What was/are the 3 things that got/get you through nursing school?

[crushlush]

It could be a teacher, a friend, a electronic, a certain study habit. I'd just like to know.

[ambitiousBSN]

For first semester, it was:

1. Coffee

2. Sangria

3. Boneless buffalo wings

[Everline]

1. Having a visible check-off for each week that goes by. I usually have a card that I tape to my wall that simply has a number countdown "week: 16 15 14...". I cross off the numbers as the weeks roll by and say aloud "only ____ weeks left of this semester!"

2. Reminding myself that so many have successfully finished nursing school before me. If they can do it, so can I.

3. Reminding myself that "it will all get done" like it always does. (I sometimes panic at the amount of work that is ahead of me. But I have always managed to do what I need to do when I need to do it.)

[pixiestudent2]

For first semester, it was:

1. Coffee

2. Sangria

3. Boneless buffalo wings

Yessss #3 had been my addition for like 2 months now.

[danceyrun]

Naps, friends, and exercise

[Katsmeow]

My planner, coffee and classmates!

[mclennan, BSN, RN]

Hot tub

Booze

Red Bull

[nekozuki, LPN]

1. Flashcards

2. Mom

3. Cell phone internet browser (nothing alleviates the stress of waiting for grades outside your instructor's office like thumbing through pictures of cats doing silly things)

[lilredrunner]

Coffee, running, several organizational calendars and to-do lists, friends who listened, kind people who watched my child when I had to be at clinical at 5am, amazing professors who let me have small breakdowns in their office, and the occasional glass of wine alone with a non-nursing book.

And coffee.

That's more than three, but they all helped. A lot.

[unicoRNurse]

1. Incredibly supportive people: sainted husband, loving family, awesome classmates, exceptional instructors, friends who forgive my complete lack of school/work/life balance, and dogs with unconditional love and bladders of steel.2. My Type A personality, OCD, and perfectionism -- finally paying off! 3. Reality checks: this insanity is only temporary, it will be worth it in the end, and the (first) end is in 117 days -- pinning. Honorable mention: Vacations, and my immune system, which despite immense stress and woefully inadequate sleep, exercise and nutrition, has thus far only allowed me to become stupefyingly ill on Christmas breaks (knock wood!).

[unbalanced]

Classmates, coffee and determination

[Wyrm74]

My wife

Diet Coke

Sheer willpower

[NurseRies, BSN, RN]

Music

Mom

Craft Beer