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Red flag words that mean the answer is probably WRONG.
If you see these words in an NCLEX answer option, pause and think twice: always, never, none, all, every, only.
BUT there are 2 exceptions to this rule:
1️⃣ Is it a safety issue? Some things SHOULD always or never be done to keep patients safe.
2️⃣ Does it apply across the board? Can this be true for many kinds of patients in multiple healthcare settings?
If the answer to both is yes, then that "absolute" word might actually be correct.
This is part of learning how to think through questions strategically, not just memorizing content. Want more test-taking strategies like this? Grab your free download of NCLEX Flash Notes (link in bio)
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Red flag words that mean the answer is probably WRONG.
If you see these words in an NCLEX answer option, pause and think twice: always, never, none, all, every, only.
BUT there are 2 exceptions to this rule:
1️⃣ Is it a safety issue? Some things SHOULD always or never be done to keep patients safe.
2️⃣ Does it apply across the board? Can this be true for many kinds of patients in multiple healthcare settings?
If the answer to both is yes, then that "absolute" word might actually be correct.
This is part of learning how to think through questions strategically, not just memorizing content. Want more test-taking strategies like this? Grab your free download of NCLEX Flash Notes (link in bio)
Drop a 🚩 if this just changed how you'll read questions from now on.
#NursingStudent #NCLEXTips #NursingSchool #NCLEXPrep #TestTakingStrategies
![[Murder Rounds] The Neutral Reference: Charles Cullen, Part 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AGtgLLW4S3I/mqdefault.jpg "[Murder Rounds] The Neutral Reference: Charles Cullen, Part 2
⚠️ Murder Rounds is a true crime podcast about healthcares deadliest killers written and reviewed by the nurses at NURSING.com. Listener discretion advised.
Charles Cullen pled guilty to twenty-nine murders. Nobody — not the prosecutors, not the detectives, not the judge — could tell the families whether twenty-nine was the number.
He traded his life for a list. No death penalty, in exchange for helping identify every victim going back to 1984. Which meant the state of New Jersey had made the only man who knew the answer into its only source for it. His memory was the ledger, and there was no way to audit it.
Then he stopped cooperating — over a kidney. The count stopped at twenty-nine not because theyd found everyone, but because the only instrument they had switched itself off.
In this episode: the plea that took four months and seven counties · what a 1993 medical record can and cant prove thirty years later · the families who got a trial date and lost anyway · a hospital that sued the estates of dead patients · and Amy Loughrens pacemaker
The Chart Review: why the chart is the only witness that outlives everyone — and what the record of this case says about how to raise a concern so it survives.
Sources: Krapf v. St. Luke Hospital (Pa. Super. 2010); Vivian v. Blank Rome, 2024 PA Super 118; St. Luke Hospital of Bethlehem v. Vivian (Pa. Super. 2014); CBS News; NBC News; Associated Press; Philadelphia Inquirer; contemporaneous reporting 2004–2020.
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