What do I
need to do every day (independent of assignments specific for that week) that
will distinguish myself and make me a better nurse than those around me?
1. Set up time to go over Professor Debourgh’s notes. Answer any
questions you may have through textbook or via internet. Solidify the
knowledge; don’t let it just slip away and have to re-pick up all over again
due to not touching it for a long time! (Then go over old notes such as Cooper’s
Notes from Sophomore II)
2. Go through textbook chapters of class subjects and topics
3. Invest time everyday to study Saunders
Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination, 5e by Linda Anne Silvestri
(Author) and Medical-Surgical Nursing
Made Incredibly Easy! by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Author)
(My classmate said that this book is better than our professor’s notes
because it gives you exactly the information that you need to know, will
remember throughout your nursing career, and doesn’t bombard you with excessive
details of pathophysiology like our textbook does)
(2 hours everyday for numbers 1, 2, and 3)
**Should I make it 2 hours a day for more realistic purposes time-wise?
4. Learn and review EKG strip interpretations: EKG’s Made Easy along with prior Professor’s notes
(1 hour everyday)
5. Go over fundamentals! Meaning study Jarvis book to improve your
assessment skills! (ex: Lung Sounds; Abnormal Heart Sounds; percussion, what to
look for EXACTLY and understand what is EXACTLY going on with the patient)
(30 min. per day)
6. Invest time to run over the steps of performing Skills in your head.
(Ex: Trach. Suctioning, catheter insertion, wound dressing change, etc.)
Clarify any questions!
(30 min. per day)
Weekly:
-
Set
up time to review CPR
***Write out
nursing goal to-do list in a place where you will easily see it every day.
For EMT
Class:
1. Practice EMT skills and assessments
until solidified (1 hour qday)
2. Go over class notes
3. Read textbook sections most related
to the most important parts in Miller’s powerpoints; skim over the rest. (For
numbers 2 and 3, 1 hour qday)
Question now is, how much time do I give to each list?
How much studying time does all this entail? 6 hours total
everyday without taking into account breaks
How much time do I have in a day with and without EMT class?
If I wake at 4:22 AM, and go to sleep at 10:00 PM, that gives me around 17
hours and 30 min. of time awake. For days that I have EMT class, from time it
takes to get ready and drive over, go to class, and drive back, that is about 8
hours total. 8 plus 7 is 15 hours used up for EMT class and the time I have allotted
to commit to working towards. That leaves me about 3.5 hours of time used for eating,
resting/breaks, and other endeavors. On days without EMT class, it is not as
much of a problem to pursue other endeavors such as typing Lucky’s story and
writing about spirituality and the science behind it.
**after my rant yesterday about ending this blog, how much
time do I want to spend typing and writing every day? On either Lucky’s story
then on tim oshea, BL, GMO’s dangers, make-up carcinogens, cut poison burn,
science of spirituality websites,…
(1 hour 30 min. initially, then just 1 hour qday)
How much time should I spend reading books qday? This is one
of the problems I typed up about yesterday, I am not putting in time to write
which could take up time for reading these books of interest that I have, but
at the same time I want to do both.
(start reading when you’ve finished other stuff you want to
write about otherwise when you read, you WILL have ADDED stuff you will want to
write about!
1 hour)
So this adds up to pretty much 8 hours of work a day give
and take a bit. This includes no break times. This takes into account of my
goal of being a difference making nurse, goal of waking early and being
productive with my time, goal of writing about life’s wisdom with the MIT posts
in the morning, and my goal of writing about spirituality. Which all of these
are my goals I am pursuing right now, not in the near future.
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