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I’m most excited about starting to work. I’ve been in the school for the past five years and am eager to start helping people. I look forward to growing and collaborating with other healthcare professionals to shape myself into a well-rounded worker. I’m most anxious about the skills side of nursing due to COVID’s disruption in our learning. I hope places are understanding and help us with a more extended orientation. As a means of celebrating my struggles along the way, I owe it to my family. They’ve been there for me through my tough times, but I feel I haven’t been able to spend as much time with them as I hope. I haven’t thought about the details of what I want to do, but I’d like to travel somewhere outside the United States for the first time.

The ATI Nurse Logic 2.0 Modules will help support my success on the ATI assessments and NCLEX-RN by understanding different priority-setting frameworks to come to an answer. Since the NCLEX-RN assessment is computer-adaptive, it will give you questions similar to what you missed most. By identifying weaknesses early, and strengthening them, it will allow for a higher chance of passing. When answering the question, I understand different priority-setting frameworks to come to an answer. Many were stated in the ATI Nurse Logic 2.0 Modules such as: urgent vs. non-urgent, acute vs. chronic, unstable vs. stable, nursing process (assessment, analysis, plan, implementation, evaluation), Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, ABC’s, safety and risk reduction, survival potential (emergent, urgent, non-urgent, expectant), and whether the patient was pre-operative, intraoperative, or post-operative.

With regards to studying, there’s a famous saying that goes, “if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.” I write down each deadline for assignments, exams, and clinical on my agenda book for the whole semester. I make a to-do list each day and make sure to check off what I realistically created for myself. If it isn’t complete, I ask myself if I can switch it around for something else. I try to stay ahead, so if changes arise, I can be flexible with them.