keep an ORGANIZED binder of all your notes.. it helps when it comes time to review things throughout the program.. I have a fundamentals section, a maternity section, and Med surg section (with diseases by body system) with the drug sheet right behind the disease For nursing 1 and 2 you have the same teacher: she will say “focus on this, your test will be on this and will not have these thingS”.. my tip, those things are normally on the test too.. learn your HEAD to TOE assessment now, you will have to do it in nurse 1 lab on the dummy for your instructor ... be on your p’s and q’s about that class And get a good grasp on fundamentals because it follows you through the program.. nurse 3 is Med surg, this professor is straight forward. He doesn’t try to trick you and really try to get you to understand the material.. he doesn’t just read off the PowerPoint.. for medsurg in this class.. focus on how your patient will present(what does the disease process look like On this patient ) s/s.. what medications will I give? What do I need to teach the patient about the medications? What diet should be encouraged? What should I be doing as the nurse (implementation)? use his PowerPoint as a guide, add notes to the slides from what he lectures on and align those things with the textbook.. you will do great... nurse 4 is another Med surg course and the professor above will be a part of the class As adjunct.. follow the same steps above BUT remember they test you on all prior content as well on exams .. nurse 5 is maternity for the first 5 weeks and then last 3 weeks is leadership.. the leadership final is what got a few students because it was a lot of delegation questions.. if you think you might be weak in this area, start practicing and getting familiar with it early.. set yourself up for success.. also you have dosage calculations for every core class.. in nurse 1 you have to get an 80%.. nurse 2-6 it’s 90% and practicum is 100%.. if you think you might be weak in this area start practicing this now through dosagehelp.com or rnpedia.com.. again, set yourself up for success.