#28: What to Focus on in Nursing School

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Straight A Nursing

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0	Have you ever wished that you had a direct line to your pediatrician to ask all the questions that constantly crop up while parenting? We sure have.
0:10.0	That's why we launched the Bites of Health Podcast.
0:13.8	Every morning will answer a commonly asked
0:16.3	pediatric question in five minutes or less.
0:19.5	You can tune in while you're making your second cup of coffee or from the school drop off line.
0:24.8	So be sure to tune in to Bites of Health.
0:28.1	Streaming Now. Hey there everybody welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:45.4	Podcast. Thank you so much for listening in. This is Nurse Mo and today's
0:51.2	episode is dedicated to all of you smart, hardworking, stressed out, and amazing first semester nursing students. For many of you the semester is just
1:06.7	starting and if I remember back to my first semester accurately you might feel a little bit like you are
1:16.3	absolutely drowning. It is the most overwhelming experience, not just adjusting to the schedule, which is intense,
1:30.4	but a whole new way of studying, a whole new way of studying a whole new type of test taking a whole new level of
1:37.2	scrutiny by your professors and then the content there is a lot of it and some of it can get quite complex.
1:44.5	So it's a bit overwhelming.
1:47.2	You might feel like giving up, you might feel like screaming.
1:51.5	So I wanted to just do a quick podcast today about finding your zone, getting
2:00.0	into the zone in the right frame of mind for nursing school and really focusing
2:06.7	on what's most important. So one of the things that you will be really drilled on in first semester is safe medication administration.
2:25.0	And it might sound like, well, how hard is that?
2:28.0	I will tell you that med administration is one of the most stressful things you will do, not only because
2:39.5	of the patient safety aspect, but also many schools have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to
2:50.7	med errors. I've heard of schools that if you make one single med error, you
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