3. Saunders Comprehensive Review - 77 chapters- 2 per day with questions after each chapter. You can use any other books as an outline for your studies. Every week evaluate and adjust your progress.
4. Medical terminology by Alice V. Prendergast (you can read any other book)- 26 chapters - 1 per day.
5. Pharmacology - study one category per week - 5 to 10 drugs per day.
"Prioritization, Delegation and Assignment" by Linda A. LaCharity, Lippincott or Davis Q & A - 50 questions per day for 1st 30 days then 75, 100, 150. Add gradually and make sure to do at least 3 practice tests that contains all 265 questions. Goal is to cover at least 4,000 - 5,000 questions before your exam. Some nurses have done 10,000. Just try to develop a strategy for your answers don't memorize them!!!
8. Nursing skills, clinical procedures overview - 1 per day.
9. Keep study log everyday and make some corrections on your way. If you can do it even 1 chapter per day - record that!!! It will show your accomplishments and not failures.
10. Take one day to rest and have fun activities for yourself. Praise yourself for hard work! It will be paid off on your exam!!!
How does my origination relates to this post? I noticed that in USA people tend to ask this question to foreigners out of curiosity or lack of subordination. I should say that we are all from the same Universe! I call US my home and spent more then half of my life here. It is very sensitive topic for me like religion for others. I traveled around the world and found welcomed in all places. I don't discriminate others who are not native to this Land and grow up in the country with hundreds of different dialects and nationalities. If it's a patient, I will ask about their background for assessment purposes but otherwise don't ask me that question. Even for me it is hard to simply put my own nationality since I was born in one country, raised in multiple others and settled in US.
Oh asking where you are from didn’t relate to your post. I was just wondering since you said you are a foreign nurse.
I have lived on 4.5 continents, carry passports from 2 continents, and have traveled to over 70 countries. In 95% of those countries I am ALWAYS asked where am I from and I am guessing it is out of curiosity and not as you put it a “lack of subordination.”
Wow, sorry I upset you. It doesn’t bother me when people ask me. Sometimes I make a joke and ask them where they are from.
You may want to be careful with that reaction though as people in some developing countries may not understand your reaction.
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Oh asking where you are from didn’t relate to your post. I was just wondering since you said you are a foreign nurse.
I have lived on 4.5 continents, carry passports from 2 continents, and have traveled to over 70 countries. In 95% of those countries I am ALWAYS asked where am I from and I am guessing it is out of curiosity and not as you put it a “lack of subordination.”
Wow, sorry I upset you. It doesn’t bother me when people ask me. Sometimes I make a joke and ask them where they are from.
You may want to be careful with that reaction though as people in some developing countries may not understand your reaction.
I have found that Some people wish to be private on a public board.......we need to be respectful of what others may not wish to reveal. Just my 2 cents
I have found that Some people wish to be private on a public board.......we need to be respectful of what others may not wish to reveal. Just my 2 cents
Oh that is fine if he/she does not want to say where she is from. I just found the comment about people ask the question out of lack of subordination to be odd. And he/she stated only Americans ask this question but I have been asked this question in almost 70 countries.
Because I am so well traveled and know a lot about other cultures and countries I was asking out of curiosity and because I may have traveled to the posters home country. But if the poster would like to keep that info private that is completely up to him/her and I respect that.
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Day 6, Monday -10/22/12
1. Finished Saunders Chapter 12 and 13 - "Nutrition and Parenteral Nutrition". Questions 77-102.
2. Nursing skills review: Chapter 31 " Nutrition"- "Basic Nursing" by P. Potter and A. Perry
3. "Medical terminology" by A. Prendergast - Chapter 6 - "Plural endings".
4. La Charity - Chapter 6 "Respiratory problems" ( questions 1-35).
5. Pharmacology - Anti-Infective Meds for this week - 6 day -Antibiotics - Penicillins /Beta-lactams, penicillinase-resistants (13)
6. Anatomy and Physiology - Lecture 7. Links are included in my first post. You can listen them on iTunes.
7. Pathophysiology - Lecture 6. Can't do nursing without it!!!
8. Lab values - from Saunders Chapter 11 - Lab. values - review every day!!!
9. Saunders Questions & Answers review - Chapter 7, questions 126-150.