Back to School Mastery: Part 3 — Staying Engaged
Staying Engaged Staying engaged in your education is necessary, but often is a struggle. For some students, nursing classes come easily. Possibly having slogged through two years of chemistry and literature classes (or maybe those were great, too!), this nursing...
Therapeutic Communication
Tips From A Psych Nurse Therapeutic communication is a difficult test area for many student nurses. Luckily, it’s easier for nurses to “read” a situation in real life than it is to answer these questions on the NCLEX! In person, you...
Nursing School Survival Supply Guide: Tips From the Experts
Here is our list of must-have nursing school supplies for “clinicals” and beyond! Stethoscope Get a good one. Don’t spend a million dollars (the digital ones that are labeled cardiac are a bit over-the-top for what you will need so...
Back to School Mastery: Part 2 — Highlighters and Notes
Do you try to transcribe everything the teacher says (until your hand cramps)? There is a better way! Let’s go over some strategies for effectively capturing information in the fast-paced world of Nursing School. Handwritten Notes or Typed Notes? Typed...
Back to School Mastery: Part 1 — Technology
Don’t let technology own you! Learn how to leverage technology to be the invisible helper that it should be. Laptops, phones, and tablets. Oh my! Once upon a time, I began an educational program that was mostly distance learning, with...
Back to School Mastery: Series Overview
Back to school season often evokes one of two strong reactions: Dread or Excitement. Whether you are in the first semester of nursing school or the last, let us help get you started on your best foot. Back to School:...
Why the Nursing Soft Skills Matter, Too.
But I haven’t started my first IV yet! If you are reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve only started an IV on a manikin and are wondering when you’ll get a chance “in real life”. The ability to start...
NARCAN: Naloxone Know-How for Nurses
On November 18, 2015, at the urging of the public and many agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. FDA approved the use of naloxone nasal spray for the treatment of life-threatening opioid overdose. The legislation...
EKG Basics– How to Identify ECG Rhythms
Contrary to popular belief, cardiac rhythm identification isn’t hard. What most of us need is access to a really good tutorial and lots of practice. Clinical rotations provide an excellent opportunity to get in there and look at some rhythm...
5 Crucial Tips When You Failed the NCLEX
You failed the NCLEX. That is not a fun situation. You know what they say: if at first, you don’t succeed at passing the NCLEX…eat a cupcake (or two), have a good cry and then let it go! Is everyone...