Your Advice to a Pre-Nursing Student

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what is the best advice you have received yourself, or can give to a pre-nursing student :) advice about anything: school, attitude, scheduling time, diligence, letting your hair down once in a while, and healthy eating :) anything that can make my school days a little easier. thanks !

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Study like your life depends on it, because someone else's life may depend on it. At the same time, make sure you schedule time for yourself.

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Get organized and STAY organized! And have fun with it, as much as possible. A healthy sense of humor will go along way in maintaining sanity.

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.
Study like your life depends on it, because someone else's life may depend on it. At the same time, make sure you schedule time for yourself.

I couldn't possibly say it any better than this!

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as usual tazzi nails it....

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Great advice!

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

Get the best shoes you can afford.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.

C=RN so relax. However, reach for an "A" by learning the information!

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Specializes in Acute Rehab, LTC.

Everyone is giving you really good advice, and I don't have anything much different to offer, but here is how I made it through nursing school.

Stay organized. That is a major priority. Budget your time wisely, nursing school can be like boot camp, and you need to be prepared and ready for everything, even though everything seems to be comming at you all at once! Be neat, thorough and to the point in your documentation. If you are the type of person who does well in a study group then make sure you find one, and be careful who you pick! Get plenty of black and red pens, sharpies and highlighters as well as a big supply of index cards to make flashcards! (That really helped me!) STUDY your butt off!!! Get good comfortable shoes, I am partial to the nurse mates myself. Get a good stethoscope, I recommend Littman, usually around 50 bucks and higher. You will do just fine with something less expensive though! Always be on time, try not to miss any class, help out your classmates when you can because you will all need eachother at one point! Just get excited about what you are about to do because it will make it alot more enjoyable of an experience! Well I think I've said enough! But good luck to you!!!!

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don't hang out with negative people. They will bring you down.

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My advise:

If you are 1000% sure you want to be a nurse, then join or form a study group. Take great notes in class or tape record the lectures. Some insturctors will let you make a copy for their daily lecture notes. Learn how to take test by process of elimination. On boards there are two correct answers, one of the two correct answers is the "best" correct answer.

Promote and join a union.

Don't let people run over you. Nursing in general is a co-dependant profession. We "take care of people" so we sometimes forget to take care of ourselves. Remember to take care of yourself first!!!

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Specializes in RN- Med/surg.

Learn it the first time...and learn it for boards. NEVER learn it for your exam. If you just sqeak by for an exam, you won't know it for boards or for real life. I studied hard, and smart. I scheduled studytime throughout school. Then..I had a rule to NEVER study for the 24 hours before a test. This kept me from cramming. I also had to make sure I really knew it to be confident enough not to study the night before.

Because of this...finals never worried me. I just passed NCLEX RN so I guess it worked.

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