Sunday 29 December 2013

How To Be An Excellent Nursing Student

By Hedrick Lepsch


Back to school just got a lot more expensive. As a college student, you no longer just need a few notebooks and pencils. Now you have to pay for unreasonably expensive textbooks, a new (more sophisticated) wardrobe, pots and pans, rent, and what else? A laptop? A tablet? What expensive electronic device do you actually need for college? It's a very good question. The answer? Well, it depends...

When trying to decide if you need a tablet and what kind, there are a lot of things to consider. Here are a few questions to run by yourself to help you narrow down your options.

However, not just anyone can earn a nursing degree. Nursing students must be dedicated, hardworking, and determined to do well while they are in school. The rigors of schoolwork and academic life are often strenuous; here are some tips on how to weather them. One of the most important things you can do as a nursing student is to plan.

For them, writing out by hand helps with memory, and there is usually more room for creativity (arrows and underlines and doodles that help connect ideas).

If you write down your important assignments and test dates, there is a smaller chance that you will postpone, procrastinate, or forget about these dates. Forgetting about the due date of a major assignment can be detrimental to your grade; this is why writing due dates down at the beginning of the semester is so important.

This brings us to point number two. What would you use your tablet for? Some surveys suggest that most students use their tablets mostly for accessing educational apps, note taking, web surfing, entertainment, and social networking. Do you already do all your web-access via smartphone and laptop? Will having a tablet make redundant your already-purchased expensive gadgetry? Will having all that at your fingertips distract you in class? Or will it guide your studies and enhance your learning experience? Do an honest self-evaluation and think about how you would use your tablet and if it would improve or detract from your education.

Third, much of what you use your tablet for will be determined by the nature of your studies/major. Tablets are great for some disciplines, and not so necessary for others. Of course tablets can always be made useful, but fields that are more visual (art history, advertising, or certain medical specialties programs) would be greatly enhanced by tablets whereas fields like math or political science might not need the specific capabilities of tablets quite as much. So think, is my medical specialties degree or journalism degree going to require the benefits of tablet? If yes, go for it! If you're unsure, wait a little bit and see how things pan out.

You can even add subheadings under the headings, and then bullet points under the subheadings. This will help your notes to be very organized.

If you organize your notes in this way, you will be able to find things more easily when you go back to look at your notes later. If you want to become a top nursing student and graduate at the top of your class, follow these tips and then see the results.




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