Christina Rafano warns nursing students against copying classmates' study methods just because they work for someone else. Your learning style, strengths, and schedule are different. Observe what others do, then experiment and adjust to find what actually works for you.
The first one is what I like to call the comparison trap, trying to be like everyone else. So this can really pop up in all sorts of different ways. Probably one of the biggest ones that I see I fell for and that I see other nursing students falling for is that like someone else who's doing really well in nursing school is studying this particular way, which means that I need to study that particular way. So you kind of look around your class and say like this person's doing really, really well. This person's really well. I need to study exactly how they're studying. Now this can be a good thing. We do want to make sure that we are following what, you know, best practice would be or, you know, following really good advice and wisdom. That is not the point here. The point here is that you're trying to fit yourself into a mold that is working for someone else but doesn't necessarily work for you.
