hi!!
one of my good friends at work is leaving for crna school in a couple of weeks and i wanted to send her off with a gift she’d hopefully like or find useful.
for those of you who are NA residents, what do you find to be useful or practical?? i’m thinking study aids, self care basket, gift cards??
thanks in advance :)
hi everyone!
one of my friends at work is leaving for school in a couple weeks and i wanted to send her off with a gift i think she may like or find useful!
any recommendations? :)
Literally walked into the CSC exam with no thoughts, head empty, groggy, & just wanting to get it over with 🥴 I’m not usually this ill-prepared, esp for what I consider a big exam. I walked in fully prepared to fail this first time, take note of my weak areas, then readjust & retest at a later date. But I was super surprised to see “PASS” at the end of my exam!
Long story short, it was a combo of not being able to reschedule my exam + my ADHD wrecking my productivity so I basically just “studied” the night before (just going through practice questions). I didn’t even get through the entire question bank, I think I got through like ~40% of them? 😭 and that was all I pretty much used. So then I had to lean on my work experience. For context, I work in a mixed Level II SICU where we recover fresh POD 0 hearts (CABG, valves, dissections/aneurysms, MCS devices including ECMO), and I’ve been here a little under 2 years? Before that, I was a new grad on a mixed Med-Surg/Tele floor for 1 year.
Looking back, I think for the most part, the exam was pretty straightforward, but there were a few where I was stuck between 2 answer choices. I remember flagging a bunch of questions just cuz I kept overthinking lol but that’s a “me” issue. I had to keep reminding myself to think in “exam mode”, and not what I probably would do irl. I do think the AACN questions are similar to the exam format, though I didn’t really like the rationales - some of them didn’t make sense. I just googled anything I wasn’t too sure on.
Anyways, don’t be like me 😂 but to those planning on taking the exam, I believe you can pass if you can get through most of the question bank, at the very least! Def also helpful if you already work in a CVICU or have some cardiac background.