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The Puzzle Piece Approach: Revolutionizing Dosage Calculations for Nursing Students
Dosage calculations – the words alone can send shivers down nursing students' spines. But what if there was a way to transform this dreaded subject into something approachable, even enjoyable? Enter ABlessed RN, a veteran nurse with 15 years of experience who's revolutionizing how nursing students approach medication math with her groundbreaking "Puzzle Piece Method."
Drawing from her diverse nursing background spanning long-term care, school nursing, medical-surgical units, and specialized hospital departments, ABlessed RN shares why Med-Surg became her "heart" despite common misconceptions that it's less complex than critical care. Her perspective reveals the intricate knowledge required to care for fragile patients whose conditions can deteriorate rapidly, highlighting the crucial role Med-Surg nurses play in healthcare.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn when ABlessed RN explains her journey from math-savvy pharmacy technician to nursing educator. Witnessing countless students struggle with dosage calculations led her to develop an ingenious approach that strips away the intimidation factor. Rather than overwhelming students with complex formulas, her Puzzle Piece Method transforms calculations into visual puzzles where each element represents a piece fitting perfectly into the solution.
The urgency of mastering dosage calculations becomes clear as ABlessed RN emphasizes their life-or-death importance beyond nursing school. "You are the last source of safety," she reminds listeners, describing scenarios where electronic systems fail and nurses must rely on their mathematical skills. This passionate defense of calculation proficiency serves as a wake-up call in an era where many professionals increasingly rely on technology rather than fundamental knowledge.
Blessed RN's pink, spiral-bound workbook – featuring over 300 practice problems and step-by-step guidance – represents her commitment to making dosage calculations accessible to everyone. But beyond the educational content, listeners glimpse the heart behind her work: a ministry-minded approach where she prays for students and celebrates their transformations from math-phobic learners to confident professionals.
Ready to defeat dosage calculations once and for all? Connect with ABlessed RN on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, or Facebook, and visit www.ABRNtutoring.com to discover how her Puzzle Piece Approach might be the missing piece in your nursing education.
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Welcome in, welcome in. Come. Tell a friend, this is your Wakanda RN. I have a special guest with us today. I have a blessed RN. A blessed RN. How are you doing tonight?
Speaker 2:I'm doing very well. I'm blessed. How are you?
Speaker 1:I'm doing pretty well. I'm doing pretty well. I got a little bit of information from you before this started that you've been a nurse for over 15 years. Is that about right?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I was an LPN first, and then I went back for my RN, I got my BSM. So yes, 15 years.
Speaker 1:All right, 15 years. What specialties?
Speaker 2:So initially I started out in long-term care. Okay, I was a school nurse.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I did home health and then I went to the hospital setting in an acute setting with renal patients, surgical oncology, neurology and plastics and eventually orthopedics. So MedSurge is my heart.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right. Medsurge is your heart. You don't hear that every day. You don't hear that every day at all. So what about Med-Surg? That was just like. You know what. This is my home.
Speaker 2:So for some reason, a lot of people think that you have to be like really, really smart to go to the ICU or to the ED or to cath lab, or you just doing skills on Med-Surg. Well, that couldn't be further from the truth.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:When I initially started out on med search it was on a nephrology unit and those dialysis patients are very fragile. You have to know a lot, you have to have assessment skills that are proficient and you also have to have nursing skills that are proficient. So those patient, that patient population, can go down quickly because you know the heart, the kidneys, the lungs, they all do that delicate dance. So I learned a lot and how to use the knowledge that I got from school to care for that population that was really really fragile and that are really very sick. So I liked being on med-surg because if you're not coming in and needing to go to the ICU and you're not going from the ICU to step down, where are you gonna go to get those very important transfusions, blood transfusions, iv antibiotics, wound care, whatever else that brings you to the hospital that you're needing care for you know? So it's a very important unit.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay. So I did a short stint in med search. I was an LPN before I was a. I did long-term care before and then, um, of course, when I became a registered nurse, I was like I got to try some different specialty. You know, I got to get out long-term care for a little bit and so I went to-surg and I told myself I'm going to commit myself to doing it a year and then see how I feel after that. And I always tell people. I tell people like, listen, I'm gonna put an asterisk on my experience. I put an asterisk, uh, because because, um, I came in, uh, in the at the beginning of COVID, during my mid-surg experience. So that's why I tell people I'm like, okay, listen, I can give you my two cents, but however, I gotta put a little asterisk on there because, you know, covid changed the whole game.
Speaker 2:Covid changed the whole game.
Speaker 1:That don't even count, because it was COVID, like everybody was like yes, yes and so like, and I told people I was like, look man, I had a taste of COVID during med surge and if you know, you know you had that experience and so I've had some friends that be like you need to come on back, you need to come on back and I'm like, and I'm like, I tell people, listen, I'm in my soft nursing area right now.
Speaker 1:So I may have to, I may have to rethink that, but you know what I'm saying. I'm in my soft nursing area right now. So I may have to rethink that, but you know what I'm saying. I'm in my soft nursing area. Okay, you're not soft, I am. And listen, I'm a grown man, but I'm not afraid to admit it, I'm in my soft nursing area right now.
Speaker 2:There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1:You know, I told my friend, I was like look, I might do it one day.
Speaker 2:I are in one day, but right now, you know I'm being pampered. Yeah, now ortho. The last unit I was on was an orthopedic unit, so we did. You know everybody falling and breaking, so replacing hips. You know elbows oh yes, hips, you know all of that knees and I'd work night shift. You know, once you go to the dark side, ain't no?
Speaker 2:oh yes, light right, oh yes you know unless, but that was a really good unit and I loved it, so try ortho okay, okay, okay, I gotta listen, I gotta you know, if you got nursing friends, they're always trying to recruit you somewhere.
Speaker 1:I got, I got. I got nursing friends that work in long-term care want me to come back. I got friends that are in er want me to come back and I'm like like, hold on now, hold on now. I'm right now. I'm still soft, okay, I'm still myself. I'm still myself nursing there.
Speaker 1:So you know, eventually I will get there. But yeah, I'll consider that. I'll consider that because there's some pretty good opportunities out there, so I will. I will give that a wrong consideration of blessed RN. I would give that a strong consideration. So let's, let's, let's, so let's talk about your content. Tell us, give us a good picture of what the content that you cover.
Speaker 2:Long story short, I am defeating dosage calculations one puzzle piece at a time.
Speaker 1:Okay. Don't nobody teach it like me. I love that.
Speaker 2:I just have to say it like that I love that my husband says that I am just too modest.
Speaker 2:Somebody recently made a video. She said I don't think you know how valuable you really are. I do. I am teaching you how to give these drugs and you know, contrary to popular belief, that you don't have to use dosage calculations after you graduate. You absolutely do and it's the. You are the last source of safety, life and death, and you are giving these medicines, so you need to know how to dose them. So that is what I do. I use dimensional analysis via the puzzle piece method, the puzzle piece approach, which I just recently wrote a workbook on how you use the Mitchell analysis with little to no math skills, because a lot of people some say that math has stopped them from being a nurse because they were so intimidated by the dosing and the dosage calculations. So with my method, you just piece it together like a puzzle, so you know how a puzzle comes in a box and it's got a picture on the box. Do you have kids?
Speaker 2:Yes, so you know all those puzzle boxes with a box and it's got a picture on the box. Do you have kids? Yes, okay, so you know all those puzzle boxes with Mickey Mouse, whoever on it, right, that's your goal. That is what the question is asking for you to solve for. So then we use that picture and we pick out pieces from the problem and we piece it together, unit by unit, canceling out what's on the bottom and what's on the top, eventually getting that goal. So if you're looking for milliliters per hour, we want to end up with milliliter on the top, hour on the bottom, and we just take the information like puzzle pieces and we just cancel out units and one math problem, one computation at the end. So if you're not strong at math, if you're intimidated by the word math, like on my, on my live sessions, we don't use the word math. Math is a cuss word. Ok, we are doing puzzles, so that's what.
Speaker 1:I do. Ok, I want to dive deeper into that. So what made you come up with the puzzle piece method? What, what did something happen? Did you just have an aha moment? What made you come up with that?
Speaker 2:was truly god Wakanda. Like seriously, because I look back, I've been doing content since January 2023 and when I started out I was like oh, so cringy, like it's like oh my gosh like that's what I put out, but no, seriously, um, I was putting out just you know how to do it, step by step, breaking it down.
Speaker 2:A lot of people like the desired over half method. I do not, because, even though it's easy initially, once you get to the hard problems like waste, weight-based or safe dose or microgram per kilogram per minute, like you would see in the ICU it gets difficult if you're not strong at math, and so I started doing more dimensional analysis because, honestly, I hated dimensional analysis in school.
Speaker 2:I didn't use that. But before I was a LPN, I was a pharmacy technician. I was a nationally certified pharmacy technician, so we had to take a test and it was similar to the dosing that we use in nursing. So I was that person that was in class that knew how to do it and how to break it down. But I'm also good at at math. I like math. But, um, as I was doing the content and you know, making the youtube videos, don't go back to those old ones, y'all.
Speaker 2:Okay, I don't like the old ones okay, but this is I know long, long long walk around the park or whatever just got said. And I guy gave me this revelation of it's like a puzzle and I was like you know what it is. And I was like, okay, just like that's a piece and this is the piece and you can flip a puzzle piece and you can put it and revisit. And it just made sense to so many people. I like that's how I learned in school, like to relay something to another. So correlations really helped me out. That's how my brain works. It it's scary, it's like what it's like. How did you get this from that? But hey, whatever, just get through it, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:A lot of people. That makes sense and so I just further developed it and it works for all of your problems. There are a handful of dosage calculations that have formulas, like the Parkland burn formula, your body surface area, like pediatric fluid, make volume maintenance that you have to have formulas for, but the rest of them, from metric conversions to the hardest critical drip, you can use this method and tuition is too high tuition is arm, a leg of three peas in a biscuit and a pepper and in a carton of eggs and a carton of eggs now
Speaker 2:eggs, don't forget the eggs. Don't forget the eggs. And you know for people to be kicked out of their programs or can't go to clinical or whatever. It's too high and we know that it doesn't go away. In the program. You have that initial you know test, but then you have it on all of your other tests and then, like I said, you need it through your career as well. So that method, it's easy, it's fun, like once you learn how to do it. I feel like a lot of people like light bulb comes on and you're like yes, I actually like this now, versus being intimidated or fearful okay, I like that.
Speaker 1:I like that. So what? What made you want to start doing this content? Did you? Was there just a large need or did you just feel led like? What made you start doing this in the first place?
Speaker 2:so I felt led because you know we're on social media, you're in these groups and you know you see people and they, they give their feedback and everybody's like dosage, oh, dosage, and I'm like dosage, like dosage, and you see the impact and it's like okay, this does not need to be like that. So my husband, I told him, I said I'm thinking about doing some content on TikTok and he said we'll do it. I said okay, and so I just picked up the camera and started, you know, tinkering on my iPad, like, like I said, don't go back to that initial footage, it's so cringy. You know, I was trying to find my way.
Speaker 1:Hey editor, go check out the initial content. You didn't hear that. Keep going, Keep going, you like?
Speaker 2:roll the clip. No, don't do that I got you, I got you look, well, kind of I'm laid back, but I'll sit up a little bit. I'll sit up a little bit I got you, I got you seriously. But no, um, and so the lie. I got thousand followers.
Speaker 2:You know how you have to have the initial thousand followers like okay, yes thousand followers and so, like, my lives initially were me riding on my iPad, casting it to my iMac and having the camera like film it Like what? It was cringy, but it grew and it grew and you know I was helping people and people were like, well, help me. And they were like, well, do you tutor? And I was like no, and I was telling my husband was like do it. I said okay, so I looked into the zoom account and you know I started tutoring and people like, oh, this really helps. And so I was like okay, and like I said, as I saw a need, it was growing. It was growing people would come in the things that they say about these nursing instructors and their experiences.
Speaker 2:And just looking at it, you know I want as many. We need nurses.
Speaker 1:We do.
Speaker 2:We need the nurses. I love to pour into other people. I believe that God blesses me to bless others and this is truly what I believe he's led me to do. It's a ministry for me. After my live sessions, I pray. I cover everybody in prayer because we know that life life in the most during nursing school.
Speaker 2:And you know, when you are in constant contact with these people, you see their different stories, their situations. You know you're giving them hope where it was no hope. So who am I not to share this guilt with everybody? And you know, the nurses are coming mm-hmm, mm-hmm, I like that. I like that a lot it.
Speaker 1:It sounds like you know your husband has been really supportive and trying to push you and and you know, help you and potentially lead you. Sound like you've got a pretty good support man. That's what it sounds like to me.
Speaker 2:That is my guy. That is my guy. He's a great support. Anything that I put before him and I'm like, should I do it, he's like, yeah, what do you need me to buy? Do you need me to watch the baby you going live tonight? You know so, even with nursing school, he was very, very supportive. We've traveled with a four month old baby and he was right there, I know, I know right.
Speaker 2:So whatever has happened in my career or you know what's going on in life now, he's very supportive. So a good support is very vital. So my faith in God, his strength that he gives me and, of course, the head of my household and that's my heart, you know, supporting is very important in making all this happen.
Speaker 1:Amen. So tell me, tell me a little bit about success stories that you've heard from people that you've tutored, or maybe lives, you know. Can you kind of share some of those or some of the feedback that you've received?
Speaker 2:There are so many.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:People they start out initially in like their first semester in fundamentals, health assessment and pharmacology just scared little little baby nurses, you know baby students and they're roaring lions by the end. I've had somebody who students and they're roaring lions by the end. I've had somebody who I remember she contacted me on was it New Year's Eve and she said I really, really need to get into a private tutoring room with you. I said okay and she called me back. She said send the link. Now I've got somebody who's going to pay for two sessions. I said okay, I'm sending it. She called back girl, where is this link? I said okay, I'm sending it. So she called me and she said I'm really bad at math. She must have said that she was horrible at math, maybe about 10 or 20 times, no lie.
Speaker 2:And I said, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So we met and we did the first session and she was really bad at math, but that's okay and that's not everybody's forte. But, like I said, all you need is multiplication, division, subtraction and addition. That's it, that's all you need. So we went over long division multiplication because their school could not even use calculators. So you bad at math, you can't use the calculator and you know you've got a lot on the line. You know what I'm saying. So we had that initial one.
Speaker 2:I set her up with some resources. I was like, OK, we're going to practice. She attended the live sessions in between and then she text me one day and she said you know, this is our second meeting, but I got to tell you something. I'm like what is it? So she and I don't like surprises. If anybody knows me, I do not like surprises. Oh, my goodness, I don't. So when we got on our session, she said I am one out of two people who got this calculation right in class and I was up there putting together my puzzle pieces and I was like, oh, yeah, she made a oh yeah, she made a 100.
Speaker 2:She made 100 after being professing to be so bad at math, you know, and it just blew my mind, how you know, she said, you were just so patient and you know, and I'm just like, I just I gave you the puzzle pieces, you did it, you know. Um, so yeah, that was that was one that kind of really hit home to me, because when people come to you and they're just absolutely at ground zero and a lot of people say, well, I need about four, five, six, seven, eight study sessions, and I'm like, no, you don't, we need about maybe one or two, you know I could be like, yeah, we need to study like this. No, I'm not, I'm not. So and after we study and they attend the lives and they practice, because you have to practice, like that's just hands down, you got to practice and they get better and the light bulb comes on and they come back.
Speaker 2:You know, I told my classmates and I was in class teaching them, I even taught your puzzle pieces, my teacher I told her that was fluff, that's my word for fluff. Fluff is important information, like a complete order or like pre-constitution information that's important at the bedside but not necessarily necessary to solve the dosage problem. So I call it fluff, because a lot of people don't know well which numbers do I use, where to start at where to put it. And so I'm like, okay, we're gonna use the goal that at where to put it. And so I'm like, okay, we're going to use the goal, that picture on the puzzle box, and it's going to help you find the fluff. And so when they they come sounding like me, like my kids do, which is scary, and I'm like, okay, yeah, you've been around me for a second. Those are some of the stories.
Speaker 2:And just seeing people pass their NCLEX, they send me their pinning pictures you know, they just tell me, you know, what was going on in their lives because, like I said, life is life and and once they graduate and they are starting their practice, and whatever field they are, whatever specialty that they go into, it's just really, it's humbling and I just thank God for being able to change lives with just you know, given knowledge.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow. That is definitely amazing because it sounds like it's definitely a need that you're helping meet. You know, and can you talk about, the importance of needing these same calculations after to get through a nursing school? We know how important it is to get through nursing school. Can you stress the importance of what the type of doses calculations you're going to need post-nursing school?
Speaker 2:Yes. So if we look at the climate, we are a very soup happy country. Guess what's on the front line?
Speaker 1:The nurses right the nurses.
Speaker 2:We draw up the medicine and we give the medicine, so therefore we are responsible for what happens afterwards, even though it goes through a doctor who orders it and it goes through a pharmacist who verifies it. The last line of defense is you, the nurse. I tell my students all the time doctors and pharmacists they're people. They put their pants legs on one leg at a time, just like you do Now. If they put them both on at the same time, then I don't know about them. But you know it's human error and a lot of people say, well, you could just use the bar or you can just use a computer. You could, but what about when it's nurses week? You could, but what about when it's Nurses Week and there is a cyber attack on the hospital system nationwide and you're left with just paper charting for about two months Taking the doctor's?
Speaker 2:orders off the charts, having to transcribe them and fax them to the pharmacy.
Speaker 2:The PIXIS does not work, because it depends on the internet which you do not have right, right, so you, as the nurse, are still responsible for being proficient, a prudent professional. So you've got to know the difference between a microgram and a milligram, which is a thousand times smaller. You've got to know how much medication to draw up from the vial. You've got to be able to determine oh, that doesn't seem right, that seems like way too much or not enough, or this medicine is going in way too fast. You are that line of defense. Safety what do they tell us? Wakanda all the time in school. Safety, you've got to be safe.
Speaker 1:Safety, safety, safety, safety, safety, safety.
Speaker 2:I feel like there is, and it's more than just nursing, but the standards, they have been lowered. Everybody wants to do the bare minimum or depend on AI or electronics. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:If I'm wrong, let me know I can be wrong.
Speaker 1:You're not wrong here.
Speaker 2:I can be wrong, but my thing is. You know, I've been the patient and I've been the nurse. I want to know that who is taking care of me knows their stuff. I want to be taking care of somebody who has gone to school who did not cheat and chat GPT, you know, just to pass through Like that is scary. Yes, it is so scary. Yes, that is a great concern. And then people say, well, I've never checked the dope, okay, and you obviously trust people too much and you don't value your license.
Speaker 2:I went through heck in nursing school. Luckily I passed my NCLEX both of them, the PN and the RN on the first try and I haven't had anything come against my license, thank God. But you know what they say CYA cover your assets. You thought I was going to cuss.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to cuss, but you know, I got you, though, girl, I got you.
Speaker 2:Cover your assets. You work hard for your life and your family and all the things that you have accumulated, your way of life, your comfort. So it's every day that you go out there's a chance that something is going to happen. You are the professional, you are the expert.
Speaker 1:You have to have that knowledge. You have to. It is completely essential. You know, when you talked about Chad GBT, I was thinking, you know, I guess I'm going to tell myself a little bit. I was thinking, man, the most teachers had to worry about back then was Quizlet. And you know, now they worry about it and now they worry about chat GBT. So I may be telling myself a little bit here, but Quizlet- is good Quizlet is good Quizlet is good.
Speaker 2:It's okay Cause, like you know, it's a good source of practice questions which you need to do with, like your nursing questions and your dosage count.
Speaker 1:So about this workbook you know how long has it been out. You know what kind of questions do you expect to see within this workbook. Tell us about your workbook.
Speaker 2:My workbook oh my goodness when I tell you, I did not know how hard it would be. So everybody harasses me. They hold me hostage on the live sessions, right?
Speaker 1:Okay. I'm doing questions. I'm doing questions, yes.
Speaker 2:And they're like you need a workbook. Where's the workbook coming? I'm like I don't have a workbook. You need a workbook, workbook, workbook, workbook, workbook, workbook. Okay, all right. So I started doing a workbook. So you know, I work night shifts so people are asleep. Put together the puzzle pieces, put together the practice problems. You know I'm a wife and I'm a mom. I have two beautiful girls and a golden doodle. So you know, when I'm at home, I'm trying to home and work on the workbook. And you know, life is just tough, you know, and life is life. So I work on the workbook and I put it down and I say, okay, I set a deadline, I work on the workbook and I put it down, all the while still trying to make content, try to put out videos and do the live sessions and tutoring. So I said, ok, I'm going to get this workbook done before the start of this semester. So that was well the January semester, because a lot of people go to school at different times and I'm like.
Speaker 2:I can't keep up with it. So, anywho, I said I'm going to put this book out. So I sat down and I worked with my brother-in-law and my sister-in-law. They helped me to format it and they said, well, just put it down, Just stop adding to it. I couldn't stop. I said, okay, I've got to, I've got to come up with something else, I've got to do something else. I've got to do something else Because, like you said, on the internet people are really harsh and when you put things out there you're like opening yourself up to so much criticism. You know there are 50 million books and study guides and all this.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:And I didn't want mine just to be another well, get this book. So I've made it like me in book form. Okay, okay, it's pink. It's really, really pink.
Speaker 1:There's me on the back, bam okay, there you are on the back. Okay, yeah, yeah, I see the resemblance.
Speaker 2:I see the resemblance you see the resemblance right? And so, um, it's a 256 page book. And my sister-in-law she was like put it down, it's done, I page book. And my sister, she was like put it down, it's done. I said okay, and so they helped me format it. My brother-in-law shout out to Daniel Fowler Jr. He is an excellent, excellent, excellent graphic artist and photographer.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 2:In K-Divisions is his brand.
Speaker 1:And he helped me.
Speaker 2:He said this looks because because you know, I like bubbly and all that type of stuff he was like, okay, we're gonna format it, so there is a legit workbook that it looks like a professional piece and we're gonna put you know all of your your quirkiness. And he just helped me format it and bring it all together and so so this is my baby. Okay, this is the Puzzle Piece Approach Workbook. It's 256 pages of breakdown practice problems, over 300 practice problems, step-by-step approach background. Why do you need this? What you don't need little puzzle pieces scattered all throughout giving you clues and hints. Little puzzle pieces scattered all throughout giving you clues and hints. It's going all the way from basic needs of to know for your complete order all the way to pediatric safe dose. You've got all of what you need, from metric conversions to oral to rounding how to round, because you know if you don't round right, you get that question mark wrong. Military time how to convert it. Your orals, your liquids, your parenterals. Iv flow rate, iv drip rate, weight based. How to tell day versus dose, because a lot of people get caught up with that.
Speaker 2:Heparin I don't know why people are so afraid of heparin. Heparin is a very important drug. It is seriously, they see, heparin. They about pass out. I'm like, okay, wake up, let's you know. But it's me in book form, essentially um, you can write in it. I have an ebook version that is available for the immediate um download. And then I have the spiral bound and you can write in it and do your practice question.
Speaker 1:See, it's all nice and big and cute so where can people find this if they want to buy your product?
Speaker 2:they can find it on my website, wwwab okay, okay that is very impressive.
Speaker 1:From what I can see here, it's, uh, the puzzle piece approach the puzzle piece approach yes, it looks like it's well done. It's like you had awesome team behind you and it's quite extensive you know it is and it's. It sounds like it. It took a lot of time to to get this done, so, yeah, it's like you put your heart and soul into it.
Speaker 2:I did and you know I had to stop myself. She said that's enough, put it down, it's okay, because we edited so many times trying to change the page numbers and you know, categorize. And she said stop. I said okay, all right. She said that is good, like it's, you know. But I, like I said I didn't want it to be just another book that's out there. I wanted to be like what I'm doing with my live sessions and my private tutoring in book form where you can write and you can practice. So you see, you got your goal your puzzle pieces that you can put in a place that you can write out your problems. So the the best way to get better at dosage calculations is practice.
Speaker 1:Practice. So you know, it sounds like this is the first edition. Is it going to be second edition, third edition? Kind of like we see a nurse in school. What you thinking about. What you think about that.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, you know, like I told myself, I had to stop, I had to have something just to stop. So, of course, everybody who gets the e-workbook will get the additions or updates. I want to do the ones that are the abnormals, like the ones that you have to use the formulas with, like the BSA and the fluid volume maintenance, your Parkland burn formula. So I could be like a one-stop dosage, you know dosage site. But you know, I'm just trying to just get it out there and connect with as many people that I can, because a lot of people come on the lives and they're like where were you? And I'm like I've been here, I've been right here.
Speaker 1:I did that the other night too yeah. I did that the other night too, waiting for you. Yeah, I did that the other night as well, on my live. Somebody said one of my followers said where you been. That's exactly how she said it. She said where you been.
Speaker 2:Where you been.
Speaker 1:I said I've been here, I've been right here, I haven't went anywhere, I've been right here.
Speaker 2:I'm waiting on you to double tap and share uh, yeah, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna use that next time, I'm gonna use that next time, but yeah, so I like that. So where do you see? So it sounds like in a short amount of time and you making content with the awesome team that you've had behind you. It sounds like you guys are growing pretty rapidly. Like, where do you see, like your team, what vision do you have for yourself? Like in the next few months or next few years? Like what any future projects you may be working on, like what, what you know what's next?
Speaker 2:oh my gosh. So right now, um, I am just honestly in awe and very grateful for the reach that I've had so far. My youtube channel has grown tremendously. Um, a lot of people like, well, when are you coming back on live? I'm like, okay, give me a minute to go to live, but in between, I already have all of the videos that you could need. Um, so a lot of people are finding out about that, which is awesome. Um, the book is, you know, is helping so many people. I've gotten awesome feedback, so, um, and then I've also had a guest lecture that I've had to attend, which was awesome. Like I'm like me, you know a lot of people ask me are you going to be somebody's college professor?
Speaker 2:No, I don't see myself going back to school right now for a master's in education. I'm just honest. But so just continuing to reach others and improve my content and try to expand and grow as much as I can so that you know and thanks to a lot of my supporters, you know, word of mouth is gold it is when somebody tells you this is what I used, or when somebody sends you a video of them being in class and their teacher has your videos playing in class.
Speaker 1:Ooh, that's impressive, that makes you feel a type of way though.
Speaker 2:It does, it really does. Like you know, I'm a crier, like I'm not soft, but I'm a crier because I'm not soft. I see what you did there.
Speaker 2:But I mean honestly, you know, just to see how God has blessed me and how I bless others, and where I started from with the little cringy videos to having courses. I have courses on my site, I have workbooks like this is things, and you know these are resources that people are using, that's helping them and it's making a difference and an impact in their lives and patients' lives. So just to note that and just to continue on to grow, to make more resources, to put the puzzle pieces where the people can get it, so that we can all defeat dosage, I've recently opened up a shop on my website because, believe it or not, my therapy is crafting.
Speaker 2:I like to make shirts. I this shirt nice, nice.
Speaker 1:I made. I made. Yes, yes, nice, nice, okay, okay I made that shirt.
Speaker 2:I've got a tumblr with your dosage metric conversions on it, because a lot of people like the flash cards. I'm like, well, don't you have a tumblr that you can just look at that you sip on all day, you know boom. So I have nurse merch that you know I like to make.
Speaker 1:Oh, do you sell it?
Speaker 2:too. I do. It's on my website, yariatutorincom. So all of that is just in the works and you know, like I said, considering adding on and, you know, making more dosage. That is outside of the norm, so I can be a one stop dosage tutoring machine.
Speaker 1:Nice, I like that. I like that. So Blessed RN. This has been, this has been great man. This has been very informative. I mean, I feel like I learned a lot just sitting here in a short time. So I know, I know, I know we we've said it multiple times, but I want the people to know exactly. So what all? Where can people follow you? Is you know tiktok youtube? Where can people follow you?
Speaker 2:so where the nursing students are, I will also be. So I am on TikTok. I am on Facebook, instagram, youtube, lemonade and fan base somewhat, but mostly on the aforementioned platforms. Of course, my website is live and running and you can contact me through there. It's wwwabrntutoringcom.
Speaker 1:Now on the socials. Is it a Blessed RN throughout all your socials or is it different?
Speaker 2:On all of my socials. Blessed RN.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm just trying to make sure that whoever hears this can make sure that they can definitely find you.
Speaker 2:Yes, find me, Come and connect and come to the live sessions. We'll have a good time and we, you know it's a good, non-intimidating atmosphere for a very important skill that you would need.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I concur with that. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to stop right here, but, at Blessed RN, I do appreciate your time. We'll have to collab again sometime, because this has been very informative, informative. So thank you very much for joining the show today thank you for having me.
Speaker 2:I enjoyed it and be blessed all right, be blessed as well.
Speaker 1:Thank you. If you like any of the content, please feel free to like, comment or subscribe. If you want to continue to donate to the channel, you are more than welcome to your donations. Go a long way. Give me a follow on instagram, tiktok and youtube. Much love, thank you.
