Event 19: Four Steps to NCLEX Success

00:01 Hello friends, welcome to NCLEX.

00:05 We're going to be talking about it. We're going to be breaking down some steps that will hopefully make it a little bit more manageable.

00:10 While you're studying for the NCLEX, we're going to walk through a few questions of how to like if we wanted to get inside of your brain while you're taking NCLEX questions, we're going to do a whole walkthrough. It's going to be me. Prof Lawes is going to join us for that part, and then we're going to have a whole question at the end where we just go over all of your questions.

00:31 Prof Lawes is an NCLEX expert, so you can ask technical questions for her.

00:36 If you're a panicker, you can ask me questions because that's my specialty. So and as you guys are coming in, just feel free to say hey and where you guys are coming in from and how how are things there.

00:48 It's finally beautiful here.

00:50 We've had winter for like a week and I'm really over it.

00:52 So let us see. Let me pull this up.

00:55 This is a new format for me.

00:57 Perfect. Let me know if you see slides on the screen.

01:00 If you don't, we're in trouble. Friends, we are in trouble.

01:02 We have someone from Zambia, from Kenya.

01:05 Tampa, Florida. I bet it's pretty there too.

01:07 Indianapolis. Hello, everyone.

01:08 Thanks for coming. Um, so, like I said, welcome.

01:12 We're going to be going over all these things. Let me know how you're feeling about NCLEX. Um, we have our first poll, too.

01:17 So this is interactive.

01:19 It's basically my way of forcing you to interact with us so that you don't fall asleep. Okay. So on your screen, we should have something that pops up and it's going to say, when are you taking the NCLEX? Are you is this something that's in your near future? Are you like 3 to 6 months out? Is this six months out or is like, you don't even care.

01:36 I figure most of you are probably in one of the earlier ones. Yep, it looks like most of you 45 ish percent are in like the next three months.

01:43 Next one going down kind of 3 to 6.

01:45 That's kind of what I figured, since I don't know why you'd be here unless you were very just curious about your future. Um, so that's kind of that's good.

01:52 You're in the right spot if you're in that time frame.

01:55 Um, and our second question is, how familiar are you? Have you ever heard of Lecturio? Um. And have you ever used our products? Where did you find us from? If not, because that I am always fascinated by.

02:09 Like where? Where did you find us? If not, did you find this random link on the internet? Welcome. Um. No matter what.

02:16 Welcome. Um. And if you've ever been at our previous event, let us know in the chat. Let us know what your favorite ones are. If you're very new, all of these that we ever do, they're totally free. They're all up on our platform and you can always watch them.

02:28 There's ones on topics like pharmacology, how to study for pharm, all the key points like the most high yield questions, Prof. Laws put into a whole format.

02:36 So you can go and watch that.

02:37 You can watch ones on how to study for like exams for absolutely everything.

02:42 So right in there. Exactly.

02:45 Free is a great price.

02:46 Um, because we just want you to have information of how to tackle school and these types of things, which is why we do these events. Um, this is us. This is who's going to be yammering at you for the next, I don't know, our. We'll see how this goes.

02:57 Um, we have Prof. Laws.

02:59 If you watch any Lecturio stuff, you know who she is. She's an excellent nursing educator. Then there's me.

03:03 I'm a nurse practitioner.

03:05 I don't really know how I got here, but here we are.

03:07 Yay, you! Um, here's our agenda.

03:09 Because we're very professional, right? All nursing things always need agendas. Like we said, we're going to review four steps to how you can frame your studying. It's going to be filled with lots of practical tips of how to study for NCLEX. Uh, nclex question walkthrough.

03:22 We're going to be doing a trend question.

03:24 So one of the new ones from KNN.

03:26 Uh, and then we will go through questions.

03:28 So if you have questions you can plop them in here and we can mark them for later.

03:32 Or you can save them for later.

03:34 But if you come up with anything throughout, if you write the question in, just write question before it.

03:38 Uh, so that way we know to kind of save it to the end and we can, uh, pick both of our brains and together, hopefully we can come up with an answer for you. So here we are, four steps for NCLEX success.

03:50 Um, the very first thing I want you to kind of look at getting ready for the NCLEX as we're going to war. Okay, let's just be frank about this.

03:59 We're going into war, and we need to know everything we possibly can so that we're going to be prepared, right? Um, the very first thing we need to do is work on us, right? We need to create our strategy for us.

04:09 We are going to prepare for this battle.

04:12 It's kind of a war, but let's we'll we'll say it's a battle.

04:15 It sounds a little bit kinder. Um, so something we're going to have to prep for long term, right? Because this is a pretty big beast.

04:20 I've seen a couple of you in the chat saying, yeah, I'm taking it soon. A few of you even this is going to be a second time, maybe that you're taking it.

04:27 So this is great that you're here, you're going to regroup and we're going to take it again. I cannot tell you how many incredible nurses I know out there practicing who had to take the NCLEX several times.

04:37 Okay. So first of all, just know that as we're preparing for battle is getting your mindset around.

04:43 Some people are good test takers and some people are not.

04:46 And we're not going to feel bad about ourselves.

04:48 I'm not a good test taker. We're not going to feel bad about that, right? We're great at many other things. How you do on this test does not indicate the type of nurse you're going to be. So first just let's embrace that and go forth with that energy, okay. That you're going to be great. Um, like I said, so many incredible nurses I know had to take this several times just because they maybe they got so nervous or they weren't great test takers.

05:09 Right. So the first thing that we need to work on when we're looking at preparing ourselves for this battle, right, is determining your test date.

05:18 Now, do any of you have a test date that you actually have? You don't have to tell us the actual test date. I feel like that's one of those taboo things where you're like, we don't speak of that day. Uh, but if you have a test day, let us know this.

05:32 The tip that I have for determining your test day, um, we'll get to in a second.

05:36 We're going to talk about some actual strategies for it. We're going to want to prepare your study schedule, and we're going to make a list of distraction and happiness, okay. That's what we're going to do in the next like ten ish minutes here.

05:45 Um, how long? So here's our poll.

05:48 I was like, I thought I knew I had a poll here.

05:50 How long do you think you are going to study for the NCLEX? Right. Um. Are you? I will tell you, I don't do it.

05:58 How I did it, right. I was more in the um, wing it category, which is why we're here. Uh, there's, you know, some people take up to six weeks, some people take 1 or 2.

06:08 I feel like the sweet spot is going to be right around a month.

06:11 Right. Um, a lot of you are saying 5 to 6 weeks.

06:14 There's one of you out there. One of you is going to wing it. I tell you, it's, uh. That's a wild ride, my friend.

06:20 I can only say maybe reconsider, but also Godspeed.

06:24 Um, when you are trying to figure this out.

06:27 Okay, here's some practical tips you can use for deciding.

06:30 Hey, you know, like, do we want to stick to the 5 to 6 week time plan? How do we want to go with this? I want you to, first of all, when you're deciding your text, um, your testing strategy, give your schedule in a break, right. Give yourself because you're going to graduate from school and you're going to be proud of yourself for like, three seconds, right? You you're done. You're like, I made it. I made it through the insane thing that is nursing school, and then you realize you can't really take a deep breath, right? Has anyone have you experienced this or do you anticipate this? Because then you remember you just have this, like crushing boulder over your head that is the NCLEX. So I want you to just give yourself like at least a week to just breathe and do fun things and watch a lot of, I don't know, Netflix and just do absolutely nothing with school and give yourself that space to just relax and give your brain a break.

07:18 Because you do deserve to celebrate. Because just getting through nursing school. That's a lot, right? And you deserve to, like, pat yourself on the back and have all the things and feel proud of yourself. So I would give yourself at least a week, maybe two, maybe two, if we're feeling bold.

07:31 Okay. Um, the second thing is how much time you need to consider.

07:36 How much time can you actually give to this test? Like in terms of how much can you study a day, but also how much time do you have? Like do you have a job waiting at the end of this that it's like, hey, you know, we're going to hire you as a new grad who doesn't have their license yet, but you need to pass the NCLEX by June 25th.

07:56 Then you have a deadline.

07:58 And so you need to work within the parameters of your deadlines.

08:01 Other deadlines are like my brain shuts off after three hours of studying.

08:05 Okay, great. Don't try to fight that right.

08:08 Don't be like, I'm going to study eight hours a day or 16 hours a day, and then I'm going to take this thing in one week. Bold, my friend, but probably not going to work for you because that's not the way your brain actually has worked this whole time. Okay, so think about write down how many hours a day can I actually give this? How many days a week can I actually study for this? And do I have an end of the line? Right. Like date that we absolutely have to be done.

08:32 Write that down. This is all in your brainstorming. And three don't talk to other people about it, right.

08:38 Don't ask your all your friends are going to be talking about like I'm taking it on this day. I'm doing it on this day.

08:43 What they do and how they study has no reflection on you.

08:46 Right. This doesn't. You're all going to study in different ways.

08:50 This is a huge. It's as much of a mental game as it is a knowledge game.

08:55 So just try to ignore those conversations and stay out of it.

08:58 Or if you're in them. Right.

08:59 Just like take a step back.

09:01 Right. And then my last tip when you're trying to figure out your exam day is don't delay it too much. So the opposite of we do want to take a break, but at the same time, the longer you wait, I mean, you're going to forget maybe a few things, but your motivation is going to go. It's just going to become it's going to build up in your head with anxiety.

09:19 Right? The longer you put it off, because it's this like crazy beast.

09:23 It's this battle roaming in the back, like in the back of your mind.

09:26 And your brain is going to make this more scary than it actually is by putting it off.

09:31 Okay, so I usually tell people, take it within two months of graduating would be my best bet. I saw a lot of my peers and just nursing students I've worked through with the over the years struggle after that two month mark.

09:43 Now if you have life going on, if you're having a baby or you're moving, um, by all means, like readjust that.

09:49 Don't take that two months into, like, as a hard plan, like work with your life.

09:53 But in general, I usually say, take that week off, figure out how many days a week you can study, how many hours you want to study and go back to, like about, you know, how how much do you need to prepare as a human? Just knowing yourself.

10:06 Give yourself a break. Don't look at other people and then take it within those two months. Right? And that usually puts people between 4 and 6 weeks.

10:14 And that looks like from the pole that that's about where most of you are kind of planning it. And I think that's a perfect sweet spot.

10:20 But the very first thing I want you to do before you even look any further into getting ready for the NCLEX is pick a date, right? So let me know in the chat if you actually have a date yet, you can just tell us yes or no.

10:31 You don't have to tell us what the actual date is, but that's the very first thing is planning ahead and going from there.

10:38 Right? Okay, so we've determined our date.

10:41 Now we can backfill. Okay.

10:43 This is going to help us.

10:45 We're planning backwards. Essentially. We know the day we're going to battle. Now we need to figure out how many days we need to train for it and what those training days are going to look like. So you're going to make a study schedule. This can be whatever you want it to look like. Figure out how many days a week you can actually give to this.

11:02 You know, are you working a job? Are you doing other things? How many hours a day you probably could do. And it doesn't have to be the same every day, okay? We don't need to fall into the trap of, like, every day needs to look the same.

11:12 You know what I mean? Pick that.

11:14 I want you to be. The biggest thing that matters here with your schedule is be realistic. Okay? If you're like me, I, I struggle, I struggle with focusing.

11:25 So if I said I'm going to study ten hours a day, there's no way that Liz is going to sit down and study ten hours a day, okay? Be realistic. Give yourself fluff time.

11:33 Be like, I'm probably going to play on my phone for three hours and then study for one, so just write one, okay? We're going to make it a really great one hour and then we're going to move on.

11:43 Like we're going to be realistic with this so that we are able to actually prepare, because it doesn't matter what this imaginary superhuman in your brain, what you think you can do on your planning day, it matters what's actually going to happen in real life.

11:57 Okay, so be realistic.

11:59 You can either schedule out this study session now by time and by time would be I'm going to study every hour, every day for three hours.

12:09 And I'm going to study five days a week.

12:11 Or you can distribute it by topic.

12:14 Um, I'm lazy, I'll be honest.

12:18 And I would study by time just because for me, having to plan out all of my topics would then add a level of chaos that my brain it simply cannot do, right? It's like, I can't even do this. But some people find it much nicer to wrap up a whole topic by day. Like I want to learn everything about, um, like the endocrine system or something in one day, and that way you're rounding the whole thing out. Beautiful. If that's you, by all means, you do that.

12:45 It probably is easier for your brain to do it.

12:47 So whatever is easier for your brain, for me, it would be like, I'm going to like, try to study ish for like three hours a day here. And when I hit that goal, I'm going to wrap things up right.

12:57 And then we're going to be done.

12:59 Plan it out, be realistic, and please, by all means, this is maybe the most important part is schedule in chaos.

13:06 Give yourself a buffer because like Prof Lars is saying in the chat, like life will happen.

13:12 You will, oh gosh, I don't know.

13:14 Someone is going to come down. You might get sick, right? You might get sick, someone might be throwing like an event all of a sudden that you're like, I really want to go to that.

13:22 Uh, your car might break down and it's going to take like three days to just, like, gather your life together and get a tire fixed, do all, like, the life things schedule in a buffer so that when life happens, you're not stressed, right? Absolutely. Schedule in a buffer so that you have some time.

13:40 So this is what I would do next. Once you have your date, work backwards and see how you can plan in all of your days and print out a calendar.

13:47 Okay. Print out something so you can write this down and you can mark it off if you're the type of human that really enjoys that. But it's going to give you some kind of structure, because I found the other thing that is really hard with studying for these huge board exams is all you see is this enormous battle ahead of you, right? And it feels like there's no way to like chunk at it, because it's just like, I just have to study, study, study. And then I'm going to take the thing by giving yourself a schedule that you can check off every day and be like, I did my three hours, I did my two hours, I studied this entire system.

14:20 You're giving your brain that little bit of like, dopamine. That's like you did a thing.

14:24 You accomplished something because we need to feel like we're accomplishing things. I did the thing and I can move on.

14:29 I can be proud of myself.

14:30 And I have a way to show like I am actually doing the thing.

14:33 So please, if you're at all that type of person who feels like this is just too much, write it down, check it off and it will give you a little bit more power over the situation to feel like I'm doing the thing, and I can keep doing the thing now.

14:48 Distraction and happiness.

14:49 Um, side note I we have at Lecturio like a bunch of images, right, that you can like, use in your presentations that are created.

14:57 And when I typed in happiness, this is what showed up, this pancake person. So I put it in here mostly because it just made me laugh.

15:04 And I hope that it made one of you laugh too.

15:07 I was like, okay, I mean, very fair.

15:09 Breakfast foods and pancakes are very happy, so let's throw it in there.

15:13 I want you to make a list of things that make you happy.

15:16 Just like this pancake plate made me happy.

15:18 Okay, now, this sounds kind of silly.

15:21 Uh, but I can tell you, having taken this, having taken other nursing exams, having seen a lot of other people do this in the very beginning, you're going to feel motivated, hopefully at least a little bit. Maybe after today, hopefully you're getting like a little bit of a, like a little zhuzh.

15:35 Um, in about two weeks of studying.

15:37 You're not going to feel quite as motivated, right? Because this is a really, really long process.

15:42 This is a long battle you're prepping for.

15:45 So I want you to make a list right now of happiness, things that make you happy. And I want you to break that into things that make you happy, that you can do in five minutes.

15:53 Things that take maybe 15 minutes and then things that take an hour to do.

15:58 These are things like going outside, watching an episode of your favorite show, um, playing with your dog.

16:05 I don't know, I like cross stitching.

16:07 I don't know, maybe you like playing video games, things that you can break into chunks of time where it's going to help you raise your mood, and you don't have to think about it, okay? It's just going to be like a multiple choice test, and you can look at it and be like, great, I'll do this. It's going to.

16:22 And like I said, you pull those out on the days when you're feeling rough and you're like, I need something to do.

16:26 I have ten minutes. What can I do that might raise me out of this rut just a little bit? Go and do that. And pre-make snacks.

16:33 Okay. I don't know why, but if you're like me, uh, having to feed yourself snacks that are not pre-made, you're going to go for food that's not going to make you feel super great, and you want to give your brain all the good food that it possibly can give it.

16:46 So pre-made snacks and happiness lists, making lists of already thought through things that you can do that you can pull from through to get you out of that rut because you're going to hit ruts. And that's okay. That's very normal, very expected. When you're doing like preparing for battle, it's going to be rough.

17:01 We're going to need help. Second, um, how to eliminate distraction here.

17:06 Whatever works for you.

17:07 This is what I typically see a lot of people see success in is doing techniques like the Pomodoro technique, which if you don't know what that is, uh, it's basically you really focus hard for like 20, 25 minutes. You take a five minute break, you go back, focus for 20, 25 minutes, five minute break, 2020 five minutes. Use the happiness list in between and it chunks for like two hours, which would be a huge bit of your studying that day and it helps you.

17:34 It just gives you structure again.

17:36 Having structure in this time is so huge and it really helps you focus.

17:40 My biggest tip with this too is to Google or YouTube.

17:43 Go on YouTube and type in Pomodoro session and there are lots of YouTube people who literally this is what their channel is. They'll have nice background music for you.

17:52 They'll even chat with you if you want in those five minutes in between, it's prerecorded, but you know you can chat with them in your brain and it gives you you feel like it's called body doubling, where you feel like you're studying with someone even though they're on a screen. And it really helps you feel like it keeps you focused because you don't want to let the person on the screen down, right. So I highly recommend that. That is what I use to this day when I really have to get stuff done.

18:16 Uh, take breaks, which sounds very counterintuitive, but if you're sitting there, you're going to burn out. If you're just trying to study for three, four, or five hours straight, your brain, it's not going to retain anything, right? And you want to give it rest.

18:29 Allow it to be refreshed so that you're like semi-interested.

18:32 Because the best way you're going to learn is by being interested, right? So take lots of breaks and put your phone somewhere else.

18:37 Okay. Go hide it in a different room, just like gain space from your phone.

18:43 I need to do this because I have no self-control. If you have self-control, don't worry about it. Hide whatever distracts you so it's not getting in the way.

18:50 And then remind yourself like, this might not be very fun, but it's three hours a day, and then you have the rest of the day to do what you need to do. Okay, next tip for staying distracted and maintaining some level of happiness. Seriously, just go outside sometimes. Just go outside. Um, if you guys have seen have you seen on like, I feel like all over social media, there's the sound and it's like, I can't tell if, like, I'm very depressed.

19:10 Oh, no, it turns out I just need sunshine.

19:12 I am a complicated, high maintenance plant.

19:15 It's true. We are complicated.

19:16 High maintenance plants and sunshine.

19:18 Just going and sitting outside for one of your little breaks during your Pomodoro session. So helpful. Go outside even when you don't want to.

19:26 And lastly, I want you to find your people with this, right? When you're gearing up for this battle, there are going to be people who are really overhyped.

19:35 And you have to be careful with social media here.

19:37 Um, because some people, right, are going to be like so confident and they're going to be like, we're going to do this. I can do everything.

19:47 This is great. I know so much, I feel so great.

19:50 And on the inside, you might not be feeling any of those things and it makes you feel bad, right? So be careful who you follow on.

19:55 Social media. Follow group.

19:56 There are lots of awesome people on social media, or lots of accounts that are helping you prep for the NCLEX.

20:02 But there again I say like be careful because you don't want to only consume learning content, so just balance it out.

20:07 Do whatever feels good for you. If you feel like it's not being doing great things for you, avoid it temporarily.

20:12 Use the mute button liberally.

20:14 Write anything that's not really serving you on social media and be like, I'm just going to come back to you later when I'm in a better headspace, right? And amongst your friends, especially connect with the people that make you feel good? Right. You don't need extra people coming in here and making you more stressed. You don't need people coming in here and making you feel dumb.

20:32 Uh, it's very okay to set a boundary and just be like, look, I'm really like, I'm getting ready for NCLEX.

20:37 I really don't want to talk about it at this point with anyone else.

20:41 Like, I just talking about it makes me stressed.

20:43 So can we just not talk about that for right now? That is a perfectly fair boundary to set with people, or the opposite where you can reach out to other people and be like, can I just vent with you about this? Whatever you need. Set that boundary and find things that make you feel good, right? Um, and if you need people, if you need something like this, uh, we have this discord, um, that I run.

21:04 So I'm not biased at all, but I think it's great.

21:06 And this is a bunch of nursing students.

21:07 A lot of them are going through NCLEX right now.

21:11 You can join here. Let me see.

21:13 Something should pop up on your screen. Maybe let me know if it did.

21:16 Um, it's totally free.

21:17 It's just a discord community that I run. Prof.

21:19 Laws is in there all the time, and you can ask any question that you have on anything, and I will try to answer it, or I'll find people who know the answer if I don't. And there's a whole group of people who are taking the NCLEX and you can say, like when you're taking it, this is for all things nursing school, but has an NCLEX section and you can go in there and get connected to other people, vent, rant, ask questions, do whatever you need.

21:42 So if you need people, we got people, you can go find them there.

21:47 This is an example if you do have our NCLEX prep.

21:50 So Lecturio does have an NCLEX prep program.

21:53 Prof has made it. She did an awesome job and in here we have our happiness list.

21:58 This is what I mean. Just like a list. Kind of like this.

22:01 Uh, you it'll take you through all of, like, the NCLEX type stuff. It has all these downloadable materials where you can get, like, um, a calendar that you can.

22:11 It's blank, so you can fill it in however you want.

22:14 And it has a daily tracker that we'll look at later.

22:16 So if you do have Lecturio or you're interested in it, um, this is all included in it because I kind of wanted it to be like a one stop shop.

22:24 Okay. Um, at the very end of this, I'm going to share another pop up, hopefully that has like a discount code.

22:30 And we're having for everyone that comes here.

22:32 We're having a free practice.

22:34 Um, and it's like a bunch of KNN next gen NCLEX questions that you'll get, but I don't think it's the link is later, so hang tight.

22:44 We'll also email it out so you promise you won't miss anything? Um, so now we've prepared you for battle.

22:50 Right now we're going to know your enemy.

22:53 And this is because you're ready.

22:55 But now we need to know who we're facing. Right? Have you? And let me know in the chat if you have ever heard the phrase that the hardest part of the NCLEX is learning how to take the exam itself? Because this is completely true.

23:08 Um, please learn how to take the exam itself.

23:11 Don't skip this step. And when we are learning our enemy.

23:14 Right. The biggest things that we're going to want to do, that's what most of this, uh, like the NCLEX course is about, is breaking down all the questions, learning how to take them. Um, no matter what, though, you're going to want to learn how to demystify the 14 question types.

23:27 There's 14 question types on KNN.

23:29 Um, the biggest, um, spoiler here is the question types don't matter, friends. It's the content that's behind it. Okay, this is all a big like smoke screen of like look at all these question types. This is stressful. They all ask the exact same types of questions and they all come back to safety.

23:46 Right? They all just want to make sure are you going to be safe.

23:49 What is going to be the safest thing in this section.

23:51 And they're going to ask you key words.

23:54 And that's what I want you to focus on.

23:56 Right. Is is this a priority question? Am I say who am I saying is this? And I'm who am I saving? First question is this who is dying? The fastest question is this did this person understand this question? Like what error have they made? Well, knowing all and all that goes back to safety, right? So identifying those trends, please don't get caught up in all the question types because they're all just asking you the same thing in a different hat, right? They're just dressing up. You're going to want to know the eight topics. So there's eight main topics that's going to be like physiologic response again pharmacology again that all comes back to safety.

24:30 This is going to be just through practice right.

24:32 You're going to want to learn tips and tricks to deal with the wording to figure out what is this question really asking me.

24:38 And with all of this, it's just going to be practice questions, practicing over and over again as you and doing like if you have like Lecturio we have a great prof laws teaches a bunch does a bunch of walkthroughs, which is basically what this is, is how do I spot this question, see what it's really asking me and work through it? And if you don't have like whatever studying thing you're using, it's the same. Just do tons of practice questions, read all the rationales and you're going to get it. It's just through practice questions right.

25:06 You're going to want to create guessing strategies. Um, how do I kind of narrow these down again? Uh, we go through a lot of this in the NCLEX course is how do I guess when I have no clue? How do I narrow these down? What are some clues within the sentence? What are some clues within the answers? And this is a lot of like pattern recognition. Practicing like that and remembering it's all about safety and keywords.

25:29 Okay. So please do not get stressed about all the question types, like I said, and the fact that this is new, it's the next gen thing.

25:35 Like you've been preparing for this.

25:37 You've been taking questions like this for a long time. Don't get let it get in your head that this is scarier than it really is.

25:44 That's going to be more harmful.

25:45 Like that's only harmful to you and you already know how to do it, right. Otherwise you wouldn't be at this point. Nursing school is not going to let you graduate. If you don't already know how to do all of the things that you need to do for this test, right? Um, and like Prof.

25:59 Law says, if you like, in the course, she focuses a lot on the keywords for these questions so that you'll automatically know, like, oh, when I see this, I'm going to think this here's what I'm looking for. Types of things.

26:11 Um, this is kind of like what our course actually like.

26:14 Looks like you'll get lots of question walkthroughs.

26:17 Uh, she does like there's you'll see trend questions.

26:20 You'll see case studies.

26:21 There are just countless countless things of if you want to get in the brain of someone and be like, hey, how do you think through this? How would I think through this? So you can start to make all those connections, and then they're going to start to happen to you on your own in your brain. It's pretty cool. That's what we have here.

26:36 It's just like tons and tons of this.

26:39 Step three okay, so first we've prepared for battle two.

26:42 We know our enemy right now we're going to do how are we going to implement this.

26:46 Like the third thing we're going to study is we're going to prepare for battle by practicing. We're going to do practice questions like crazy quality over quantity.

26:53 So I don't want you to zip through a million of these and then be like, oh my gosh. Like I actually like I didn't really read the rationales.

27:01 A lot of these weren't like actually like higher level NCLEX questions.

27:04 They were just straightforward knowledge questions. I want you to do real NCLEX questions and read all the rationales.

27:10 Okay. Take your time with that.

27:12 And, um, I don't want you to get distracted and immediately look things up, okay? Because if you immediately you want to kind of this is going back to our focus thing, right? Where if you are going through and you're like, um, I am researching this, I'm reading a rationale about this, and all of a sudden it says cholecystectomy, and I don't remember what cholecystectomy actually means. So I'm going to go off on this other tangent, and I'm going to start researching all of this stuff, and then I'm going to go down a rabbit hole.

27:37 And then it's seven hours later and I've learned how to like make macrame on YouTube, because somehow that came up.

27:44 But I don't know anything.

27:45 I didn't get any further with my studying. Right. Does that happen to anyone else or just me? We want to focus what we're studying.

27:52 So what we do when we run into something we don't know, right? When you're studying is just write it down, write it down on a list and come back to it at the end of your studying, okay? Don't interrupt what you're doing when you're going through all your practice questions.

28:05 Make a list and the last thing you do in your day.

28:07 Leave a buffer of time and look and research those questions that you had.

28:13 That's your time to research more.

28:15 Keep all your studying kind of funneled, and it's going to help you stay way more organized and on track.

28:20 Okay. This is just a reminder to when you're doing questions.

28:24 Don't do the NCLEX practice questions like any simulation that you have until you're about to. That's your last step of studying, right? Don't do these in the beginning, because in the beginning you're just practicing and playing around and you're gaining more knowledge. Save these until the end. These are just going to stress you out if you do them. In the beginning, my friend, you're going to be like, I don't know anything. Well, you haven't really prepared a lot yet okay.

28:45 So save these as a practice run.

28:47 These are a dress rehearsal for the battle.

28:49 Okay. Save any actual, you know, run through.

28:53 We're going to give you all 85 questions until the end.

28:56 If you do our program, we have three of them.

28:59 They'll run you through all 85 questions.

29:01 There might even be a fourth one built into the actual thing. Um, but take your time with the questions, read all the rationales, stay focused, don't get distracted and leave the big run thrus till the end.

29:11 And then fourth, this is our what we do when we shove those things aside.

29:15 Target your weaknesses, right? Because as you're reviewing things, you're going things are going to come up and you're going to be like, wow, I really don't know what System what a cholecystectomy is.

29:24 Here's how you're going to handle it, okay. You are going to, like I said, as you're going through all your questions, write down cholecystectomy next to it and you're going to move on. You're going to be like, oh, this is fine. We're moving on. I'm not going to worry about the fact that I don't know that right now.

29:36 I'll read the rationale and move on.

29:38 And at the end of the day, you're going to have a list of, I don't know, maybe 10 or 12 topics that you're not too sure of.

29:44 I want you to take those.

29:46 Go and read about them, or watch a video or listen to a, I don't know, a podcast on the topic.

29:51 Whatever you have, however you learn best and just curiously learn about those topics.

29:56 Follow the questions that your mind gives you.

29:59 Why would someone need a cholecystectomy? What are the risk factors of having a cold? Ask yourself and just kind of like see where it goes. Don't take notes.

30:06 Okay. Which might seem counterintuitive to you.

30:09 It might make you stressed.

30:10 This isn't about taking notes to cram.

30:14 The best way you're going to learn here is you realize something you don't know, and you're exploring it with curiosity, and you're just going to go forth at this point. Taking notes isn't going to help you that much.

30:25 I'm so sorry you're never going to review them again unless you like. Writing down helps you remember things by all means.

30:29 But if you're like me, I would take my notes down and I would absolutely not ever look at that again.

30:34 Okay? It's a waste of my time.

30:36 I'll learn more just by looking through different videos.

30:39 Uh Lecturio also has a huge if you're using our study resource, a huge, uh, what we were originally was an education company to get people through nursing school. So we have a video on every single topic.

30:50 You can just type into the search bar.

30:52 Hey, what is this? If you, um.

30:54 And we'll give you a ton of videos that are super high quality and short, and you can watch them on two times speed and download them for like your commute. Maybe you study one day, and then as you're driving to work the next day, you download all the videos you needed a refresher on.

31:06 Watch them on your commute.

31:08 Wear them down. You're done. You got all your work done in the car or on your walk.

31:11 Whatever it is, look at it that way, right? Do this and just like, explore with curiosity.

31:16 At the end of your day, the topics you're not sure of, and I promise you, it will be better than diverting every time you find something you don't know. And it'll take the pressure off of you of having to take notes and make it so serious. Uh, just do it that way, you know what I mean? It's a little nicer. You can use.

31:32 I recommend using a sheet like this.

31:34 This, again, comes with the course that we have, uh, today's must do's. So, like, hey, I have to study for two hours. I have to wrap up, you know, this one System things I could do.

31:42 Uh, how did it go? What could we do better next time? And then the review. More about this later list.

31:47 That's where you put all the stuff that you just need to look at later, right. Um. Be curious.

31:52 Focus on safety. Like I said, uh, this is going to help you avoid panic spirals. If you feel like you're spiraling into panic, go outside, pull out that happiness list and see what you can use from it to get yourself out of this funk. Go on to the discord server.

32:07 Go find your friends. Find your text, your group of like your text thread of group friends where you're like, I am like, just send help.

32:16 I'm spiraling and they will help.

32:18 People will come and get you like your friends will help get you out of it. Use your resources that you have to get out of it.

32:23 Just be very honest with yourself.

32:25 Give yourself breaks and also acknowledge you know it's okay to like, feel like this is overwhelming because this is overwhelming, but you're going to be okay.

32:33 You really are implementing these things.

32:35 Uh, really, I hope will help.

32:37 Um, and one of the things we want to do lastly, before this, like when we get to the end, we've done all of our tasks for the day to help avoid make panic spirals worse.

32:47 Right? Is stop when your list is done, when you have studied for your two hours or your three hours, when you've completed your goal of that day, and then you've wrapped up and you've looked at all the extra material that you needed to review. Stop. Okay. Which feels hard because sometimes you're, like, really feeling it, and you're like, I could I should go more like I, you know, I should go.

33:08 No. That's why you made a schedule.

33:10 Right. You made a schedule so that you can have a stopping point.

33:14 So you can wrap up at the end of the day and be like, hey, I did great works today.

33:18 Um. And I'm done. And now your brain can shut off and not have to worry about things, and you can go enjoy an activity that's going to help you stay motivated and keep on track as you keep going. Right? Um, so those are my plans.

33:32 That's my plan of what I wish I would have done when I was you and I was preparing for NCLEX. Um, now I'm going to, uh, bring on Prof.

33:41 Laws and she's going to walk through an NCLEX question with you, and she's going, this is going to be where we're spotting keywords, right? Where we are looking at things and saying, how would I get inside the brain of someone else who's critically thinking through this and go through it? So I'm going to poof away and I hand you over to Prof.

33:57 Los. Woo! Wow. That was great.

34:01 I agreed with everything she suggested to you.

34:05 She has to say that yes, I do.

34:07 I get paid extra for that. No, I do not have to say that.

34:10 I really think it so. And guys, I can't stress enough.

34:13 Really? Your brains need downtime to process all that information you're putting into it.

34:18 That's my passion. I'm a nerd about educational psychology and understanding how our brains work. And I promise you, that's essential.

34:26 Now we use the word walk through.

34:28 Like, what are you talking about? Well, if you went to like, a really high dollar NCLEX review course, which we're not high dollar, but this is what you would get.

34:37 You would get someone walking you through the questions one by one.

34:41 Now you can choose to sit in a room for three days or you can hang out with us online.

34:47 So let me show you kind of what we're looking at.

34:50 And this is going to take a practice NCLEX question.

34:53 Now the thing that frustrates all of you, how many times tell me in the chat.

34:59 Have you ever had a nursing question where you felt like all the answers were correct and it was not a select all that apply? You were looking at a four option multiple choice, and you felt like all of the answers could be correct.

35:12 Tell me in the chat anyone had that feeling.

35:14 In nursing school? Okay, just me and Christine.

35:18 That's it. Alright, well, alright, there's some more.

35:23 Yes, it's really frustrating.

35:25 So what I want you to do is to get in the mental mindset of these questions are meant to weed us out. These questions are meant to see how we think.

35:36 That's nothing to be worried about.

35:37 That's nothing to get nervous about. Just know that these are the rules of the game.

35:42 So they're looking for safety.

35:44 What is the safest thing? So I always ask students to ask themselves for this particular patient in this particular setting, what keeps them the safest.

35:55 Now you just got a link that popped up on your screen.

35:57 You can get some free practice questions, so we wanted that to be available.

36:01 We know money is tight in nursing school, so we want you to have all these resources and access and discord is also completely free.

36:10 So take our practice test.

36:11 You kind of get a feel or an idea of where you are.

36:14 But second thing I want you to know is prioritization means they're asking you to pick the best answer the first thing you would do.

36:23 So just tell yourself, breathe deep.

36:26 I'm going to expect that there's more than one right answer. That's how nursing questions go. When you do take your NCLEX, you're going to find content that you don't recognize. That's normal.

36:37 Everybody does. So just don't let like she talked about a panic spiral.

36:42 Don't let your mind go crazy.

36:44 So let's talk about prioritization of care.

36:46 We're going to look at a trend question.

36:48 When you look back at this one you'll see what these tabs are.

36:53 On the left side of the screen.

36:55 It's called a trend question because you're going to see things happen with the same patient over a period of time.

37:02 Now B might be over a period of days.

37:05 Usually it will be oh same day just a few hours apart.

37:08 But either way it's a trend question, meaning you get information over a period of time. Now this one happens to give us four patients.

37:18 So we're talking about a prioritization of care question that translates to you.

37:23 Oh there's more than one correct answer.

37:25 And everyone in this question needs care deserves care and will get care.

37:30 But they're trying to see if I recognize who should get it first or who is most important to get it. So we've got these four patients, right? Um, you read through those, I'm going to give you a second to kind of take a look at these, and I'll hit the highlights for you.

37:47 So patient one, look at what they have.

37:58 Okay, now look at patient two.

38:04 Okay, pause right there.

38:06 Now that you've looked at those, you're thinking like I've read this. What do I do with this information? The more orderly you put information into your brain, the better you're going to be able to get the answer out of your brain.

38:17 So as you're looking through these questions, here's what I want you to think about.

38:21 Look at patient one. Let's go back and I'll show you how you break it down.

38:24 Patient 137 years old.

38:26 If there's an age in the question, it matters.

38:29 So you're going to ask yourself, okay, 37 years old.

38:32 So they're not an elderly client or pediatric client.

38:34 We got that. Now they had a motor vehicle accident the previous day.

38:39 Well, that's not normal, but we don't know anything yet.

38:42 Now, it says they have no visible injuries on the body.

38:46 Well that's good. Other than some abdominal bruising and pain.

38:52 Okay. Abdominal bruising.

38:54 That's not normal, right? That's an abnormal assessment.

38:57 And you want to think about that.

38:59 What does that assessment have to do with what's happened to this patient? Motor vehicle accident.

39:05 Abdominal bruising. That should be pointing you to something.

39:09 They're also telling you that they feel weak.

39:12 Can you see a connection between feeling weak and the abdominal bruising and the trauma? Okay. So that's what I'm going to take away from patient one.

39:21 So this would lend me to start thinking, wow, somebody had a trauma and they're showing me abdominal bruising.

39:27 That's not a normal place to have bruising.

39:29 And that can sometimes indicate what.

39:32 Into the abdomen. Tell me in the chat.

39:34 What could that indicate if somebody has abdominal bruising.

39:39 Anybody want to guess? Well, yes. Right. An abdominal bleed.

39:47 And that's a big deal because there's a lot of good big blood supplies there.

39:51 So when you look at these questions, patient one is where I start.

39:55 Don't just read through everything. Patient one. So I know like I'm thinking about the ABCs. He says he's feeling weak.

40:02 I don't have his blood pressure, but that's pretty good.

40:06 That's a pretty good indication they're going to need care. I'm going to compare patient one to patient two. So patient 282 years old.

40:13 Okay. They're older. Suspected food poisoning.

40:17 Well that's not great, right.

40:19 They vomited four times today.

40:21 So I see somebody said oh yeah they're probably dehydrated.

40:25 And the patient is confused.

40:27 Who's most at risk? Patient one with the possible abdominal bleeding.

40:32 Or patient two who's dehydrated and confused.

40:35 Tell me in the chat. What do you think? So just between patient one and patient two.

40:42 Okay. So that means I would cross through on my write on wipe off board that you get when you take the NCLEX. And I would say number one so far is worse.

40:53 Depends on needs care faster than patient two.

40:56 Now let's go to patient three.

40:58 Six month old. Oh I hate it when they have little baby questions.

41:02 Nurse Liz is the pediatric expert.

41:03 I wasn't brave enough to work there.

41:05 I just like to play with kids.

41:07 I do not want to take care of sick kids.

41:09 So this one is six months old.

41:11 Okay. They have increased drooling and rash on the lip and chin area.

41:16 So you picture that because that's abnormal.

41:19 That's not what we're looking for. And the mother states that the infant has been more irritable than usual. Okay.

41:26 This baby needs to be seen.

41:28 I don't think this is an airway problem.

41:30 Right. It's got some things going on, but you've got between 1 and 3.

41:34 Here's where you have to make the System.

41:36 Yeah, I see you. Here's where you have to make the decision.

41:41 Increase drooling. What does that mean when with a six month old.

41:45 And what's the rash? So you're going to need to make a decision between 1 and 3.

41:50 Which one would you keep in? Now I'm going to be quiet and let you listen or read.

41:56 Patient number four and see which one you think is the most critical.

42:02 Because I want you. Don't put it in the chat. I want you to make your own decision.

42:05 And then we're going to walk through the rest of the question.

42:17 Okay. So we're going kind of fast.

42:19 But if you can make your answer now let's keep walking through the question.

42:23 Because remember in a prioritization question it's who should I give care to first.

42:28 Right. What's the first thing I should do.

42:31 Now things you want to consider. A box that stands with airway, breathing and circulation.

42:38 Those are really important things right? So if it's a question asking me who do I see in an ER and one person is having a stroke, but the other one is not breathing.

42:47 I'm going to go past the stroke because that's a circulation issue, and I'm going to go deal with the person who's in respiratory failure. Now, in my heart, I want everyone to get care immediately, but they're just trying to see what you can recognize as being a real priority, the highest priority. So you can use ABCs.

43:04 You can use Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

43:07 You can use nursing assessment.

43:09 You can use developmental stuff. It just depends on what the topic is here.

43:14 Now on this question we just did, do you think we're going to use Maslow's Hierarchy of needs? No, not on this one right.

43:21 We can probably look right at ABCs and nursing assessment.

43:26 Those would be what we're looking at. So we're here's our four quick patients.

43:30 Again do a quick review in your head of which one you picked.

43:34 Don't tell us because we don't want you to influence anyone else.

43:38 We want you to learn about yourself.

43:39 See, we know that you are the expert in how your brain works.

43:43 We just ask you the right questions, guide you through the questions so you can figure it out. Now this is a trend question.

43:50 So you knew what was going on with them before.

43:52 Now this is what's continuing to go on.

43:55 So I've got a 37 year old right.

43:57 The motor vehicle accident. We've already had this information.

44:00 No visible injuries on the body other than some abdominal bruising and pain, but report feeling weak.

44:06 We've already had that piece of information. But what's new at 10 a.m.? Well developed abdominal distension and dizziness.

44:15 Okay, so that's what's new with number one.

44:18 And I'm going to give you about 90s.

44:20 So I'm going to go quiet and let you continue to work through the patients and see compare one and two. See who you eliminate.

44:29 Then then then patient three and patient four.

44:32 And that's right in your surveys systematically bit by bit.

44:36 And I promise you your exam scores are going to go up okay.

44:40 So I'm going to be quiet for 90s and watch my watch.

44:43 And then I want you to think through what your answer is.

45:49 Okay. So this is where you learn.

45:51 This is why Nurse Liz recommended to you.

45:54 Start with the single individual questions.

45:56 And the goal in our in our review is to teach you what you can take from this question and apply to other questions, because you're never going to see this exact question again. But what's important is you learn how you worked through it, how you can do it better.

46:09 Even if you got the right answer, what can you do that's better? Now, looking at these four clients, oh, look, we've got all types of assessment information okay? So heart rate on client one.

46:22 When you see a number any number that's an assessment piece.

46:25 You ask yourself is it high low or normal.

46:29 So for client one a heart rate of 107.

46:32 That's high because normal should be 60 to 100.

46:35 Look at the blood pressure.

46:37 Ooh. That's low. Because it should be around the 120, right in the perfect NCLEX world.

46:43 So I've got a fast heart rate, a low blood pressure, a respiratory rate that's high temp meth.

46:50 We don't care. 94% is still within normal.

46:54 Seems a little low. Okay.

46:57 Now when you have client two, heart rate 110.

47:00 That's high. Blood pressure is low.

47:04 Respiratory rate is 20.

47:06 Now you see what the vital sign or the temperature is there.

47:09 And the pulse ox. Client three.

47:13 Remember we have this baby's age.

47:15 If this was an adult with a heart rate of 160, we would definitely be.

47:19 Get that, get our attention.

47:21 But you have to know your normal vital signs for all the ages.

47:25 Tiny babies. Newborns.

47:27 Neonates. Pediatric. Adult.

47:30 Make sure that you have those familiar before you go to take the test.

47:33 So look at these vitals for client three.

47:35 Anything there that causes you alarm.

47:38 And look at client number four.

47:40 Right. Remember, this is an elderly client.

47:42 You've got their blood pressure there. Okay, now pause for just a second.

47:48 You have taken in a ton of information.

47:51 We're showing you one slide at a time just to kind of focus you.

47:55 But when you're taking the questions, you'll be able to go back and forth just in case you think you've missed something or you've forgotten something.

48:02 But remember, we're looking at, um, overall in prioritization.

48:06 Do we have any ABC issues? What am I assessing? What's potential worst case scenario.

48:12 Who's showing that they need us the most help.

48:15 So that's what the worst case scenarios for this patient.

48:19 What do you think is the worst case scenario? You don't have to write it in the chat. Just think based on what we've seen and you see that we have the vital signs for you up in the corner of the slide.

48:29 What is this patient at risk on? Is it an ABC issue? Is it wrong with the assessment? That will give you a feel.

48:38 Now we know that this person has a risk for abdominal hemorrhage from trauma, right? So what lines up with that when you look at his vital signs.

48:45 Mhm. Blood pressure is low.

48:47 Heart rate is fast. Respiratory rate is fast because our body's needing to get more oxygen. They're feeling dizzy.

48:52 All these are things like I saw some of you. Right. This is shock right.

48:56 Signs of internal bleeding and shock.

48:58 Okay. Nice. Okay. That is a that's an ABC issue right.

49:03 That's a circulation issue.

49:04 So we know that is important.

49:06 Now what about the second patient.

49:08 Well they're dehydrated and they can have sodium imbalances.

49:11 And this is what can make them confused.

49:13 We need to fix it. But does it Trump.

49:17 Is it more important or more dangerous to the patient's safety than what patient one was? Okay. Do you see how these things all go together? But you say, wait a minute.

49:26 Their heart rate was high.

49:27 Their blood pressure was low.

49:29 Yes, but we know what it is.

49:31 Likely Dehydrated, not as big of a risk factor as internal bleeding.

49:36 Because we can give some fluids to this gentleman, we can bring those things back up and back to normal.

49:41 If I just give IV fluids to patient one, that is not going to fix their problem.

49:46 Now this patient three, right.

49:48 I saw some of you say this could just be teething the drooling.

49:51 And then that's what has the chin rash because it's all wet and yucky.

49:54 So that definitely is not a top priority over client number one.

49:59 The last one okay. This gentleman had surgery a cholecystectomy.

50:04 The the exact example that Nurse Liz used earlier.

50:07 You think of the worst case scenario.

50:09 Well, they have fever, severe pain at the incision site.

50:12 They've got discharge.

50:13 So this person is probably infected temp's up a little bit.

50:17 So it's not a circulation issue.

50:20 It's something that needs to be addressed.

50:22 But it's not a circulation issue.

50:24 So our highest priority go now you can vote.

50:27 We've got a pull up there.

50:30 What is. Who did you pick? Yeah, I thought so too.

50:35 Who came up with the epiglottis? Yeah, I like it.

50:42 Okay, now we've got like, 95 people in here, so we need a lot more answers.

50:50 Okay. Alright. Excellent.

50:54 So let's go back and talk about what are the strategies that we used.

50:58 Well, when it's a question that has four clients and they're asking us who's the priority. You want to look at them as one patient at a time.

51:05 Now this question was particularly complex because we had four patients and we had trends. So we had information.

51:11 We had two different sets of nurses notes.

51:13 We had a set of vital signs.

51:15 We had a lot of information to pull together.

51:18 Did you see in the chat, Nurse Liz recommended that you use your write on wipe off board. When you're practicing taking NCLEX questions you use, you can use a scrap of paper.

51:26 I always have a cheap dollar Tree.

51:29 Write on wipe off board, write at my desk because I do that when I'm checking questions to make sure that they're accurate. Dollar 25.

51:37 Or you can just use a piece of white paper.

51:39 But I'd love for you to get in the habit of writing down those numbers like a, B, C, D, one, two, three, four, and eliminating each answer one at a time and saying, why? Like I looked at one, I'm like, oh, that's serious. I looked at two.

51:54 No one is still serious.

51:56 Cross off two, looked at three.

51:58 Nope. One's still the winner.

52:00 Cross off three. Looked at four.

52:02 One is still the winner.

52:03 And I feel confident in that because this patient looks like they're in shock.

52:08 That's what I want you to do when you're walking through the questions. Right. That's what I want you to do because that's what's going to train your brain. You start doing those individual questions with us, and this is what we would do on a walk through, just like what I'm doing with you here, because it's all about priority of care.

52:24 And we put in with this.

52:26 See, the green check tells you that was the right answer.

52:29 We put it in a trend format.

52:30 You may also see this format in just a basic old four option multiple choice, but in this one we want we put the trending the extra stuff.

52:39 And that's all that a trend means. You'll see more than one period of time or data.

52:44 So this list is going to come back on.

52:46 We want to answer any questions that you have about the NCLEX.

52:50 We're so excited, and we would love it if you would come and join us in the NCLEX course so you can access us on Discord Live.

52:58 But in the NCLEX review course, I taught NCLEX review for another company and I always thought about what I wanted to do for students that would make it better and make it more fun and engaging.

53:09 And so this is what Nurse Liz and I came up with.

53:12 We want you to know you're not alone.

53:14 We want all of you to be successful.

53:16 We know we need more nurses at the bedside because we we will one day need healthcare, and we want sharp people there, but help us, um, kind of build that community on discord. We'd love to.

53:28 And Nurse Liz, if I'm a nursing student and I want to get the NCLEX review course, how does that work? Yes.

53:34 So I will put up a link.

53:36 We can only share one link at a time.

53:38 I'm going to put it up here.

53:39 Um, so we're going to have on our platform.

53:43 So we have a website. It works in an app.

53:45 Um, Lecturio is basically like an all in one study resource that you can use wherever.

53:50 Uh, we will have a link for you guys, and we're doing 50% off, uh, currently for everybody who came and wanted to learn about NCLEX stuff.

53:58 So here's the discord community link.

54:01 And then as soon as I pull this down, so everybody click it.

54:03 If you want to join the discord again, it's like a free resource where you can find your people. There's a whole section in there, uh, also for people who are living in, um, like any country.

54:14 So like, obviously I'm from the US, Rhonda is from the US or is from the US.

54:19 Uh, we don't have expertise necessarily in other countries because that hasn't been our experience. And I saw someone earlier had asked, uh, what what tips do you have for anyone who's international and taking this? My biggest tip would be to go into the discord and to find I have a whole section laid out where you can put, um, what country you are from.

54:40 And we have a little subgroups for like based on each country.

54:44 And you can ask other people who live there who are experiencing it, they're probably going to be the best resource for you in that sense, because they are also living it.

54:52 Right. Um, so you can go over there and join us.

54:56 Uh, we will make sure the discord link is also sent out in the email.

54:59 That's after this. If you log into Lecturio at any point, uh, you also can get a link to it.

55:06 It's on our social media.

55:07 It's pretty much everywhere we are. You can always, always find the discord. It's under community on the community tab, on when you open up the regular app, or when you open up the desktop version.

55:18 Um, I like hustling to get.

55:21 You're going to be held hostage here, everyone, until we get ten more.

55:24 She has a goal. Okay, I need more now.

55:28 Just eight more. Eight more.

55:30 Um. But. Yes. And in Australia.

55:32 That's a good point. Canada. In the US, uh, same NCLEX, so same one. I know there's a lot of people from Ghana, uh, that we have over in the discord.

55:39 A lot of people from Canada, Australia.

55:42 Um, so definitely go check it out and see and you can add your country if it's not there.

55:46 Um, I'm going to bring up real quick the link.

55:50 So this is the link, uh, one more time if you want to get the free, uh, the practice questions.

55:56 So this is just kind of going to give you the same like let's look at the rationales.

56:01 Um, let's work through these.

56:03 And they like I said, they're totally free.

56:05 You can work through them.

56:06 See if you like the style of it or just get some free practice, because who doesn't like that? We are here for that. And this next one.

56:16 Sorry, we're just spamming me with links. I'm like, I have so much to share.

56:20 Um, is going to be the 50% off coupon.

56:23 So this is going to take you directly to our website.

56:25 Um, and you can do the month to month version.

56:28 Okay. There's different like there's different options. You can do like one month, three month or a year.

56:32 I would probably do one month.

56:34 Uh, if you're going to test in the next 4 to 6 weeks, like a lot of you seem to be saying that you were.

56:39 Um, and with this, you get it for 50% off.

56:43 Uh, and it's affordable, quite affordable.

56:46 When you compare it to some of the other test prep things, especially if you're doing like 1 or 2 months. So definitely go check it out.

56:52 Um, there's like I said, a ton of also lectures just on our website under mentoring. If you look under the videos tab, a whole bunch that Prof Labs has done before on like pharmacology for or and like all different topics, there's a few I've done on there.

57:07 If you're if you related to the panic spirals, we talk about getting out of those how to focus things like that.

57:13 And yes, this is all going to be recorded so you can watch it later if you missed part of it or you're just, you know, tuning in now, you had to run anything like that. And an email will go out with all of these links, so you'll have access to them in case I've just spammed your brain out.

57:29 And you're like, that was way too many things all at once.

57:33 No list? No. So I think those are all of the, um, I think those are all the links that I have to spam at you.

57:42 Uh, was that helpful? You guys, I think that's the best. When I love it, when it goes through all of that stuff and, like, talks her brain out and is like, this is how I think through it.

57:51 I'm like, that's fascinating because that's not how mine works. And I would love it to be more like yours. Let's get there.

57:57 Um, so that's what we have.

58:00 That's just this is probably the slide I was supposed to share this on. I mean, this is my first time using this platform, and I'm just thrilled it went. Our faces showed up and the slide presentation came up.

58:08 So I'm just thrilled. Did I share things at the wrong time? Maybe, but it's fine. Um, questions if you guys have any questions.

58:19 Thanks for coming. Oh, we have to go back.

58:22 I shared it too soon. We're not quite done. We have a few minutes if you guys have any questions. Um, and if you can't think of one right now, like I said, if you're on the discord profile and you're both on the discord, uh, so you can just tag us and ask us questions.

58:35 Literally this morning I was working through homework questions with people. They were like, I don't understand this. I was like, I don't either. And we worked through it together and we both learned something. So Jade, if you're out there, shout out, we made it.

58:46 So feel free to ask there.

58:48 Let me go back and see what I have as questions.

58:51 Um mursalin. This was this question.

58:54 What's your advice for international students taking the NCLEX? Go on there, find your people. And I would imagine, wouldn't you imagine that? It's mostly like the same safety based things everywhere.

59:08 I really would, yeah. And I yes, I would.

59:12 The only thing that might be a little different would be the management of care kind of questions when it talks about what it delegates to an LPN, but other than that, the questions would be the same, but just be the difference in like who can delegate what to whom? That would be the only thing. But seriously, go find your people who understand your exact country and like can really give you that information.

59:35 Um, and we all it's fascinating.

59:37 I loved looking through those chats because you learn so much about things that like, I just had no idea about how nursing and NCLEX in nursing school runs in a lot of countries. Um, Liz asked, where do you get your practice questions? It's hard to know which website to invest in.

59:52 I get that which practice questions are the most accurate and helpful for the exam.

59:58 Do you want to take that one? Do you want me to take it? Yeah. I mean, I think I would say come hang out with us.

1:00:05 I mean, we're very biased.

1:00:07 Yeah, we are very biased, but we have, um, hundreds of questions.

1:00:12 And Nurse Liz, can you give them a rough idea of what it would cost them? Because I think, like, you know, our other competitors are $400 for the review course or $300 a course.

1:00:24 What is ours if you do it by month, if you do it by month, I want to say it's 30.

1:00:28 So if it was 50% off, it would be like 15, maybe 20, um, a month. So it's going to be cheaper if you sign up for longer.

1:00:36 But like I said, if you're prepping for NCLEX, you're kind of at the end here.

1:00:41 Um, so for 15, 20 ish dollars a month, uh, it's the goal was to make it affordable because like I said, I, I wung it I want because I couldn't afford a study resource. So I sat on the floor of a bookstore and instead of buying the book, I just read through it on their floor.

1:00:59 I'm probably the reason they went out of business. Um, so I get it, you know what I mean? We want something that's going to be affordable, very streamlined, answers all your questions.

1:01:06 But also, at the end of the day, any questions you do and you read the rationales and you get into the habit of identifying the keywords.

1:01:15 What is this really asking me? You really cannot go wrong because at the end of the day, they're all going to really get you there, you know what I mean? As long as you dedicate the time to it, you learn the patterns, what they're asking, all of that, you're going to be okay.

1:01:30 But obviously I'm very biased and think you should join us.

1:01:34 Um, let me see. Do you see any other questions? Um, we don't offer one on one tutoring, but feel free to message us.

1:01:42 And that's kind of what discord is, is like, you can just ask us whatever questions and we'll, you know, and the group thinks for us a lot because a lot of other people chime in and they give all sorts of other insights because it's not just like me, right? It's a bunch of other students who also like chime in and you get such a cool, you know, cacophony of people coming at you, um, for two months. I don't think there's not a two month version for three months.

1:02:09 You guys are making me math. Let me look it up.

1:02:11 Uh, Prof Lawes. If you see something in the meantime, hop on that and I'm going to pull up.

1:02:17 I'm going to answer the question from Manfred from Canada.

1:02:21 We have a thing called c g f s.

1:02:25 Okay. So this is the group of people I'm going to find the link for you as.

1:02:30 And so anyone who wants to practice in the United States, first of all we would love to have you.

1:02:35 But we also hope that you, um, have a place where? At home. So wherever you go to practice, we think can be helpful.

1:02:42 But here is the organization.

1:02:44 So anyone that come to the US and wants to practice this is the website address.

1:02:49 So you just click on that link.

1:02:51 And there the gatekeepers.

1:02:52 They're the ones who tell you exactly what you need to do, what paperwork you need.

1:02:57 But anyone who comes to the US has to go through this organization.

1:03:01 Oh, Andrea, anytime we're needing medication or needing no things to help us nurse us out on the job. Yes. Excellent.

1:03:07 And, hey, if you're worried about pharmacology on the NCLEX, um, I do a pharmacology NCLEX review in the pharm course and it's also in our NCLEX review course. But I promise you just focus on that for the NCLEX because you can't learn all the drugs I gave you the most likely things.

1:03:25 No one knows exactly which drugs are on the NCLEX, but I'll tell you the ones that can be the most harmful to patients and are commonly given and you will have boom! I would say stick to that.

1:03:34 Make sure you review it and you're good.

1:03:36 Oh hey, welcome to the US.

1:03:38 We'd love to have help you.

1:03:40 And you can also use Lecturio on the job.

1:03:41 That was a great point.

1:03:43 Um, yeah. Um, we have the, uh, customer service, uh, email, do we not, Liz, that we can give them so they can contact us? If you want to contact Liz and I, you need to do it on discord.

1:03:56 If you want to talk about our product, um, we give you the customer service.

1:04:00 I can look it up really quick. Yeah, if you have it. I was going to say I always just go to the website, um, which if you click the link that's up right now, which is 50% off.

1:04:07 It'll take you to our website. Um, and I there's a support button that is always hopping in the corner. It's usually the bottom right hand corner.

1:04:15 And that will send you right over to all the people who can give you support when you need it. Um, there Sandra, we are on Instagram.

1:04:24 It's Lecturio underscore nursing.

1:04:27 Uh, and we are going to be posting more and more content that is like little tidbits of nursing facts. Um, some more NCLEX questions over there.

1:04:36 Uh, because that's what I spent all morning doing, was making that type of stuff.

1:04:41 So more of that will be rolling out soon.

1:04:43 Um, and if you guys ever see anything that you want to see over there, then for sure let me know too, because I'm figuring out what we what we want to do and how we can offer value and not just be like, you know, fluff and noise amongst social media. Um, so that's what we got.

1:04:57 Um, make sure, uh, you know, profit loss is going to come at you friends, uh, only 28 clicks on our 50% off thing.

1:05:04 You want to check it out, I promise. You can go up.

1:05:09 It's really a cool. It's a cool course.

1:05:10 I think it's a really nice program, but we're just glad you're here.

1:05:14 Um. The code, uh, it's in the link.

1:05:17 Nikki, if you click the link, that should pop up somewhere.

1:05:20 And if it doesn't pop up, it will be in the email that you will send out after this. I think you'll get one tomorrow.

1:05:27 I'm sure they'll send you one a few days after. They'll want to, uh, and that'll have the link to the discord and everything. Um, any other questions, friends that you have that we can answer? If not, we'll let you go and be free, and you're all going to be fine.

1:05:44 You're going to do great. You thought through that question so well, and that's how all questions are, right? Just taking it one step at a time, not letting your brain get in the way and realizing, like most of you got that correct, right? You thought through it. You thought of the how is this going to kill this person the fastest? And you did it.

1:06:01 You're doing the thing. You're doing great.

1:06:03 Um, cool. Any last words? Prof. Lawes. No, just thanks for coming, guys.

1:06:10 And we really do want to help you.

1:06:12 I mean, I've taught in reviews for 20 years, and every year I want you guys to do the best that you can. You can do it.

1:06:19 I promise. It's just a head game.

1:06:21 Stick with us, and you can do it for sure.

1:06:23 You guys are doing great. Now we.

1:06:25 Here we go. Here's my last slide.

1:06:27 Now we can have it. Here is all of our social media type stuff, um, that you can look at and enjoy.

1:06:33 Uh, Kennedy will email out all the links.

1:06:36 Um, or you can go to our website with the link that's up right now.

1:06:39 It's under community and it'll take you right there.

1:06:42 Uh, 50% off is for at least a week, I want to say.

1:06:44 So you have time if you want to go and think about it.

1:06:47 Um, and go check it out.

1:06:49 All right, friends, thanks for being here. We appreciate you. You can do it.

1:06:52 You can do the hard things.

1:06:54 We'll see you later. Bye.

1:06:56 Yes. Hopefully on discord by.