Do you read the entire book?

[Tonks57]

Hi there! I am going to be starting nursing school on the 27th and I just got my fundamentals book today. So I started reading our assigned chapters and WOW. So much information! Very interesting though, not dry like the sciences were. I am planning on seriously reading the entire book/what's assigned by the professor and then extra by using outside sources. But my question is, is it possible to read it all? How many hours a day/per chapter do you spend reading? Do you power through the whole chapter or take breaks? Take notes as you go? Read it more than once? I just want to prepare myself because I can tell this will not be like the prereqs at all! I have been reading all the other posts about how to study better/take notes and I will definitely use that as well. I just want to see how everyone handles the massive amounts of reading. Thank you!

[thenameismac]

I don't think we read the entire book but most of it. Reading is what works best for me so I read every single assigned chapter at least once. Then when I study the slides I refer to the text to clear anything up. Even though all the reading was tedious, I was reading the same info 3 different ways then usually seeing on the DVD and step by step in the clinical skills book. This semester I'm going to try outlining. Info from the texts will be in black, info from slides in blue, important lab values/test info in green, etc.

This is how i study but i only read the chapters once. I read, outline in one color, powerpoints in another color, questions i have in another color, highlight vocabulary, and notes from lecture in another colors. I really like colors. Lol

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[PedsHopeful]

I just started my second semester and for the first week we had 3 chapters to read. I am a serious bookworm, always have been, so as soon as my syllabus got posted I started reading my chapters to try and get ahead. I finished yesterday, and it wasnt that bad so far, it was written in a interesting way. I read through them once and highlighted on the material I thought was really important (steps of processes, acronyms, definitions, key points). I will go back and write that information on index cards to keep to study for exams. Our final exam will be cumulative, so having this info on cards will help when I need to go back and review stuff from the beginning of the semester. I usually take a voice recorder to class to record my lectures and put them on my computer. The exams will be Nclex style questions, so Im going to go through my Saunders book to get some practice with that.

As you can tell, Im nervous about this semester, LOL. Hope this effort pays off.:cheers: