Nursing Class Reflection

While taking this class I was able to learn several strategies for taking nursing exams. I learned three Ideas that will use during the unit exams, final exams and the HESI exam. As instructed by Silvestri (2014), I learned to read every word of the question completely. In the past I would quickly read the question and over looked a key word(s) like “do first” or “priority”. Secondly, I will determine if the question presented is a positive question where they are asking for the nurse to do something, or I will determine if the question presented is a negative question where they are asking “what should the nurse avoid”; “which prescription the nurse should question”. Finally, during the priority questions I will use the ABCs and Maslow’s Hierarch of Needs technique to answer questions that are based on nursing.
Regarding the question on how this class helped me to be successful in nursing school, it really did not help me to be successful. My lowest grade in my junior one term was an 84 and my GPA was 3.25. So far for this term my average class grade will be 88. In fact this class took time away from studying for other classes,
Straker Kelman (2007), presented information regarding pre-reading before a lecture class begins. I found a few tips that I feel that I could use in pre-reading that will help in taking notes. Since we do not have lectures per say, but we do have recordings of lectures. I can implement prior to listening to the lectures or prior to taking notes on the chapter. In this instance I feel that pre-reading will speed up my note taking, which will save me time so that I can spend on other study tasks. I found this information to be so helpful I made my two boys read this section because in public high school they are not taught this learning strategy, in fact they do not even use their books and the school they attend is a highly rated public