Study tips

When you inevitably encounter your first delegation questions, your instinct is going to be to recall some scope-of-practice table from your med-surg or nursing fundamentals textbook. Memorizing that table is a fantastic way to get these questions wrong on your first med-surg exam 😉. I say that with love. Here is the problem: the exam is not asking what is on the chart. It is asking whether you can look at a patient, look at a task, and make a judgment call. A table cannot t

There is a specific moment in nursing school when the floor shifts under you...

If you've ever spent three hours with your textbook and walked away feeling like you learned nothing, you're not alone. Nursing school throws an overwhelming amount of information at you, and most of us were never taught how to study it. Therefore, we end up simply studying harder, longer, and later into the night, with the hope that it will stick. My teaching philosophy is founded on my belief that how you study matters more than how long you study. A focused hour using the