I want to tell you about a time in nursing school when I did not handle things the right way, and I had a big disagreement with one of my professors. 🤠I was taking a Community Health course, and generally speaking, I was one of the better students in the class. Which, FYI, is …
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The secret to understanding fluids and electrolytes for nursing school is NOT memorizing all the lab values and normal ranges. Instead, it’s understanding each contributing player, so that you can begin to understand and imagine how they all work together. That’s the part of fluids and electrolytes you need to master before you will ever …
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Dextrose Solutions Comparison: What, When, and Why Dextrose solutions can be confusing to nursing students because they don’t act like other IV fluids. Normal Saline is isotonic, 3% Saline is hypertonic, and 0.45% Saline is hypotonic. And they all behave in the body exactly as you would expect those types of fluids to act. But Dextrose …
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Hypotonic Solution: Clearly Explained for Nursing Students What makes a hypotonic solution…hypotonic? Here’s a clear explanation for HOW and WHY hypertonic IV solutions work so that you can be confident in knowing which situations to use them in during nursing school. If you haven’t already seen the explanation of results from my Osmosis Experiment, make sure to check …
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I love seeing that “lightbulb” moment when students realize that they’ve been making the endocrine system a lot harder than it needs to be. Which is why I was so surprised when I realized that I’ve never, ever explained the best way to study Endocrine diseases on this blog. After all, Endocrine is only about the …
“The best time to plant a tree is 20-years ago.  The second best time is today.”  Chinese Proverb “The best time to study properly is at the beginning of the semester.  The second best time is today.” Your Nursing Tutor Proverb We all have regrets.  Often, those regrets have to do with something we wish …
I hate mnemonics.  Maybe that’s a little bit extreme, or even inflammatory.  After all, you can find entire study books dedicated to nursing mnemonics.  Maybe I should say “I Hate Most Mnemonics,” or even “Mnemonics are Not Your Friend.” Whatever.  The truth remains that I generally don’t like mnemonics.  I’ve seem them misused waaaaay too often by students.  And …
You might have heard about Bloom’s Taxonomy, even if you’re not sure what it is. Bloom’s Taxonomy is the framework used to create and measure the difficulty of the questions you answer on NCLEX. If you answer enough of the more difficult, higher-level question types, then you pass. If you can only answer the easier, …
When I was a kid, I used to get in trouble for reading after bedtime. Â I kept a flashlight in my bedside drawer so I could start reading under the covers after my parents tucked me in at night. Â Of course, they occasionally came back up to check on me and discovered my nerdy disobedience! …
Flu season is well upon us, and the final end-of-semester “push” is over for most of us. Â Have you ever noticed how you always seem to get sick immediately after Finals are over? Yeah, there’s actually a good reason for why that happens. Â It has to do with your stress hormones, but that’s a whole …