I am so glad I found your channel! I have binged all of your videos in 2 days, chile! I cannot wait to use all your methods & get on the SRNA gtt train myself! Best of luck in the rest of your education!
I’m so glad I found your channel! I graduate from my LPN program next month and start the transition program right after. I want to be a CRNA eventually and your content is on point! It’s so raw and that’s so helpful!
Really eye opening video! In nursing school I was always the person that “needed” to read every chapter and write extensive notes...notes that I never had time to review! I gotta stop that, there are better ways to study! Can’t wait to see your next video!
Absolutely!!!! That “aha” moment for me changed everything! And when I found out about this way to study I haven’t looked back! And I’m sure the next one you’ll LOVE!
Such invaluable information! I tried rewriting in nursing school and although it helps I'm still looking for a more "efficient" way to study, so i'll definitely be using these tips !
Thank you so much for sharing this. I recently found Ali’s videos going into my second full year of nursing school and am excited to implement the study methods. I have been consistently making high B’s but needed a small bump to upgrade them to A’s to be more competitive for CRNA school applications. I’m glad they worked for you, and nerded out a little when I saw this video. Best of luck this year, thanks for all the helpful videos!
Dictation: Have you used a medical based dictation program? Dragon Naturally Speaking (medical). Such is used by a lot of Physicians. Keep up the nice work / excellent channel.
didi425 As a nurse, No. nor do I desire to lol. Nor will you have the time to loll. Some of my classmates still have a PRN but they may work a shift or two a semester, to me it’s just not worth it.
Did you ever try to use Zanki? I have difficulty studying as well . I have to read something 50 million times before it sticks . I did well in nursing school , because I would do practice questions .
Stephanie K I used Anki before but it wasn’t my thing... and same for me. Textbooks are great for content exposure, questions help solidify retention... but you can literally make questions out of what you’re reading from the text book...that video is next week lol
Patrick Thomas I look forward to it because these two years will fly and then I will be able to apply to crna school can’t wait thank you again . Looking forward to your video
Ale Ale so you wouldn’t be getting the 14 chapters all at 1 time, thankfully. So as the modules are released(usually covers 3-4 chapters) you do the questions for those chapters, using your ppt as a guide. So depending on how long the module is, you make finish crating questions in 1 day or in two... depend on how fast you work Let me know if this answers your question
@@theCRNADrip hey, thank you so much for the quick feedback, I really really appreciate your help. I am trying to establish what would be the average reading in a time frame, let's say for a single week, needed to achieve the demanded goals at school. For example, should I expect 200 pages of content to cover every week? How many pages were the maximum necessary to read in the toughest week? I ask because I really found that calculating how many pages had to read per day compared to how many pages I was able to read per hour was a game changer. This allowed me to know in advance how many hours per day I should in average have to use only to read through the material, and then allowing time to answer practice questions and taking notes. I know it may sound a little excessive but I really found it useful to increase my efficiency in time management. Your help is invaluable to me and your attitude really makes me feel reflected in you. Thank you so so much🥰
Great question. So let’s say your next ppt lecture is 90 slides long. And there is 3 people in your study group . 1st Person take 1-30, 2nd person take 31-60, and 3rd person take 61-90. Each person will make questions for their assigned parts of the ppt. That way you get the questions done faster for the entire lecture and there is more time to allow for actually using the active recall method. Hope this helps
I’m new in the cticu from the OR how do I learn all the new information . I’m being told to read textbooks and I have a basic understanding but I’m still struggling . What should I focus on ?
Stephanie K you have to just build off of the basic knowledge you have.... and learn through experience... especially somewhere like the CTICU, sooo much to learn and see... don’t overwhelm yourself, maybe if your hospital has a bridge program , You can ask if you can sit in on some of the sessions , I learned SOO much about being an ICU nurse in the bridge classes. If not what I would do is ask someone on the unit(that you trust will give you good insight) to give you a list of the most common patients you see on your unit and take your days off YouTubing the pathophys begins them to get a better understanding... then when you get an understanding you can go back and ask how the technical part of actually taking care of them works(why you may use certain drugs for them, what’s the ritual for when this type of pt gets admitted.) doing that coupled with learning the pathophys should give you a better understanding on your unit
Yes I’m in a fellowship program, I’m coming from the OR, they throw tons of info at you. It’s a lot of material to read , but I’m just like you . I need dialogue and I need to be asked questions that’s how I learn . I need case studies. I want to understand the information because it could be my parent laying in that icu bed and I want to be competent . Since you were speaking on spatial learning , I’m thinking of finding Quizlets on the anatomy of different systems , and then doing some of the quizlets on the critical care of those systems . I know it’s a weird way to go about things but I keep ordering these books and they are collecting dusts. If I have some background knowledge to work with, combined with the fellowship , and me being hands on , during the floor clinical maybe it will work . In my cticu there aren’t a lot of black nurses and I want to set the standard that we are just as good, that way I could influence more black nurses do come to my cticu. Thank you for taking the time to respond to me . I know that if I can’t succeed in this cticu there is no crna school for me lmao .
Stephanie K ah ok. That’s good! Ask questions questions questions!! And you’re still new I’m assuming so don’t be too hard on yourself, it’s going to be a huge adjustment.. so don’t let this beginning jump be the determinant for if you’re going to be successful or not, we allll have been where you are, I know I have. And always self reflect and set goals for yourself during your shift. And no prob! Ask any question you need to
