Planning "My Space" for Nursing School

[ArrowRN]

Ok so January of coming fast and furious, why can't time just slow down. During my prerequisites I found that I had a hard time concentrating at home, kids, spouse,tv, interruptions and NOISE! arhhh. Now that I got accepted I'd like to get some tips on how to have my own private space at home. I don't want to be going to the library or anything like that. I recently had a customer who was in finals of nursing school, he had nursing books all over their master bedroom and all over the house. I felt sorry for his wife. I would like to be more organized. I'm thinking of setting up a student office of some sort. Where I can have book shelves, storage for my papers a planner etc I also want to be better at making time for the family in a balanced sort of way, if there is anything like that during nursing school. What are some tips any second year students and anyone else can give me? Besides building an outdoor shed and living in it for the next 2 years...lol

[rubato, ASN, RN]

I'm through my first semester of nursing school and really struggled with my "space". During pre reqs, hubby made me an office space in our bedroom. I could close the door and work in there. But, the desk was too small to have the laptop and all my powerpoints and a book. So, I moved down to the dining room during this semester. It's a formal dining room that we rarely use, but it's in the very middle of an open floorplan house. I have a 13 year old and a dog, but no little ones.

It got noisy at times, especially when son and hubby would start dinner. I learned to study around their schedules. I had 1-2 days each week where hubby was at work, my son was at school, and I was free to study. If the house was super quiet, I could get some work done. But, I would start looking around and see how dirty the house was and get distracted. I'd go off to clean something, come back, get distracted again, and so on and so on.

I can't justify driving the 30 minutes to campus to study and the library isn't a place I enjoy, so I have a new plan this year. On my study days, I'm going to quickly clean the house at least on the floor I can see. Get it out of the way, and get down to business. I hope it works.

I hope you can find a plan that's better than studying in the car. I don't know what, but that would drive me crazy. Of course, your car may be more comfortable than mine.

[springchick1, ADN, RN]

I bought a desk, a desk lamp, and got everything organized. I then learned that I can't study at home. I'm not married, I don't have kids, but I just get too distracted. I have downloaded a noise maker app on my phone so I go to the library, put my head phones in, and turn on my noise maker. Everyone is different but I just don't do well studying at home.