Re: Anyone from Charity School of Nursing?
If you know and understand that power point on the website that is on my post you already have a great big head start.
http://breeze.mc.maricopa.edu/p65735599
These books are good.
In this book it explains very well all the rhythms you need to know. The only ones you need to know are on that website power point lecture.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...7/ref=dp_olp_1
If you are a visual learner it would help to get this book just for the small section in the back called Quick guide to arrhythmias. I learned how to pick out the rhythms very well just by taking a look instead of counting all the intervals all the time. It also tells you the treatments for each arrhythmias right underneath.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...7196416&sr=1-1
With checkoffs – You Tube is the best way to see demonstrations over and over. There are actually professional videos on that site that nursing and medical schools buy.
Medline plus is a government website that you must look at when you don't understand some diseases, tests, surgeries, or diagnostic procedures.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html
As far as the tests and how hard they are, don't listen to all that. One test is just as hard as any other one. They are all the same. If they said the first two are the hardest they did not know their heart well enough. Study and don't give up. It is all worth it.

One last thing. Know and UNDERSTAND how the circulitory system works, how fluids get back and forth into the vessels and back to the heart. Before you take your NCLEX , take Hurst Review lectures
on line. You can listen to it over and over for three months. Going for one week to the live lectures is good, but not good enough, I think.
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