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Nursing Students Post Graduate

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Were you able to work full time because you HAD to? If so, how did you study while working full time?

Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

I not only worked full time but also took a lot of call and spent quite a bit of that call time actually working (job requirement- working in the OR). I created additional study time by utilizing a cleaning company to take care of housecleaning and a meal service to put together meals that all I had to do was heat and eat (but much healthier than fast food or frozen TV dinners with all their preservatives). Expensive, but worth it in the end for maintaining my sanity and keeping my grades up. Live alone, so getting family to pitch in extra wasn't an option. I also used my lunch break for reading assignments, listened to recorded lectures while driving, and basically used every spare moment I could scrounge up for school.

I recently completed an accelerated MSN program. I personally did not work, but I was super active with extracurricular activities, which at times felt like a full-time job. Out of 36 students, only one classmate worked full-time as a home health aid (night shift). Since she worked on the night shift, she basically studied while her client slept. I think because our program was so fast paced and our schedule changed so much, it was almost impossible to have a full-time daytime job. Hope this helps

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