, if you have been joining us since then, raise your hand because I know there's quite a few of you, but we do have this nursing school study system for you. If you go to nursing school of success.com forward/study system, you can find it. And on page 15, I know a lot of you guys already have it. So on page 15 is where we start talking about critical thinking. So how to critically think in nursing school. It's on page 15. And then let's see, page 17 has concept maps and critical thinking questions for you. So there's two parts to critical thinking that you will use in nursing school in both fundamentals and med surgeon, when you're doing clinical and all of the things. So two parts is planning ahead and then connecting the dots. So when you are at clinical, you need to make sure that you are always kind of staying on your toes. You're planning ahead for what's going to come next with your patients. You know, you need to anticipate their needs, right? Maybe you've heard that phrase of nursing school, anticipate their needs to make sure that you are batching your tasks together because, right, you're going to have several patients that you're going to be needing to take care of and you want to manage your time well. So planning ahead and making sure that you are kind of thinking ahead to okay, maybe I have a patient who's, you know, their, their meal tray is coming and they need some medications before they have their, you know, lunch or dinner or whatever. So you're going to bring those medications along when you bring them their meal tray, right? So kind of batching things together, that is the planning ahead part of critical thinking. That when we talk about that, that's what we mean. Now the next part is really connecting the dots with everything that you're learning. This is really the big thing in nursing school. And really, I think personally, because I did college before I was a nurse. I, I did, I did several rounds of college before I became a nurse. And I think this is the difference between a nursing program or medical program and something else, you know, another college degree is like that, that connecting the dots to everything that you're learning, really, that deep critical thinking. Because in nursing you have to know like the pathophysiology of the disorder that the patient is, you know, has. So let's say you have a patient with heart failure. Like, you need to know how a patient's heart failure interacts with their hypertension or something, or diabetes, right? Go together oftentimes. And then you need to know, like, how to fix it, right? You need to know what signs and symptoms look for. You need to know what to ask for. You need to know what interventions to do, right? So that is what we mean by connecting the dots. You have to understand how all of these things kind of merge together and work together so that you can help your patient the most. Right? So that is what we mean by critical thinking. There's two parts to it. There's that planning ahead, and then there's the connecting the dots. Now, if you have the nursing school study system, turn to page 17 and I have listed here, it starts on the bottom of page 17, but then it continues on page 18. And 19 is nine key critical think questions to ask yourself as you study. So things like, how does this disorder relate to other disorders? How does. How would you help a patient with comorbidities? How would you help this patient without comorbidities? What things can you do as the nurse without a doctor's order? Or what things would you need a doctor's order for? So all of these questions are listed for you here in the nursing school study system to help guide you as you study. Because in nursing school, whether you're in fundamentals or if you are in med surg or critical care or pharmacology, doesn't matter. Any classes that you're taking in nursing school, you have to connect the dots between everything. You have to connect it all together. The pathophysiology of a disorder. Okay, now what does that really mean? Now what am I going to do about it? How are we going to help a patient with that disorder? What do I need to assess for all of kind of those things? So as you study, these are the questions that you're going to want to be asking yourself to prepare for your exams. And my friend, I am telling you right now, you do not want to wait to do this process, like, ever. You don't want to wait to do this process until you get to your exam. You want to do this process. You want to ask yourself these questions. You want to be critically thinking about before you go take your nursing school exam, because that's what they're going to test you on. They're going to test you on how well you critically think and if you wait until your nursing school exam to like practice those critical thinking skills. You are not going to do as well as you would have if you had practiced already while you were studying for your exam. Does that make sense? So make sure that you are practicing your critical thinking before you walk into that exam. It's going to help you so, so much. So anyway, we have those listed out here for you. And then we also walk through our DRC critical thinking model. We actually have a whole critical thinking model for you that walks you through step by step how to critically think. So be sure to check that out if you haven't already. I know a lot of you guys already have it, but if you don't, it's called the nursing school study system and you can get it at Nursing School. Schoolofsuccess.com forward/study system. I don't know, you could probably type that into the.

I can do that. Yeah.

YouTube.

So yeah, this is basically just a collection of some of the high level things that you talk about at length in our membership and guide people through in our membership community. This is kind of the DIY if you want to kind of get a handle on, on Christina's teaching style and just all her tips and tricks and all that good stuff.

Yes.

But yeah, definitely those two things. For rote memorization, there's a repetition and then for critical thinking there's those two steps for critical thinking. And that goes throughout your whole nursing career, nursing school career. It kind of transcends just med surg or whatever, just any of your classes really. It's really deciding what camp what you're studying falls into, whether it needs to be just rote memorization or whether it needs to be critical thinking and then from there just, just applying it and, and learning it. So yeah, let me go ahead and type that in for those that have not seen it.

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There we go. And if you haven't yet, be sure to follow on Instagram and subscribe and hit the Bell on YouTube. That'll be much appreciated. And we're going to be going live a lot more and so I don't want you guys to miss that. We'll figure out what to do, what kind of questions we want to take and yeah, let us know down in the comments too. Like, yeah, what kind of top you.

Want to talk about?

You just. Guys just want to hang out and just, just talk. We can do that too. Yeah, so just let us know what will help you guys get through nursing school.

Okay, so DG11211 on Instagram. Our school made it a requirement when taking the test to use a whiteboard instead of a white piece of paper. Yes, that is true for most nursing schools because I'll tell you why. Because that's what the NCLEX does. So when you go to take the NCLEX for your nursing licensure to become a registered nurse or if you're going through an LPN program, so the NCLEX will give you a whiteboard and a expo marker Whiteboard marker to use. So that's why like nursing schools try to just mimic the NCLEX as much as possible to get you comfortable with kind of how it's going to run. So that's why I can tell you. Tell you that's why. Hm.jmv06 hello again. So glad to see you. Test on Tuesday and started today at 6pm Studying. You are going to do great. Fantastic. So you are already a couple days ahead. I love it. Fantastic. Chrissy says she got her textbooks on Facebook Marketplace.

That's pretty cool. Wow, that is pretty cool.

That's actually really nice. Okay, so yeah, Facebook Marketplace. Is that kind of like the new Goodwill? Because I see nursing textbooks at Goodwill all the time and I got some of my nursing textbooks at Goodwill. I love Goodwill. I know.

It's kind of like. I don't know exactly. Like I said, never used Facebook Marketplace. I don't know. Looked at it kind of like ebay or just one of those upselling things or ebay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's pretty cool.

People think we're cute on YouTube. That's nice. Thank you.

Well, thank you very much.

Mar for Joe's. Mar for Joe's. I have four kids and you're in school. You can do it. Fantastic. Yes, absolutely. We have. Oh my. So so many of our members are moms going through school. You can absolutely do like my best friend actually in nursing school, had four kids. Yep. And she is a fantastic nurse. Yeah, we all made it through nursing school.

You guys did together pretty cool.

Yep.

So yeah, definitely. No matter what your home life is, I guess. Yeah, you can do it. You can, you can make it through.

It just takes, it takes like, like these strategies. Right. So, so, so many nursing students. Here's what happens, like if you, especially if you've got kids, if you've got a family and you're going through nursing school. I mean these tips like this, that, well, this study system really like all the, the step by step guide that we have for you in here for how to Study is going to be just imperative for you because the thing is, is like, you don't have time, right? Like, you have to be so guarded about your time. Because if you're not studying, you want to be with your family, right? And if you're not with your family, you want to be studying. Like, you have to be balancing these things and to do it, you know, to do it well, like, these study tips will help. So how, how you study is going to be huge. So like we said, whiteboards and flashcards for rote memorization. And then when you were working on your critical thinking, just make sure that you're running through those questions. You know, you're running these nine critical thinking questions that you're using our DRC critical thinking model, because that's really going to help bring all the concepts together so you don't have to study for endless hours because you're actually going to get it, you know, like, you're actually going to be able to make that leap from rote memorization to critical thinking, which is what your nursing school exams are going to test you on. So you're going to do a lot better in your program when you know how to criticize. We think so. Fantastic.

Awesome.

A couple people are asking how much it is. It is 27 on our site. So nursing schoolofsuccess.com forward slash studies.

And that's for a digital download. So you can, you can download it on your phone or you can download it on a computer, download it, print it out, do whatever you can get it bound on your own too, or whatever is the best way that you can study or use it. Then that's great.

Absolutely.

The other topic that you want to jump into is med surg. And then Annie's talking about peds, which kind of falls into med surg too. So just general med surg study strategies. Let's start with that. And Annie, if you have any specific questions on PEDs, we can see if we can field those after kind of general topics. But when studying med surg in general, including PEDs, what do you do?

So it's kind of nice because pediatrics, let's let me think. There's a lot of fundamentals topics that you'll learn, like fundamentals like stroke, you'll learn the high level kind of med surge disorders, diabetes, stroke, you'll learn those things in fundamentals. So disorders like that and then med surge will cover, you know, the body systems, right? Cardiac, respiratory, renal, gi, all neuroendocrine, all the things immunology, you'll learn all that in med surg. And then pediatrics is nice because it's. You're learning those disorders, but you're. But you're learning them as they relate to a pediatric population. So it's like you've already done half the work. If you do med surg before you take your peds, then you already have a really solid foundation because you know cardiac disorders already, you know respiratory, like, you know about asthma, you know about DKA and endocrine, you know, endocrine things from med surg. And you can bring that knowledge along when you do pediatrics and then, you know, critical care, things like that. OB, even, you know, diabetes and hypertension, things like that. Like, you have a really good foundation. So all of those things, all of those classes will follow these four main categories that I'm going to give you right now. So if you are in for fundamentals, if you are in pediatrics, if you are in med surg, if you are in ob, even if you are in mental health and learning disorders and mental health. I know it's late. Those are the only ones I can think of right now. I'm probably missing something, though.

Before you jump into those four things, any of you're still on because you were asking specifically about peds. I am curious, since Christina mentioned it, have you gone through other med surg classes already? And she's saying that that will help for peds. But I'm curious if you were able to do that if you've gone through some other med surg classes. So what are the four things? Just in general for everything.

And then, Annie, I can help you hang tight real quick. So, yes, if you are in one of those classes. So fundamentals, med surge, ob, pediatrics, mental health, any of those. So make sure that you really, really focus on what I'm saying right now. And someone actually. Can someone write it in the comments on Instagram and someone write this in the comments on YouTube. These four things that I'm going to tell you right now. You ready? Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Those are the four main things that you need to focus on if you're in one of those classes. Okay, I'm going to repeat it. Can someone please write it down in the comments on Instagram? Write it down in the comments on YouTube. Somebody please. Ready? I'm going to say it again. Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Those are the four main things that you need to focus on when you are studying in med surg, in fundamentals and pediatrics will be all the things. Patho, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment, and nursing interventions. Thank you, Caitlin. Someone please, on YouTube write those four things down. Patho, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment, and nursing interventions. So as you were studying for those classes, if you've taken an exam in one of those classes before, you probably have already seen this. These are the four main things that they're going to test you on. Patho signs and symptoms, nursing assessment, and nursing interventions. Thank you. Seesaw. You always come through for me. Love it. Make sure that you're focusing on studying those four main things. So when you get to, like, a med surg lecture, your instructor is going to teach you about a whole lot of things. Like they're going to talk about causes of stuff, like the etiology of things, maybe the little history about it. You know, I remember being in microbiology and I was learning a whole lot of history. I thought it was cool, but it's not. Things you're actually tested on. So in. In nursing school, you're gonna be tested on those four main things. Pathos, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment, and nursing inter. And here's the really cool thing about this system. It all starts with the pathophysiology. So the pathophysiology is. The pathophysiology means what is abnormally going on in the body. Like what is wrong in the body physiology is what is normal. Pathophysiology is what is abnormal. So you need to understand the pathophysio first and then you can go on to learn the signs, symptoms, the nursing assessment, and the nursing interventions as they relate back to the pathophysiology. So once you know the patho of the disorder, it is going to be a whole lot easier for you to understand the signs and symptoms, the nursing assessment and the nursing intervention, because they all relate back to that pathophysiology. Okay? So think about it. You got a patient with heart failure. You know, you think through the medications that you'll give for a patient with heart failure or hypertension or diabetes or whatever, you know, whatever disorder the patient's going through. Think about the patho. What is actually happening with that patient? You know, what. What interventions are you going to do as they relate back to the path? What assessments are you going to do as they relate back to the path? What signs and symptoms do you think you're going to see as it relates back to the patho? This is the critical thinking that we were just talking about, right? This is how you Connect the dots with everything that you're learning. Do that critical thinking, related all back to the pathophysiology. Does that make sense? Okay, so Annie, Annie says, okay, you have gone through other med surg, so you are in a fantastic position to get through peds because you already understand, you know, basic med surge disorders. You've probably already done cardiac, you've probably already done respiratory. Respiratory is huge in pediatrics. You know, you see patients with dka, see patients with asthma. Man, asthma, allergies, huge in pediatric populations. So you are in such a great position. Annie, I am super excited for you that you've already done some med surg classes and now we're in peds because it's really going to help you.

So, again, the same thing applies. It's just. Okay, how does the pathophysiology in peds look for each of these? And it might be a little different. Right?

So that's a few different.

That's going to be the key differences. And again, it starts back at pathos. So figure out what the pathophysiology for that disorder is for peds, and then from there work into the rest of it. Sends symptoms, assessments and interventions.

Absolutely. So much of it is going to be the same. Like. Like the pathophysiology of asthma doesn't change whether you're a pediatric population or an adult population, however, where you will see differences, Annie. And peds is the congenital heart disorders. So, you know, you've got the VSD and the asd. The heart, like the things that a baby might be born with that are kind of abnormal. The heart, you might see that. Let's think of some of these. Oh, I think you mentioned, like, vaccinations. You. You mentioned the vaccination schedule. So, like, there's a lot of infectious diseases that are very. What's the word? Specific to a patient population. Things like rsv. Right. Very specific to a pediatrician. I say patient population. I meant pediatric population. So you are going to see some differences between an adult med search class and a pediatric population class, just because the pediatric populations obviously deal with some different things than an adult population. But, you know, the study tips stay the same. Focus on those four main categories. Patho signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. So, Annie, let me.

And then the last thing. Yeah, you. I'll go ahead and read that out. So, yeah, go for it. You were asking also about peds development, and then you're talking about Freud, Erickson.

And.

That sounds like a Pokemon, but I know he's not but yeah, still. Anyway, the only reason I. I recognize those dudes is because I was editing the videos of those courses in the membership community.

So that's hilarious.

Anyway, Pidgeot.

That's so funny. So for. Yeah, if you were in fundamentals, in our fundamentals course, inside the nursing SOS membership community, we do have the nursing theorists in there. So if you were a nursing SOS member, if you're struggling with fundamentals, we've got videos for you on all the nursing theorists. Now, the. Okay, so you mentioned specifically peds development. Oh, you didn't mention vaccination schedule. I thought you did. Sorry, sorry, Annie. But peds development, vaccination schedule, the nursing theorists as they relate to pediatrics, these are all things that you don't really. Okay, someone's really gonna object to this. Like, this might be a little controversial, but they're not really things that you need to critically think about. Anyone getting abatomy, someone out there and you.

This would fall into the rote memorization category.

This would fall into rote memorization category. Exactly. Because, like, peds development, you just have to memorize the milestones. I mean, what are you going to critically think about, really?

Like, I'm sure you could probably.

This is how it traditionally happens. And you just have to memorize that. Right? Like, that's not something that you really can get around. You have to actually just memorize it. My major tip for that, Annie, do you have kids? Okay, that might be a little too personal. I don't know if you want to put that in YouTube, but do you have kids? If you have kids. So if you are in any. Anyone out there, if you guys are in pediatrics or going into pediatrics, here's a huge tip for you. If you have children or if you know children, if you.

If you know children, if you have.

Been around children, if you have, you know, nieces or nephews or anybody in your world who is a child, please do not bring them into the test with you. And I mean, not physically bring them. I mean, like, in your mind, do not. Do not think back to when they were a baby and say, oh, my child, or this child that I.

They started talking when they were three months old.

Yeah. Started saying sentences and running and biking and doing triathlons when they were sick six months old. You know, that is not. No, don't. Don't think about kids in your life as you are taking the test. We're. Your nursing school exam is going to test you on the text book milestones for children. And so that is what you have to learn. So don't think about your kids. Okay. So Annie, you said you have a son, so yeah, don't like, don't think about how like he was developmentally in, during your exam because it, it might, it might be right, it might not be. You know, all kids kind of are different. But we're going like your nursing school exam is going to test you on textbook normals.

You know what? That, that's, that's a good tip. Just in general for nursing school is that don't take your experiences with you. That, that nursing school is going to focus on the textbook numbers, the textbook things. Yes, you might run a little hot at like 103, but that's not normal.

So you might feel a temperature of like 110 all the time, but that's not normal.

So yeah, just, we're talking about peds, but yeah, just in general, don't take those experiences with you. That's a really good point is just, just focus on what the textbook says. So for Pete's development, for those Freud and those dudes. Young. Young. Is that the other one, Young Ian? I don't know. Anyway, I don't know which one she listed those kind of things. I think that they do fall more under rote memorization. So just memorize the schedules, memorize the milestones, and you should be good to go for that.

And hey, look at that. It's inside the nursing school study system. That tip right there. So you're welcome. Y nclex is a perfect world. It is textbook normals. So do not bring any real world experience. Like if you have, if you have CNA experience, if you have med tech experience, if you have LPN experience, if you have nursing, whatever experience you have doesn't matter, don't take it with you into your exam because it will just make it worse. It's interesting. That's actually a really, that's something that I want to jam on Just, just, just for a minute. Because a lot of nursing students come to us, they email me and they, they ask, hey Christina, I'm really scared to start nursing school because I have zero experience. And here's what I tell everyone is that that is can actually work in your favor. Because here's what we see. We see this exact thing that nursing students who have a lot of experience go into the exam, they bring that experience with them and they don't do as well as someone who no experience. Because if you have no experience, you go just on textbook, right? What the textbook says and that's what they're going to test you on. So you do not want to bring your. Your experience into your nursing school exam. It's really important and just really quick.

To wrap up our discussion about med surg. What are the four things again?

Four things. Say them with me. Pathophysiology, nursing signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing intervention. Four things. Now I know Seesaw. You wrote it into YouTube and where was it? I need to. Oh, someone said, please repeat. Hopefully that was what I was supposed to. Patho signs and symptoms, Nursing assessment and nursing interventions. HMJM V06. This is why Instagram is more difficult than YouTube. And then Caitlin, you. You both wrote it down. So y' all might just have to scroll up, up in the. In the chat on Instagram.

So to wrap up on that, actually, I am finishing up our YouTube that we're dropping this week on acute glomerul nerve writis.

Good job.

Glomerul nephritis. See, I can't say it, but I can edit it.

But anyway, such a funny game to play is if, like, we gave you nursing school terms and we could probably do that, say them all. Except I think you'd be pretty good at that because you've heard me say everything.

I have heard a lot.

You're pretty good.

So, yeah, that video is dropping and it is a deep dive into acute glomerul nephritis, and it will go through those four things. So if you have not yet in Instagram land and YouTube land, be sure to hit, subscribe, hit the bell. That will be dropping this week. If you're having to go through that in nursing school right now, or if you want a better example or more examples of how those four topics, those four sections, whatever you want to call them, fit together in a disorder.

Yes.

Or talk about a disorder.

Absolutely.

There you go.

And yeah, if you're a nursing SS member, we have, you know. Okay, so what week is it now? Is it the almost the end of January? It's like the end of the 23rd.

Of January where we are. It might be some other time somewhere else.

So nursing SOS members, please, please, please keep an eye on your email because I have some very special things coming for you over the next, let's say a couple weeks. So if you're a nursing association, I'm gonna blow your mind in a couple weeks. You ready? Stay tuned. So, yes, just keep an eye out on your email. Okay, so. Oh, someone had a question that I wanted to answer about. Yes. Spacing out. Study Time. And I'm going to mention this just because someone else had talked about study time a little bit earlier too. So I got that question a couple times. So when you are studying for nursing school, the more that you can really, the more you can study, the better. Not, not always. Study smarter, not harder. Study more efficiently, not more. But you still need to like pace yourself as you study. We do not want to cram. You do not want to cram like the night before an exam. You don't want to stay up all night, right, trying to learn everything for your exam the next day. So here's what I always Recommend. Study for 2 hours outside of class for every hour that you are in class. So if you are in class for three hours per week, then you are going to study for six hours, okay, that week. Does that make sense? So two hours, two, it's like two to one. So two. Study for two hours outside of class for every hour that you are in class. So there you go. If you want to study like an hour a day for a class, that's fine because that would be like six days, you know, if you have class for three hours, then you need to study six hours outside of that class per week, then that should give you enough time to learn everything. If you are, if, and here's the thing, really friends, if you are studying for a lot longer than 2 hours, 2 hour. Or if you are studying for a lot longer than two hours for every hour you are in class, something is wrong. So we need to change something, you know, I need to help you, you know, so that's where I would recommend joining the nursing SMS membership community so that you don't have to like over study or figure everything out yourself. Because if you are studying for more than two hours for every hour you're in lecture, that tells me that you're doing an awful lot, you're spending an awful lot of figuring things out yourself and that is not going to be helpful for you. So I really, really hope that you will consider joining the nursing SOS membership community the next time enrollment is open, which I saw someone ask when that will be. I don't know actually don't have the schedule down, but it will be opening sometime in the future. So get on the waitlist nursingschoolofsuccess.com forward/join and you can join the waitlist there to be notified when you it will open.

Okay. Again, so to follow up on that studying guideline, basically what they were saying, their question does that change for when you're Getting ready for an exam. So the question actually is how do you study out study sessions through the week for the exam?

It should always be the, like it should all. And I think that's where people get really stuck. Like I think that's where nursing students get really stuck is that we, we do tend to procrastinate, right, because you've got clinical, you've got care plans, you've got skills lab, you've got a research paper due, you've got all of these things. And we put off, we put off, we put off, we put off studying for lecture until it's too late and then it's the night before the exam and now we have to really study and then you, you know, pound in those, you know, 12 hours that you should have had spread out the past two weeks. So no, I recommend that you, you pace yourself as you, you as you study. So per week, study for two hours outside of class, for every hour you were in class.

So as long as you're sticking to that plan throughout your whole term, then you wouldn't have to increase your study time like the week before your exam to make sure that you have everything. Just continue studying the way you have been and you'll be good.

Right. And I think that there's also kind of a mindset thing, right? When you are cramming, when, when it's the day before the exam, your stress level is a little bit different than it would have been if it was 12 days before an exam. Right. So you're going to study a little bit differently, you're going to focus a little bit differently and your brain might be freaking out a little bit more the day before an exam. So it's just not as productive. So definitely spacing it out. Does that make sense? Harkamal, does that make sense? Let me see. Make sure that I didn't miss, miss any other best way to space out. Okay. Yeah. So I didn't miss anything. Yeah. Does that make sense? Everyone, like just spacing it out? Yeah. Yeah.

Right.

That's all I have.

Yeah, that, that's really great.

So study system will really help you. I mean, I, I mean I'm not like just saying it just because I think it's awesome and you know, it's just, it's just super helpful. So if you do have any questions about how to study in nursing school, obviously we have a YouTube channel if you're watching on YouTube. You know, man, we're almost to a hundred thousand subscribers.

We are. Help us get to a hundred thousand subscribers.

Kind of blows my mind.

Hit the subscribe the bell and I guess let's just jam on that. That really. Yeah. The reason why we're here, why are we here? Why are we starting to do lives more Is that we just want to help you guys get through nursing school. So help. What did I say the other day? Help us help you. Let us know in the comments if this is helpful or what is helpful to go through during lives. Just more questions or do you want to to like have topics available for lives? Let us know how we can help you and again, the best ways that we know how how to help you. Our YouTube channel has a lot of good, good videos on. On all the things if you want a little bit more help again, the study system. Check it out. This. That's basically the premier guide for how Christina teaches. So if you want to a better understanding of that. If what we are doing is helping you guys and you just want a little bit more, go ahead and check that out. And again, if you need all the content, all the videos, there's always a membership. It is closed now but we do open it every once in a while. So get on the wait list and you'll be notified. But really those are the kind of the. The three places to find us to help you if you need our help. If you like the way that Christina's teaches. If you don't mind me, I guess I don't know. But yeah, so Pretty great, right? YouTube. Make sure to subscribe, check out the study system and definitely join the wait list. But yeah, let us know what's the best way that we can help or we can use these lives to help you guys out.

Yeah. Yep, absolutely. So it's kind of funny. Like it's late, you know, it's like it's like evening time.

Right?

You guys are studying, you guys are, you know, getting ready for Monday in school. Like for us, like we could be, you know, doing whatever. I don't know. But we want to be here with you helping you through nursing school. So yeah, we are going to be doing this more. Let us know if you want to see.

Does Sunday night work Sunday night for us? I guess it could be Monday morning for you guys if you're somewhere else in the Philippines.

Yes.

If, if Sunday night works great for you guys and let us know.

Yeah, yeah, we're absolutely here. So that's why we're here, why we're here. We. We just genuinely want to help you as much as we can. So there you go.

That's all I have last minute. We need questions.

You can do this. That's probably my last. My last. Oh, follow me on Instagram, please. I would. I've been busy. We've been really busy today. And on Friday, I just didn't post on Instagram stories a whole lot today, actually at all. But I usually do so. Please, please.

She's really liking the gram. Is that a thing?

The gram.

The gram. Is that a thing? She's really been liking that and throwing up reels and stories.

I love reels and TikTok. I love. I am. I love Tick Tock.

So be sure to join her there. You guys will have a fun time.

Yes, I like tick tock. Hmjmv06. It is a 27 nursing school schoolofsuccess.com forward slash study system. You can find it there. I highly, highly recommend it.

Again, that's the downloadable PDF.

Downloadable PDF? Yeah.

So you can print it out, put it on your computer.

Yeah, all the time.

Do whatever you want with it. But it is the PDF, so. Yep, yep.

All right, my friends, we will see you later. Yes, yes. So just leave in the comments. We'll see them. What topics you want us to talk about next time. If there's anything that you are struggling with in fundamentals or med surge or you just want like pharmacology study tips or, you know, OB study tips, what have you, you know, just let us know and I'll try to cover those. Maybe even do a YouTube video, a whole YouTube video on it sometime. I don't know. Actually, speaking of that, one last thing on YouTube, be sure. We just started a series a couple of weeks ago, a nursing FAQ series. So like frequently asked questions. So I kind of compiled the questions that I get all the time from nursing students. And so I think it's every other week we're doing an FAQ. So definitely check out that series on YouTube because it's so, so good. It's just like our top questions basically that we get from nursing students and my answers to them. So, you know, I think that's super helpful. I'm really excited about that series. I've had a lot of fun with it. So I think, I hope that those are helpful for you, those videos. So check that out on YouTube. It's just our brand new FAQ frequently asked questions series. And be sure to subscribe on YouTube too. Like Matthew said, we're almost to 100,000. What in the world is going on? Like, that is incredible.

Christina's always wanted to do the whole balloon thing. So maybe we'll do that before. If you want us to do that when we hit 100. And we can. We can definitely do that too.

The hundred balloon thing. You know what I'm talking about, right? With like, the hundred. I just think it's cute. Never done it before. I don't know. With so many children that we have, we probably will never do it, but it sounds a lot of balloons. It's a lot of balloons and a lot of children to wrangle with said balloons. That sounds like quite the feat, actually. We'll see how it goes.

So, yeah, let us know what else.

To do with us tonight.

Let us know if you just want to hang out and, I don't know, just do a coffee. Coffee date sometime or something so we can do that.

Awesome. All right, thanks, guys.

All right, take care.

Later.

We'll talk to you later. Bye.

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

Keep waving.

Keep waving. Keep waving on YouTube. I don't know if it's gonna go off.

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