I want more blogs to follow. My main is @coffee-and-seasalt so Iāll be following from there
All this, and I gotta prepare for the Communicative English assignment we have to present tomorrow. And Iām constantly sleepy these days. And Iām on my 3rd cup of coffee for the day.
But I have to power through. I didnāt do too well (ok, Idek if Iāll pass) for the first round of internal exams. And that wouldnāt have happened if Iād worked harder, and more consistently, instead of curl into a ball for a week before the exam.
Iāll probably be more active on studyblr than Iāve been lately; I feel motivated here, while I donāt feel the same way anywhere else.
Letās go!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKUSVYrhOIc/?igshid=1h3n2hfc4x88h
ādonāt stop when youāre tired. Stop when youāre done.ā
Another late night sessionā¦
The past few days have been difficult, and so I have fallen behind my schedule and now Iām just in a vicious cycle of playing catch up..
I hope Iām able to pick up the pace and complete everything in supposed to soon..
Finals are just over 2 weeks away, and I am starting to freak out(just a little, I swear).
But I know that freaking out wonāt help, so wi just keep at it.
Keep hustling, guys!
18.01.21 (53/60)
Pomodoros: 12
Thoughts: so much work to do, but feeling a bit more confident (at least).
22.01.20 // 09:44
My 2021 overview spread! In true Bujoign form, we went minimal. In past years, Iāve written a motivational quote - to lay the foundation for the year ahead. This time, I really couldnāt find one that truly reflected how I felt after 2020 š
My Instagram for more bujo photos: @Bujoign
22.01.2021, 10/100 days of productivity
Looking over feedback from a report my friends and I wrote. The exam will essentially be a defense of this and a couple other reports we wrote together. Thankfully, they were well received enough that Iām confident weāll do well.
- Essentials: Saunders & UWorld
- Nonessential but nice add on: @yournursingeducators ās (on Instagram) NCLEX high yield notes.
- Start early and start slow. Consider your preceptorship/final semester your opportunity to start studying for the NCLEX. Depending on your unit there will likely be downtime, bring a review book and do practice questions.
- Do 30-50 practice questions a day during preceptorship on the days your not working. Itās not much and itās a good way to ease yourself into it.
- Make Flashcards with key concepts that are straight āmemorizablesā: lab values, antidotes (especially warfarin -> vit K, heparin -> protamine, digoxin -> digibind, Ca -> Mg), rules and formulas (like parkland formula, MAP formula), and mnemonics (like NSAID for cervical collar or āwe better think high glucoseā for metabolic syndrome)
- Book your exam and donāt look back. Trust that youāll be ready when the time comes.
- Two-Three weeks before your exam is crunch time. 225-300 UWorld questions a day (3-4 75 question exams).
- Review the rationales how ever works best for you, but actually review and understand them! For me, I wrote them down in a word document separated into sections, putting drugs & diagnoses in bold.
- Before every study session in the crunch time, review your Flashcards and your rationales document.
- Treat each 75 question test like the actual NCLEX - no food or drinks, no pee breaks, no music. If you plan to use ear plugs, practice with ear plugs. I also found it helps to have a specific scent your relate to NCLEX study time. I got a new hand lotion that I used before every session and in the morning before my NCLEX.
- During crunch week set a time or # of questions to do each day and then be DONE. I would go for a walk afterwards to reset my brain. Over studying can happen and you donāt want to burn out.
- Mistakes are how you learn. Donāt be upset when you get questions wrong - be excited that you got it wrong when it didnāt matter and gave you the opportunity to learn something new.
- You will never been 100% ready, but if youāre consistently scoring above average on the Uworld questions, youāre probably good to go. Trust your gut.
- Treat your anxiety symptoms consistently and treat them the same way on the day of the NCLEX even if you think youāre all good. Itās probably partly related to adrenaline but when you get in there you might start feeling anxious - itās all good. For me, I took the ginger gravol (not the dimenhydrinate) pretty much every night the last two weeks and on the morning of the exam.
- Donāt look up āUworld % to pass NCLEXā or anything like that. Donāt compare your understanding to anyone else. Uworldās site says āTest takers with a test bank score of 56% pass at a rate of 92%ā - thatās the only number you should maybe think about, but donāt look up what other people had before the test because it doesnāt always correlate.
- Try not to think of it as a 75 question exam that gets longer if youāre doing worse, really try to think of it as a 145 question exam (at present, due to Covid) that gets shortened when you prove youāre doing well. Itās not essential to get 100% on 75 to be done in 75, the computer adapts quicker than that.
- I seriously recommend doing every single Uworld question. Ultimately the best practice for the exam isnāt Flashcards or memorizing concepts, itās learning how to maneuver the NCLEX style questions.
Conspiracy theory: the test is way over hyped so all these companies can continue to profit off of your self doubt. Your education prepared you for this. Visualize your success. Visualize how cool your name, BN RN is gonna look. Your BN was WAY harder then the NCLEX. Youāve got this.
@crystalcanyon you asked for any advice and it reminded me to post this, so thank you āŗļø
10:49, january 22, 2021 - day 54
please pray for me!! i have my exam in a couple of hours and iām woefully underprepared. but is anyone even surprised at this point <3 iām going to start my birthday celebrations today itself because iāll have to study tomorrow canāt a queer babie celebrate their 18th birthday in peace :(