Med Surg Study Tips, Please!

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Hi everyone,

I'm currently in my second semester of nursing and we're doing Med Surg, right now being Cardiac. I just took Gastrointestinal/Genitourinary and didn't pass, so I'm really stressed because I need to pass this course so I can even retake GI/GU January. I just took an exam in Cardiac and got an 82, but I'm not satisfied because it's only going to hard with each exam.

Can someone offer any tips on how to study? What worked best for you?

I find I study better by myself, but just don't know exactly what the best options may be or what exactly I should be focusing on most.

Any tips are useful! Thank you in advance!

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I find that the information in my textbooks and on PowerPoints from class can be really overwhelming. I like to make a study sheet for each disease that only includes the stuff that I feel like I really need to know. A pathophysiology summary, signs & symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, nursing interventions, etc. Just the act of making the study sheets really helps me to become more comfortable with the information, and then I have something to review without all of the added textbook and lecture fluff.

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