Advice Needed - Current MSN nursing student

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Hello all,

I am currently an MSN student on track to receive my CNS license upon graduation. As we all know, nursing school is hard, graduate nursing school is ever harder! As I get closer to graduation I feel like I am overcome with information.

I am seeking advice on how to stay on top of it all. Not just for school purposes, but also for purposes of practicing once I graduate. I want to start making small study guides on various disease topics that I can review from time to time without having to drag out my billion pages of class notes to do so.

Is there anything that you all have done that has been helpful (concept mapping, flashcards, pocket guides, etc)? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you! :happy:

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I used quizlet for studying. For each area, I created three sets of flash cards. So for gi, I had a general description set, management set, and a clinical findings set. Similar for lung disorders, cardiac, etc. The benefit of separation in this fashion is you can focus more on specifics and wiz yourself easier.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Moved to student NP forum. I'm an adult and peds CNS. When in school, I broke my day into segments: work, school and home life. Since school did take a lot of time, I made sure that I pulled away from studying all the time.

I don't have any concrete help to offer except to say that it will be over soon and then you will have a learning curve again :)

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