NURSING SCHOOL STUDY ROUTINE | STUDY TIPS

My biggest tip- study hard EARLY!!!! Don’t wait until you’ve bombed a test or 2 to get it together. I’ve had so many friends who have not studied nearly as hard as they should’ve, bomb two tests and a few quizzes, and THEN start trying. ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO MAINTAIN A GRADE INSTEAD OF DIGGING IT OUT OF A HOLE!!! things happen, and it’s easy to bomb a test but make sure it’s not a test you could’ve gotten a B on

*future nursing student watching this knowing she has no idea what she’s doing

Recent nursing grad here: my biggest study tip is to just allow yourself to be done. If you feel done, YOU ARE DONE. Get dinner with your friends the night before, watch a movie with roommates, and just enjoy college. I watched so many nursing students drown in work, and forget that college is supposed to be fun!!!! Good luck, I don't even think you'll need it! xoxo (also, don't use flashcards and READ ATI!)

I would take my notes/powerpoints/readings and make charts. For each disease process I would put the symptoms, causes/risk factors, diagnostic tests and nursing interventions/treatments. It helped me to have all that info in one study guide vs having to look at multiple sources when studying. When trying to learn signs/symptoms of diseases it helped me to focus on what symptoms made one disease different from the other instead of trying to memorize every single symptom for every disease. I also tried the best I could to make my study guide/study each lecture before the next time that class met so I wasn't overwhelmed when it came time to study for the test. That's what I found worked best for me in nursing school and NP school. And taking everything one day at a time!

I watched every single crash course vid on anatomy (before I even took a&p1) to prep for my TEAS... I got in the 82nd percentile on the TEAS without ever taking an anatomy class 10/10 would recommend Crash Course

i’m not even a nursing student, but i LOVE the way you do your notes!

RegisteredNurse RN is a gem! What helps me the most are PRACTICE QUESTIONS🙏🏽🙌🏾 they allow you to get an idea of how the exams may be worded.

“I’m gonna pass and I’m going to do amazing” .. LOVED THAT 💜❤️ that’s what I sometimes have to tell myself!

I'm in my junior year of nursing school, in Med surge and pediatrics together. The transition to online has been EXTREMELY hard for me to find motivation because i'm not one to usually study at home. I will find any excuse to go to bed! This transition has taught me a few new learning tips: 1. watch the lecture video's if they are posted on line, taking notes on the slides and the important information the professor stress. 2. read the chapter on the material you just went over. 3. make study guides & to practice.... read them out loud to yourself, or anyone who is willing to listen. use the white board to quiz yourself on what you just went over and write it out!

I just got accepted into nursing school and I’m so nervous! I’ve been binge watching your videos trying to prepare myself! My orientation is in July!🤩

Im about to finish my 1st year of nursing school. I'm in a 2 year BSN program. All I do is take the instructor's PowerPoints and print 4 slides per page. That way for lecture I write in notes the instructors talked about for that powerpoint. I also record my classes because I'm not a fast writer and granted, there's a lot of information being spewed out lol. Umm I hardly read- I'm not proud of that. I wish I could read but when I do I also take my own kind of notes. Preparing for exams I just read over the PowerPoints. In a perfect world I would type out the PowerPoints with my notes and have nice, concise, clean notes so in the end when it comes to studying for the NCLEX, everything is ready. I haven't failed a test, class, or struggled to pass a class with the method I have. Keep up the good work!! 😁 youll do great!

One thing that has helped me with studying: 1- If they have online lecture videos or you record the lecture just watch it multiple times. I would do it 3-5 times 2- Study the material before you go in take notes in class that you didn’t know or they talk about more. Then when you get home write your study notes. 3- Like you said make your own study questions they may ask you.

You go girl! I ended up not passing one of my classes my very first semester and now I’m in my last and I should be done here in literally a few days with my BSN. There is a light at the end of the tunnel I promise! I actually had one of my favorite instructors sit me down and she told me what I needed to hear which was to read. And like you, I hated it and it was hard but I did it and it helped so much. I study pretty similar to you and you got this!

Something that helped me so much that I started doing in my third semester and helped me so, so much was either staying at school in the evening or going on the weekend and using an empty class room with big white boards. For example if we would be tested on CHF that quiz, one of us would write the patho and S&S on the board, and another the interventions. Then, we would would teach to each other what we had just written on the board. This way, you incorporate writing, reading, explaining / teaching the material to someone & listening! It really pushes you to understand the material better. Of course, we can't do that with quarantine, but I might try to do something like on teams with a few friends.

My program uses the same textbooks, I HIGHLY recommend printing the PowerPoint and taking notes on that especially if the instructors have their notes pages in the PowerPoint. I do this so all my notes are in one place when I’m studying. Then for each disease I work out the nursing process. Doing these two thing alone took my grades from failing to high B’s

My day just got better! Thanks for uploading! Currently going through this! It’s definitely a challenge taking nursing classes at home but almost done and hope I pass! 💜 good luck to you when you start again!

I am going to be starting nursing school in the fall so I love watching videos like this! I have found with my previous degree in psych that the way I studied for classes changed with the class. For some classes, all I did was read the textbook over and over again, while taking notes. Other classes I just had to rewrite my notes out several times, and barely read the textbook. So honestly I think the most important thing is to have strong study habits and foundation, then adapt it to each individual class.

super helpful video!! i am SUCH a visual learner so I can relate to you! I have to write everything down and go over it multiple times. For me it helps if I am able to "teach" a concept to someone...that ensures that I know what I am talking about and how to explain it in easy to understand terms

Your God sent! 🙏 so glad I found you between the self care tips and studying tips your explanations are so clear and your voice is so soothing. Thanks a million and please share more studying tips especially for people that like to procrastinate. Take care xoxo

I love all your study tips!! It took me forever to find something that worked for me. But what I found the most helpful was practice questions. Granted you have to know the material before you do questions. What I did was go through the assigned PowerPoint and write notes on them from class. Then, I would fill in more information from reading the book. I would make study guides to have all the information in one place. After you’ve gone through the material, doing questions and reading/writing down rationales helped me understand why I would get a question wrong so that later I would go back to my notes, the book, or study guides to focus on those concepts. Doing questions helped to gauge how much I knew the information, how well I was applying it, and what areas I needed to focus on. My school used ATI and I would do questions from their Learning System 3.0 bank that’s under the Test tab. The adaptive quizzes under dynamic quizzes is where you want to go. It will give you thousands of questions and divide it by each nursing class. I’m not sure if you’re school has access, but my school gave us a code for BoardVitals that’s under the NCLEX Prep tab. This is similar to Learning System 3.0 but has thousands more questions divided into more concepts and the Client Needs Categories that NCLEX will test on. Last week I passed my exit exam and I’m so happy to be done with nursing school. ☺️ Definitely wish I knew sooner that doing questions would be a game changer. Hope this helps and that you find a study method that works for you! Good luck in nursing school, you’ll be an amazing nurse ❤️