3 Things To Do Before Nursing School Starts

What should you be doing before nursing school starts? In this video, I'm going to give you three things that you have to focus your time on to set yourself up for success in nursing school. Let's dive in. So congratulations. You have been accepted into nursing school. I am so, so excited for you. This is fantastic. You are going to have an absolute blast, my friend. You're going to do great. So let's walk through some key things that you need to do to get ready to set yourself up for success. Now, the first one is you have to colle all of your supplies before school starts. Ideally, here's the thing. You don't want to be scrambling in the first couple weeks of your program trying to get things together. Like nursing school, you're gonna find is going to be drinking from a fire hose, basically. Actually, we had a Nursing Essence member last night tell me that. It's basically like you just open the fire hydrant and it's like every water spewing out everywhere into your face, like it's not actually drinking from a fire hose, it's actually drinking from the fire hydrant. That's how it is. There is a lot going on in a very short amount of time. And so you really want to make sure that you are trying to get things done as early as possible so that you don't have to deal with those things when you start school. And getting all your supplies together and all your stuff beforehand is one of those things. So make sure you take a look at the list of things that your school requires, whether it be textbooks or clinical supplies like your stethoscope and your pen light and make sure you got a ton of pens and post it notes and notebooks and whatever else you need. Highlighters, all of the things. Make sure that you have everything ready before you start nursing school so you're not running to Walmart every week trying to find and collect the things that you didn't quite have or hadn't prepared for yet. So just make sure that you have everything. When you start to save yourself a ton of time later, nursing school just simply moves too fast. You are not going to have time to go to the grocery store every day or go to Walmart to collect your supplies every week. That's not how it works. You really want to make sure that you are spending your time wisely and productively and stewarding it well. So you want to be focused on nursing school when you are in nursing school. So try to get everything done as much as you can beforehand. The second thing you want to do is make sure that you go through your syllabus or your class calendar. Whatever your school gives you, go through it. Take a look at what your schedule is going to look like and kind of how life is going to go and set expectations with your, your family. This is huge, my friend. If you watched our last video on what you need to know before starting nursing school, I talked a lot about this concept of really stewarding your time well, managing your time well, and making a plan before you start nursing school. It's so important because it really is that fire hydrant idea. When you start nursing school, there's going to be so much information coming at you so fast. That's really where your time is going to go. You're not going to have time necessarily to do the laundry every day or do the dishes every day, or even make dinner. To be honest, there is a lot of studying that needs to happen in nursing school. That's going to be where most of your focus is. So it's really important that you take a look at that class calendar, take a look at your syllabus and make a plan with your family and set realistic expectations with them. Say, hey, look like this is what it's going to take for me to pass nursing school. And who can do the dishes, who can do the laundry, who can cook dinner? Try to get those expectations out of the way in those conversations, out of the. Before you start nursing school, just to make sure that everyone in your family or in your household are on the same page. Now, if you're a nursing SS member, make sure to log into your dashboard. Click on step number two, where we walk you through how to make a time management plan. If you haven't done your time management plan already, and even your study plan in step three, you really want to do that now, get that done as early as possible so that you have that printed out time management plan. You have that printed out study plan and that will really help guide you as you do this process, as you have those conversations with your family so that you actually have a plan in place when you start nursing school. And if you're not a nursing SS member yet, I highly recommend that you join my friend. It is going to be so, so helpful for you. As you go through nursing school, we literally walk you through, step by step, how to pass your exams, how to pass your classes. You are going to love it. We walk you through how to create a personalized time management plan, how to create a personalized study plan so that you know exactly how to study. You're not overwhelmed and burned out all the time. And we walk you through all the information that you have to know to pass your exams. You are going to love it. So I'll put the link down below in the description for you to check out all the details. So the third thing you absolutely have to do before nursing school starts is Dose calc. You knew what I was going to say, right? If you've watched any of our other videos, doscalc is such a big thing deal in nursing school. It is way more of a big deal than I think nursing school students really give it credit for. When you get accepted into nursing school, you are going to have a dose calc exam within the first two weeks of the term and you have to pass it in order to stay in your program. Trust me, my friend, your program is no different than any other program. Everyone's got to pass this exam. It's a dose calc exam. It is a math test. Yes, it is a math test. That's okay. Take a deep breath. Start now. And I actually have a free cheat sheet for you that will walk you through some really key principles to follow so you can pass this dose calc exam. I'll put the link to that down below in the description as well. The more practice you get with dose calc, the sooner the better. You are going to be very well off when you start nursing school. Get as much practice as possible so that you can get comfortable with it, comfortable with how the questions are asked and comfortable with how to solve those problems. And you will really be so far above and beyond all the all your other classmates, all the other students in your class simply because you prepared and understand does calc before starting nursing school. It's a huge deal. Now there is a lot that you have to know in nursing school. When you just start. It is literally like drinking from a firehouse. But thankfully there are some really great strategies that you can follow to set yourself up for success. So in this video, I'm going to walk you through the key things that you need to know before starting nursing school so you can be prepared. Now write love in the comments below if this video was helpful for you and go become the nurse that God created only you to be. And I'll catch you over there in that next video.