In patho, coagulation was that one lecture with the giant cascade diagram. Arrows everywhere, factor this, factor that. You took a picture of the slide but as soon as you heard "you don't have to memorize this" you moved on. Then you went to pharm, where aPTT and INR showed up again, but without that foundational patho concept, you skimmed it. So...Why do you care? Why should you care? Well, anticoagulants are high-alert medications, and now, in med surg, you will inevitably

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

Hydrochlorothiazide | Chlorthalidone | Indapamide Thiazide diuretics are first-line for hypertension. Translation: if a patient gets diagnosed with HTN, this is usually where we start. They are inexpensive, widely available, and we have decades of evidence showing they reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Because of this, these are important drugs, and you will likely be tested on them. Let's sta