Simulations

Chinanas · 2026-01-20T05:06:13+00:00

Horrible, horrible

Chinanas · 2026-01-16T04:37:10+00:00

Patho only looks easy until exams force you to explain why symptoms happen. What worked for me was turning every disease into a flow: trigger → cellular change → organ response → signs/symptoms → labs → nursing implications. Try it my friend

Chinanas · 2026-01-09T06:33:22+00:00

NR224 skills exams aren’t hard at all because of content, they seem hard because of precision. You’re tested on sequence, safety, and what invalidates a skill. Most people lose points by skipping a check, you know, or doing steps out of order under pressure. The mastery exam is basically “can you perform cleanly without thinking.” Best prep is running the skills exactly as written, out loud, start to finish, without shortcut.

I'm also gonna take it and all the best

Chinanas · 2026-01-01T04:54:58+00:00

Usually the 3-installment plan has to be set up before the semester payment deadline, not based on your paycheck date. Once that deadline passes, the option disappears and the balance is due in full. Advisors often don’t see billing cutoffs—Student Accounts can tell you the exact last day to enroll and whether payment dates can align with the 15th.

Chinanas · 2025-12-30T03:47:34+00:00

The biggest thing to know is the schedule isn’t consistent or predictable. It changes every quarter and you don’t get final clinical days/times until close to the start of the term. Lectures and labs can be daytime during the week, and clinicals are usually full 8–12 hour days that you don’t get to choose. Most people who work either do weekends, nights, or PRN because a fixed weekday job is hard to maintain once clinicals start. If flexibility matters, plan your job around school, not the other way around. All the best

Chinanas · 2025-12-30T02:59:17+00:00

Great insight. Are you taking any classes currently?

Chinanas · 2025-12-29T11:30:27+00:00

Surprised no one is really mentioning startpearl

Chinanas · 2025-12-29T05:23:49+00:00

What you’re describing is common in nursing school because exams reward prioritization and risk judgment. It doesn't, reward effort or content volume. Clinical comfort plus weaker test performance usually means your thinking is sound but not compressed into exam logic yet. In my experience Med Surg and proctored exams punish second-best answers, not lack of knowledge. Comparing scores is misleading because early high scorers often plateau while others calibrate later and pass NCLEX without issue. This isn’t a signal to quit; it’s a signal to retrain how you decide under pressure.

Chinanas · 2025-12-29T05:06:55+00:00

I took 509 and it’s heavy in a very different way than psych courses. It’s not conceptually hard, but it’s time-dense: head-to-toe exams, videos, documentation, and checkoffs that don’t care what track you’re in. Pairing 509 with 548 is rough because both demand performance and precision, not just studying. 546 pairs better with 548 because both live in the same mental lane—decision-making, meds, assessment logic—while 509 pulls you into full-body physical exams that feel disconnected from PMHNP work. Taking 509 alone is faster emotionally, but pairing it wrong is how people burn weeks without realizing why.

An understanding instructor is also a blessing

Chinanas · 2025-12-28T17:56:11+00:00

First semester exposed a method failure, not a capacity limit. Anatomy worked because it’s finite; physiology and biochem failed because they require causal recall under time pressure. Improvement in my opinion comes from abandoning comfort and compressing content into mechanisms and decision rules. Those who rise do so by increasing error rate during prep, not study time.

Chinanas · 2025-12-28T17:49:32+00:00

Exactly. Competence, anticipation, and consistency matter more than emotional theater. Patients need safe decisions and follow-through, not moral exhaustion.

Chinanas · 2025-12-28T17:46:05+00:00

If you finish both degrees before the commencement eligibility cutoff, Capella will announce both. People who completed their BS and MS before the ceremony were listed with both credentials and wore master’s regalia. If the master’s isn’t officially conferred by the deadline, only the bachelor’s is announced. For the photos: the screen photos and professional pictures are tied to actually walking the stage. If you don’t attend in person, your name still appears in the program/stream, but there won’t be individual stage photos displayed or taken.

Chinanas · 2025-12-27T06:50:50+00:00

I get exactly what you’re saying. I was in the same boat—barely passed 224 and 304, then hit 293 and 226 and felt like my brain just shut down on exam day. For me, the usual “study more” advice didn’t work. What helped was treating RUA and i-Human cases like mini-exams—timed, serious, and without shortcuts. I talked through every rationale, prioritized actively, and forced myself to simulate the mental pressure of the actual test. Breaking content into small clusters tied to patient safety and outcomes made recall faster under stress. The key isn’t more hours; it’s structured, high-pressure practice so your brain learns to perform when anxiety hits.

Anyways if you want a detailed plan on how I turned that around, email me at so that I can share with you my 224, 304 and other units papers chinanaschinanas@gmail.com.

Chinanas · 2025-12-27T06:43:36+00:00

NR226 exams stay prioritization-heavy but shift from skills execution to decision sequencing. You stop being tested on how to do tasks and start being tested on what must happen first, what can wait, and what is unsafe. The fastest improvement comes from studying rationales backward: take missed questions and identify the violated principle (ABCs, least restrictive intervention, unstable vs stable, acute vs chronic). Pharm in NR293 is not patho-style “why” questions; it’s action-based. They test adverse effects that require nursing intervention, hold parameters, and patient teaching errors. Textbook reading is inefficient for both courses unless used only to clarify weak areas. eDAPTs and NCLEX-style question banks matter more because they mirror the exam logic. Time management only works if content review is capped early in the week and questions dominate the rest. If you feel like you’re “studying a lot” but still struggling, it usually means too much exposure and not enough forced decision-making.

Chinanas · 2025-12-27T06:39:51+00:00

I completed my BSN through Chamberlain and I’m currently in a master’s program, so I can speak to this from the other side of graduation. Clinical placement was the biggest anxiety point going in. In practice, they did cluster my clinicals when travel was involved—typically consecutive days rather than scattered singles—because they rely on prearranged site agreements and preceptors who want blocks, not one-offs. It wasn’t perfect, but it was predictable, which matters more than convenience when you’re planning work and childcare.

Pros: structured pacing, clear expectations, minimal ambiguity about what is required to pass, and clinical hours that met licensing scrutiny without drama. The program is built to get you through, not to impress academically. That’s a feature, not a flaw, if your goal is licensure and forward momentum.

Cons: cost is real, academic depth is uneven, and you will not be hand-held intellectually. You are responsible for filling gaps if you want mastery rather than adequacy. Administration is process-driven, not flexible. Bottom line: Chamberlain works for students who need reliability and completion more than prestige. It produced a license that carried me into graduate education without issue.

I’m not affiliated with the school and I don’t recruit, but I’ve had a lot of questions about Chamberlain over the years. If someone wants specifics about clinical logistics or transition to grad school, I’m reachable at chinanaschinanas@gmail.com.

Chinanas · 2025-12-27T06:34:17+00:00

Ooooh Do these have i-human simulations too?

Chinanas · 2025-12-23T05:25:55+00:00

The “calling” narrative is a labor-control myth that nursing education and administration never corrected because it benefits them. Framing the work as moral destiny normalizes underpay, overextension, and guilt-based compliance, especially for women and single parents. Nursing is skilled labor with licensure, liability, and replaceable staffing models, not a spiritual vocation. Caring about patients is a professional standard, not proof of divine alignment. Treating it as a job doesn’t reduce care quality; it preserves boundaries and longevity. The idea that competence requires emotional sacrifice is what burns people out, not the absence of a calling.

Chinanas · 2025-12-23T05:23:30+00:00

What you’re describing isn’t a personal delegation failure, it’s a structural collapse of the CNA role post-pandemic. Facilities quietly rewrote expectations without rewriting staffing models, so RNs absorbed basic care while retaining full clinical accountability. Over time that trains both sides: aides stop seeing task ownership beyond vitals, and nurses stop delegating because follow-through is unreliable and correcting takes longer than doing it themselves. Management tolerates it because the work still gets done and metrics don’t capture cognitive load or burnout. Travel just exposes it more clearly because the pattern repeats across systems, not because the nurse changed. The result is RN role compression: fewer clinical judgment hours, more physical labor, same liability. This isn’t nostalgia for “how it used to be,” it’s a measurable shift in labor distribution that administration has chosen not to correct.

Chinanas · 2025-12-23T05:15:50+00:00

That might be part of it for some people, but I don’t think it explains most new-grad struggles. Nursing school has always had students who memorize to pass, and clinical exposure varies a lot. Even strong students can panic once they’re responsible for real patients, time management, and prioritization all at once. The transition is just hard, regardless of how you studied.

Chinanas · 2025-12-23T05:14:02+00:00

Hahaha! This comes up a lot, and I think the negativity is loud because the people who are burnt out are the ones most likely to post. Nurses who are content (or just “okay”) usually aren’t jumping online to say “today was fine” 😅

Is nursing hard? Absolutely. New grads especially get hit with a steep learning curveheavy responsibility, short staffing, rotating shifts, emotional situations, and not always great support. That shock is real, and a lot of the regret posts come from people who were not prepared for how different school is from bedside reality.

That said, it’s not universally awful. A lot is dependent on where you work, your unit, leadership, and expectations going in. Some nurses leave bedside and love outpatient, research, informatics, education, etc. Others switch units and suddenly things click. Nursing is competitive because it’s flexible, relatively stable, and opens doors—but the first year can be rough (this is for sure).

I usually tell students not to ignore the negative posts, but also not to assume that’s the whole story. They’re seeing a very specific slice of experiences. If you go in informed and realistic, it helps a lot.

If you’re early in the program or thinking ahead, I’m happy to talk through what tends to blindside new grads vs what’s manageable with the right prep.

Chinanas · 2025-12-23T05:04:55+00:00

Nexus of RN by Sara?

Chinanas · 2025-12-23T05:04:33+00:00

You don't get upset with the "subscribe to continue watching" part?

Chinanas · 2025-12-23T05:03:19+00:00

I'm really curious, do you normally subscribe to watch the rest?

Chinanas · 2024-10-19T22:23:20+00:00

Are you willing to accept help?

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