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10 Tips for Success in Nursing School

How to Survive Nursing School

Nursing school can be overwhelming at times. Here is one way to look at your role as a student.

1) Consider school as your job. Your office is the library; you do occasionally have to leave your office for meetings (class).

2) Think of your courses as projects or accounts you would manage in your job (your assignments and coursework). You need to plan at least three hours of work (study) for each hour of credit in which you are enrolled. So, if you are enrolled in 15 hours of course credit you would plan at least 45 hours/week of study time. 3) What does this mean? It means that your workweek is at least 60 hours/week (15 hours of class & 45 hours of studying). On the bright side, you have 7 days a week to accomplish this!

Here are 10 tips to help you be successful

Bucket list: Become a nurse

BIG TIP IF YOU’RE IN A READING-HEAVY CLASS (psychology, medical-surgical nursing, biology, anatomy and physiology, etc.)

I find that because a lot of small details matter, studying from the textbook is extremely important. But when you have over 200 pages worth of material to study for an exam, what do you do!?!?!?

1) Read through the section that will be in the next lecture. Underline/highlight important information- while you shouldn’t be highlighting every single thing, chances are, a class like medsurg or a+p focuses a lot on details. Don’t take notes yet or anything- just read carefully. 

2) Go back and take outline notes over the things you highlighted. In my example, I do outline notes that replicate the textbook headings, subheadings, and then information. 

3) Print out or open up your outline notes in lecture. Write in or type additional notes, and highlight emphasized important points. 

Hey everyone! It’s been a long time in the making, but I’m finally back to posting more printables.. just in time for those of you who go back to school soon. I have 4 to share! As usual, my complete collection of printables can be viewed and downloaded here (or click here for the quick link to my Google Drive).

‘Goal Getter’ goals planner

Someone called me a ‘goal getter’ once and I thought that was the cutest, motivational saying! So I put it on a printable! *CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD*

Month at a Glance

This is perfect for summarizing your entire month and it’s events on one handy piece of paper. Keep track of birthdays, goals, events and ideas. *CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD*

Grade Tracker

This would be perfect to keep in your class binders. Print off as many as you need depending on how many assignments you have per class, or combine different classes on the same page. *CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD*

Defintions

For those vocab tests or general studying! *CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD*