A Day in the Life of a Nursing Student

I had my first day of class Monday! How exciting to get going again; one step closer to the finish line! I did, however, have to come up with a new plan on how to learn so much information so quickly.

I know that I don’t, personally, learn well by reading the textbook. So when I looked at all the reading assigned for this week I was anxious. My solution was to buy a recorder to record lectures. Now I can listen to the same lecture as many times as I need to! I hope it helps! We will see next Monday for my first test. Stay tuned…
~Amanda

It is that time again! For those of us heading into second semester, it means preparing for the skills fair. I took a nice long break all summer from text books, and yes, from math as well. One plus one in July means please hand me a calculator! But today I pulled out the dosage calculations and a calculator to brush up for the math test at the skills fair. Next on my list to brush up on is the IV unit.

Quick math tip: When the medication package states to add 8ml to reconstitute the medicaiton for a concentration of 5mg/ml…Don’t get distracted by the 8ml, look for the concentration…Your “H” is 5mg, and your “Q” is 1ml for the D/H x Q= X formula.

~Amanda