When in schhol how long did you study eacg day?

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I was thinking a hour each day would be fine. But now Im told that I probably will need more. Here is how my schedule would be.

Get home from school at 4:00

Study from 4-5( Hubby and kids get home then)

5-6 Cook and eat dinner

6-8 Study again

8-9 Give kids bath and get them to bed

9-10 Clean , (;)hubby time lol) ect LOL

Is that realistic?

Of course Ill have a lot of time on weekends for family chores ect.

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i was thinking a hour each day would be fine. but now im told that i probably will need more. here is how my schedule would be.

get home from school at 4:00

study from 4-5( hubby and kids get home then)

5-6 cook and eat dinner

6-8 study again

8-9 give kids bath and get them to bed

9-10 clean , (;)hubby time lol) ect lol

is that realistic?

of course ill have a lot of time on weekends for family chores ect.

i went through school as a single mom of 2. i did hour of studing late at night before bed after the kids were already asleep. i also got up at 4:30am and studied before school. school started at 8am so with getting ready and the drive i got about a good solid 2hr of studing. it worked for me & 2 others which all of us got straight a's.

:balloons:good luck!:balloons:

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I completed a 12 month program about 2 years ago. On average, I studied about 2 hours daily. However, I was single with no children.

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i went through school as a single mom of 2. i did hour of studing late at night before bed after the kids were already asleep. i also got up at 4:30am and studied before school. school started at 8am so with getting ready and the drive i got about a good solid 2hr of studing. it worked for me & 2 others which all of us got straight a's.

:balloons:good luck!:balloons:

was your kids already in school when you was going to school yourself? i think i might have to wait till my oldest gets in preschool before i can go i cant afford to pay childcare and not work. i dont plan on working and going to school.

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Was your kids already in school when you was going to school yourself? I think I might have to wait till my oldest gets in preschool before I can go I cant afford to pay childcare and not work. I dont plan on working and going to school.

My oldest was in 1st grade and the little one went to preschool 3days a week. I was very fortunate to have their grandparents watch them in the mornings so i could go to school early.

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Yes I know of a lot of people grandparent that pitch in. We dont have anyone but ourselves I wish my parents would pitch in. I cant count on my mom for anything unfortunately :( She lives just down the street, we rarely see her. My dad will watch them on occasion when I need to go to the doc office or something important.

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Ok then, let me ask you this...how come all other people are talking about all those horror stories and sleepless nights and how overwhelming the nursing school is? It seems to me that there is not enough time for studying/sleeping and yet you say that you study apr. 3 hours a day, which is totally bearable. I thought that nursing school requires at least 6 hours of studying in a single day, not counting class.

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
Ok then, let me ask you this...how come all other people are talking about all those horror stories and sleepless nights and how overwhelming the nursing school is? It seems to me that there is not enough time for studying/sleeping and yet you say that you study apr. 3 hours a day, which is totally bearable. I thought that nursing school requires at least 6 hours of studying in a single day, not counting class.

I am talking about a MINIMUM of three hours a day. I think I studied for about 5 to 6 hours a night, because I used to get carried away and not realize how late it was. I still suffer from insomnia and have been out of school since last March, because I was so used to being up until the wee hours of the morning.

Some students seemed to have a knack at studying for 3 hours and making it through. I didn't. I graduated top of my class, but, my goodness, the hours I spent with studying...I only wanted to just PASS.

Nursing school is overwhelming for many reasons. The classmates added to most of my stress and the politics of school killed it for me. Some professors are NOT good instructors, and it took a great deal of self-study and even some tutoring to comprehend the more difficult subjects. Then, it is traveling to clinicals. If the clinical location is further out than the school, that adds to more stress due to traveling home. Also, you have to unwind, which took up a great deal of my time. I had eat, and then would talk to a friend for an hour or so, then, get down to business. It is not always easy to just jump into the books when you get home. Bills have to be paid, emergencies come up...all sorts of things to grab your attention. I remember my phone being cut off once; not because I didn't have the money, but because I simply forgot to pay because I was so distracted.

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Specializes in OB/GYN.

I studied as much as I could during the day, but then my classes were in the evening. Unless I had a test, I did the bulk of my studying on the weekends. I would lock myself away on Sunday and just study. Even doing a fifteen minute refresher of my notes was helpful when I didn't have enough time to study for an hour or two.

You will make it work! Good luck

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Specializes in neuro/ortho med surge 4.

Hello all!!,

This is how my week went with school in the past year. I start my second year Sept 4th. On Mondays I would go to class from 11:30 until 2:30. Before class i would study/read for 2-3 hrs. Monday after class I would go get my clinical assignment. This would take anwhere from an hour - 3 hrs depending on how much information you needed for that patient as you had to copy all of the patients info (no copying allowed). It is better to gather a lot of data on patients because all of this information would be used for our functional health patterns, care plans, teaching plans, as well as pre-clinical planning. After gathering information I would go home and look up all of the drugs and have to write down the class of drugs, normal amount given, amount give to my opatient, adverse reactions, interactions with other drugs, and patient teaching on the drug. This would sometimes take between 2-5 hrs depending on the amount of drugs the patient had, Then we would have to pick 3 priority nursing diagnoses from our data and write our interventions. This would take 1-2 hrs. If we had 2 patients assigned it would take a lot longer. after all of this I would then try to do some more reading and then fall asleep. On Tuesday I would try to get up earky and would try to read some more or try to start one of the numerous care plans or teaching plans due that rotation. We ususally have 4 care plans and 3 teaching plans due every rotation as well as our Functional health patterns and a therapeutuc communication paper due. The reading per week is usually between 100-400 pages per week on top of this.

I studied, read, did various clinical paperwork stuff all of the time. I did not have time to clean my house or my car. On average I probably studied/clinical paperwork/ reading about 35-40 hrs a week and this is with just the nursing class as all of my other classes were already done. I could never get all of the reading done. I would have studied more if I had time but I work a part time job. I don't know how someone can get by on 3 hrs a day of studying as it takes at least this amount of time to do the clinical stuff. I never felt prepared for the test because by the time you got done reading and doing clinical paperwork stuff it left very little time for studying. I ended up with a B and a B- for my firrst 2 semesters. We started off with 56 students we are now down to 37 after just one year. It can be done but you have to be very dedicated and focused. I guess it depends on the school you go to.

Good luck;)

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I like you schedule, but when I was in school I forgot the cleaning and cooking. I never had time until after pinning. I took weeks to get my house back in order.

I don't know about other schools, but we also had extra time beyond our school schedules where we had to perform demos. Extra time for research before clinicals, care plans (too numerous to mention) etc.

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Specializes in Mother-Baby, Rehab, Hospice, Memory Care.

My school advised me that studying and homework would be 2-4 hours each night.... For the most part I spent less than an hour each night studying. I read my texts and had good attendence in class and took good notes. The most time consuming part was creating drug cards and stuff for clinicals. I admit that many nights and weekends I wouldn't study really at all, but I still managed a 4.0 and 2nd in my class... It really depends on yourself and the program you are in.

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