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1. GCS verbal response

   ireyes98 replied to ireyes98's topic in Emergency

   THank you for the help

2. GCS verbal response

   ireyes98 replied to ireyes98's topic in Emergency

   Yes, without any stimulus the pt would either lay in bed without any response or move around in bed every few minutes. Yeah I pray that he was able to get it drained in time. This has me double thinking my GCS scores. Would you give him a 3 then? rea...

3. GCS verbal response

   ireyes98 posted a topic in Emergency

   Hello, im a still a fairly new RN in the ED I had a pt come in to the ER with a mass in the third ventricle that was increasing ICP (confirmed by CT), my initial gcs was 11 (E2,V4,M5)and I was during neuro check every 30 min. Beside being Bradycard...

4. Need Refresher and Study Tips

   ireyes98 replied to need to pass nclex's topic in NCLEX

   I used 4 courses: 1. NCLEX Nursing Tools app- good breakdown for meds, labs, and diagnostics that all nurses should know. 2. Kaplan (good for help on how to answer test questions) 3. Hurst (they do a pretty good content review on the essentials to kn...

5. Should I take this?

   ireyes98 replied to sryu's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I never took a pharm course before nursing school, but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt as long as you don't overdue it. You can endlessly study for pharmacology, there's a whole career on it. As a student nurse, you should be okay with what they are tea...

6. Help!!

   ireyes98 replied to johe0130017's topic in NCLEX

   A mobile app called "NCLEX Nursing Tools," I still use it as an RN in the ER. It's good free app on the mobile stores to help you with pharm, labs, and diagnostics if you need help with that. The website is nclexessentials.barcalabs.com. Best of lu...

7. What helped me the most during school

   ireyes98 replied to ireyes98's topic in Share Tips

   There are a lot of resources available nowadays too. There's a good free app on the mobile stores to help you with pharm, labs, and diagnostics if you need help with that. Check it out, its called NCLEX Nursing Tools or the website nclexessentials...

8. What helped me the most during school

   ireyes98 posted a topic in Share Tips

   I spent no more than 3hrs/day studying/working on assignments. There is an endless amount of information in nursing and in medicine in general. Focus on the basics, and getting through nursing school. You will overwhelm yourself and burn out quickly ...

9. PRACTICE

   ireyes98 replied to Snees46's topic in Share Tips

   Good advice. What I would do, is that I would stop studying the content at least a day before the test. The last day before the test I would only do the questions that are at the end of the chapters we went over and/or questions related to the topic....

10. Study tips from 1st semester nursing student

    ireyes98 replied to Mellebu's topic in Share Tips

    My suggestion and what helped me out the most was that I spent no more than 3 hours a day studying or working on assignments and homework. There is an endless amount of information in nursing and in the medical field in general. Focus on the basics, ...

11. Drug Card

    ireyes98 replied to LorreenBempong's topic in Student Assist

    An advice for pharm in general is that you can endlessly study for it, there's a whole career on it. As a student nurse, you should be okay with what they are teaching you in class, the basics, you can iron out all of the small details as you go a...

12. Pharmacology Online Resources?

    ireyes98 replied to dnelson120's topic in General Students

    I made an app, it contains drug classes, drugs associated with the classes (generic and brand name), and all of the information school, clinicals, and the NCLEX required me to know such as MOA's, vitals, labs, common/severe side effects and nursin...

13. Happy NCLEX

    ireyes98 replied to Flnolegirl's topic in NCLEX

    There's a lot of resources out there, and they all have their own qualities. It mostly depends on what you feel you need the most help on, either content review, or test taking strategies, or etc. I have never heard of Happy NCLEX but I passed my n...

14. NCLEX questions on Khan academy site

    ireyes98 replied to sanakruz's topic in NCLEX

    There's a lot of resources out there, and they all have their own qualities. It mostly depends on what you feel you need the most help on, either content review, or test taking strategies, or etc. I never tried Khan academy, so I can't help you the...

15. Nclex Tutor Service is anyone?...

    ireyes98 replied to Miniangel2's topic in NCLEX

    I dont think you need a tutor, just my opinion.There's a lot of resources out there, and they all have their own qualities. It mostly depends on what you feel you need the most help on, either content review, or test taking strategies, or etc. I us...