1. Welcome
Orientation to the nursing program Schedule Syllabus Policies Student role Instructor’s role Introduction of instructors and students Play a name game ?

3. 7 Keys to Success (National Student Nurses’ Association)
Academic Ability Caring
Responsibility Confidence Determination
Acceptance Eagerness to learn

4. Depends on how you choose to learn.
Success
Depends on how you choose to learn.
Not on how you are taught.
To effect behavior change
need positive attitude about learning
Success in the program:
Accountability and responsibility of learner

5. Professionalism

6. Strategies for Building a Positive Attitude
Confidence Builders
Avoid perfectionism-Unattainable standard.
Sets you up for failure and wastes time.
Develop basic skills
Strategies for Building a Positive Attitude
Positive self-images
Visualize goals
Recognize abilities
Identify realistic expectations
Avoid perfectionism-Unattainable standard. ‘Nobody’s perfect’ Sets you up for failure and wastes precious time
Develop basic skills: Math is a crucial skill in nursing, calculating dosages and administering medications Must be able to recognize if calculations are correct and logical.
Writing skills are essential -assessments, DC summaries, teaching plans.
Nursing is speaking-oriented profession, we ask a lot of questions when collecting data. Speaking in a professional manner is an attribute that nurses should exhibit at all times.
Listening is an equally important communication skill. Be interested when listening, Be open, focus on message-Not messenger. Concentrate and evaluate information. writing questions while listening can help clarify information.*Listening is necessary to begin to understand and process information, such as in class lecture/discussion sessions or in the client care setting.
Strategies that help to build a positive attitude include creating a positive self-image, visualizing goal attainment, recognizing personal abilities, and identifying realistic expectations. Creating a positive self-image involves the assessment of personal characteristics or attributes, both positive and negative. Listing these characteristics can help individuals to focus and build on their strengths while recognizing weaknesses that can be improved. This self-assessment should be done periodically to identify new strengths and to progress toward overcoming weaknesses. Individuals can learn to recognize abilities. It is helpful for students to identify activities or subjects at which they excel as well as those they dislike or avoid. In this process, students can identify the skills that enable them to excel at certain tasks as well as the skills they need to succeed in tasks they try to avoid; these lists will also help students to identify ways to enhance learning. Identifying realistic expectations also helps students to be successful learners and achieve goals; when students encounter obstacles, which are inevitable, expectations may need to be revised. Altering expectations, often with the help of others, allows individuals to achieve goals.

7. Student Nurse Skills For Success
Chapter 1
Student Nurse Skills For Success
This is the text book for 100 and 101. We will be using it and the study guide too. Skills checklist will be utilized in the lab setting. Get to know it and how to best use it. Please read p xxxvi-xliv Study Ware CD has a lot of useful info animations videos activities and quizzes. Starting here on chapter 1. See learning objectives for each chapter and course.

8. Learning Act or process of acquiring knowledge and/or skill in a particular subject. Life-long process Attitude Manner, feeling, or position toward person or thing Attribute Positive or negative characteristic, belongs to you Ability Competence
Key Terms:
Learning -Act or process of acquiring knowledge and/or skill in a particular subject. Learning is the basis for developing the knowledge and skills required to be a nurse. Because learning is a lifelong process, it is essential for students to develop a positive attitude toward learning.
Attitude—a manner, feeling, or position toward a person or thing—affects a person’s approach to life.
Attribute : characteristic belongs to you. Positive or negative
Ability -competence

9. Classification of Learning Styles
Visual
Learner thinks in pictures
Auditory
Learner learns best by hearing and listening
Kinesthetic
Learner learns best by touch, movement, imitation, and practice
classifications of learning styles or how we learn.
recognize that no one style is “better” than another and that each style is used to some extent, depending on the learning situation.
Visual learners prefer to obtain information through the senses by seeing it as a visual image; they relate best to information they have seen in texts or in their own notes or diagrams. For example, a visual learner who listens to a classroom lecture is likely to take notes about the subject to better master the material. *Reading notes and texts
Auditory learners prefer the spoken word; they best understand information by hearing and listening to a lecture or participating in a discussion. For example, an auditory learner who listens to a classroom lecture may ask to *audiotape the lecture and review it.
*Kinesthetic learners prefer to learn by touch, movement, imitation, and practice; they best understand information by touching or feeling the material and by processing the information in their own way. For example, a kinesthetic learner who listens to a classroom lecture may take notes and later *rewrite them after processing the material.

10. Learning Style Learning Strategies
How you best receive, process, and assimilate information on a particular subject
Learning Strategies
Know your own learning style
Manage time
Develop study strategy
Practice critical thinking
Identifying own learning style. How you best receive, process, and assimilate information on a particular subject
Manage time. Develop study strategy. Practice critical thinking
Learning strategies for different learning styles
1. Note-taking; read textbook and references; view video, read PowerPoint
2. Discussion; listen to audiotape
3. Draw illustration; handle equipment in nursing lab
4. Use of textbook and StudyWare; Internet use
5. Clinical experience
If it works work it

11. Strategies for Time Management
Analyze time commitments
Know self
Clarify goals
Set priorities
Discipline self to carry out plans until goal is reached
Strategies for Time Management: Analyze time commitments. Know self. Clarify goals. Set priorities. Discipline self to carry out plans until goal is reached

12. Develop a Study Strategy
Set up environment
Gather resources
Minimize interruptions
Get to know textbook/workbook
Set up study plan *Preview material
Take notes *rewrite them later
Study strategies
Set up environment. Gather resources. Minimize interruptions. Get to know textbook/workbook. Set up study plan *Preview material. Take notes *rewrite them later

13. Develop Test-Taking Skills Analyze attitude and expectations
Concentrate on preparation
Minimize anxiety
Improve Test-Taking Skills
Read carefully. Know vocabulary. Know subject matter
Avoid inferring additional data
Identify priorities correctly
Go with first answer
Develop Test-Taking Skills Analyze attitude and expectations. Concentrate on preparation. Try note-mapping. Minimize anxiety.
Improve Test-Taking Skills Read carefully. Know vocabulary. Know subject matter Avoid inferring additional data
Identify priorities correctly Go with first answer

14. Prepare for Exams Review
Recall information through series of exercises to increase comprehension and facilitate application
Decision making on most nursing examination questions based on facts or groups of principles learned
Participate in test reviews
Learn from mistakes
Talk with instructors ASK questions……….
Review-Recall information through series of exercises to increase comprehension and facilitate application
Decision making on most nursing examination questions based on facts or groups of principles learned
Participate in test reviews. Learn from mistakes. Talk with instructors. ASK questions
Read carefully. Know vocabulary. Avoid inferring additional data. Identify priorities correctly. Know subject matter. Go with first answer. Get good seat, Set mood
Read questions carefully. Consider answers questions carefully. Plan time. Avoid panicking
Ask questions there is no such thing as a stupid question………….

15. Critical Thinking What is it ? A disciplined intellectual process
~ reasoning and standards
Defend your opinions and judgment
Skills
~ Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Standards
~ Clarity, Accuracy, Precision, Relevance, Consistency,
Logic, Depth, Breadth, Fairness

16. Reasoning and Problem Solving
Purpose Question Assumption Point of View Data Concepts Inferences Implications

17. Test-Taking Skills
Attitude and Expectations Preparation Minimize Anxiety Improve Skills ~read carefully ~know vocabulary ~do not infer additional data ~identify priorities ~know the material ~go with your first answer

18. Scope of Practice RN LPN UAP Delegation Right Task Right Circumstance
Right Person
Right Direction/Communication
Right Supervision

19. Priority
ABC Safety NCLEX-PN