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Meaghan. Half Rory Half Paris. INFJ-T. BN/RN. This blog is minimally active but I’m still here if you ever need to chat - I still scroll frequently :)

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I honestly can’t believe we’re at this point but: I’m done my nursing degree! It’s been an absolutely incredible ride and I love that the studyblr community was such an influential part of that experience for me. Thank you all for your support and kind words for the past 4+ years.

At this point, I’m not sure what that means for this account, but if you have any ideas feel free to shoot me a message ❤️

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100 Days of Productivity ~ 24 December 2020

Uni has been wrapped up for the year, and I’ve been working full time! 

Today is the perfect admin day - I’m working from home, so can attend to a bunch of little things that have been sitting around. My first task of the day was completely reorganising my room (which I’m very excited about) … next up is a reorganisation of the bookshelves! But first, it’s responding-to-emails time.

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[bn-studies]

I recently passed the NCLEX in 75 Q and created this list of tips I would’ve loved to have before I wrote!

- Essentials: Saunders & UWorld

- Nonessential but nice add on: @yournursingeducators ‘s (on Instagram) NCLEX high yield notes.

- Start early and start slow. Consider your preceptorship/final semester your opportunity to start studying for the NCLEX. Depending on your unit there will likely be downtime, bring a review book and do practice questions.

- Do 30-50 practice questions a day during preceptorship on the days your not working. It’s not much and it’s a good way to ease yourself into it.

- Make Flashcards with key concepts that are straight “memorizables”: lab values, antidotes (especially warfarin -> vit K, heparin -> protamine, digoxin -> digibind, Ca -> Mg), rules and formulas (like parkland formula, MAP formula), and mnemonics (like NSAID for cervical collar or “we better think high glucose” for metabolic syndrome)

- Book your exam and don’t look back. Trust that you’ll be ready when the time comes.

- Two-Three weeks before your exam is crunch time. 225-300 UWorld questions a day (3-4 75 question exams).

- Review the rationales how ever works best for you, but actually review and understand them! For me, I wrote them down in a word document separated into sections, putting drugs & diagnoses in bold.

- Before every study session in the crunch time, review your Flashcards and your rationales document.

- Treat each 75 question test like the actual NCLEX - no food or drinks, no pee breaks, no music. If you plan to use ear plugs, practice with ear plugs. I also found it helps to have a specific scent your relate to NCLEX study time. I got a new hand lotion that I used before every session and in the morning before my NCLEX.

- During crunch week set a time or # of questions to do each day and then be DONE. I would go for a walk afterwards to reset my brain. Over studying can happen and you don’t want to burn out.

- Mistakes are how you learn. Don’t be upset when you get questions wrong - be excited that you got it wrong when it didn’t matter and gave you the opportunity to learn something new.

- You will never been 100% ready, but if you’re consistently scoring above average on the Uworld questions, you’re probably good to go. Trust your gut.

- Treat your anxiety symptoms consistently and treat them the same way on the day of the NCLEX even if you think you’re all good. It’s probably partly related to adrenaline but when you get in there you might start feeling anxious - it’s all good. For me, I took the ginger gravol (not the dimenhydrinate) pretty much every night the last two weeks and on the morning of the exam.

- Don’t look up “Uworld % to pass NCLEX” or anything like that. Don’t compare your understanding to anyone else. Uworld’s site says “Test takers with a test bank score of 56% pass at a rate of 92%” - that’s the only number you should maybe think about, but don’t look up what other people had before the test because it doesn’t always correlate.

- Try not to think of it as a 75 question exam that gets longer if you’re doing worse, really try to think of it as a 145 question exam (at present, due to Covid) that gets shortened when you prove you’re doing well. It’s not essential to get 100% on 75 to be done in 75, the computer adapts quicker than that.

- I seriously recommend doing every single Uworld question. Ultimately the best practice for the exam isn’t Flashcards or memorizing concepts, it’s learning how to maneuver the NCLEX style questions.

Conspiracy theory: the test is way over hyped so all these companies can continue to profit off of your self doubt. Your education prepared you for this. Visualize your success. Visualize how cool your name, BN RN is gonna look. Your BN was WAY harder then the NCLEX. You’ve got this.

@crystalcanyon you asked for any advice and it reminded me to post this, so thank you ☺️

[bn-studies]

I passed the NCLEX - I’m officially Meaghan, RN ✨

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16.09.20 / journal pages from last week + notes i was rereading this morning. i hope you’re having a great week so far ♡

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SUNDAY, 5TH NOVEMBER 2017

- She was blessed with the virtue of being ordinary.

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[stillstudies]

ok so I was going to write a different caption for this but I honestly have no idea wtf I’m doing right now lol. so far this quarter has been the busiest I’ve ever had- I’m taking 19 credits (the highest I’ve ever taken), started working at my first internship, doing work with some community activist organizations, planning what my life is going to look like over the next year, not to mention… surviving during an election year in a global pandemic). needless to say, I am very tired. it’s all just a lot and last week I finally burnt out. 

tbh it feels wrong to complain about everything I’m doing because it’s all stuff that I genuinely love (other than analyzing founding father speeches for my communication of public address class) but I guess I really just have to keep reminding myself that work is work, and productivity isn’t admirable if you never take a break. you don’t have to earn the right to rest- what’s important is that you prioritize it. my life will work itself out one way or another. everything is going to be okay. sending you lots of love xxx

[bn-studies]

so many practice questions 😴

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06/09/2020

revising basic latin before the new semester. not sure how i feel about going back to physical classes, i might be the only one who enjoyed studying by myself. nonetheless i am excited about the new subjects i’m picking up this term so here’s to prolific studies !

[study-van]

I can’t believe I managed to post everyday for the challenge, truly an accomplishment!! Here are some details from my desk and some questions I managed to get all right, I’m truly so excited for med school which will officially commence tomorrow.

6th September - What was your favourite memory from this summer?

The surprise graduation/goodbye party that my mom organized. I will cherish that night forever.

🎧bts, dynamite

[saltstudying]

i've been planning my work obsessively and it's working decently well so far!!

[lakelacrimosa]

hey everyone! i’m a peer tutor at my university and i wanted to share some study strategies that i’ve found really helpful in my stem/content-heavy courses. please feel free to share yours with me as well!

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