In this vlog, Christina shares three practical strategies that helped her navigate nursing school more smoothly and encourages viewers to adopt them. First, she recommends using a crock pot for set‑it‑and‑forget‑it meals, emphasizing that having multiple sizes ensures the family can eat without daily cooking stress. Second, she stresses the importance of asking for and accepting help, illustrating the point with a personal grocery‑store anecdote where she initially refused assistance while juggling a baby in a carrier and a cart of groceries. She advises viewers to develop a habit of seeking support from family, friends, or partners for household tasks and childcare. Third, she advocates a brief (10‑15 minute) planning routine before classes, weekends, and especially clinical days, detailing how to prepare questions for patients, pack clinical attire, and avoid forgetting essential items. She recounts a first‑term experience of a disorganized head‑to‑toe assessment that required repeated visits, underscoring the value of pre‑clinical preparation. The video concludes with a call for viewers to share their own tips in the comments.
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In this video, I'm gonna walk you through how I made nursing school easier for myself and how you can too. So I've got three tips for you to help you make nursing school easier. Now, the first one is to get a crock pot. Crock pot. You're probably like, Christina, in your previous video, the crock pot you had was silver. And you would be right, my friend, because I actually am the proud owner of. Of five crock pots, all of various sizes, highly recommended. My family would not eat if we did not own five crock pots or at least one through nursing school, because really, it's set it and forget it for dinner time. So when we're talking about making nursing school easier, I cannot talk highly enough about how important it is to get a crock pot. Seriously, friend, you will thank me later. Now, tip number two on how to help make nursing school easier is to actually ask for and accept help from other people. I know we really like to be independent and do it all ourselves. And, like, we got this. We got this. We got this. We are just superwoman, and we can do everything for everybody at all times. But in nursing school, I mean, you've got so much on your plate that you really, really, really need to take a good, hard look around and see what's fallen apart and where other people can help. And because you have to start asking for and accepting help. I have a story about this. This is super embarrassing. I was at the grocery store with Daniel at this time. He was. It was a few months ago, so he was more of a baby than he is now. He's still my baby, but he's like a toddler now. And I had him in his, like, carrier, like, front carrier. So I was wearing him, so he was, like, strapped to me. So I'm going through the grocery store and, you know, getting all this stuff, and we're in the. The checkout lane, and I cart full of groceries, and I have Daniel strapped to the front of me, and I'm, like, literally, like, back down into the cart to, like, grab all these cans and all this stuff. Like, a whole cart full of, like, heavy groceries. And the guy behind me was like, can I help you out there? Like, he, like, starts helping me with the groceries, and I told him. I was like, oh, no, it's okay. I got it. Like, Christina, come on. You have a child strapped to the front of you and a cart full of groceries. Like, excited. Accept the pants. Help. Goodness gracious. I have no idea why I said that. I feel like it was Like a reflex, you know, like, if someone asks for help, we're like, oh, no, it's okay. Like, like, we got this. You know, if someone. Someone asks for help, we're like, no, no, if someone asks to help us, we just, like, as a reflex, right? We just say, oh, no. Well, we got this. Like, we're cool. Like, we could do everything. No, I mean, in nursing school, ask for. For help and especially accept help. So just kind of get in the habit of that. Practice it with your family, practice it with your friends. You know, if you see an area in your life that's kind of falling apart, like your house is a disaster, or the dishes are not clean, or you know something's going on with the kids, like, ask your husband, ask your parents, ask a friend to help with those things, and that'll make your life a whole lot easier in nursing school, I promise. So get in the habit of asking for and accepting help during nursing school. Now, the third tip that I've got for you is to actually plan things. Plan out. Just take, like, 10 minutes to plan what you're gonna do before you do it. Now, this goes for a whole lot of things, like what your day looks like before you even go to class, what your weekends look like with your family. So you know that everybody's on the same page. But I especially also want to point out, before you go to clinical, make sure that you just take a few minutes, step back, like 5, 10, 15 minutes to plan out what your clinical day is going to look like. Obviously, it's not going to work out exactly like you planned, but at least you can walk through in your mind the things that you need, the questions that you need to ask your patients in order to fulfill or, you know, complete all of your nursing school assignments. You've got a ton of paperwork to do on your patients from nursing school, from your clinical site. So, you know, you've got this whole list of questions that you need to ask them. You need to make sure that you're going to ask them the right questions. So just take 10 minutes, 15 minutes before you go to clinical, or especially before you walk into your patient's room to plan out what you're gonna say, what you need to bring, and what you need to do to really just make it so much easier once you get there. So plan out your weekends with your family, Plan out your days at school. What do you need to. What books do you need to have in your car? What do you need to bring, a change of clothes? Do you need to Bring your clinical clothes. You know you're going from lecture to clinical right after. Make sure that you pack your clinical clothes. You know, it's super important. Just plan out what's gonna happen next in your day. It's gonna make it so much easier for you. There were so many times in nursing school where we did have clinical after. I had to go to clinical after school, but I would forget my clinical stuff. So I like go back home or I would forget lunch and I'd go back home and then go back. And it just takes a lot of time when you're not thinking about and planning for what you need to do that day. When you have to backtrack, it just wastes a whole lot of time. And especially remember, this is super embarrassing. Maybe you've been through this too. Or we'll go through this. So my first semester, my first term in nursing school, we had to learn how to assess a patient, right? Do a full head to toe assessment. That is so terrifying. I don't think I need to tell you, like how your body reacts the first time you're in nursing school and you have to go assess a patient. I don't think I could like talk or breathe. It was terrible. I was so, so nervous. It was ridiculous. So it's of course a long term care facility and the patients are so sweet. Thank goodness. Oh my gosh, they were so, so nice. Because it takes us forever to get through our head to toe assessment. Because I didn't plan for it. Right. I walked into the room, asked a few questions, thought I was doing awesome. And then you go back, write all the stuff down that you just asked them, you know, because you don't want to write stuff in the room. You like brain dump. And you realize you forgot like 3/4 of everything you needed to ask. So what did I do? I went back into the room and then did the same thing. Tried to remember things, but you for stuff. So it just takes you forever to get through your head to toe assessments when you do them the first few times or the first maybe 50 times. Give yourself a break. So make sure that you're planning what you need to say to your patients, what you need to bring and what you need to do before you walk into their room. So that's just, that's just a huge tip for you. Just do it. Just take, take 10 to 15 minutes and plan your day. So I hope these three tips help to make nursing school way easier for you like they did for me. Leave me a comment below and let me know what your number one tip is? To make nursing school easier. If you're doing something else to make it a little bit more of a breeze than it would be otherwise, let me know down in the comments and we'll chat about it. I'd love to hear from you, and I will see you in the next video. Take care.
