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Hi Everyone! I am a new nursing student and I was hoping that you all could give me some tips! I am having a hard time to find a successful way of studying and what notes to study. I am in Nursing Fundamentals, Anatomy, and Mental Health. If anyone has any tips they would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you :)

Alexis

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The only way to reach success and make nclex exam easy (after graduate) is practicing questions from sources you are able to reach. Do fundamental nclex type of questions , do mental health related nclex questions and you will see how you do well on exams. Read all rationalized. Don't try to memory nursing books because it will make it worse. Read twice and do questions questions and questions. Fundemantal success, mental health success, lippincott q&a , soundras nclex review and more and more books available.

Good luck

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

One thing I recommend that every student find out is their personal learning style. One quiz that can help determine this is The VARK Questionnaire | VARK

Knowing your learning style can help you determine how best to study: reading a textbook, watching videos, or other ways that suit your learning style and will help you best determine how to study in an effective way to retain information.

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I agree. Most of the time, before I read a topic, I would rather to watch it on YouTube and than read it.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
One thing I recommend that every student find out is their personal learning style. One quiz that can help determine this is The VARK Questionnaire | VARK

Knowing your learning style can help you determine how best to study: reading a textbook, watching videos, or other ways that suit your learning style and will help you best determine how to study in an effective way to retain information.

^Agree. :yes:

Here are a few tips that helped me during nursing school:

-Learn how to smartly read huge chapters: focus on the objectives, tables, and any review questions that are at the end of the chapter. Also pay attention to the chapter layout; my textbook used the nursing process and studied in that format to understand the material in nursing theory way.

-Utilize your learning style and pay mind if you need to adopt another: what I learned in nursing school is to adapt my kinesthetic learning is to use action words to help me understand the material; I also used auditory learning by taping lectures to help me understand the material. I would use guided imagery by imaging myself in scenarios as a hands-on way to help with studying and answering questions on a test.

-Utilize the "recommended reading": students sometimes dismiss the "recommended reading", which have a TON of info and are great resources that help one beyond nursing school and can help during ones career as a nurse. I rented my textbooks and got the recommended reading material new or used in good condition to help with understanding nursing concepts.

There are many supplemental books that will help with studying and understanding nursing-style questions. Review books like The Success Series helps with subject

review and can help one be prepared

for tests.

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I learned to start studying with notes/ power points given in class. And making a graph of material on plane paper . Using association with info helps a lot. Like MONA. Heart failure txmt. Acute. M stands for morphine. O stands for oxygen . N stands for nitroglycerin and a stands for aspirin . I am a senior in a nursing program. Let me know if I can help any other way . Good luck . Gloria

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