What was your secret weapon for surviving nursing school??

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:p Hi! I am a new nursing student(I have only been in school for about 3months). With all of the studying that we as nursing students must do to excell in this profession, it can be physically and mentally draining at times. Just wondering- what was the one thing that you needed to have to give you energy while in nursing school? Any suggestions would be extremly helpful. THANKS!!!

God Bless!

Oh Dear Lord, Tom!!!!!! ROFLMBO!!!!

loving and cuddling makes me lethargic.

my escalating anxieties with hostile and paranoid ideations got me through nursing schools, with honors mind you.

having a supportive family and friends. however no one would ever know what you're going through beside your nursing buddies...

i usually study in the early morning or sometimes no sleep then school. come back home and sleep.

Specializes in Renal, Haemo and Peritoneal.

Make sure you have the odd study free day. Do something pleasurable even if it is just laying on a sunlounge reading................a novel! Heaven forbid reading something you don't have to absorb!

Secondly, if like me you worked a lot of hours to put yourself through uni I was often too tired to study after finishing work. I found that having an early tea, going to bed about 8 or 9pm and setting the alarm for 3 or 4am was a winner.

-You are refreshed (after a strong coffe too!)

- Everyone else in the world (just about) is in bed

-There is only crap on the TV

-It's hard to procrastinate and just go to the shops or beach when nothing is visible or open!

-NEVER LOSE FAITH IN YOURSELF!

-If you can create a core of reliable study partners. That way you can help each other.

Good Luck!

My classmates, having a sense of humor, my classmates having a sense of humor and our long term goal of getting drunk after each final ...:rotfl:

Specializes in midwifery, ophthalmics, general practice.
Sex is a natural high

alcohol impairs your thinking too much

some loving and cuddling warms the heart the soul and everything else

the 7 kids came because we were to poor for buying condoms :rotfl: :rotfl:

way too much information there Tom!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Karen

Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
:p Hi! I am a new nursing student(I have only been in school for about 3months). With all of the studying that we as nursing students must do to excell in this profession, it can be physically and mentally draining at times. Just wondering- what was the one thing that you needed to have to give you energy while in nursing school? Any suggestions would be extremly helpful. THANKS!!!

God Bless!

I went out with my friends 2 weekend nights amonth-my fav bartender at our local dive bar let me run a tab until I got my license---that was my secret weapon.... :p

What got me thru nursing school?

My darling husband.........and my little goobers.

Knowing that Nursing is the only job for me because everything else suks. (MO)

coffee

and going to the library to study!

Cant study at home because I would always find something that needed to be done!

Prayer

and my friends, cuz VENTING is what we do best.......that really helped gettin me thru the drama.... :)

Good luck to you

I think that the first part of nursing school is really the hardest, at least it was for me. I honestly don't know how I got through school since I had at least 2 jobs at a time trying to make ends meet. But I know that it got a lot better after the first semester, and definitely after the first year. I think what really saved me is being involved with other things that had nothing to do with work or nursing. I was on the student government, and it was a great chance to do something different to keep my sanity! Good luck to you.

(1) Studying at Borders or Barnes & Noble because it was away from the distractions of home, yet there was enough noise (and coffee) there to keep me awake.

(2) Coming home and taking a dip in the neighborhood pool with my hubby & kids occasionally...helped take my mind off of school.

(3) The occasional rum & coke, or mojito.

(4) Getting up in the early AM to study.

(5) Studying outside while sunbathing with my husband (and while the kids napped).

(6) A sense of humor.

(7) Enough perspective to know that I didn't need to get an "A" on everything. (I wasn't planning on going back to grad school, mind you.)

(8) Loud music.

(9) Dancing with my kids to loud music.

(10) Occasional exercise, esp. the Zumba workout videos.

Specializes in PICU, Peds Ambulatory, Peds LTC.

jesus christ by my side day & night. i still can't believe i finally made it!

Go now. Go soon at least. Go for a day at some remote hotel where you can veg, lounge, study or whatever..... by yourself. No phone, no nothing. It's all you. And, even if you don't open your books, it's a great day to be you.

Go now.....

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