well hello hello good morning it is day 20 I think day 20 or 21 of our 35 day nursing school mindset edit which is amazing I can't believe I've been doing this for 20 days already it feels like I just started it last week and today we're talking about how to study in nursing school how to have a framework for studying in nursing school so can somebody give me a thumbs up that you can hear me and we will get rolling so here's here's what usually happens in nursing school especially like first semester when um when you're new and maybe there's a lot of adjustments happening and going on is your instructors will say things like you need to think like a nurse when you're you know like maybe you're trying to figure out a problem or you're not understanding a concept or maybe not understanding how to prepare for exams and that is a lot of times the advice that they will give you you need to think like a nurse well in the beginning this is kind of awful advice because you don't know what that means how can you possibly think like a nurse when you've been a nursing student for all of two weeks right like that's kind of an impossible task yes you understand that that's what you're working toward but it takes a lot of time and a lot of nursing school and a lot of clinical to get to the point where you start thinking like a nurse so I'm going to talk to you today about the framework that I developed that can really help you zero in on the things that a nurse needs to know so I created the study method when I was a nursing student myself and I've refined it over the years and I use it all the time in my teaching when I'm teaching students nursing Concepts and I remember well I think it was first semester halfway through studying for a big midterm and I had all these case studies that I had to go through and that's how our instructor gave us it was like our study guide for the exam was like these case studies and she basically said if you go through these case studies you'll be prepared for the exam so we started working on these case studies and then they would end up being like 14 pages long like typed pages long where we were just taking these massive deep dives into these Concepts and trying to learn absolutely everything about them and I realized when I had you know seven case studies to go through that that was pretty much unsustainable I wasn't going to be able to spend that much time on these case studies so I really sat down and I thought you know what is I've been listening to you know Dr Van teach these topics what does she focus on when she's teaching us and what can I pull out from these case studies so that I'm really just focusing on the must know information and that's when I developed this framework and I'm telling you it totally changed my life it changed how I studied it made me a far more efficient student it focused my studying and it helped me really understand the nurse's role in caring for a patient so it also helped me in clinical as well so if you're a current student and you're over studying or you're spending a ton of time doing these massive deep Dives like I did that I'm really excited to share this framework with you and if you're not yet in nursing school maybe you're heading into nursing school this fall congratulations and you've heard the horror stories about how overwhelming it is to study and learn everything that you need to learn this will help you immensely okay so we're just going to go through this using a pretty basic example because I realize there's people of varying skill levels and knowledge levels watching this video but we will go through it and you'll get it okay and then I'll put a link below this video when we're all finished to a download you can download this framework for free from my website and I will put a link to that okay are we ready to get rolling yes okay so if you have not yet heard me talk about the latte method then that's what we're talking about the straight a nursing latte method and again this is a streamlined framework for studying a nursing school that helps you think like a nurse and focus on the things that a nurse really needs to know so the first letter in that latte method is an l and that stands for look how does the patient look and then a stands for assessments how do you assess this individual the first T is for tests which tests are typically ordered for an individual with this condition or this problem the second T is for treatments What treatments are provided and then e is for education and I like to sometimes think about evaluation as well like how would I evaluate if my interventions were effective so that's the bird's eye view of the latte method let's dive into each component and we'll use just a simple example so that you can understand it no matter if you're a brand new student or heading into your fourth semester so let's say you've got you're out biking with your with your friend and they fall and it they've basically broken their ankle okay so they have a broken ankle let's apply the latte method to your friend okay so looking at your patient how do they look that is L first letter so someone with a broken ankle is going to be complaining of pain and when I say look I don't just mean what you can see it's a it's a general overview of what are they presenting with what are their signs and symptoms so someone with a broken ankle complaining of severe pain right maybe he's breathing a little fast because he's got you know he's got pain and there's anxiety and and pain pain response associated with that maybe he's clutching at the injured part crying out maybe he turned a little pale maybe he's even sweating a little bit a little diaphoretic like those would all be signs of someone with a broken ankle that's what they look like so this will help you understand stand the signs and symptoms of disease conditions and what you're looking for in your patient so that is the first letter L how does the patient look the next letter is a and that is how do you assess this patient so someone with a broken ankle one of the first things you're going to do is do a pain assessment you're going to ask your friend are you having pain he's going to say Obviously right but you also say okay on a 0 to 10 scale how severe is the pain he's gonna say it's a 20 right because he's really in a lot of pain you're going to ask him to describe the quality of the pain etc etc so doing a pain assessment is very key you'll also want to assess pulses distal to the break because patients can have breaks that that cause disruptions in blood flow when they're really severe so you would assess for pulses distal to the break so maybe you're assessing the dorsalis pedis pulse you would check capillary refill distal to the break to make sure we're still getting good blood flow can you feel me touching your foot can you wiggle your toes those kinds of things so those would be some basic assessments maybe you palpate gently around the ankle and you can like oh yeah I can feel like this bone is not the right place right so those are basic assessments for someone who is in pain from breaking their ankle and then the next letter is a t and that is for tests so what tests would be conducted for someone with a broken ankle basically getting an x-ray of that of that affected body part and that's generally the the key test right that's the test that is used for someone with a broken bone and then the next letter is another T for treatments how is a broken bone treated well maybe he'll get surgery depending on the severity of the break maybe he'll get a cast if it's not super severe he's probably gonna get some pain medication with that and some activity restrictions maybe some physical therapy will be necessary and let's say it was a really bad break it was a compound fracture where the bone broke through the skin well now we're adding antibiotics into that treatment plan as well so that would be your treatments for someone with a broken ankle right makes perfect sense and then education for someone with a broken ankle related to a fall off a bike might be I don't know bike safety I don't know I'm just trying to think of things so preventive education as well as education around their current plan of care these are your activity restrictions you are non-weight-bearing you know for so long here's how to walk on crutches you would be surprised I've never ever I've been a nurse for how many years 10 11 to 12 years something like that I've never once had to teach someone how to walk on crutches but if you're a nursing student you probably see this as an exam question more like so often that you feel like you must be doing this on a daily basis right um I've never had to do that but it would be part of the education plan for someone maybe being discharged on a broken ankle another education component might be how and when to take all their medications uh things to watch for if the ankle pain gets worse and the pain medication doesn't help that could be a sign that there's something else going on if they have maybe one of those procedures where they have the pins in their ankle you know an external fixation then you would teach them how to do pin care and what to watch for for signs of infection and when to call their MD so those would be basic education things for someone with a broken ankle so that's basically in a nutshell how to use the latte method framework to study like a nurse to think like a nurse to know what to focus on so that you don't get bogged down in this giant miasma of information when you can really focus in on the must-know information and then in addition to that kind of a Prelude to any studying is you have to understand the normal physiology and you have to understand the pathophysiology so I always do like the patho and the fit the Fizz and the pathophys as like the Baseline foundation and then go into the latte method from there so does anybody have any questions about the latte method I'm actually gonna grab that link right now and put it in here into the comments and I'm not sure the comments will show on YouTube but I they definitely show on Facebook and you can go is that it hang on you guys I don't think that's the exact that's not the right template that's not the right web page my bad hang on one second I'll get I'll get the correct one um here it is well the other one is good too it's a it's a podcast episode where I talk through this in more detail and then this one is the template okay so it doesn't look like anybody has any questions so I hope that's because this was perfectly clear so I will see you tomorrow and let's see what we're talking about on the mindset edit tomorrow oh yeah this is going to be a really good one this is when we're going to talk about thriving in nursing school with ADHD so I did a ton of research and talked with a bunch of students a while back and it just like compiled all their best tips for thriving in nursing school with ADHD so I will see you back here tomorrow to talk about that okay have a fantastic Saturday I'll see you then bye