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I have been lazy :yawn: the whole month of December. I have LS2, LS3, and Transition. My goals was to finished LS2 & Transition by 12/31, and LS3 in January.:o I have to get off my lard and get back to it. I was right behind Tasha, now she has left me in the wind!!! :eek:

Specializes in ED.

I'm glad that you are not ending up like many students who don't get to go back and finish in their brick and mortar program due to outside reasons. I hope the TEE goes well tomorrow.

I know you've got a lot going on but try to remember to glance at your notes every once and a while so that you don't forget what you've already taught yourself for this exam. * It helps to work as a mental break from everything else going on as well. When I'm stressed with other things I jump head first into school work for a bit of a mental break from the stressors.

Testing Wednesday, Saturday, and then next Friday if things go well.

I'm hoping to do a 6-8 week super study schedule to get through the CPNE. I want to be done already!!!

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Specializes in Home Health, Podiatry, Neurology, Case Mgmt.

Really shocked you didnt care for the RNbridge, i have used if mostly for the last 4 of my exams i have taken almost exclusively but did also look a few things up on the net as well as textbook that i didnt think they covered as much as i would have liked, for repro that was all i used and it covered everything well. I do not think it should be used exclusively but i think it helps an audio/visual learner to help gel the info that has been read, but that's just me =) i'm partial since i believe it helped me scoot rather quickly through some exams i needed to get me to move right along =)

are you reading your notes outloud and recording them to play back later is that what i'm understanding?

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Specializes in ED.

I am taking the study guide and doing my reading while filling out the following information for each topic:

Name: explanation of the disesase process

* Any random notes that i feel are relevant to the disease

*Causes

*S/sx

*Complications

*Risk factors

*Dx

*Tx

* Medication Therapy

* Side effects and important info regarding the drugs

Then I go through the rest of the study guide where it gives more notes. I add those little tidbits that are mentioned if they are not already included. I highlight and look up every word I don't understand sometimes it's just a refresher or a brain fart others I have to right down.

I explain each of the tests and lab values at this time. The normal.

Make sure I have medications and important things to know for their class. Like NSAIDs cause GI upset. Pt's on coumadin therapy shouldn't take ASA. Things like that. Know what the drug does and why it helps.

Then I read it all into my iphone app and then I can play the recording back over and over as I walk with the baby or clean or cook or whatever. If a disease is a symptom of something I know that disease too. When I go over the Questions at the end I take any disease, medication, etc that I don't know and do that one too. It usually ends up taking me 3-4 hours to get each section of an exam one then less than an hour to read it all back to the iphone. I also tend to put little reminder notes like dysphagia with the gi is swallowing dysphasia with an s is speech.

It has helped immensly. None of the information is out of date.

When i get in the test room I write down three things on the top of my board so if I have a problem where three things seem right I can go to them and usually narrow it down.

I write ADPIE, ABC, and Maslows Hierarchy of needs, with a one or two word reminder. I tend to over think and second guess myself so those three things help me when I can't decide which answer is more correct.

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that's nice....

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