Strategies for success
A nursing skill or process of addressing nursing actions and ordering a response related to a client's needs. Basic needs, nursing diagnosis, and relying on patient considerations provide support relevant to the importance in this process.
What is prioritizing/prioritization?
Communication that encourages or blocks the flow of a nurse/patient conversation.
What is therapeutic or non-therapeutic communication?
The "heart" of a question that includes data or information needed to answer the question.
What is a case situation?
Something Cookie Monster would suggest to children (if he was the nurse) during patient teaching if he wasn't so in love with cookies. This is the strategy or purpose of "My Plate."
What is a balanced diet?
Some steps that help manage negative feelings or self doubt include......
What is practicing a positive attitude, self affirmation or positive self talk, positive pampering, activity, visuals, diet, or displaying a smile?
Defined as assigning nursing responsibilities to UP/AP, or LP based on nursing assessment and nursing judgement/decision making.
What is delegation/assigning duties?
The nurse utilizes these steps as an integrated process to promote or prioritize daily client care.
What is the nursing process or assessment, nursing diagnosis/analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation?
This statement follows case situation within a question and asks something specific.
What is the question stem?
Mickey Mouse would even encourage you to do this during the day prior to a test. Incorporating ____ activities help to promote a positive mood, improve focus, and promote self care.
What is fun? YES FUN!!
Focus areas for test prep include these.
What are strengths and weaknesses? (Focus on test review and prep 1st!
A pitfall of considering issues beyond the information presented in the question.
What is reading into the question?
This process directs the priority of nursing actions in three distinct steps.
What are the ABCs or airway, breathing, and circulation?
This list includes steps you would take during a test to be successful.
What is read the directions/questions carefully, pace yourself, and review the options/answers?
One activity you should do or incorporate the morning of a test, after breakfast, to promote self-care. Cats and dogs do this as a regular routine at various intervals during the day.
What is relaxation?
The minimum number of daily hours needed for class or test preparation.
What is 2 hours?
Strategies designed to assist in achieving goals of becoming a registered nurse.
What are test taking strategies?
This theory of human needs are satisfied in a particular order and arranged in a pyramid or hierarchy.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory?
Questions that involve a certain style of review or style of questions to prep for tests, final exams, and the RN state board exam.
What are NCLEX questions?
The kind of activity needed to help reduce test anxiety. This helps to calm your mind and improve overall health.
What is physical activity?
Quality time for studying or test prep includes......
What is uninterrupted quiet time, location, and study sessions?
Managing this is key to completing activities or tasks during nursing school and as a nurse in a defined time period.
What is time management?
The priority action a nurse would take in a life threatening situation.
What is "call the physician?"
This personal and individualized plan helps you prepare for NCLEX, HESI, unit exams, and finals.
What is a remediation plan?
One strategy to utilize the morning before testing to be successful. These strategies can give you energy, improve your mood, and relax your mind going into the test.
What is meditation, eat breakfast, dress comfortable, take a mindful moment, think positive, and reflect on your accomplishments?
Steps to alleviate anxiety during a test include.....
What are/is breathing exercises, sit back in your chair (reposition), close your eyes for a second, focus on positive thoughts or places for a moment?