short cut to remember!nclex study tip...

I am pretty sure Rescue in "RACE" comes first! You want to get the patient OUT of the room first and foremost, even before activating the system. IN the one minute that you run from the room to activate the alarm, your patient can succumb to burns, smoke inhalation or even death.

I could be wrong though...but I am pretty sure it is RACE, not ARCE.

Anyone else?

Oooppps. Forgot to mention...

Your other tips...LEAVES and especially DANCE PAD! I loved those! I can remember DANCE PAD for an M/I because I know if I ever danced on a dance pad, I would have an M/I!!!! :roll

Those are great tips. Taking the test Tuesday and I love the info!

Thanks again!

thank u i wrote PASS, RACE, ARC, DAnce Pad down into my notebook.thanks again

There are a few silly things I remember also for memorization purposes:

Like...the PT time norm for a pt on Coumadin? 10-14...remembered because I think PT=preteen=age 10-14! Silly huh???

To remember to avoid food with Synthroid? "It's A SYN to AVOID food"

SYN AVOID - Synthroid. Yes, it's goofy...but it helps me! *LOL*

Here's another dumb one:

Normal Lab Value for BUN - 8-20 "Only girls 8-20 should wear BUNS"

Or, I used to have nice BUNS between the age of 8 and 20! Don't use that one if you still have nice BUNS! :roll

Adverse affect for Ditropan (for bladder issues)? Restlessness. I remember this because when I have to pee...I get restless...and start doing the I have to pee dance. See?

I have a bunch of silly rhymes too. Want me to share them with you, despite the embarassment it will cause me?

Lemme know!

Oh yeah.

I like Nursery Rhymes!

INR : 2-3

2-3 year olds like Nursery Rhymes.

Yes. I'm a dork...but whatever works, right?

This is super great and wonderful!! If only I had the PT range memorized I would have gotten a test question correct!!!!

What about this one: Diastole= the a** hole doesn't do anything

(muscle relaxed) and

Systole= the sister does all the work.(Blood ejected)

helped me anyway...

Oh and Immediate tx for MI remember MONA lisa

Morphine, Oxygen, Nitroglycerine, ASA

Oh my G*D! These are great!

Can I ask WHY this thread did not get started weeks ago...instead of TWO days before my exam???????:roll

Here's one for the side effects of Buspar:

"I missed the Bus! Par for the course! Now I am going to be nervous and dizzy all day!"

Or, how about the patient who is on PTU and you don't know what that is for?

Pal, Toughen Up! You have a GRAVE disease! (PTU is for Graves Disease!)

This is way too much fun! Who's next! Bring it on!!! I only have til Tuesday morning, People!!! :smilecoffeecup:

cool....alrighty, lemme share mine.. for the 12 Cranial nerve ACTIONS, here it goes.

"SOME SAYS MAKE MONEY BUT MY BROTHER SAYS BIG BOOBS MAKES MONEY"

S - SENSORY, M-MOTOR, B-BOTH S&M.

so.. the 12 CN will be..

O - SOME

O - SAYS

O - MAKE

T - MONEY

T- BUT

V - MY

F - BROTHER

A - SAYS

G - BIG

V - BOOBS

A - MAKES

H - MONEY

yeah i know, a bit silly but easily remembered..all for the sake of passing the nclex. gudluck! by d way, for the cranial nerves itself..i just remember HAVGAFVTTOOO and type it starting frm below.... u knw being "neologistic" works sometimes..lol!

i have learned 12 cranial nerves from my nursing instructor a very kinda odd way lol. here's how he made us memorize it.

Oh-olfactory

Oh-optic

Oh=ocuomotor

to-trochlear

touch-trigeminal

and-abducens

feel a-facial

very- vestibulocochlear

good-glossopharyngeal

victory-vagus

sweet-spinal accessory

heaven-hypoglossal

lol anyways hope that makes sense.

Leilah!!! That's hysterical!

I can just see me sitting at the exam tomorrow going

"ooh ooh ooh" and having the guy next to me think I am some sort of freak!!!

Love all these tips, you guys!

I am so ready for this test!

BRING IT ON ALREADY!!!!!