Trying to study better for a second attempt at boards

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I am a 2013 nursing grad with a lot on my plate. I'm soon to be 45 yrs old and I am feeling hopeless. Since graduation it seems like its been one thing after another to keep me away from studying. Not long after graduation me and some fellow grads went to a NCLEX seminar which was really good but not long after that my youngest daughter was dx with chiari malformation. She had a lot of fluid in her syrinx. Needless to say we were at numerous neuro appts and MRI appts. She had to have surgery so I thot ok I will take my boards and get one overwhelming thing off of my plate. Well I guess that was a bad decision bc I failed. I was so depressed and pissed off at my self. I just put everything away for a while and before u know it my acid reflux needed repaired due to a change in its severity. So I had a fundoplication done and I felt great. So now I'm thinking I can get back to studying bc I need a job bad. While studying my neck and arm began to hurt bad...to the point it put me down in bed for almost a month before a dr could see me. Here goes another surgery this time for a herniation between C5&C6. I'm beginning to think I'm going to be a nurse who needs a nurse. At that point I was getting depressed again and couldn't seem to find the energy to begin studying again. A nursing friend of mine just gave me some great info and techniques to use to help me study and understand. I have been at it every day now for about 2 weeks and tho I have a long way to go I am getting my momentum back. Please note that I graduated late in 2013 and I went to school where the program was new so it pretty much sucked. It is like I am teaching myself all over again but that's ok bc I'm in this to win it. Ok now that I have wrote a novel

let me get to my question. I am struggling on my cardiac questions and I would like to know if anyone could offer any good resources that I might be able to review? I am a very OCD type of person so I always need to understand things before I can answer questions but I can't seem to wrap my head around all there is to know about the heart and its diseases. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Hi Ellamandela777,

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