Event 6: How to Survive Nursing School with Nurse Liz (2021)

00:00 All right. I think we're going to go ahead and get started.

00:04 I think we're all here.

00:06 Okay. So welcome to How to Survive Nursing School with Nurse Liz.

00:12 If you just joined us, you will use the chat to communicate.

00:17 So any questions you have throughout the presentation, please feel free to put them in the chat and we'll answer them as soon as we can.

00:24 We will be doing a Q&A at the end, so we'll answer all the questions at the end so that we can kind of move pretty smoothly through the presentation.

00:32 But if you have any questions, please put them in the chat as you as they come to your mind, and we'll be sure to address them at the during the Q&A session.

00:42 So let's go ahead and get started so we can have a good time and be on time.

00:49 So my name is Nicole Shen and I am responsible for student engagement.

00:53 Lecturio. So always a pleasure to see you all.

00:57 Really excited to have you all here with us, especially this time of year.

01:01 So even if you're, um, new in nursing school and you've just started or you've been doing it for a while and you're about to graduate in December, we're really excited to have you here, because a new semester is just a really exciting time to, like, start to do new habits and to get to know, like what you need to do in order to be successful.

01:19 So excited that you're taking the time out to do that.

01:22 And then I'm going to briefly introduce Nurse Liz because she's going to introduce herself.

01:27 But Nurse Liz, um, is one of our nurses at Lecturio and really great asset.

01:33 I love Nurse Liz so and I know you will too.

01:37 You've probably seen our social media.

01:39 Um, but she has so much information to offer to you all and to help you get through.

01:46 So let's go ahead and dig in a little bit.

01:50 So we have our first poll question.

01:53 Um, so if you would answer the poll and just let us know how familiar you are with Lecturio. And so put it in the poll and not the Chat because again, we can't multitask. So.

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02:20 Used it before but not anymore.

02:22 We need you back. You got to come back.

02:24 We have so many. We're adding so much stuff and you're watching on YouTube.

02:29 We're so much more than YouTube.

02:30 You're going to be excited to see and you're new to Lecturio.

02:34 We like that too. So okay, good.

02:36 So just so we have a good understanding of, um, who's in the audience, I'm going to, um, show you a little bit, just give you a brief overview.

02:47 So if you haven't seen our resources before, you'll have an idea.

02:52 So when Nurse Liz is, um, Doing her part of the presentation, it will make a little bit more sense.

03:00 So you see here a nurse.

03:03 Liz, can you see my screen? Yep. Okay. Perfect. Okay.

03:07 So you're going to see here this is the home page to your Lecturio resources.

03:12 There's a couple of things that I want to point out before we get started. Because as I said, um, when Nurse Liz starts to, um, speak, you'll have a couple of things that you'll want to refer back to mentally.

03:23 So you'll know how to use these resources as she gives you these great tips on how to be successful. So one of the things is that, you know, we have our video library, we have our question bank, and we have our space repetition, which are all the quick start links at the top here. So one thing we're going to talk about today is organization study planners.

03:45 Um, and how to basically stay on track.

03:48 And so I want to make sure that everyone knows that with Lecturio, with your resources, you have access to a personal study planner.

03:56 And so if you click on study planner from your from the home page, you're going to see is first of all, if you have had Lecturio, um, within the recent months, you'll see that we've done some updates to give you a better perspective on how to use your time when you're studying.

04:12 So if you haven't checked this out, check this out, because it's really cool.

04:17 And we kind of give you an idea of how to stay on track and how much time you need to spend each day based on your personal study schedule.

04:25 But with the study planner, you'll see that you're able to add Lecturio video lessons to your study planner.

04:34 You're able to, um, add in due dates so that you can keep yourself on track, and you can also edit your due date.

04:41 So at any time, if you need to change whatever it is that you've scheduled, you can do that here in the study planner.

04:47 So Nurse Liz is going to talk a little bit about that, about organization and study planners and all that kind of thing.

04:53 So just make sure you remember that you have access to that with your Lecturio resources, where you're able to use the study planner as a personal tool for you to stay on track.

05:04 So that's first. And I always like to go back to the home page and start from scratch.

05:08 So the next thing we're going to talk about today are is note taking and notes.

05:14 And so if you haven't discovered already, we have added notes to the links here on the, on the left. And the great thing about our notes is that again, they're personalized. But you can also search.

05:27 So if you're looking for a particular term you can always put that in the search box.

05:34 And then once you put in the term and you click search, it's going to pull up all of your personal notes with that term.

05:41 That word is in your notes.

05:43 So a really great way again to maximize your time because you're not going to have to go back and look for it. And so you'll be able to do that.

05:51 Now, the other thing is that with the notes section, you can put the notes in and we'll actually show you where that is.

06:01 In the video lesson I'm going to click on one so you can see.

06:03 But we show you exactly the time and date and the position in the video lesson where you took those notes. Really important right.

06:12 So if I'm watching a video and let's say I'm at three seconds, in this case, I know exactly when I wrote those notes.

06:20 So I know what I was watching, what I was listening to, what I was learning when I put those notes in.

06:26 So really cool. So every time you put in a note, you'll be able to go back and reference and go back to that video lesson.

06:33 And that's important because if you're going back and reviewing again, you want to have a very quick way to go back and look at what you've already watched, or if you need to go back and study again and review it again.

06:47 Okay. So when you click right here on notes, you can see these are my notes that I wrote before. Um, and you can see where if I click on position, it's going to take me right to the position where I typed those notes in.

07:01 When I watch the video previously, and any time I can edit the notes.

07:06 So if I want to go back and I want to change anything, I can go back and I can change whatever I need to change and take away, um, whatever's necessary for you.

07:15 And this is important again, because notes are very personal, and we need to be able to go back and actually understand what we noted and be able to reference them as we need to. Once I click save, it's saved.

07:28 And again, when I go back to the home page and I go under notes here.

07:34 There you. Voila! You can see I took off the Word I think exercise and you can see my notes are updated. So, um, try this out.

07:42 If you haven't tried it out already, please try this out because it's a wonderful tool. And nurse Liz is going to talk about note taking and all that today too.

07:50 But a great tool in your resources that's going to help you stay organized and keep everything in one place so that you can go back and focus on studying and not looking for things. Alrighty. So let me pull this back up.

08:15 So I'm going to turn it over now to Nurse Liz and I hope you guys enjoy.

08:21 Again you can put any questions in the chat and we'll answer them when we get to the Q&A session at the end. There you go.

08:28 Liz, it's all yours. Yay! Thanks, Nicole. All right, guys, so I am Liz.

08:33 If we have not met before, um, I make YouTube videos on a lot of nursing stuff. I ended up getting started with that because I was just feeling like there were.

08:44 I needed to see someone who was ironically like a little bit older on YouTube because everyone was like young and super hip. And I was like, that's not me. I have children and a mortgage. Um, so who I am is I am a family nurse practitioner.

08:57 My background is I did an accelerated BSN program when I decided that I did not want to go to med school anymore, but it was too late to change your mind.

09:06 Um, and then I switched over to tact my BSN right onto the end.

09:11 Giuliana, can you hear me now? Can anyone hear me? Hopefully.

09:14 So let me know. Um. Giuliana said she can't hear us.

09:19 Oh, good. Perfect. We can hear.

09:21 Um. And then after that, I really wanted to work in peds.

09:23 But I couldn't get a job in a peds hospital. So I worked in med surg for about a year and a half, doing, like, liver, GI, kidney type stuff.

09:29 And then I switched over to pediatric cardiology and worked there for like five years. Absolutely loved that.

09:36 And then when I got my NP, then I went and worked in primary care in a little primary care office for about three years.

09:42 And then now we moved and I am here.

09:45 Um, so I'm super excited.

09:47 One of the things I loved, like the most in all of that, I realized, was like patient education and just teaching and precepting and all of that stuff. And this kind of lets me do all of that.

10:00 So I'm just like, super duper excited.

10:02 So that is me. Um, the goals here today are kind of to just tackle the overwhelming feeling of the beginning of this semester.

10:12 I don't know if any of you guys are feeling super overwhelmed, but I just remember the beginning of the semester feeling super paralyzing because there was so much stuff and you couldn't do any of it really yet because it was just starting. And I was just like, I don't even know how to, like, tackle any of this. So I'm hoping to kind of give you some practical tips that you can start implementing, like right after this, um, and then show you a little bit of how to just like you can reduce your stress, hopefully like balancing a little bit more, and then we'll try to do like a little bit of a pep talk, like a little like, you can do this because you can do this. Um, the talk that I wish I could just go back and give my past, like, list my little baby nursing school list.

10:50 Um, and then hopefully have fun and just answer tons and tons of questions.

10:54 Um, so the first thing I really wanted to look at was, and you can let me know in the chat over, like, have you heard, um, that in nursing school.

11:04 Oh, we have a poll. Even better.

11:06 Um, that nursing school is like the hardest thing because my nursing school instructors, they, like, went into it with that attitude.

11:14 They're like, nursing school is brutal and, like, get ready for, like, the worst years of your life.

11:19 Yeah. Pretty much everyone is saying yes. Okay, good.

11:21 It wasn't just me that suffered that way.

11:23 Um, and I hated that they started it that way.

11:27 I'm like, why would you start something that people are afraid of and start it with that mentality? That's actually why I had originally way back when, in the beginning of college, looked into nursing school, and the person that we had to go and talk to the nursing department and they were like, this is going to be the most difficult thing of your life. And I was like, well, then by like, med school didn't tell me that, like all the premed things, they were like, oh yeah, it's hard, but you'll be fine. So I wanted to talk about that mentality.

11:52 Um, because it just drives me absolutely crazy.

11:56 Um, and then like, we talked about, like, the overwhelm thing, like, so if you're feeling overwhelmed, you can go and answer that in the poll. But I just I remember that being my primary feeling.

12:04 So in order to kind of tackle that, I really want to like help you try to view it as instead of viewing nursing school as really, really hard.

12:14 Because when I think of hard, I think of something that is like, I don't know, calculus where I can't even, like wrap my brain around it. I'm like, I just do not even understand.

12:23 Or like, I like the, um, what am I thinking of? The, like the immune system, you know, like really difficult concepts where you're just like, what on earth is this? Because it's not a lot of the concepts when they're broken down really, really well. Um, they're not necessarily hard.

12:38 It's just a lot like you are literally learning how to take care of humans, of all ages, of all types.

12:43 You're learning entire body systems. They're different when they're adults. They're different when they're kids. Like it is just so different.

12:50 And so you are more able, I think, to tackle it.

12:54 If you think about it though, as really busy, because you can manage a schedule, you cannot make a concept easier.

12:59 Like no matter what, are you going to make the coagulation cascade more understandable? It's just impossible to know.

13:05 And it's ridiculous. Versus like, oh, I can plan out my day and like I can make tackle lists and this might just be my ADHD coming up, but like, I can do lists and I can get things done on there.

13:19 And that makes it seem so much more doable.

13:21 And when something is doable, it's much, much, much less overwhelming.

13:25 Um, and so also if you have any issues with anything, we're going to have just shameless plugs going back to Lecturio because I think they're like the best. Um, obviously I if you have any questions along the way, Like this is where the study planner is going to help, and it's going to help you plan out your semester.

13:41 So it's like tackle able and doable.

13:42 And if you do run into concepts that are really hard to understand, there's videos for like literally everything.

13:48 And a lot of those ones are done by Ronda.

13:50 And if you have not watched any of our videos by Ronda yet.

13:53 Go change your life and go do that.

13:54 Um, so I think that was really helpful for me.

13:58 Um, I was not a great student, and so this was something that I could really do. I was like, I, you know, if I make lists and I can actually stay on task and I can get there.

14:08 Um, and the other thing, let's see, we'll go here.

14:12 Sorry, guys. I'm new at this. I'm like, do you want me to run a slideshow and speak at the same time? I'm going to be like 12 million steps ahead.

14:19 Um, so the other thing that goes along with that is you're going to need to give it time, because a lot of people will come to me and they'll say, what is the quickest way I can get this done? Or like, oh my gosh, I have all of this information.

14:32 And I'm like, okay, so you're going to need to how much do I study? I'm like probably like four hours a day or something. And they're like, oh my gosh, I don't want to study four hours a day. And it's like, there's no way, like we we just aren't going to get there unless you give it the time.

14:43 And having been, I'm a huge procrastinator, and it took me a really long time to realize I need to give it that time and like, really schedule it into my day so that then I know how I can schedule like, the fun parts of my day.

14:55 Um, I'm going to be able to go and do so many more entertaining things if I'm like, if I really give myself the time and then I'm not always running over.

15:03 Otherwise you're like, like I would tell Joe all the time, I'm like, I'm almost done, I'm almost done. And he then learned, like to never believe me because I always said, I'm almost done. And that could sometimes be 15 minutes and sometimes it was two hours.

15:13 So that's going to not only help like your relationships, but internally you're going to feel much more on track if you just realize, like, okay, this isn't hard.

15:21 It's just a lot. So let me give it a ton of time and then it'll it's much more doable.

15:27 And you're not stressed and running over.

15:30 Um, another thing is Do not be afraid to pivot.

15:35 So I feel like in nursing, um, like when you're taking care of patients, the plan changes constantly because the people are, you know, they're deciding all of a sudden they're like, oh, yeah, I'm just going to go into respiratory failure now.

15:45 Or like, yes, I'm just going to have this bleed here.

15:47 So you're having to change.

15:49 What's the most important thing? Constantly. Maybe your patient that was stable at the beginning of the shift is now the one that's decompensating. So now you have to shift all your focus over here. And in the same way, you really have to learn to find the thing that is going to work the best for you. And I think that's hard right now in the age of like social media, because everyone kind of shares how they study and like what their education experience is. And so then you're like, oh, well, that's not how I'm studying. So like, maybe I should go over and, you know, go into this type of modality and study that way and it's not working or you think, um, you know, I've heard a lot of things where people will say like, oh, just keep trying harder. And you're like, I'm already trying so hard.

16:30 And that's so discouraging to feel like you gave something your all and you're just not getting anything back.

16:36 So I think being okay with pivoting how you're studying and kind of expecting to honestly not do that great on the first test.

16:42 So if we take tests like as an example, I am a bad test taker and I never did good on my first test because I went in, I probably studied the wrong thing.

16:50 I didn't know how that teacher was going to ask questions, and I didn't know what they were really going to focus on.

16:56 And so rather than just going back and studying at the exact same way, you know, go in, talk to the professor and be like, how do I do better here? Um, and Lily, I just saw how to pick and focus on the right content so we can talk about that really quick, because that fits in here really well. I go by the syllabus and then the lesson, you know, how they'll have it'll be like the goal of the lessons like in this module you are your goals are to learn x, y and z your objectives.

17:25 That's the word um I studied to the objectives.

17:28 Just go on to and your teacher should.

17:30 In nursing school. They're really big on objectives and outcomes because in nursing we're really like they kind of can't carry it through because in nursing that's really big.

17:40 So I would go on and I would make a list like copy that list over of all of the objectives of the module and then study to that.

17:48 Do you feel like once you've studied look at it and be like, do I feel like I've met this objective? If not, go back and figure out what else we need to go back and refresh and like learn more about to round out your knowledge of something.

17:59 Or if you're like, yep, I have a really good grasp on that. That's when you know you can move on.

18:03 Um, but I would I really only looked at objectives in order to get through, especially those really difficult classes like Patho and Pharm, because there's so much information.

18:13 Um, and that's just the way it's going to be the easiest to tackle all of it.

18:18 Um, so definitely don't be afraid to pivot.

18:21 Change how you're doing things.

18:23 Ask other people, ask your teachers.

18:25 Be like, hey, do you have any advice for how I should, like, get through this.

18:29 Um, and they're going to be able to help you.

18:33 Um, okay. Let us see. So this all brings us into, like, how are we going to actually implement this? Um, so I'm curious to know, like, what kind of planners are you guys using? And if you have any questions about any of that that we just talked about, definitely just leave them down below. I'm going to try to talk fast friends, so that we have so much time for a Q&A after, because I know everybody loves.

18:55 I feel like that's the best way because I want to talk about what you actually want to know about. Um, so with using a planner, um, let me see. The planner is going to save your life, obviously, because if you're going to make lists like there's too much going on in nursing school because it's busy, remember, it's not hard. It's busy.

19:13 Um, and you just can't keep it all in your brain.

19:15 Um, I let's see what people are.

19:19 Yeah. Most of you old school planner.

19:21 So lots of you are using the old school planners.

19:23 About 17% of you are using digital planners.

19:26 And I like the 11 of you who are like, I should really probably start using that.

19:30 Yes you should. And if you don't start using a planner by the end of this conversation, I have failed. Okay. Your planner.

19:36 Um, so I, I used a digital.

19:40 I used a digital planner at the end, and I will tell you why I kind of liked that.

19:43 Um, but a physical planner is also.

19:46 It's very comfortable. Like, it just feels warm and cozy to write on. And you can use real stickers. Um, I found so the first tip in general for planners, I think you should color code them. Okay. You're going to be that person who goes to class, and it's going to be like, you're going to pull out all 12 of your highlighters, but it's going to make your life so much easier. Um, you know, pink for tests, blue for papers, green for, I don't know, events or lab.

20:11 And then you'll be able to quickly flip through it, and it's just going to make your life a whole lot easier.

20:15 Um, so now we're going to talk about the slightly overwhelming way that I recommend that you go and tackle your semester.

20:22 And you can do this today.

20:24 Um, so you are going to.

20:27 This is what I found worked best. I would have my day of what I called overwhelm, and I would warn my friends and family, I was like, I am going to be doing my overwhelm day at the beginning of this semester, and I'm going to take out all of my syllabuses for all of my classes, and I'm going to write down every single assignment and every single, like all of the reading, all of the things that I need to know, all the tests, all the papers, all the labs, everything. And I'm going to write it all down in the planner.

20:51 Now, like, all at once.

20:52 Then I'm going to go through and I'm going to color code them, and then I'm going to go be sad because I am very overwhelmed.

20:57 And so go and do that whenever it's available for you to go.

21:00 Have your day of sadness.

21:02 You're going to you're overwhelmed day. Acquire whatever you need to help you get through that again. Warn your family.

21:08 Just be like, this is not going to be the day to cross me. And then all you have to do from now on, you never have to look at that again. Because all of nursing school is impossible to tackle if you're looking at the entire thing.

21:19 But if you're only looking at like the next week or two and then individual days, it's totally taxable. So then what you'll do at the beginning of the week. So say like Sunday is your planning day.

21:29 You are going to look at the next 2 or 3 weeks and say, okay, so maybe I have a paper due in three weeks. I should probably start at least thinking about how to start that now. I have a care plan due in one week, so maybe on Thursday, you know, that's when I'm going to work on this and you can start to plan out.

21:44 I want you to list individual tasks like by the day, you know what I mean. So and it's going to be attainable tasks.

21:51 So you're going to list like 4 or 5 things you can definitely get done that day.

21:56 And then the next day you aren't going to make them.

21:58 You know what? A lot of times when I have a planner and I still do this and it's a work in progress, I will be like, today I am going to ride my peloton for 45 minutes. I am then going to spend, you know, I'm going to film seven YouTube videos, make all of my Instagram posts for the week.

22:14 I'm going to research how all these things that I'm going to post on TikTok, and then I'm going to answer all the comments. I'm also going to wash my dog and go get my hair cut and like one of those things get done.

22:23 And then I'm very sad inside.

22:25 So I highly recommend underestimating underestimate your abilities here.

22:31 And then if you shoot over, then you can always go and grab a task from a different day, or you can go enjoy your life.

22:36 You know what I mean? Like, so it's okay.

22:39 Plan out the next 2 or 3 weeks.

22:40 With daily tasks, I usually sit down once a week and plan down all of my daily tasks, but you just want to take a little bit of a peek ahead and make sure there's nothing on the horizon you should be starting.

22:49 And then every single day.

22:50 I do not want you to look at any other day.

22:52 Every day is going to be a surprise, okay? It's like the weather. I don't use weather apps. I just show up in life and it's raining every day.

22:58 You're just going to show up, realize where you need to be and what five six tasks you need to get done this day.

23:05 And you're going to repeat that through the entire semester. And then before you know it, it's going to literally be done.

23:10 And it's amazing. And I saw someone in here put the spreadsheet thing about, um, you can use spreadsheets.

23:16 And if if you're not on TikTok, I recommend it.

23:19 But they put all of the information in, like all the due dates.

23:23 Color coded by class. And then they put it in a spreadsheet, and then they just look at it and it lists it by date like, because then you can order it. I don't know how to do that, but I love that tip.

23:32 And that's a good one for like if you're doing this digitally where you can go and learn how to do that. But the focus, the goal of this is just to have one day at a time. You cannot tackle all of nursing school at, you know, if you're looking at the whole thing, because that's going to cause your day of overwhelm. And I don't know about you, but when I am overwhelmed, I, I paralyze. Um, and I can't get anything done.

23:54 So this is going to give you, like, I can do my five things.

23:57 I'm going to feel accomplished when I'm done, and then I'm going to go watch Netflix and lay on my couch and just allow myself to, like, do nothing. Okay? And that's going to be so, so, so helpful. Um, it's going to make everything way more doable.

24:11 I did that for nursing school.

24:12 I did that for NP school.

24:14 I did all the things. So this is, um, like I said, Sarah made this beautiful slide and then I just didn't even click to it because I'm not used to this. Um, so let's talk about now we've talked about, um, kind of like, oh, and the other thing that's really good with the, um, doing all your planners is that's going to also incorporate back into like if you're using something like Lecturio, it's going to plan it out for you. So then you don't even have to break it up yourself.

24:40 You literally just type it into the computer and then you tell it like how many days you have to work on this. So if you're like, oh, I have a I need to learn all about the cardiovascular system.

24:51 By next Friday, you literally can go into the study planner and click by next Friday.

24:56 And it's going to be like every day for 42 minutes.

24:59 You should study this and you're going to be like excellent in my planner, 42 minutes of cardiovascular and it's going to quiz you to um, I don't think Nicole. She'll probably show us at the end this, um, quizzing feature because it quizzes you on the information and then it's like adaptive quizzing. Um, so like, if you got it wrong, it'll ask you again sooner.

25:17 Or if you didn't feel confident about the answer, it'll bring it back up. So then you aren't like cramming to study at the end? Um, because whenever we're cramming, obviously, like, I mean, that's how I did everything forever, but it's, you know, not the most effective.

25:30 It's probably why I wasn't the stellar student.

25:33 I feel like everyone else on, like, social media in nursing is like, I only got A's. I'm like, I have gotten an A before.

25:40 Thank you. Um, okay, back to taking notes.

25:44 So do you. I'm curious, do we have a poll here? Let me. I'm going to go forward really quick, okay? We don't have a poll. It's fine. We can always just talk in the chat.

25:53 Do you use digital note taking? Because if you don't, I'm going to give it.

25:58 It deserved a spot in this entire slide deck because I was like, digital note taking has changed my life. If you have access to a tablet I highly recommend doing digital notes.

26:09 I was very skeptical. I didn't have this in nursing school because it didn't exist.

26:13 Um, Uh, embarrassing. Um, we barely had, like, phones that had pictures, but in NP school I did.

26:20 And this lets you it lets you go.

26:22 And especially if you're using, like a digital textbook or even just finding images on the internet, or your teacher has a lecture that they're doing, you can go and you can screenshot it and you can pull it in.

26:31 So like when I was learning about the heart, I could go to just Google, take a picture of the heart, pull it in, and there you go.

26:38 In my notes was a perfect picture of a heart with all the valves, all the blood flow, everything and you can draw on top of it.

26:44 My two favorite apps for that are notability or notability and Goodnotes.

26:48 I'm liking Goodnotes more later. I've been a notability person forever, but that is incredibly helpful.

26:54 You can import your slides, you can write on top of your slides.

26:57 So I like to print my slides out usually if we have them, and then I write on top of them in different colors again because I like the color idea.

27:05 So then you're like, oh, everything that's pink is a main subject.

27:08 Everything that's yellow is a, um, like a keyword.

27:12 I need to know. Lab values go in green again.

27:14 I think color coding is very helpful, not only in like your planner life, but in this life. Um, but that is a very, very cool aspect of it and I love it. Um, pulling pictures, it's just so they have it with you everywhere. Usually if you have it on your iPad, then you can pull it up on your phone.

27:31 Um, and it's just great.

27:32 Michelle said AMP was so much paper switched to digital at your recommendation, and I'll never go back. Good.

27:37 I'm glad I have not led you astray.

27:40 Sometimes I say things I'm like, I hope that ends up being true.

27:43 Okay. Um, let's see now.

27:48 So we have our notes. That was like our notes for class, in case that wasn't clear.

27:51 Um, that was like, you know, when they're providing you with notes and this is how, like, I really like digital note taking is the best.

27:58 Um, also, you only have to carry one thing, one tablet.

28:01 Um, you can buy them used.

28:02 Uh, I that's even fine.

28:04 Now, I think you can write on anything Apple or like, you know, level two, generation two.

28:09 Very technical if you can't tell or above, put down the clipboard people.

28:14 Yeah. And things like A and P are just so much easier if you have a digital version.

28:19 Um, but now let's talk about when you are out there learning and you're like at clinical.

28:24 Um, so I recommend for this part you can have a digital version, but sometimes being on your phone looks weird.

28:30 You get a little like like a moleskine, you know, little notebook or anything that's really small. They have them in like the dollar section at target. You're going to want to get one of these things or even something that's a little bit bigger. And that's my if you follow my channel, I have that alphabetized notebook where I just put tabs and put the alphabet on it.

28:47 This is how I use that.

28:48 And this is invaluable whether you're a nurse, whether you're a nursing student and in P student, like literally anything, I use mine all the time. As an MP, you're going to alphabetize this thing and it is going to under a like you're going to put everything that you learn about.

29:03 Um, I don't know. I'm trying to think of a word that like the access code to, oh, know that's bad. Let's do IVs.

29:12 So I under I you're going to put all your IV things.

29:14 Where are the IVs kept at your hospital you're working at.

29:18 Where are the, um, you know, packages for them? Where do they where are they located? In the cleaning room. Everything is going to be alphabetized, so it's really, really easy to find. And you can use this for literally anything. You can use it for nursing school about concepts that are difficult for you to remember. But this is something that's small. It can go with you primarily, probably in lab.

29:37 So if you're like, I don't remember how to do trache ties.

29:40 So if you're like really falling over that and you're like, what are the steps? Or like what are the steps for doing a trach tie? You can just write it down in your notebook, put it in your pocket.

29:49 When you go to lab, you'll have it right there so that if you're like, I don't remember how to do this, open it. You're like, oh yeah, Trache ties.

29:55 These are the five little like these are the five steps for it.

29:57 When you go into clinical, you will have the exact same notebook.

30:00 So when your preceptor is like, hey, do you want to go, um, you know, do this guys track with me? You'll be like, oh yeah. And you are confident about the notes, that you're confident about the steps that you're there. You also don't have to ask questions twice. So if you're in the hospital and they're like, hey, can you go grab me a, I don't know, a saline flush or get these labs drawn? You can write, okay, these types of labs, like a comp goes in a yellow tube.

30:26 A CBC is going to go in a blue tube, but you don't have to remember it.

30:29 But you also don't have to ask again, because the more you're able to do things independently, the more you are going to be confident in that.

30:36 Like just having that confidence is going to be huge.

30:39 Um. Let's see. Perfect.

30:41 Okay. Now the last one this is we have arrived at our pep talk.

30:46 Um, people get like, I'm really, in a lot of ways grateful that when I was in nursing school, there was no social media because it was not nearly as competitive, like people were not putting all of their 4.0 up on this.

30:59 Like everyone's like, I feel like at the end of the semester, everyone's like, look at my 4.0.

31:03 And like I did perfect in all of this.

31:06 And if you're like a really good student, that's wonderful.

31:08 And this is not like anti you if you're a 4.0 human this is just like a as a non four point very not a 4.0 student like a very average student.

31:17 That would have just been so discouraging and like frustrating because most people are not the perfect student. Most people. That's why we're the average people, like we are the average. And I think it can just get really, really discouraging and even turn people away who, like, would be phenomenal nurses. But they're like, oh, I'm not like smart enough.

31:38 Um, because that is just so like, that's just not true.

31:44 Um, one, I think once you learn how to learn, um, Rhonda has great classes on that within Lecturio two of like the learning science behind things, and that's what she does. She has like her doctorate in like how to teach people to learn. Um, there's a whole playlist on that.

31:58 There's tons of one, um, that you can look at and see, you know, how am I? What's the best way? And that's kind of she gets to decide how Lecturio does all that. So that's what the whole platform is really built around is like how to effectively help teach you things and then help you recall them later.

32:12 But you can learn that.

32:14 And even with that, you might not still get like a 4.0 or a perfect GPA.

32:18 And that's like totally okay, because some people like, I don't test well and it's not the end of the world. We can still like we talked about before, like pivot and like change our studying ways up and like, see, like, what can I do differently because you do want to do better. Like, if you can, but you know, you're just not going to be perfect.

32:34 And I just want you to know that that's totally okay.

32:36 Because that's not a message that I see.

32:38 You know, like all the time, like everyone feels like on social media is just like a magical unicorn that does everything perfectly.

32:45 And they look perfect in their scrubs. And it's just like, that's just not the reality that a lot of people have, because you get degrees for sure.

32:52 Um, and so I just want you to know that it's okay.

32:55 And that has no reflection on like, the type of nurse that you're going to be one day. I think utilizing different strategies like planning out your semester, making sure that you are taking notes effectively, um, that you are utilizing all the resources that you have with you and you are seeking more information when you need it, but that doesn't get you all the way there.

33:16 It's totally, totally okay to be average.

33:19 Um, to be honest, I found that even like people who are really used to excelling, um, sometimes they had the they had a really hard time when they transitioned over into being a nurse, because being a new nurse is like, you're not going to excel, just like when you're a new NP, it you are. There's a lot there's a huge learning curve there.

33:36 And so if people are used to like absolute perfection and being a huge perfectionist, those are the people that when I trained them as new nurses, they struggled the most because they were used to being doing well.

33:47 They were like, oh, like I have always done well.

33:50 I things are going well.

33:51 And being a new nurse is it doesn't, it's rough.

33:54 It's like totally something you're going to get through and it's going to be okay. But like it's an adjustment.

33:58 So I think actually for us average students.

34:01 I did better because I was like, that's okay. I'm kind of used to failing.

34:04 Like, if I mess up a little bit here or there, I'm sure it's all going to be totally fine. Um, so don't think for one second that you're going to be less of a nurse or a nurse practitioner or anything, um, any kind of human, just in general. Um, just because your grades aren't perfect, because that's just some dumb system that they use to judge people that obviously I'm really a big fan of. Um, one thing that you can do here is just don't engage when people talk about grades if we want like actual tips.

34:28 Um, if you like, there's going to be those people who they're, you know, when you finish a test and you go out in the hallway and then, like, everyone's lining up and they're like, oh my gosh, like, like, what did you answer for this question? Well, I didn't answer that. Just like as much as you can, just like kind of avoid it if people are asking you about your grades, like maybe those aren't the people that you need to, like, associate with all the time or just be like, I'm not going to talk about that right now. Um, and find your people, because there are people out there who are like, beelining out of that building to go get like, whatever your treat for yourself is, after you go and you have these and it's going to be fine. Surround yourself by those people versus the really competitive ones.

35:07 And at last sleep. Um, so I undervalued sleep for a really long time. I thought like, oh, it's going to be way better for me to stay up and, you know, power through this.

35:17 And just like study versus sleeping.

35:20 And that's just not true.

35:21 You can't think clearly like even, you know, I learned this more in in P school where I would just go to sleep. I'm like, I'm going to be able to hopefully logic this out a lot more for exams, clinical days, anything like that if I just go to sleep.

35:34 So now prioritize sleep above like literally everything else.

35:38 Um, if you and this requires some balance, you know, if you had to stay up to finish an assignment and you're like, oh, well, I need to wake up at 5 a.m.

35:45 for my workout. Like pulling back off of that and being like, actually, sleep is going to be more valuable than my workout today.

35:51 You know, like just being flexible and really prioritizing, getting at least like six hours of sleep, Ideally like seven.

35:58 Um, but don't think for so many years I had that mentality of like, oh, like, obviously it's going to be so much better to just power through.

36:06 But sleep. Sleep is excellent.

36:08 Okay, we've arrived at the end.

36:11 Um, my big take home that I hope you get from this is, um, also that even if you are feeling like if you are feeling like you're doing all of this, you're doing the best that you can. And it is still, like, so overwhelming and you're worried you're going to like, am I even going to be a good nurse one day? Because another thing I hear a lot of people saying is like, I've done all this and I just don't feel prepared, and I want you to know that that's okay.

36:35 Even if you follow all the steps, you get all the good grades.

36:38 You are not going to graduate nursing school feeling prepared.

36:41 And that, I think, is a thing that we don't talk about a lot.

36:44 But your job is going to teach you most of the things you know.

36:46 So I don't want you to think about being a nurse at this point, which sounds counterintuitive, but at this point, I want you to think about how am I going to pass the next test, how am I going to write the next paper and not internalize like, oh my gosh, if I don't learn how this respiratory system works, like I'm going to kill somebody in three years when I can't recall it, because your job is going to teach you all of that. Literally. Your job right now is to just lay the foundation, like poke your head up, and you're just kind of like getting your getting a grip of your surroundings.

37:14 Okay? You're not like there is nothing really in nursing school that you need to learn that is going to like that.

37:22 They're not going to teach you at your job, because if it's important at your job, they're going to let you know and there's going to be other people around. I feel like sometimes nursing school makes it seem like you're going to be going into this field by yourself and single handedly having to save every single person from this plane crash by yourself. No books, no phone on your own, like with a rubber band.

37:40 And that is. That's just not at all what it is.

37:43 So do not worry. As much as it is like to think, you know. Oh my gosh, I'm so worried.

37:48 Like even in clinical, they'll be like, you're. I remember thinking like, oh my gosh, I have to master this skill and I have to be perfect at it.

37:54 And what a failure I am if like, I don't know how to do this because like, I'm going to be a nurse in a month when in reality, like you're going to be a nurse in a month, but they're going to treat you like you don't know anything, and they're going to walk you through the steps, and you can always ask for more help. So you do not need to waste any more of your precious time worrying if you are good enough, because you are. If you have gotten to this point, you are wonderful, you are good enough and you're going to be just fine.

38:19 Um, you can do this and you're going to do great.

38:22 Okay, there we go. I'm done chatting at you.

38:26 And now we'll have a Q and A, I think, oh my goodness, that was so wonderful.

38:32 I, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

38:36 It was excellent. And so we're going to go ahead and go into the Q&A because we have there's a lot of questions and I know everyone wants to answer to the questions.

38:45 So we're going to go ahead and go through the questions.

38:48 We're going to go in the order that they were marked in and came in.

38:51 So let's go ahead and get started cuz we got like 20 less than 20 minutes.

38:55 Now. So if you have any questions that you want to add in, um, please put them in the chat and then Sarah will put them in queue.

39:03 So let's go ahead and get started.

39:05 So James wants to know, um, he says I am a first.

39:11 Thank you so much, Sarah, because I can't see my glasses. I am in, um, I am in a first year of ASN program, and I think you can see it too.

39:19 Um, so, um, basically transitioning from EMS, um. And wants to the core question, the stem is what? I'm, I was wondering what, if any, education were you or any other are taught about EMS in your program? Also, any thoughts on how to bridge the divide between our EMS, sorry, and EMS? And that's a great question.

39:50 I haven't heard that one.

39:51 Yeah. So I honestly think in all of healthcare we do a really terrible job of, um, communicating about other healthcare professions.

39:59 Like why? So the basic answer is no, we didn't learn a lot.

40:02 Like we didn't learn what an EMT, what EMS, what paramedics like, even what residents like resident physicians do.

40:08 And I think it just or like respiratory therapy or physical therapy or OT.

40:12 And it blows my mind because you work with these people all day and everyone then can get so caught up in the rat race of like, well, why isn't the resident responding to me? Or like, EMS shouldn't have done that when they were taking this patient in or respiratory therapy? Like, why are they taking like more than ten minutes to get here? And it's just it doesn't make any sense that we don't follow other people. We don't learn about other careers like and how their day looks, because you don't know that the resident has like 50 patients, or that the respiratory therapist is like upstairs running around giving nebulizers to absolutely everyone. And those take time.

40:43 And like, you know, it's just there's no understanding between groups.

40:47 So no, we are not taught a lot.

40:49 I wish we were. And when I rule the world, that'll change.

40:52 I think it's a great initiative, right? It's a great project. So thanks for that question.

40:58 That was wonderful. So we're going to move on to the next question.

41:01 So Madison would like to know how did you prep for TES for the TES test.

41:08 So I didn't have to take that because um, so correct me if I'm wrong.

41:11 The TES. Is that the one you take before nursing school? Yes. Um, I can help you out.

41:16 Tes is actually a product of RTI.

41:19 Um, but most nursing programs use it because it's been around for so long.

41:24 But it's an admissions exam, and there's also other admissions exam.

41:29 It's just TES is like the Tupperware.

41:32 It's the big one of plastic.

41:33 Okay. Yes. So. Okay. So I I'm no help.

41:37 I didn't have to take that.

41:39 Um, because I actually went to the nursing school, like, my accelerated BSN was in the same.

41:44 It was the same college, the same university as my undergrad, and they, um, wanted I was an out of state student and they wanted my money.

41:52 And so I kind of said like, oh, I'm an out of state student. And I graduated from here. And they were like, excellent. And then they took my $60,000.

41:58 So, um, I, I didn't have to take that.

42:02 Um, but I have heard, um, you know, any kind of Standard review book is mostly what I've heard that people tend to, like, overthink this one for the T's, when really you just have to do practice questions. As with most things, honestly, in nursing school practice questions are what is going to, um, help you integrate everything, which we have a ton of practice questions because the way nursing school and all those nursing questions work is they don't ask you like, hey, do you know what color a banana is? It's going to ask you, like three steps removed from that question.

42:34 And how do you integrate it? So just knowing the information is not enough.

42:38 It's going to be really, really helpful to just do practice questions and see how are they asking about the questions.

42:44 And it looks like lots of people are answering. Um, Madison, look in the chat because, um, people who have taken it that in the hessie look like they're the big ones. Yes.

42:53 Hessie is another one. Hessie a lot of people who have taken it are offering some really great advice. And Hessie is the basically the X exam that's kind of the same as TS.

43:02 So and TS, we check back in with our resources because we're actually, um, looking into creating kind of a what we call our study plans, where we have learning paths specifically for certain subjects.

43:16 And TS is one of them.

43:17 So but TS covers A&P, Life science, um, a little bit of math, a reading. So it's um, it's a little bit different than some of the other admissions exams, but it's very popular of course.

43:29 So thank you all for chipping in.

43:33 All right. So our next question is, um, I have adhd, A.D.D. as well. What are some studying tips you have for four fundamental fundamentals.

43:44 Oh, well, can I just say Lecturio.

43:47 Okay. Go ahead. And really especially with like fundamentals since the topics are so boring, um, and they're not something that's kind of like fun to think about.

43:58 Practice questions are the only thing that got me through fundamentals when I did it for NP school is I bought a review book because I didn't have anything with like a question bank. Um, I bought a review book and I just did all the fundamental questions because I needed examples of how to think through it, and I needed so and then, since my brain is all over, I made myself do like 20 a day.

44:20 So just again, making lists.

44:22 I think that's really helpful with any kind of like ADHD or anything like that, that you cannot focus to save your life.

44:28 Like, but I can like if you tell me to do 20 things, I'll go do 20 things, but practice questions.

44:34 Um, for um, fundamentals was really helpful because it gave you something to apply it to versus like reading the same notes, which was like watching paint dry.

44:42 For that class. So. And we have that we have a whole fundamentals course with lots of questions. That's what I was going to say. I think I just looked at over 500, um, questions. So one of the things is that we really focus on our video lessons being short and concise. So they're all less than 12 minutes in length.

45:00 And so if you feel like you have to watch a video that's 30 minutes long and you're not retaining the information you need to come to us because all of our videos are short in length for that reason, and we give you bite sized pieces.

45:13 So three minutes, four minutes, seven minutes depending on the topic.

45:16 But that really helps to to manage, um, studying and fundamentals.

45:21 We have a whole whole section on fundamentals.

45:23 So you have to check that out.

45:25 All right. Moving along because we have a lot of questions a little bit of time.

45:29 Um what did you pick for your capstone and how did you handle the schedule.

45:37 So for this was kind of just like picking it and breaking it down.

45:41 I didn't know that, um, for NP school, I didn't know that what I picked and we kind of picked a big paper topic in the first year, and you carried it through the whole thing, and I didn't know what that paper was going to be like. I didn't know that that was affecting the next three years of my life. So I picked colorectal cancer screening, which is important, but is a terribly boring topic. Um, when I was in nursing school, I did mine on type one diabetes in children because I was part of running a children's camp for my nursing school for kids with type one diabetes. So I like incorporated it with that.

46:12 And that was just a lot of asking my, um, professor who ran that, she was like, oh, I run this. And I literally just went up to her and I said, I'm really interested in that. Can I help you? And that turned into my capstone project was just being like, I want to do this. And so I think if you see something that's interesting with anyone in your college, like say you like love labor and delivery, like talk to your labor and delivery teacher and be like, hey, like this.

46:35 I'm really interested in this. What could I do within this? Um, capstone projects changed based on your school.

46:41 Mine was like, you just had to, you know, be involved in something and do some research on it. But just finding I would find the faculty member that is associated sort of with your interest and just ask them.

46:52 And that's the easiest way. That's a great idea I like it.

46:55 So the next question is from Lisa.

46:57 It's so funny because I was reading the questions ahead of time and I kept saying, Lecturio Lecturio Lecturio.

47:01 Those are that's the answer. So Lisa's asking, saying, you know, my program is evidence based curriculum.

47:07 Any insight? Thanks. I just want to chime in first and say we're all about evidence based curriculum. So you're in the right spot.

47:15 Nurse Liz, take it away.

47:17 Yeah, I was going to say, if your program is not evidence based, I'm concerned because we should all be at this point.

47:23 But, um, yeah, everything here is obviously evidence based.

47:27 Um, the biggest thing for that is just you're going to have to learn how to read a research paper. Um, and so I, um, I don't know if I'm supposed to plug myself on this. I do have a YouTube video going over how to read a research paper, and that's the biggest thing you're going to want to focus on is you're going to be reading a lot of research papers in these classes and then throughout your career because evidence changes. Um, so learning how to briefly look over, you know, like the methods. Is this a good study? What population does this actually apply to? There's so much more. Don't just read the abstract and then go with that, because that's not going to help you with anything.

48:01 Read the discussion of the research paper because that's going to tell you what they learned. Um, what flaws there were in the study, who they can apply things to.

48:10 So if you're in a really big rush and you're needing to look up some evidence based type stuff, read the discussion and it should give you a lot more insight than just the abstract. And that's not something I learned until way too late.

48:22 Alright, so we're going to move a little faster because we want to make sure we finish on time. So next question is any tips for AMP.

48:31 And I think you know the answer is yeah we do have an anatomy and physiology.

48:37 Um, course, this one is the big one.

48:38 It's just questions. You have to do a blank human, and then it's going to say, what's this? And you can pull it in. And that's going to be the biggest and the most important thing because it's just straight memory. A lot of this, especially with anatomy physiology is a little bit more nuanced. You can like wrap your head around it, but anatomy is just spending the amount of the crazy amount of time like we talked about and dedicating it to it and studying like flipping back and forth, you know, with a when you're quizzing yourself of what body part is this? And our space repetition questions, which are our content questions that help you with retention? Really great for that too.

49:10 We've taken in so much information. So our next question is what's a good digital planner app? I have Android, so my first thought was notability because I didn't know you were also a notability user.

49:24 But that's on Apple. So do you have any suggestions for Android? I have an iPad. I'm Not helpful here, but I think anything, anything that can go into I think Evernote can do it.

49:37 I would actually go on to Etsy and download a digital planner and import it into a note taking app, and that's the best way.

49:43 I like that idea because I love Etsy.

49:45 I love this. It's always so cute.

49:47 So and they're like $7 and you can use them forever.

49:50 Like you can just like use it for the next year or two.

49:53 So I would download something that is for probably like is Evernote.

49:57 I think it's something you can do with and then yeah, but you're looking for a digital journal or a digital planner that you can download into that versus an app that is a planner. And I looked it up while we were going to the presentation and OneNote Microsoft they said that was a good one.

50:12 Onenote. That's the one.

50:14 Onenote. I was like, I don't use that, I don't know.

50:18 So hope that helps. Brittany.

50:20 We're sorry. Um, okay.

50:22 So the next question, Michelle calculations, drop calculations, etc.

50:29 and you and you need to get 100%.

50:33 So Ronda has within our thing and some of the, um, you're going to get the full access to them if you have like premium. But even she actually has a live just like we're doing here on dosage calculations that I think you can get if you just signed, you just need an account, which I think everyone who's here has one now, like a free one, right? Yes. And then I think she has one on this doesn't she does calc.

50:53 I believe that we did one.

50:55 I'm double checking now. Yes.

50:57 So it's actually our first event.

50:58 So that is how to crack dosage calculation.

51:01 The must know. So check that out in the uh because that's stressful when you have to pass that to move on. But yes, that one was awesome.

51:09 And we of course have um, a whole like like like I said, a whole course on dosing calculation.

51:15 And we're always adding more.

51:17 So if you have an account already, you'll notice we're always adding it more.

51:21 So our next question is I think that one I think Sarah handle that one.

51:27 I'll come back if we didn't.

51:28 Um, I really get nervous during skill check check offs.

51:33 What is your advice on how to conquer anxiety? Details. Dot dot dot dot dot.

51:37 I'm first year accelerated nursing student.

51:40 Whew. That's a lot. Yeah.

51:43 It is. Oh, man. Accelerator programs.

51:45 That's a lot. In the beginning, you're going to want to practice. Obviously, you won't have the skills with you, but you want it to be on autopilot.

51:51 So I would take, like, my dog and I would talk to my dog, and I would talk them through, like whatever I was doing.

51:58 So like, we can go back to the trache thing.

52:00 I failed my trache check off.

52:01 Um, so it's fresh in my mind.

52:04 A decade later, um, I would then study it so much and just like, repeat what was going to come out of my mouth as I was verbalizing the steps that I was doing so that I didn't even have to think about it.

52:15 I just kind of like, you're still going to be nervous and there's no way to really conquer like that. Maybe you just have less coffee that day, but like, if it's on autopilot, it's so much easier.

52:24 And pretending it's a real person, because if you're pretending it's a real person and it sounds silly, but like talk to it.

52:29 If your mouth is running like your brain can only focus on so many things.

52:33 So if you're. I found like verbalizing things as I was doing this.

52:36 Okay, now I'm going to try your trick ties and I'm going to make sure I'm doing it this way. It's going to sort of push your brain into that autopilot that you've trained, because you've been practicing it so many times, and it makes it a lot easier.

52:47 And it does get easier once you start, as soon as you open your mouth and you start or you start doing the task, it gets easier.

52:53 It's just like getting through that door and starting. That's the hardest part. Our next question, because I want to make sure we get through. I think we still have like 5 or 6 questions. So are there any tools to help manage with stress? Sleep is going to help immensely.

53:07 Um, going outside, taking like a ten minute break every hour, even if you're like, I can't even take a break because I have so much going on.

53:15 You're going to be so much more productive if you get up and you stretch your legs, do like some, I don't know, like a yoga pose or go get a glass of water, get a snack. Um, and then if you're getting enough sleep, you're taking breaks appropriately.

53:27 Those are like the big two.

53:29 If you have time to go do fun things, try to give yourself like an hour of fun a day. I know that was not always attainable for me, but just little breaks.

53:36 Exercise was huge for me.

53:38 I would take my notes and I would put them on the treadmill and I would just walk at a really steep incline and that was helpful.

53:43 Wonderful. Okay, so the next one is advice for juggling working full time and MP school.

53:49 That's a lot. And then I start in January.

53:52 I'm a single mom so cutting hours isn't really an option.

53:55 I get it. Megan. Asks.

54:02 What the most helpful thing is and that is hard.

54:05 Um, I worked full time and I went to MP school, but I didn't have kids at the time.

54:10 Um, and you're going to just have to treat like school, like it's own job. So whether that's like daycare or that you're sending them to or like family support to get some time during the day, like on your days off and then treating that like another job.

54:24 So it's going to kind of seem like you're working so many hours and then like have your time when you're done. So maybe when they get home from daycare or school, you're going to have like 3 or 4 hours and make those like solid hours, put your phone down like your child is going to remember so much more that like you spent even an hour of quality time with them fully engaged, versus like three hours where you were like kind of studying, but kind of with them like just focus on that little one and know that this is not forever.

54:53 This is going to end. This is not going to be everything forever. And your life is like your why are you doing this? Like, your life is going to be so cool after you're being a great role model to them that like, mom's also chasing her dreams, um, and like doing all the things.

55:05 So focus on like quality of time.

55:08 That helped me a lot with my daughter. When I did have her was like I had didn't have a lot of time with her, but it was really, really quality and connected.

55:15 And it's not going to last forever.

55:17 And you are like hardcore and super.

55:19 Kudos to you. You're going to do cool things.

55:21 You can. So our next question is how? How applicable is this MP school? I started this school and I'm very nervous.

55:29 It's MP school harder than nursing school.

55:33 So all of these tips I mostly and like I developed at the very end maybe of nursing school, but mostly in NP school.

55:40 And looking back they would apply to nursing school because I was too immature in nursing school to do any of this.

55:45 Like this was not applied back then.

55:48 Like this was all like how I survived NP school.

55:51 And now looking back, I'm like, oh, that would have been so helpful. Um, so I think all of those steps are really they can be applied in NP school.

56:00 So Lecturio nursing is geared at registered nurses.

56:04 And I think we have an LPN component, um, with medical.

56:08 And Nicole can tell me if I'm wrong there. Medical Lecturio for NPS and physician assistants or associates are um, that's lumped into medical.

56:17 So they have a really great like super comprehensive program so the study tips are the same. The platform runs the same way.

56:24 Um, but for NP school you're lumped into medical because the content is.

56:29 So you get like so immense, you know, and it's a different focus.

56:32 Um, I thought NP school was it was harder because I was an adult, like I had a mortgage, I had a husband. Then I had a daughter, I was working full time, whereas when I was in nursing school, like all I had to do was like me, you know, and my, you know, I lived in an apartment with like, holes in the door. So my rent wasn't that high.

56:50 I worked as a waitress, but it wasn't very high stress, you know, like life was just different. So NP school is a lot more autonomous.

56:56 You do a lot more on your own, but you're also tend to be older.

57:00 So you know how to handle things better and balance things. So I think overall NP school might be a little bit it was harder for me than nursing school, but I can't figure out if that was like me having to teach myself a lot in NP school, or just that I was also balancing like this life that I had acquired as well.

57:16 Good advice, good advice.

57:18 Okay, so the next one.

57:19 So I'll let you guys know we're going to keep going.

57:21 I don't like to run over but I think it's so everyone has so many questions.

57:25 So if you have to leave we understand you'll get a copy um, a link to the recording.

57:30 But we're going to keep going. We're going to answer all these questions. Um, so we appreciate if you're able to stay, but I it looks like we're not going to make the deadline. I tried, I tried guys want to keep going.

57:41 I want to answer everyone's questions. That's what we're here for. So so the next question is I'm trying medical advice.

57:47 So I'm struggling to sleep.

57:49 Should I use melatonin or just try and fight it naturally I would try it.

57:54 Look look up sleep hygiene first.

57:57 Um, and then see if like you're doing all the things, are you turning off your tap like all electronics for a little while before? I mean, no one really does that, but it might work for you.

58:05 Um, that's what the research says to do.

58:07 Um, we don't follow it.

58:08 Um, you know, making sure, like, what's kind of a quiet, wind down activity, make sure you're not doing something I like.

58:15 Super stressful as you're going to sleep.

58:18 Um, it and then melatonin I mean melatonin I can't give out melatonin medical advice.

58:22 But I mean melatonin is go for it.

58:25 Like in reality. Like it's fine.

58:27 Don't take ten milligrams I yeah.

58:29 Um, I don't start out with ten milligrams and be me.

58:32 When I was in nursing school, I was having insomnia because I was so stressed and I took I was like, oh, well, this comes in one milligrams or ten. So obviously I'm going to get ten because like, why not? And that's a lot.

58:45 Um, don't do that. It was very difficult to wake up.

58:47 But doing that or like read a really boring textbook like honestly like really grab your fundamentals book and like try to wrap your mind around it and you will you'll be you'll get going. Yeah, yeah.

58:59 And then pay attention to like your mental health. Like also looking at it like, why can't I sleep? Is it because I'm stressed and I have racing thoughts like, is there anxiety happening there? Like what else is really like playing into it? And you'll be able to get some sleep because sleep is so important.

59:16 You just need some ice cream.

59:18 So the next question is how to prepare for NCLEX, which is a very broad question.

59:25 So yeah. So I questions are going to be the biggest thing here.

59:30 So doing some kind of qbank is what um, is, you know, that looks a lot different now than when I was in nursing school.

59:37 When I was in nursing school, I went to borders, um, and I hid in a back corner so that I didn't have to buy the book.

59:44 And I just went through all the different, um, questions and then read the rationales.

59:49 But it's the same exact thing.

59:50 Now with, um, you know, we have a NCLEX thing where it kind of combines a lot of questions. I know there's a ton of other programs that do questions, and it's just going to be doing the questions and reading the rationale whether or not you get it right, just reading every single rationale, because the NCLEX is trying to test that you are safe.

1:00:08 And so remembering that too, that it is the end of the day.

1:00:11 It wants to know that you're safe, not necessarily that you know these random details. So going with the safest option and then doing a bunch of practice questions and then knowing you're never going to feel ready, you just need to kind of set the date and then go for it. Like give yourself enough time to get through whatever program you're doing, but then you're never going to feel ready, and then you're going to walk out and cry because you think you failed.

1:00:32 And that's. Yeah. Yeah.

1:00:34 And you probably you probably pass.

1:00:35 And if you didn't pass, it's okay.

1:00:37 I know some of the best nurses I know like failed like literally two, 2 or 3 times and they're great.

1:00:43 So and again a test. I was going to say I was I was going to add in that the first step to preparing for NCLEX is getting through nursing school.

1:00:52 So you're already in the right spot.

1:00:53 You're already in the right spot.

1:00:55 And so and learning all that content because the NCLEX is about critical thinking and taking what you've learned in school and applying it.

1:01:02 So just think of it. You're already preparing.

1:01:06 So Lily, if you're not graduating in December and you're asking about the NCLEX, we want you to get through those end, of course, exams.

1:01:13 Those exit exams. Don't even worry about it.

1:01:16 And then we'll go to NCLEX.

1:01:18 So yeah, no big picture.

1:01:20 Just today we're just going to do today.

1:01:23 So the next question is how did you prepare for the Hesi two admissions test for nursing.

1:01:29 So I think like we kind of covered that a little bit.

1:01:31 But if you want to add anything to it. Yeah, I think it was the same thing.

1:01:34 Like I again didn't have to take that because my school like exempted us from it.

1:01:38 But practice questions is, from what I have heard, the best way to just do a ton of practice questions and I'll just see what I'll add in.

1:01:47 Hesi is another product from Elsevier.

1:01:51 So just like, um, TES is a product of another company, it's just become, you know, it's become what they call brand ject, where we just like the Xerox machine is really a copy machine.

1:02:02 Right. So, so when you guys see as C is a product of a company, but a lot of schools use it for admissions.

1:02:11 A very popular for exit exams.

1:02:15 So good to know. Voila.

1:02:17 So okay, so let's see.

1:02:23 Um, I am an LPN in a BSN program.

1:02:27 I've learned due to my OCD, the hospital thank you is not for me and I want to get my MSN in nursing informatics when I am done.

1:02:37 Do you think I have to work in the hospital before I go back to work in informatics? I just know the hospital will be miserable for me.

1:02:45 Too crazy. I feel you can't really.

1:02:48 I feel you. Yeah. No, I wouldn't even worry about it.

1:02:51 And even if, like, like I don't, I think when people think of nursing jobs, the first thing they think of is the hospital. But I think that's changing a ton.

1:02:59 Um, I mean, like, I would have had no idea that I was going to be ending up working for an online nursing education company. Like that wouldn't have even crossed my, you know what I mean? So there's so many different options if you know your end goal especially, is not going to be something that requires you to have worked in a hospital.

1:03:14 Um, because some end goals do some things, you have to. If you want to be a Crna, you have to work in the ICU.

1:03:18 If you want to be an NP, like it's going to be a lot easier for you if you've had some inpatient experience just to get that, you know, everything that goes with it.

1:03:26 But if you know that your goal is nursing informatics, know try to get a job in research or, you know, like anything, even an outpatient job, you know, that's that's going to be totally fine. And when people tell you that you're doing it the wrong way, just laugh at them and walk away and make a friend who's already doing it.

1:03:43 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like your friend is already doing it.

1:03:47 So. Okay. That was wonderful.

1:03:49 So. Hi, Liz. Any tips on finding a job as a new grad FNP? What was your job search process like? Great question. Okay. Yeah.

1:04:00 So I think the easiest way to find a job as an FNP is honestly to market yourself in your clinical and this is going to be the exact same for your nursing jobs, is you're going to like on your preceptorship on a, on a floor you really liked when you're doing your clinical there. If you like it, let them know and be like, I really liked working here.

1:04:18 Like, if you ever have any positions for a nurse practitioner or for a nurse, like I would love it if you contacted me first, and then you can even get a few people there to vouch for you. Like maybe your preceptor could be like, yeah, like she was a rock star.

1:04:31 He was a rock star. They knew what they were really doing.

1:04:33 Um, you know, and treat it like a job interview.

1:04:35 Show up on time, offer to help other people, be like a huge team player, get involved a little bit.

1:04:41 Um, and also on the flip side, if you hated it, learn from that. And do not be afraid to be really picky when you're getting your job.

1:04:48 I think with the how, it can be hard to find jobs.

1:04:51 In some places, people are willing to take jobs that are pretty risky and like lots of red flags. Um, and know that like, while that might seem like it's putting a solution on something now, like, oh, I have a job real quick, like I would probably stay at your nursing job and wait for the right PNP opportunity to come.

1:05:08 Because if you work in a situation that's dangerous, like that's just miserable, especially as a new grad, you know, where you're seeing, um, I see a lot of people going into like, things like pain management right away because they're offering you a ton of money, and then you're seeing like 60 to 70 patients a day and you're just writing prescriptions all day. You don't talk to people. And I've had friends that like, got they they were like, oh, they're offering me a lot of money though. So I think just really thinking like, did I like what I saw in clinical, what I want to work there.

1:05:33 If I didn't want to work there, what didn't I like, and would this new job option like, would that be in line with what I really want to do? And just kind of being patient and waiting a little bit for it? Um, versus, you know, jumping into something just because you need a job, because most of us have we're nurses, so we still have nursing jobs to kind of fall back on. It's not like waiting a few extra months to find the fit that's going to be really right for you is going to help.

1:05:57 And in terms of like finding a job, just call offices literally and say, hey, like Or you can walk in with your resume or email HR departments, um, even if like anywhere and just be like, I'm a nurse practitioner.

1:06:10 Like in case you have any openings, like this is what I, you know, specialize in, this is what I do. You can do this as a nurse as well and walk in and introduce yourself because you never know what office was thinking, like, oh, we do actually maybe need to expand our staff, but they didn't want to go through the headache of finding people and like posting jobs. So if you just show up and you're like, hi, this is who I am, this is what I do.

1:06:29 They might be like, oh yeah, like I've heard of a lot of a lot of my friends have gotten jobs that way by just showing up.

1:06:35 So I was going to say, you never know who knows who.

1:06:38 Yeah, you never know. Exactly.

1:06:39 Tell everybody tell. Like, if you're at the ob gyn, be like, yo, right? Yeah. I am also looking for a job.

1:06:47 So like in women's health like so I love that.

1:06:51 So our next question we kind of hit on a little bit but we want to answer everyone's questions. So what about conquering anxiety during skills checkoffs we get three attempts Temps and then you're out of the program.

1:07:05 So with that one the first time.

1:07:06 So I have failed many a skills check off.

1:07:09 Um, and the first one was usually because I just, I was so nervous, I wasn't like, thinking clearly or, and I made, like, a lot of silly mistakes.

1:07:17 And I think that's okay. And just realizing, like, you're never going to be perfect. So like, giving yourself like that, it's going to be fine.

1:07:23 Three attempts, like if you think about it is a lot.

1:07:27 So okay, you're allowing yourself that first one where you are going to like, you made a silly mistake. And the second one, I would go to my professors who was doing the skill lab and be like, I'm really nervous.

1:07:36 Like I'm especially nervous because I just failed.

1:07:38 And I know that if I fail this again, like I'm at risk of getting kicked out of the program and I like I don't want that.

1:07:45 And a lot of times if you just communicate that to them, like they were usually like they weren't nice about it, but they were usually like, yeah, I get that.

1:07:52 And so there would be I would go really, really slow the second time like, and I would say, like, I'm just going to take my time with this and go like very deliberately kind of talking through things.

1:08:02 But I think just communicating with them because even like some of them that I then like was going to miss a step, they'd kind of be like, oh, like, you know, like giving you some kind of they know like, yeah. And if you tell them, you know, I've really practiced this like 8 million times. A lot of times they're going to know that as long as you aren't going in and being obviously negligent, like I have found that most of them, if you communicate that fear with them like that, tends to go a little bit better.

1:08:28 And really usually by the time you've I've done I've failed one twice and it was just because I was petrified.

1:08:34 And the last time I went at a snail's pace and, you know, like just practiced it until I could do it in my sleep.

1:08:40 And that's kind of what you have to do for those.

1:08:43 And they want you to succeed. So exactly.

1:08:46 Yeah. Yeah. That your nursing school gets a lot of money from you.

1:08:49 They do not want you to fail like they need you to succeed.

1:08:53 They do. They they. And it looks bad for their dropout rates like they, I think communicating with professors and teachers is huge because like I said, their management, they might not care, but the dean of that college definitely cares. So. So the next question, which I know the answer already, but I'm going to let you answer it.

1:09:11 What do you recommend for gaining so much knowledge from 30 chapters for one test, repetition or what type of learning? So I think, um, focused like we talked about for looking at the modules and making sure it's like focused and aligned with what you actually need to know, because sometimes you're looking at something and that's not even what your teacher wanted you to focus on. And then doing quiz questions that kind of will, um, like, target that information and help you pull it all together.

1:09:42 Because like I said, in nursing, they want you to they'll ask you a question and it requires you to know, like ten things that you're pulling in.

1:09:49 Okay. You need to know what that med does, what it would be contraindicated with, what type of intervention it would be associated with, and after what surgery does any of this happen? And it's asking you in one question.

1:10:01 So I think just seeing those questions over and over, reading the rationales is going to be like the biggest thing and targeting all of your studying towards what your teacher actually wants you to know, which is what they're going to tell you in their objectives. And what we have, what we call our book matcher.

1:10:16 So if you yeah. Saunders, you can take actually take our app.

1:10:22 You can either do on a tablet or your phone or even in the resources on the website, you put in the page number of where you are in the textbook.

1:10:30 And we'll take you directly to those video lessons, which are also connected to questions.

1:10:35 You can add those to your study planner, and what you can do is focus, Donna, just on the things that you know you need to work on.

1:10:42 So out of those 30 chapters, you may really only need to focus on 12 of them. And we'll help you do that and hone them in on that study planner so that you can focus on what you really need to to pass that, that test. Though, and the repetition questions that we have.

1:10:57 The spaced repetition will also help you do that.

1:10:59 So make sure you check that out.

1:11:01 Yeah, and that one's cool. You literally just take a picture with your anything you can type it in, or you can just take a picture of the page and it'll be like, hey, these are the. Yeah.

1:11:10 15 videos that we think would help you with this topic.

1:11:13 And then you can add it to your study planner and then be like, I have to know it by Thursday. It'll be like, okay, girl.

1:11:18 Like you're gonna be busy, but okay.

1:11:21 Yeah. So our next question is, would you recommend going through MP school online besides the clinical part? Um, I so this is going to be a lot of personal preference.

1:11:34 I think, um, I really needed to be in school.

1:11:38 I think being on, in, on campus for an assessment course is essential. Um, because how are you going to learn where you're listening, what you're pushing on? If someone's not sitting there telling you, like, oh, no, a little bit more to the left.

1:11:50 Um, like, how are you going to learn to do a pap smear, like all of those things.

1:11:54 Like, I think if your school doesn't have a week where they bring you onto campus, I know a lot of online schools have this.

1:12:01 They'll say, like, we're all online, except for this one week where you come and you do all of your skills.

1:12:06 We teach you how to suture, we teach you how to do INDs, we teach you all of the hands on skills, as well as the assessment component.

1:12:14 That gives me a lot better feeling because I know I learned so much from, um, I did a hybrid program, so I was on campus 1 or 2 times a month.

1:12:21 Um, and they taught us those physical things, and I just can't fathom how you would do it if you didn't have someone there, like guiding you and showing you, you know, how you're assessing.

1:12:30 Um, so I think online programs can be a great option, especially for people who don't have in-person school like near them.

1:12:37 But just be really, really cautious if the school requires absolutely no on campus presence ever. Because how are you supposed to learn those other skills? You're relying on a preceptor at that point, and we all know that NP school preceptors are very difficult to come by.

1:12:53 Sometimes they're not the best.

1:12:56 So like um, so that's my biggest hesitancy there.

1:13:00 Plus online courses are usually way harder than they're way harder.

1:13:06 So okay. So, um, our next question is what about advice for starting an accelerated nursing and accelerated nursing school program in your 50s? So this you're just going to have to really you're going to have a ton of life experience. And I think that's going to be a really important thing to like, leverage all of those students who are, um, you know, not in their 20s or 30s were they were very good at school because they incorporated all of their other life experience. They already knew how to really talk like they knew how to live in the world, how to talk with people, how to like, manage themselves in a way like you are not probably going to go out drinking until 3 a.m. most nights, like, you know, like you're like, if you're on the other people, um, you know, and that is you're going to be able to study better, you're going to be able to put better limits, you're going to sleep. You're going to know already what your routines are. You are you know, you're just so much more.

1:14:05 You're already in that zone of like, you know how to set yourself up for success.

1:14:09 And so while I think some things might be difficult, more difficult, um, for people like I saw a lot of people in my program, especially in MP school, who were in their 50s and their 60s, and they struggled more with the technology component of it. They did so much better than the rest of us, because they did not care what anyone thought of them. They knew how to take care of themselves and what they needed, and they just went out and did the thing and they knew, like they really wanted to do this. Whereas a lot of us were like, I think it's a good idea. Like, I think I want to do this. These people were like, this is what I want to do.

1:14:38 And like, I'm going to do it and I'm going to do it really well.

1:14:41 Um, and they were the ones they networked like crazy, like everyone that was older than, like 40 in my program, they graduated with like multiple job offers because they just went out and like, did the thing they, like, talked to everyone.

1:14:53 They went to the conferences they like.

1:14:56 I would leverage your life experience and your confidence and you're going to be just fine. I agree and and you should check out we have we did an event called um, advice from a second career nurse.

1:15:08 And that probably be very helpful because you definitely can do it.

1:15:11 So you hang in there because we need you.

1:15:14 We definitely need you.

1:15:16 So the next one is, what are my chances of getting a job as a male? I think a great, great chances.

1:15:23 What about you? I mean, I had an OB that was a male.

1:15:25 So tell me what you think.

1:15:27 Nurse Liz, in general, jobs love males.

1:15:31 Like because you are the minority by like I think over.

1:15:35 What is it like 90% of nurses are female.

1:15:38 Um, and but I have never obviously been a male or interviewed for a job, so I don't know what that like.

1:15:46 If anyone in the comments has any experience with that.

1:15:49 Um, but I mean, I think they would probably hire you because you're like the unicorn.

1:15:54 They're like, oh my gosh, I don't see the problem.

1:15:57 Watch out, because you're gonna you're definitely going to get called to like lift a lot of things. Like when I worked in peds we had like one male and he every time anything heavy happened, we're like, hey, like.

1:16:11 So it's definitely possible.

1:16:12 It's possible for sure.

1:16:14 So, um, so the next question is how do you overcome sweating hands, especially during skills check offs? Uh, example, sterile glove skills.

1:16:23 Check off. Yeah. Um, it's hard if you have to keep them on, because otherwise you can put, like, you know, cornstarch or something on your hands to, like, actually dry them out.

1:16:32 Um, sterile gloves. Checkoffs.

1:16:35 This was my hands get so sweaty when I get nervous, so I know exactly what you're talking about. You can rub them right before with some kind of, like, drying agent.

1:16:42 You know, like any kind of powder that's going to, like, to, like, absorb moisture.

1:16:45 Um, get some gold bond or something and just, like, tap it on and go for it.

1:16:49 Um, and then just say my hands get, like, communicate.

1:16:52 My hands get really, really sweaty.

1:16:54 I'm like, I am very nervous.

1:16:56 My hands get very sweaty and go from there.

1:16:59 Every time that I had to do this and it didn't go well, my teacher let me redo it because she noticed that I was just like, just dripping sweat. So most people are pretty understanding and they're like, yeah, like, you're certainly trying.

1:17:11 Yeah. What are you going to do? Like, what are you going to do? Great question. So next one is any tips for managing time.

1:17:19 The issue for me with my sleeping schedule is that I have classes around 9 a.m.

1:17:22 every morning and get home from, um, about 7 p.m., and I have to start this year, second year.

1:17:28 So I'm wondering how I'll manage my time, spare time and sleep, especially as my work placements require me to be out by 5 a.m.

1:17:36 every morning and home by roughly 10 p.m.

1:17:39 to also manage and study time.

1:17:42 Wow. Yeah, that's. That's a lot.

1:17:45 Yeah. Can you, like, study while you're either at work or in between classes? You know what I mean? So that you have time because you can get a lot done, even if you are. Um, so one nice thing, like podcasts or with the Lecturio lectures, you can actually download them, um, and you can listen to them like while you're on the go. Like they are a podcast.

1:18:06 And so then you could do that. You could do your spaced repetition while you're riding the bus, while you are, you know, sitting, waiting for your next class to start. I think the busier your schedule is, is just finding little nooks and crannies, because even if it seems like, oh, this is just five minutes.

1:18:20 Well, five minutes, five times, you know, like you're going to really start to get up there. And then what if it's a little bit more than five times five minutes, you know, you're going to be able to see accumulate some study time in there and then just blocking it out. I would do like block studying where you're like, okay, like even if I only have an hour, like I'm going to do an hour and I'm going to really focus on it. Put your phone in a different room and like make that time.

1:18:44 Just like how if you don't have a ton of time with your kids because of balancing it all, like you want that time to be so, so, so productive? Um, and then really embracing the fact that this is really hard right now and, but it's not going to be forever.

1:18:57 You know, I was going to add, yeah, if you download the Lecturio app, you'll you're able to download and save videos for offline.

1:19:05 And so I never thought about using it as a podcast.

1:19:07 So while you're driving that's a great idea. So you can't plop it in your pocket.

1:19:11 Yeah. You can't use Lecturio offline which is great.

1:19:15 Okay, so our next question, I don't know if this question is out of not sure. Okay. Studying Europe.

1:19:25 And I read the gaining work in the US as a new grad is impossible.

1:19:30 So I want to know if I'm eligible to apply for RN residency.

1:19:35 I think it will depend on what residency you are applying for.

1:19:39 I am not in any way, shape or form an expert on, um, international nursing.

1:19:45 Um, but the you would just want to look at each different residency and see the big thing there would be, are they going to sponsor your visa? Um, in order to get over here? Um, and I would look at nontraditional jobs.

1:20:00 So a lot of people just look at the hospital. But like I said, there's a lot of other jobs that, um, might consider, um, hiring you.

1:20:08 And so just look outside the box, even if you want to eventually get into a hospital, um, if you're just trying to kind of get pushed into the system, looking into alternative nursing jobs could be really helpful for that.

1:20:21 And if anyone knows anything about international nursing, I just that is not my I don't know. Yeah, I think that was a wonderful though.

1:20:29 That's. And one thing too is that, like you said, there's so many different ways to, to get in and here in the States too.

1:20:37 To everybody does everything different.

1:20:39 So you just focus on the program or what you're looking at and see what they'll do and their flexibility. You just you don't know what, like you said, you don't know what they're looking for and what their, what their what they need. At that point, you might just be the thing that fills the gap for them.

1:20:54 So you never know. Yeah.

1:20:56 And if you look in a more rural area, they're going to have such a more increased demand for nurses. So I would not necessarily look in a really urban area like around cities. I would look more in the country, you know, look and see what you can find, where they need people a little bit more.

1:21:13 That's a great suggestion. So question here is, is there, uh, if there is time.

1:21:18 Okay. Well there's always time, but not right.

1:21:21 We can make time. I wonder, as an NP and nurse, did you ever struggle with the fear of lawsuits? I feel overwhelmed by this fear.

1:21:30 I worry I will accidentally forget something, or someone dies and I go to jail.

1:21:35 I know I am crazy. You're not crazy.

1:21:37 You're not crazy. You're not crazy.

1:21:40 I know you're not crazy.

1:21:41 So I think it's a great question.

1:21:42 Nurse Liz, take it away. Yeah.

1:21:45 You are definitely not crazy.

1:21:46 And this was a thing when I was a nurse, and it was very much a thing when I was an MP. And the thing I finally came to realize was when you can get malpractice insurance as a nurse for very affordably, I think like about $80 a year or something.

1:22:01 So you can go and get that.

1:22:02 I didn't have it because I didn't know it was a thing.

1:22:05 But, um, as an NP to like you're covered under malpractice insurance, the thing you want to get there is you want to get something called a tale. So whatever kind of insurance you get, make sure it has tale coverage so that if you leave the company, um, it that incur that insurance will cover you for the whole time that you were there.

1:22:22 And even if you get sued five years later for something that happened while you were working there, that tale will cover you.

1:22:28 So knowing that you have malpractice insurance is helpful. And then every time I really had a question about something of like if I was like, is this call? Did it make me nervous at all? Never be afraid. Like double and triple check.

1:22:41 And then if it's something that gives you any twinge of.

1:22:45 I'm just not sure. Just go ask.

1:22:47 Like your pride is never worth.

1:22:49 You know, patients lives are never worth.

1:22:51 You being like, I just don't want to ask again, right? That's where, like, writing it down in that notebook is really helpful if you find yourself asking the same question a lot.

1:22:58 But just go and ask, um, if you're at the bedside or if you're a nurse at all. And you were like, I'm just not sure. Go pull someone else in and then realize that, like with most errors, you know, with meds, that's why we check meds so many times.

1:23:11 Med errors are the number one thing that most nurses are going to run into that will turn into a lawsuit. Double check your pumps before you leave them.

1:23:19 Make sure. Is this the right medicine? Is this the right rate? Is this, um, vial that I'm pulling up? Is it the right thing? And if you just really double check, I would say probably most errors are drawn when people are really, really, really rushed.

1:23:32 So kind of just calming yourself down enough to like, really, really focus, read everything twice and then, um, you know, label everything like the most other things you're going to be able to even if you went to court, they're also going to bring in expert witnesses. And this is what kind of calmed my fears was, as long as you can back up what you did and why, you're going to be fine, because like as an NP, if you say like, this is why I did it in your charting right down, like this is why I did this.

1:23:58 Maybe it's not the perfect plan.

1:24:00 Like maybe we can't do the guideline plan because the patient can't afford the treatment you write down.

1:24:05 This is why, like we discussed, that this is not the standard of care.

1:24:08 And here's what we're going to do instead. And this is why as long as you can justify your actions, you will be okay.

1:24:15 And then get malpractice insurance. And then kind of just keep asking questions until that nagging feeling goes away.

1:24:21 And you do kind of eventually get a little bit used to it.

1:24:24 But my biggest I asked, I mean, ask questions.

1:24:26 That's the biggest thing. I think that's great advice makes perfect sense.

1:24:31 So we have one last question about the NCLEX so I can answer it really quickly.

1:24:35 Liz, if you like. So um, so basically it's what's the opinion on the new NCLEX, how it work.

1:24:42 Um, now with the case studies, um, and this will be Clarence's first time taking classes with this type of, uh, for this type for the they're going to, going to be in the first cohorts to take this new NCLEX.

1:24:56 So let me just say this.

1:24:57 I have been working with students with NCLEX since 2009.

1:25:04 I have seen many NCLEX revisions.

1:25:08 Many. There was one, uh, I can't remember what year, but it literally turned the industry upside down.

1:25:16 Let me tell you something about NCLEX.

1:25:18 You don't worry about the NCLEX, you worry about studying, knowing the information, knowing the content.

1:25:25 Let them do what they do because you're going to know it.

1:25:27 And like Liz says, said earlier, you're just looking for the safe and effective answer, period, whatever it is, so you can do it.

1:25:36 So don't worry about if they change it, this or that.

1:25:39 Not your concern. All you want to do is get in there, answer the minimum amount of questions correctly to get out of there.

1:25:46 Don't focus on what the NTSB is doing with revisions because there's always going to be revision. They're constantly revising.

1:25:55 They're thinking of the next revision now for two years from now.

1:25:59 You can't worry about that.

1:26:01 You focus on being your program, using the tips, using Lecturio. Focus on that and everything else will fall into place.

1:26:11 Nclex is nothing but the perfect day of nursing.

1:26:14 Everybody show up to work. Everyone got to eat lunch.

1:26:16 You got a great parking spot.

1:26:18 There was no traffic, you know, like, everything was perfect.

1:26:21 And so you just got to think of.

1:26:23 Don't focus on what they're doing.

1:26:25 Focus on what you need to do because it's not going to change.

1:26:28 They're always going to look for the safe and effective answer, and it's all about protecting the public.

1:26:33 So that's what you got to worry about.

1:26:35 Don't worry about anything else. Liz, would you like to add anything? Yeah. Just that and like that is literally like, that's kind of our job to like, all the different studying platforms.

1:26:46 Like, that's our job to figure out how we're going to modify our questions in order to.

1:26:50 So that's actually like things we've been talking about is how are we going to change our questions to meet the new nursing like NCLEX style questions.

1:26:57 So like all you have to do is focus on knowing the information.

1:27:00 And like that's our problem, to have to come up with a new way that we are going to ask questions and making sure it's in line with the NCLEX.

1:27:05 It's your school's problem. They need to start asking, like teaching you and using those methods when they're in lecture like that is not I wouldn't worry about you.

1:27:13 Like Nicole said, just like learn the information, always pick the safest option and then, um, you'll be okay.

1:27:20 And really like the NCLEX is.

1:27:22 It's crazy that we use that because if I've, I've drilled.

1:27:25 I've worked with like nursing assistants. Um, after that and talked to, they're like, oh, I'm going to quiz you. And I failed epically because we don't practice like that. I'm like, that's not what you would do first.

1:27:34 Like, what are you talking about? Like, no. Right. Yeah.

1:27:39 So don't worry about it.

1:27:41 Um. You'll be okay. Yes.

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1:30:57 Oh, thanks for letting me talk.

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