Nursing exams test how you connect ideas, not how much you memorize. Link heart failure to hypertension and stroke, then trace the signs, symptoms, assessments, and interventions across all three.
Study Tip number two for nursing school is to focus on critical thinking. This is huge. Your exams in nursing school are not going to test you on how well you memorize things. They are going to test you on how well you critically think. So you need to focus on applying the information that you're learning, considering how it applies to other aspects of what you are learning. So say you're learning about heart failure in nursing school. Well, think about how heart failure interacts with hypertension or with stroke or other disorders that you're learning about the signs and symptoms that you'll see, the nursing assessment that you need to do, the nursing interventions. You have to connect all the things together. So apply the information that you're learning to other things that you are learning about. This is critical thinking.
