How many hours should I study in NURSING SCHOOL??

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How many hours should you study in nursing school?

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Don't miss anything. And so if you have any other questions related to how many hours I should study in nursing school, go ahead and pop it in the comments. Or anything else nursing school related, go ahead and do that too. All right, let's do it. How many hours should I study in nursing school? And by I, I do not mean me because I am not in nursing school school and will never be in nursing school. But how many hours should nursing students study in nursing school?

Okay, so we get this question a lot. How many hours should I study? Oftentimes this comes with two things. Two things that this comes with. One situation that you might be in is you are studying, studying, studying. You get to your exam and then you don't do as well as you want and you feel like you overstudied or didn't study the right things for that exam. So that's camp number one. Camp number two that you might be in is you are studying kind of during the week. You think you know everything for your exam, or maybe you think you will fail your exam and so you don't want to study and you're not studying enough through the week and then you get to your exam and you maybe don't do as well as you want. That's this. These are kind of the two times when students start asking us, how many hours a week should I study? Because most often you have not done well on your exam in the past and you want to do better, so you think that you should study more. So let's dive into it. Exactly how many hours per week should you study? So I'm going to take this answer straight from our nursing school study system, by the way, because this is literally your step by step guide through nursing school. If you go to nursing schoolofsuccess.comstudysystem. you can snag it right now. I'm literally going over page 42, so let's jam on it. How many hours to study?

Okay, well, hope people get situated a little bit. So, hello. Good afternoon. Some people are saying that they're joining literally studying right now while listening. So hello. Happy studying.

Studying.

Here we can learn a little bit more about studying or that. Oh, didn't do too well because I didn't do enough studying. So that's one of the camps that you talked about. So we'll go into that in a little detail.

Yeah. So tell me, which camp are you in? Are you an overstudier or are you an understudier? Can we do that? I don't know. Is that, like. Can you do, like, arrows, like, overstudy, understudy, or like, we're trying to find.

All the emojis.

Overstudy?

I don't know.

Pick one or something. If it's something as in, like, down, I will say understudy if it's over. Today is my first day of nursing school.

Yay.

Congratulations. Oh, there we go.

There's an arrow.

There is an arrow. Sweet.

All right, great.

Perfect. Alicia, overstudy. Thumbs up. So many people on Instagram are going to be like, thumbs down, understudy. I'm just going to take that as understudy.

So for anyone new here, we are very interactive, and we ask for audience participation.

Yes. So we've got a lot of different camps. Perfect. Okay, Marjorie. It happens, friends. It happens. So absolutely no judgment here. We are going to help you work.

Through it and come up with.

You were. You were.

I was what? Were you.

I was. I. I mean, I study a lot. I study a lot, but I wouldn't honestly say that I overstudy. So here's. Here's kind of the thing. Here's what I learned in nursing school. If you guys have been around here, you've heard that me tell this story. Most likely at some point when I started nursing school, I brought in my study tips from A and P. Microbiology, chemistry, biology, my undergrad prerequisites, all of that. A and P is a lot of memorization. It is a lot of just, like, flashcards and whiteboards and just memorizing a whole bunch of things. Like, you have to memorize the whole body, basically, right? Same thing with micro. Same thing with chemistry. You have to memorize a whole lot of stuff. So I brought those study strategies into nursing school, and guess what happened? I bet you did this too. I bet you did this too. Guess what happened? You probably had the same experience. Spoiler alert. It didn't work. So the way that you study an amp and micro and all this stuff. So all the hours that I spent studying all those things, I brought those study tactics into my first term of nursing school and then got to the exam and found out that, hey, pretty much everything that I studied was not on the exam. Right? So, like, I had, I had spent so many hours reading the textbooks, just trying to learn everything and everything and everything and everything. And then you get to your exam. I got to my exam and it was not. It was just not on the test. So that is why we teach the things that we do. This is why we teach the study strategies that we do. So I guess for me, would that be considered an overstudier.

So little tangent, little story time with Matthew time, a little insight into Christina when we first started nursing school. And I don't think I've ever told anyone this, so hooray for you guys.

Hearing this for the first time. Should you double check this with me before you say it on my video?

No, no. I'm going to shoot from the hip. Go for it and then we'll just see what happens. No, so definitely, I think it's just backing up what you said. Definitely. When you, you, you are a futurist. You are an achiever. And yes, in pre nursing and in nursing, you definitely wanted to make sure that you knew all the material. So she did. I would say it was overstudying. She. She actually had a schedule out on how many chapters, how many pages to read each day in order to get all the reading material done before class. I hear this all from all of you guys. How to get everything all read up and all studied and all her flashcards and everything ready so that she knows all the material before going to class. And I think probably for the first, I don't remember how long, maybe first couple of weeks that you really stuck to that, but here's the thing. It's just overwhelming. And I hear all of you guys going through this. It is overwhelming. And that's exactly why Christina decided, you know what, I need to teach people how to study better and how to study more efficiently so they're not wasting time like I did. So I think that that's, that's really probably a catalyst because I remember seeing you go through that. I'm not sure if you remember that, but I blocked it out. Yeah, yeah, no, it's. It's really true that she did overstudy and did want to be that person that we all. Okay. I'm the guy that sits in the back row and props up my laptop to take notes. So I know that person. She wanted to be that person. Right.

But that person in the front row who has, like, paper out taking notes.

Right.

I'm not the person in that.

So all that to say that Christina knows the overstudying. I know the understudying. But the thing is that there is a better way, more efficient way on how to study, and that's what we teach. Because Christina went through that and it was overwhelming. It was. And we hear that a lot. So how many hours should you study? There's a two camps, overstudy and understudy. And we'll go through.

We've got a lot of information. I love it. Yes.

So sorry for that tangent, but I felt like that is something. That's something that people need to know, is that, yeah, you went through that. And we've got. We. Christine has gone through it. And so we understand. And yeah, we are we. So there is that. So, yes, I think you were an overstudier, but you learned these tips and tricks and now you want to pass.

It on, and it didn't take very long. So, you know, when you get into nursing school, what do you guys hear? You hear from your instructors read every single thing in the book. That's what you hear. You hear. Read every single thing in the book. That's the problem. She tried, right? I tried when I got to nursing school. That's what the instructors were saying. But then if you ask any of the other students who are above you, not above you, but like a term ahead of you, like the upperclassmen, right. When you ask the upperclassmen, what do they say? They say, absolutely not. Do not read every single thing in the book. Right. How have you guys asked your upperclassmen, like someone who's one, maybe two terms ahead of you? Comment in the comments. Let me know in the comments. Have you asked them how to study? Have you asked them how to study? And what did they say? I just about guarantee you that for most of you, they have told you not to read everything in the book. Because literally, friends, I mean, they're gigantic. Do you see these textbooks?

They're.

There's a lot of enormous. Are you really going to read. Here's the problem. Read and retain all of that information. No. In, like, 10 weeks, right. Like, you can certainly. Like, we've talked about this before. You can certainly make it your mission in life to read the entire book. In nursing school, you absolutely can do that. But the problem with that is that you are not going to be able to have the time to then learn it, retain it, critically, think about it. And when was the last time you took a nursing school exam that covered facts from the textbook? They don't. They cover critical thinking and case scenario questions. And how do you apply the information that you learned from the book onto the test into a patient situation? Right. It's critical thinking. So if you're spending all of your time studying, reading every single thing from the book, you are not going to have time to actually learn it, critically, think about it and apply it. Does that make sense? Now, if you have the study system, we are going to go over page 42 on how many hours to study. So that is the big problem with, with everything. Big problem with everything. I want you to download. Actually, if you have the study system, there is a whole section on critical thinking and how to critically think in nursing school, but we also have a free cheat sheet for it. So if you do not have the study system, that's fine. Matthew, can you put it in the chat on YouTube? It's nursing schoolofsuccess.com critical thinking. So nursing schoolofsuccess.com critical Thinking. So please, please, please go there and download the critical thinking cheat sheet that we have for you. If you have the study system, I walk you through critical thinking step by step. It's on page 15, page 15 through 21. So it's like six pages of critical thinking for you to help you out with that. But if you don't have the study system, no problem. Nursingschoolofsuccess.com Critical thinking and get that, because that will give you a guide on what to focus on when you read the textbook. It's going to give you a guide on how to critically think, not just, you know, memorizing random facts from the textbook. Can we write the link in the comments? I cannot write the link in the comments on Instagram or Facebook, but Matthew has it on YouTube. Sorry about that because it's like I can't type there. It would look really weird to them.

So just. Nursingschool success.com cripple thinking. Just one word. That'll get you there. Also, the YouTube lives will be up as soon as this is over, so you can jump over there too.

Yep.

YouTube.com nursingsos and it's the first one there.

Yep. Alrighty. So we're going to go over page 42 in the study system. How many hours should I study now? What we always say to give you a benchmark is for every hour that you are in class, for every hour that you are in class, you should study for two hours outside of class. So let's say if you are in a class for four hours of lecture class now, because everything's online now, that could be either an online, like, zoom class. What are you guys doing now? Can you tell me in the chat? Tell me in the comments. How are you doing your lecture class? Are you going in person? We've heard a lot of that. A lot of students I know are in person now. It is a thing. Promise you it is a thing. Are you in class in person with an instructor? Are you doing an online Zoom class? How is your online class structured if it is online? Tell me, tell me in the comments what you guys are doing. Both. Okay. Both mix of in person. Zoom. Everyone's saying zoom. Zoom for one hour. Okay, Amanda, one hour. So Amanda, you're in one hour of class, so you would study two hours outside of class for that lecture. Now, Amanda, that sounds low to me. Amanda, can you clarify on Facebook? Amanda, what are you studying during that one hour class? Yeah. Okay, two hours. How many. How many hours? I didn't also clarify. Can you guys tell me how many hours you are in your lecture class on Zoom or in person? Tell me. Two hours, I think is mostly going to be the minimum.

In person for two hours.

In person for two hours. Perfect. So you will study outside of class for four hours for that class every week. So two hours. Two hours seems to be where we're landing. Two hours. Two hours. For my school, it was two, two hours for each lecture. Ish. But then we had multiple lectures during the week. So we had like 12 hour class on like med surg. Actually, let's say, let's use fundamentals as an example. Two hours of lecture for like our normal fundamentals class. And we had two hours of a head to toe assessment class. So I had four hours of lecture class every week. And so outside of class, I would study for eight hours. Does that make sense?

So this one, six hours a week, three a day for two days.

Three days.

Six hours a week. That would be 12 out.

Yeah. Six hours a week. 12 hours to study for those classes.

Yeah.

I have a feeling, Mary on Facebook. I have a feeling, Mary, that you might be conflating lecture class and your skills lab. Can you tell me if that's the case?

So you'll get to that too?

Yeah, I Will get to that. That might. I. I'm. That's my guess. But it might not. That might not be the case. Maybe you do have a six hour.

Lecture class because there's this too.

Five hours for farm. Oh, yeah. Go, go. All right.

Three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon.

That's. That might be. I mean, is that a lecture class? Is that a skills lab? We're going to talk about both, but I want to see where we're at.

Man.

Everyone on Facebook. We have tons of people on Facebook. How did you find us on Facebook?

Hey, Facebook. Wow.

Facebook people. How did you find us on Facebook?

Welcome.

We have a lot of people on. On Facebook. Tell us on Facebook how you found us, because I'm curious where y' all are coming from. Okay. Every day we have 8am to 7:30pm lectures. Every day, 8 to 7:30 lectures, only one hour break, which is a lunch break. Are you saying every day? 8, 8am to 7:30pm like 12 hours every day. That sounds like a lot. My. That sounds like a lot. Okay, well, I'm wondering what you're in. Yeah. So maybe that. Is that clinical? Is that, you know, is it a clinical? Is it something. Tell me what that is. This live was shared on a nursing page. Oh, wow. Cool. So welcome, everybody. We are apparently on a nursing page on Facebook. Maybe it was our nursing SOS page, but maybe not. That's fine. Hello, I'm Christina. If you're new here, this is Matthew.

Hello. Welcome to the nursing school show. We are talking about how many hours you should study in nursing school. To get everyone caught up, we're talking about just lecture for now. Christine will talk about skills in a skills lab in a little bit. But for lecture classes alone, for every hour in class, go ahead and book around two hours out of class.

Yes. Per week.

Per week. So if you have an hour in class per week.

Lecture.

Lecture. Then you study for two hours per week for that. Yep. We also started this discussion off with whether you believe you're an overstudier or understudier. So I'm curious now that we've given you kind of that guideline of one hour in lecture, two hours outside, can you go ahead and shoot an update? Are you actually overstudying or understudying based on that metric? Based on that metric. And just for lecture.

Yeah, just for lecture.

Just for lecture. I am curious where we are with that, so you can go ahead and consider.

Perfect. All right. So every hour that you are in lecture, study for two hours Outside of class, that should give you. So here's the thing, you guys, that should give you enough time if you, you are following the right study strategies. If you are trying to read every single thing in the textbook, you are not going to have enough time. You are not going to be able to fit your study time into that two hours for every hour you're in class, right? But if you are studying efficiently, effectively, if you are following our study strategies step by step, following our study strategies step by step. Focusing on reading the sections of the book that your professors talk about in class. Focusing on the four main categories. Okay, I know we got a lot of new people on, so I'm just going to briefly high level this for you. I'm going to walk you through the four main things that you have to focus on in nursing school. Okay? You ready for it? Write these down. Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment, and nursing interventions. If you are not focusing on those four main things, you are not going to do well on your exam, my friend. When was the last time you had a nursing school exam that focused on memorization? Like never, right? They focus on critical thinking, how you apply the information to case scenario questions, patient situations, and those are the four main things you have to know. Pathophysiology, you have to understand what is happening with the patient. Now this applies to fundamentals, med surg, pediatrics, all the things ob. Pathophysiology, you have to understand what is happening in the body. Signs and symptoms. What, what are the signs and symptoms of the patient is going to present with nursing assessment. What are you going to assess for nursing interventions? What are you going to do about it? Those are the four main things that your exams are going to test you on and how you apply those four main things to a patient Scenario question. Right? Like a priority question. What's the first action you will do? What's your initial action? You know, SATA questions. Select all that apply questions. What nursing assessments would you do for this patient? What are the, the signs and symptoms that you might expect to see? Those are pretty traditional SATA questions that you might see on your exam, right? Four main categories. Patho, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. Okay, so those are the two really, really the two main things. Don't focus on reading everything, every single.

Thing in the book.

You will not have time to read every single thing in the book. Then you also have to focus on those four main categories, right? Patho, signs and symptoms, nursing assessment and nursing interventions. So for everyone, that's New around here. There's your very high level overview. Now if you want more study tips on more of a deep dive on that, you could do a couple of things on YouTube. We are on YouTube YouTube.com forward/nitnessing SOS and Matthew on YouTube can you post. We have a fantastic playlist on how to study where to stay, step by step how to study in nursing school. We also have our brand new which we just released last week, nursing school study system for you that walks you through again, step by step how to study in nursing school. We are kind of known for our step by step processes around here. I love step by step processes. I think that learning nursing school step by step is the best and only way to learn nursing school. So there you go. We break it down for you step by step. So that is that. Focus on reading the sections of the book that your professors talk about in class. Focus on those four main categories. If you are studying that way using our critical thinking cheat sheet that we just talked about a little while ago, Matthew posted it on YouTube. Nursing schoolofsuccess.com critical thinking thinking nursing schoolsuccess.com forward/critical thinking. It's a critical thinking cheat sheet that we give you to help you critically think and apply the information that you're learning to. You know, how can you apply it? How do you apply it to a patient situation? How do you connect the dots between concepts, things like that? So that is the critical thinking. So if you are studying that way, not trying to read every single thing in the book, not spinning in anxiety and not focusing on things that you are learning about, right? If you are studying effectively and efficiently and staying productive, then that two hours, if you are studying for two hours for every hour that you are in lecture class, that should be enough.

So the main goal here is that we want to get you efficient. We want to get you the information you need to pass nursing school and succeed as a nurse in the shortest amount of time possible. So that is all the test strategies that we go through. And again, as long as you're putting that into practice and having focused study, then this guideline of two hours for every hour you are in lecture will is enough.

So absolutely. But you have the key, the key thing, friends. You have to make sure that you are studying effectively, efficiently, that you're not wasting time studying things that just don't matter, right? How many of us are guilty of that in nursing school, right? How often do you study the things that just don't matter? They just don't show up on your exams. So that's what we teach you here. We teach you how to focus on studying the things that matter. Things that are going to show up on your exam. Right. So that is for lecture. We've got a lot of comments coming in from all over the places. Hi, Charlotte on Instagram. Hi, Mary on Instagram. Let's see, Charlotte, you think you're overstudying Nigh on Facebook. Guilty.

Yeah.

Yes, for sure. Student nurse A on YouTube. Hello. Overstudying. Feel like I'm not getting all the information. Right. Because if you feel like you are overstudying right now, I can just guarantee you that you are not following those study strategies that we teach. If you feel like you're overstudying but still not getting the information, you're not studying effectively or efficiently, period. You know, that's it. Yeah, I want to make sure that you are studying. And I also have a life in nursing school. My. You know, because you can.

It is possible. So I'll just break in here, a little bit of tangent, but then after that you can go ahead and talk about studying skills.

Yep.

Right.

Skills lab is next.

But back to just the point of studying efficiently. And I'm going to shoot myself in the foot for this, but I hear a bunch of you guys or some of you people saying that I'm studying literally right now as I'm listening. And I love that you're listening, but that is not efficient studying. So if you're going to study, as much as I like you to hang out, then definitely focus on the studying. But that is what we're talking about. Focus on what you're doing, focus on the studying so that you can have time later. So as long as you're doing all those things focusing, then yeah, that two to one definitely will work out. So we have a bunch of study tips for you as well. That's basically what we do to make you efficient and get your studying done so you can have a life, so you can do other things, that you can spend time with your family and your kids. So on that note, let's go ahead and switch over to skills. We'll see how many people drop off and start studying. So we'll see.

Lecture. Make sure that you are studying for two hours for every lecture hour that you are in class, whether online or in class by have you. That's every week. Now for skills lab, we say it's a one to one ratio for every hour that you are in skills lab. Study in skills lab and practice your skills for one hour for every hour that you're in class, right? So hour to hour, one to one. Okay. Why are you laughing?

Oh, bye, Sally. Sally's saying that she'll. She'll come back and listen later.

So bye, Sally. See you later. That's so funny. I love it. Yes. So one to one ratio for skills. So if you are in a skills lab, you study your skill, you know, you go to your skills lab class, right? One hour. And then I want you to practice your skill for one hour after that class. Now, the caveat here, the big caveat here is I am, I am guessing, I am assuming that during your skill skills class, you are also practicing that skill. So it's kind of like two hours of practicing your skill, right? So if you are. If your skills lab is structured slightly different and your instructor is doing like a lecture for skills, then you will want to do what we talk about for lecture class, which is one to two ratio for every hour you're in skills labs, two hours after class. Because you will need that two hours to practice your skills. What you're looking for, you guys when you practice your skills is you are looking for muscle memory. And just, I don't want to say total, what do they call it, fluidity with things like you don't have to be like totally rock star at it, but you have to be pretty, pretty close a rock star at it. Right? Because here's the thing, when you are studying your skills and testing off on your skills, how scary is it to have an instructor standing over you with a clipboard the whole time? That's wrong. That's wrong. That's wrong. You know that every time they mark something down with their marker with their pen that you did something wrong, right? So scary. It's so terrifying. So that's kind of the thing that you have to overcome. And the best way to do that is to make sure that you are just. It's that it's just muscle memory, that it's really just you've practiced your skills so many times that it's like, I. I don't want to say totally comes naturally, but as close as possible comes naturally.

Yeah. So. So that's really the key thing with skills lab is practice.

Yes.

Repetition. Practice. So that it does feel like it's not your first time doing it when you're actually doing it in front of a teacher.

Don't.

Don't do that. So just practice a lot. I like a tip that, a tip that you gave a couple AMAs ago is really if you have a skills lab that's open that you can actually go and do your skills practice in, definitely go and do that. Definitely grab a teacher. Doesn't have to be you, but grab a teacher. Grab someone else that's in the skills lab. Hey, can you just watch me? Because that is replicating what the exam or what the skills lab test will be like. So get someone to watch you while doing it.

Listen to this guy.

Because then you'll be more used to it. Because really half of that is you may know it and you may even be natural or it might come easy to you or you might have done it a lot so it feels natural to you. But really as soon as someone's watching over you, that's a whole other ball game. So get rid of that anxiety and that stress by having people watch you practice. Definitely.

How scary is that? Everyone said amen. So scary to have somebody stand over you and watch you do your skills. Like I just remember, like you just, guys, you just sweat so much through those gloves. Like, let's just be real, like sterile gloves. Who decided to have sterile glove check offs in skills lab because all nursing students are like sweating and you can't get them on and it's just, just, it's just a mess. But if you practice, just like Matthew said, if you practice your skill with another skills lab instructor watching you, or it doesn't have to be your instructor, it doesn't have to be your instructor, just any, any instructor in there, like watching you, not only will it replicate more closely to your testing situation because you have someone watching over you. Right. You can practice under kind of that pressure, but also they can give you some tips if you're missing something. If you are, you know, you could do something better if they have a different technique to do something. You know, you can get that feedback from them if they're an instructor.

So any tips on how to do skills? If there's no skill lab open, Definitely practice on your family members, friends, whoever you can get your hands on. If not a person, then definitely like stuffed animals or inanimate objects or whatever.

A dog. You see that a lot on Instagram.

Yes, but the key thing is practice as far as getting someone to watch you. I was just thinking about this. It doesn't even have to be a professor or whatever. It's just that, that people watching over you. So if you have multiple family members perform your skill or practice your skill on one family member where other family members are watching you, not only that, watch you.

Yeah, yeah.

Not Only that. But explain. Explain the process because that will also get it wired in your brain. So what you're trying to do is remember it in multiple different ways. So actually doing it, that's the physical part. If you're talking through it while you're talking to someone, then that's verbal and you're listening to yourself. So that's listening and verbal. So it's all your sensors are being engaged.

Visual, audio, you know, when you hear yourself talk, you're hearing it. It's all those things. Oh, and by the way, if you are like a different kind of learner, you know, kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever. We cover all of it in the nursing school study system. I tell you how to study based on what kind of learner you are. So super helpful. The nursing school study system. Nursing schoolofsuccess.com study system is kind of what we're going over Today on page 42, if you have it, because I know a lot of you have this already. All right, Facebook. I am so curious. Can you tell me what page did you find us on on this morning? What Facebook page were we posted in? Because we got a lot of students who are popping in on Facebook. Super cool. I don't know any of your names.

Welcome.

I've never met you before. Welcome. We are now best friends. I hope you understand.

For those just joining us for the first time, I am Christina. Everyone, this is Christina. This is Matthew. Hello, nurse. Not a nurse.

We are.

Welcome to the nursing school show. Nursing sos. We're talking about how many hours to study.

Yep.

For nursing school. We talked about lecture and skills lab. And skills lab.

Yep. Yep. So now let's talk about clinical. Now clinical. Can you guys please tell me in the chat, what clinicals do you have nowadays? Are you going to a hospital? Are you going to a facility somewhere out there in the world? Or are you going to school for clinicals? Are you just not having clinicals? Are you online clinicals? What have you. Tell me in the chat?

Looks like Facebook just decided to push out our notification from our. Our page itself.

That's funny. Well, that should happen every time. I'm thinking, but maybe not. Yeah, tell me what was it? A Facebook group Facebook page, What have you? I don't know. Maybe Nicole posted it on our Facebook.

I don't know. We'll see.

That would be great. Nicole's great. If you guys are a nursing SOS member or if you ever emailed us. You know who Nicole is? She is our community manager.

No clinicals. We're using vsim. So we hear VSIM a lot.

Yes.

Nowhere to go, school in the hospital.

No clinical four hours a week.

Okay, so no clinical in hospital. OB clinical in hospital.

Perfect.

We were going to hospital, so yeah.

Definitely some skilled nursing facility. Cool. Yep, yep. There you go. Zoom lots. I mean there's no hospitals this semester. Mike is your first semester. Hey, Mike. No clinical four hours a week. Cool. Okay.

Yeah, so definitely a mixture of people going in person or VSIM or some kind of online. So yeah.

Depending on how it is, depending on where you're located and what decisions they've made. 10 hour shift, once a week at a hospital. Okay, so hospital. And a lot of people go into a hospital in a long term care facility. Great, perfect. So, okay, here's what we recommend for, for clinical. Now, clinical. A lot of your clinicals are going to be like 8 hours. 12 hours. You are not going to study for 12 hours for your clinical class, that's basically like your lecture class, your skills lab, those are preparing you for clinical. Right. So your lecture class, your skills lab, those are going to prepare you for clinical. Now for your clinical though, like specific clinical and isolation. Like how many of you have papers, care plans, assignments that go along with your clinical experience? Raise your hand. How many of you have care plans to fill out, have assignments to do, papers to complete that are just based on your clinical experience? Tell me in the comments, like raise your hand, throw up a heart, do like what have you. Leave a comment. Care plans. Yes. So I remember when I was in nursing school, we had like you had to do like three care plans for each patient that you had. And so we would have like three, four patients on med search floor. Three or four patients. Sometimes, I mean when you start you only have like one or two, but like toward the end, you know, three or four patients. So we had to do like three or four care plans for each patient. So it was like literally every day, 12, 12 care plans. Like 12 care plans per clinical day. And so that is, that is typical. So yeah, I do. Everyone's raising their hand. Yes. Yeah, yes. Clinical assignments, care plans. Oh, docu care. Yes. So there's, there's a lot of assignments that you have to complete for clinical. So for clinical, here's what we recommend. Two to four hours. Two to four hours for every clinical day that you have.

For every clinical day. Not every clinical hour, because that would be.

Yeah, no, for every clinical day. Bananas. Two to four hours for every clinical day that you have. Now that is quite the variation. You're Like Christina, two to four. Wow, that's a lot. It is. Here's why. So if you are just filling out some care plans for your patients, a lot of you said care plans. Yes. Some assignments, sure. If you are just doing, you know, you just have to do some care plans, maybe a few assignments, two hours should be fine. However, if you have like a 12 page, 25 page research paper that you have to complete over your clinical experience, that's going to take you a little bit longer. Right? So now we're going more on the four hour end. So that's why I give you that variation. Two to four hours. Two to four hours of study time, preparation time. It's not even really study time. It's like prep time for clinical, two to four hours for clinical, two hours. If you only have a few care planes to do, more on the four hour end, if you have, have like research paper, a lot of assignments, things like that. Now here's what I want to say about that. Hold the study system, please. We're gonna jam on care plans real quick, okay? Care plans, Care plans.

Okay.

For care plans in nursing school, if it is taking you, if you're, if you're a new nursing student and it's taking you more than say 20 minutes to a half hour for one care plan, it's taking you too long. You're a new nursing student. Half hour should be your max for a care plan. Like, and I would say absolute max. Like you really like right now. I mean, my. I could knock out a care plan in a few minutes. So literally, you guys want to get to that place right by the end of your whole, you know, nursing school journey, nursing school experience. You really want to get to that place where you can just knock out a care plan right after clinical. And now I'm also saying, like care plan. Some of your schools conflate together the nursing assessment and a care plan. I'm just talking about a care plan. So care plan will include some of your assessment data, but also it goes through, you know, patient. What's your, what's your actual nursing diagnosis? What's your patient goals? What are the nursing interventions? What's the rationale for those nursing interventions? Those things. That is what I'm talking about. When you see like your care plan with the columns. Right, with the columns. That is what I'm talking about. Few minutes, maximum of 30. Now I want to point out. Can you guys screenshot this really quick? Take a screenshot. Screenshot, Screenshot this book friends. All right, I hope you got it this is the Nursing Diagnosis Handbook by Ackley and Ladwick. The Nursing Diagnosis Handbook by Accolade. It literally just about writes your care plans for you. They have here in the front all of the nursing diagnoses and then throughout the book, they go through each one of those diagnoses and walk you through possible patient goals, nursing interventions for them, the rationales for the interventions, all the things. It's so helpful. It's so helpful. I cannot even tell you how many hours this will save you in nursing school. It's crazy. So, yeah, there's that. So care plans, you really should be like less than 30 minutes per care plan. So per patient, you know, so when you take that under consideration, 30 minutes per care plan, if you have four care plans to write, that's two hour, two hours already. So there you go.

Okay.

Two to four hours for every day you are at clinical.

Two to four days for. Or two to four days. Two to four days, yeah. Two to four hours for every day you are in clinical. Correct.

Okay, there you go. And that is how many hours you should study.

In nursing school we went through a lot there. So for people on Facebook and Instagram, of course it's posted there in YouTube. Everything is posted up online after our live. So definitely go back and sift through this live if you missed a part of it or whatnot. But overall recap, lecture two to one for every hour that you're in class. For lecture, study for two hours. Yep. For skills lab. For every hour in skills lab. Hour one to one, studying one to one. And clinical for every day that you're in clinical Day. Day you're in clinical. Two to four hours.

To four hours. Yes. Now it will be on the higher end, of course. You might even go over that four hour period. So let's say you have like a 25 page paper that you have to get done for your clinical day. You have a 25 page paper to get done. Four hours might not cut it for you. So you might need to do more for that week. But you're not going to have like 25 page paper every single week, right? Yeah, I hope not. So there you go. It might be a little bit more, might be less.

So these are guidelines.

You are both awesome people. We are awesome people. Charlotte, you are awesome. Thank you, friend.

So these are definitely guidelines. It's to get you again in the rough area of how many hours we found works again, working efficiently, studying efficiently, focusing on what you need to study on. And we go to that in depth in some other Things. But the topic for today is just how many hours does study. So those are the hours for each major part of nursing school.

Erin, I got your email this morning. I will email you back unless Nicole gets to it first. You will race Nicole and I.

There you go.

But, yeah, you will be getting an email from us. Yeah, I. I got your email, by the way.

Okay, so any comments, questions, additional questions about how many hours to study? If anything was a little fuzzy, go ahead and shoot those. We'll. We'll try and answer them. I did have a couple questions that. That people have asked either right now or previous that has something to do with studying. So let's go ahead and shoot some of those off. Okay, so I know that people ask for tools that you have used and I know that I've heard about this, but how do you feel about using.

Apps like Picmonic, Picmonic and did you use any apps? They got super popular. Yeah, Picmonic is super popular. I have never used it personally. I don't even know if it was around when I was in nursing school. But it sounds great. Sounds great. Can you guys let me know? Do you use Picmonic?

Do you use Picmonic? Is it helpful?

Can you tell me Picmonic, do you use it? And if you do, what's your favorite thing about it? Tell me what your favorite thing about Picmonic. Like, how do you use it? Tell me how do you use it? Is it awesome? How does it help you all those things? Can you tell me in the chat? Tell me. It's like all my weird, like, hand things. Tell me in the chat. All right, there you go. Very helpful. Sasha's is very pick Monic. It's okay. So here's the thing. I have never used it. No, here is what I think it is. Tell me if it's wrong. Exactly. Yeah. Grand famous. Okay. On Instagram, I don't know if I got your handle right. It's hard to read. And you guys, I'm like, honestly blind, so I need to get new glasses. So Picamonic, to my knowledge, is like, I think of it as mind castles. Really? I think of it as story illustrations that teach you nursing school things. But I think they also have it as like other for other disciplines as well, like medicine and things like that.

Okay. Picmonic is life according to a comment in YouTube, by the way. Helps you remember things through stories and different characters.

Great.

I love that explanation.

I've never seen that illustration tool of learning. So it is stories. Is Picmonic an App guessing. I'm guessing Prima Bella. So someone asked this question.

There you go. Thank you.

Well, the question is apps like Picmon. So, yeah, I guess it is an app. I have never used it personally, but I've heard great things. You know, things like that. Yeah. So there you go. Other apps that we use, the nclex RN Mastery app is really the only app that we use that I used in nursing school because that was the nclex question app that I used that I chose where I would just practice nclex questions again and again and again.

Okay, someone did ask, yeah, what, what do you use for practice questions? So, yes, that's it. Nclex RN Mastery.

Yep. Nclex RN Mastery app. I believe they have an NCLEX LPN or P Mastery app. So check that out. If you're in an LPN or LVN program, practical nursing program, everyone's saying, yeah, Picmonic is an app. You can use it through their website. I'm assuming you can download an app. I don't know. What's your favorite thing? Can you guys tell me? All you Picmonic users, can you tell me your favorite thing about Picmonic?

Tricia on Facebook said it's more for visual learners. So again, different people have different learning styles.

Is there audio to it? Can you tell me, is there audio to it? Like, like, is it like an actual character story or, you know, I only really see the pictures and things, and yet I don't know. I, I, I have never used it.

New to us.

New to us. But that is really the only app that I use is the nclex RN Mastery app for practice questions and nursing school.

Great.

There you go.

Within how many hours to study? Brandy, a little earlier today was asking, do you think it's best to listen to your lecture and then read the section they highlight, or should you skim the chapters before class?

Okay, so when I was in nursing school, I did not really skim the chapters too much. Sometimes I did, especially when I was starting nursing school, I did skim the chapters. But once I kind of learned how my instructors taught, I stopped because it wasn't helpful for them. Now, some classes, some of your professors might want you to skim the book. You might have a pop quiz before class. We've seen that happening a lot lately. A pop quiz before you even learn in class, in the book, like, you have to focus again, focus on reading the sections of the book that are going to be covered in class. So you'll go off their study guides, their PowerPoints their modules, their study aids, outline, whatever, what have you. Like, focus on all those things. Study those sections of the book that are covered in whatever supplemental materials that your instructor gives you. Just gives you kind of a guideline to follow. So that is that I did. Like, when you skim the book, I look at, like, the titles, the boxes, the key points, the highlights. You know, the highlights. Just so you kind of don't get lost during class.

Could be helpful, but definitely don't read it.

Don't read it. Don't read it. Okay, so, yeah, that is actually. So I cover the whole system here in the nursing school study system, if you're curious. Let me show you. It's on page 15. There you go.

We actually did an AMA, I think, last week that dives into how to study. So definitely, again, post it up. Probably the easiest place to look for that is YouTube for our previous AMA is. But we do have an AMA on specifically how to study, which we went through that section as well. Whoa.

Prima Bella Picmonic has different textbooks like Med Surg Fundamentals, the Saunders nclex book. Look for your book, and it gives you stories based on different chapters. Wow. That is game on, friends. I'm gonna have to check it out. Sold. I'm gonna have to check it out. Just got into nursing school. Congratulations.

Pre nursing student here. Taking A and P online. And there is no lecture. Student Instructor provides the PowerPoint. Yeah, PowerPoint that comes with the book. Sometimes it provides other resources, but no lecture from the instructor themselves. I'm struggling with getting through the material this way.

Any recommendations in an A and P class?

In A and P, yeah.

Basically, if your instructor doesn't teach. Like, that's really the thing. If your instructor doesn't teach. We get this a lot. Like, don't. Jessica. Jessica. Don't worry. Like, don't. Don't think that your situation is impossible, because it's not. We get this question all the time. What happens if your instructor doesn't teach? What happens if you just go through group projects, all those things, and actually that's. I walk you through. Now, yours is specific to amp, which is slightly different. But in nursing school, if you guys are in your core nursing classes, I actually walk you through back here what to do if my professor doesn't. What do I do if my professor doesn't teach? It's on page 45 of the nursing school studies system. So literally, we get this question all the time. Added it in there.

Yeah. Kayla from Facebook also asked that too. So, yeah, if they just have the PowerPoint. So definitely go through that.

So you want to use their supplemental materials and that is what you will focus your study time on. Because you don't have lecture, right? You don't have a lecture class to focus your study time with. You will use the PowerPoints, the outlines, whatever, whatever supplemental materials that they give give you. That is what you are going to use and focus on when you're studying. So make sure that you are following their PowerPoint. Because they give you a PowerPoint. Even if the PowerPoint comes with the book, it's fine. You know, they're not going to include the entire book in the PowerPoint. So they're going to constrain it in some way. I mean, it's going to still be a lot of information. Which amp, trust me, is a lot of information. Like there's just no getting around that. There's no two ways around that. Like amp nursing school, it's just. It's a lot of information. It's a lot of information in a fast period of time. Fast short period of time. So there's no getting around that. Right. But we can still condense our studying as best as we can. And so that's how we do it. Yep.

So actually related to this, Elizabeth was asking how can someone memorize anatomy? So we talked about how many hours to study today. But as far as what to study, how to study again, previous ama, we talked about that. We'll probably talk about that in a future AMA again, but for specifically anatomy, and we hear this a lot, any kind of topic that has to do with rote memorization, what are our tips for just getting it memorized? And Christina has really her two main points or two main things are whiteboards and flashcards.

Yep, absolutely.

Just repetition. So that condensed down, that's just repetition. Write it over and over again. Different mediums, flashcards, teaching it to other people. Once you understand it again, getting all your senses involved in learning that information will help you retain it better.

Yeah.

So really, for the topics that are mass memorization, anatomy, a lot of the pre nursing things. Right. Chemistry, things like that, biology, it's just repetition.

Yep, absolutely. Anatomy and physiology.

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Hi, Mom. If you're watching. Yes, it happens a lot. All right, Maria. Okay, we're getting this question a lot. When does the nursing SOS membership Community. Community open and surprise. I'm going to say it. Can I say it?

All right. First. You heard it first here.

You heard it first here it is. Opening next week. Dun dun dun dun dun dun. Next week for the nursing SLS membership community. So friends, get ready. If you are not on the waitlist, you have to join. Join the wait list so you will not miss it. Nursing schoolofsuccess.com join join the wait list. Friends, join in now. I am telling you right now, every single time, every single time, when we open enrollment, we get an email from somewhere, multiple emails actually, a few minutes after it closes saying, oh no, I missed it, let me in. And we can't. So join next week when it opens. You guys. Mark your calendars. Sunday. It opens on Sunday. Mark your calendars. I'm telling you now. I'm telling you now. Do not come to me. Do not come to me.

She says this every time too, by the way.

And get mad at me because you missed it. You knew here first. So on the wait list. Sweet.

I shot the link down below in YouTube. Nursing schoolofsuccess.com join.

Bam.

That will lead you to the wait list and you will be the very first people to know when it does open.

Yep.

For those that do not know, that is our nursing SOS membership community where Christina and Nicole and others personally help you pass nursing school. It is our premier membership.

We walk you through nursing school step by step.

Christina does a great job walking you step by step through nursing school. So we have a step by step system that helps you get through nursing school again in the most efficient way possible so you can have a life. You can spend time with your family. You can feel confident. You can also be part of a really amazing group. The Facebook group is. Has been great, Amazing, very supportive there.

So I just don't even know. I don't think that there is a more supportive community for nursing students out there. I just, I just don't.

So it's really great if you.

Charlotte, I'm so excited too. I know. Sweet.

Can you put Penny in Facebook, please?

Nursing schoolofsuccess.com join oh, Aaron. So the study system. Yes, for Nursing SOS members. If you are a Nursing SOS member, you get the study system for free. It's in the membership already. So go.

Do not buy it.

Do not buy it. It's in the study. It's. It's in the. In the study system. No, it's in the membership. It's in the membership. Aaron saying it's the best. Yes, it is the membership community. I know you're the best, Aaron. So go to your dashboard and then click on the Watch this first course. Watch this first. It's in there.

I put it there because hopefully if people watch that first, they'll see it there. But it is brand new there, so it hasn't been there before in the past. So if you remember, go to the Watch this now course and it is there. For those that are not in the membership again, it opens up next week. So join the wait list if you'd like. If you would like to just take a look at the study system, go ahead and go to nursingschoolofsuccess.comstudysystem Like I said, Christina has a step by step guide. And again we have the full blown premier experience in the membership. But if you want a condensed version, a DIY version of how to get through nursing school, the study system that is for you, you can check that out@nursingschoolsuccess.com study study system.

Yep.

And all the information is there. And also you can, you can get it printed out or use it digitally. And when you join us for our AMAs, you can open it up to the page that Christine is talking about.

Follow along, follow along.

It'll be great.

Yay. Sweet. So today, Monday, I did not forget about you. I promised you. The thing is, is that those questions were really deep, like med surg questions. And so we're not going to go over it now, but going to go over it tomorrow on our tutoring call. So Tuesday's tutoring call 2pm Pacific Standard Time. If you are a nursing SOS member, you will get an email today. You probably already did get an email today about with the link and everything for you to click. So we're going to go over, I think tomorrow we've got coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure and tuberculosis. I'm going to do an overview of tomorrow on our tutoring call. Call for nursing SOS members. So those were really the.

Yeah.

And then there's, there's also more questions for tomorrow for tutoring, but those were the main questions that were submitted for today's ama. But that was a little too deep for us to go over today with everything else. I mean seriously, it took us an hour to go through how to study.

So you know, Jessica, is it more beneficial to wait until starting core nursing classes to join? I won't be starting them until, until we can. I think it's fall, fall 2021, so there is a little bit of time there. So Yep.

Start. So you know, don't join if you are not taking your core nursing classes. And by core nursing classes, I mean fundamentals, med, surg, mental health, path, pathophysiology, pharmacology. If you are not taking those classes. Now wait, please. Because we don't have a course on microbiology or chemistry or biology or anything like that that we teach core nursing classes inside the membership community. Med, surg, fundamentals, you know, ob, all those things.

So just stay here, just hang out with us here and learn a little bit more and join us. Comment like you have been. And yeah, when it comes closer you can, you can think about if you'd like to again kind of get a handle on the step by step guide. You can always take a look at the study system and follow along with us that way if you'd like.

For sure. Sweet.

So Wednesday, Wednesday is our next AMA. We have AMAs on Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 Pacific and other. You can do the calculation. 9 Pacific, 12 Eastern, etc.

That's as far as I'm going. Other times I don't know the time zone. So 9:00am Pacific Standard Time, Monday and Wednesday. So Wednesday we will be back with you. You 9am Pacific and then we will see you again next week. Yes, every Monday and Wednesday. All right, friends, the membership is going to open soon. Please get on the wait list. Please.

All right. Please.

I don't want you to miss it. Yes, all right.

We definitely do not want you guys to miss it because we hear that every time.

Every time.

Every time. Okay, thank you everyone and we will see you on Wednesday. Bye, take care. Bye.