Cheatsheets
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Outline
Overview
- Cheatsheets provide a way to condense important information or illustrate an important concept in a clear and concise way.
Key Points
- How can you abridge the concept down into one page?
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- Is there a one-page cheatsheet that you would’ve loved to have with you when you were going through school?
- Is there a great mnemonic that helps the topic be more understandable?
- Is there an image you can grab that will make them say “Ah-hah! I get it!”?
- What resources can you provide the students to give them that extra push they need in order to master this content.
- They should be image/graphics heavy, with a brief explanation
- Tables and charts are wonderful
- An image in the center with arrows pointing out key points
- For Pathocharts
- What one image will help solidify this disease process for them?
- What are the most important assessment findings, diagnostic tests, nursing priorities, and therapies?
- It should fit on ONE PAGE
- They should be image/graphics heavy, with a brief explanation
Transcript
Okay! You made it! The last and final practical application of the Core Content Mastery Method is Cheatsheets. Now, we do have a specific resource called a cheatsheet, but what we’re referring to here is any short, quick resource that helps the student master the content.
So – think about what kind of one-page resource you would provide. How can you abridge the topic down to one page? We make them clear and concise and they focus on a specific topic. What would you have wanted as a nursing student – is there a resource you found yourself looking up over and over again that you would’ve wanted quick access to? We like for them to be graphics heavy with the important information spelled out for them.
So here is an example of a cheatsheet. A main image with brief explanations and arrows. So this one specifically is stroke symptoms by location. So if a student has a patient whose history shows a stroke in the middle cerebral artery – they’ll know what findings to expect in that patient. On the right you’ll see what we call a Pathochart. This is one of my absolute favorite resources. We drill down the pathophysiology into a few sentences, then provide the most important assessment findings, diagnostic tests, nursing priorities, management, and medications. This now becomes a one-page resource for all things crohn’s disease.
So drilling concepts down into a one-page resource provides just one more way to give the learner what they need to master the concepts. Now that you’ve finished reviewing who we are, what our pedagogy is, our core tenets, and 7 tips to implementing it, the next module will be a way for you to demonstrate what you’ve learned. Feel free to go back and review any lessons you want to and use them as a resource as you complete that assignment! Now, go out and be your best self today. And, as always, happy nursing!
Katies NCLEX
Concepts Covered:
- Test Taking Strategies
- Medication Administration
- Adult
- Emergency Care of the Cardiac Patient
- Microbiology
- Anxiety Disorders
- Depressive Disorders
- Nervous System
- Gastrointestinal Disorders
- Fundamentals of Emergency Nursing
- Dosage Calculations
- Understanding Society
- Circulatory System
- Concepts of Pharmacology
- Studying
- Newborn Care
- Adulthood Growth and Development
- Respiratory Disorders
- Pregnancy Risks
- Neurological
- Postpartum Complications
- Substance Abuse Disorders
- Bipolar Disorders
- Learning Pharmacology
- Psychotic Disorders
- Prenatal Concepts
- Tissues and Glands
- Factors Influencing Community Health
- Concepts of Population Health
- Community Health Overview
- Developmental Considerations
- Communication
- Legal and Ethical Issues
- Cardiovascular
- Emergency Care of the Neurological Patient
- Emergency Care of the Respiratory Patient
- Emergency Care of the Trauma Patient
- Delegation
- Multisystem
- Health & Stress
- Childhood Growth and Development
- Prenatal and Neonatal Growth and Development
- Trauma-Stress Disorders
- Developmental Theories
- Concepts of Mental Health
- Gastrointestinal
- Newborn Complications
- Labor Complications
- Fetal Development
- Terminology
- Labor and Delivery
- Postpartum Care
- Prefixes
- Suffixes
- Proteins
- Statistics
- Med Term Basic
- Med Term Whole
- Cardiac Disorders
- Preoperative Nursing
- Intraoperative Nursing
- Vascular Disorders
- Noninfectious Respiratory Disorder
- Upper GI Disorders
- Central Nervous System Disorders – Brain
- Shock
- Immunological Disorders
- Postoperative Nursing
- Perioperative Nursing Roles
- Hematologic Disorders
- Disorders of Pancreas
- Neurological Trauma
- Neurological Emergencies
- Musculoskeletal Trauma
- EENT Disorders
- Peripheral Nervous System Disorders
- Respiratory Emergencies
- Shock
- Disorders of the Posterior Pituitary Gland
- Endocrine
- Disorders of the Thyroid & Parathyroid Glands
- Liver & Gallbladder Disorders
- Lower GI Disorders
- Respiratory
- Acute & Chronic Renal Disorders
- Disorders of the Adrenal Gland
- Documentation and Communication
- Oncology Disorders
- Female Reproductive Disorders
- Cognitive Disorders
- Renal Disorders
- Male Reproductive Disorders
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Infectious Respiratory Disorder
- Integumentary Disorders
- Urinary Disorders
- Integumentary Disorders
- Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Disorders of Thermoregulation
- Basics of NCLEX
- Integumentary Important Points
- Urinary System
- Neurologic and Cognitive Disorders
- Central Nervous System Disorders – Spinal Cord
- Renal and Urinary Disorders
- Respiratory System
- Infectious Disease Disorders
- EENT Disorders
- Eating Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Psychological Emergencies
- Somatoform Disorders
- Prioritization
- Hematologic Disorders
- Cardiovascular Disorders
- Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
- Oncologic Disorders
- Behavior
- Emotions and Motivation
- Growth & Development
- Intelligence and Language
- Psychological Disorders
- State of Consciousness
- Basics of Sociology
- Note Taking
- Basics of Human Biology