A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF A NURSING STUDENT

[Music] hi guys welcome back to my channel if you're new here my name is courtney i'm currently a nursing student in an accelerated bsn program i post nursing related videos and in today's video i'm going to be showing you guys a week in my life um i feel like i have not recorded in forever so i intended to film my last week of my first quarter and i ended up getting sick and then i had my finals which i really wanted to focus like all in on that and i'm really happy that i did because i ended up making all a's which i was super happy about but then immediately after my finals week i was traveling to south dakota for a wedding and i traveled to georgia to visit my friends and family then i started my second quarter of nursing school i just traveled to new york city for a bachelorette trip and i just got back in last night so i was like this week this week is the week i'm going to film i'm not traveling away on the weekend so like there's no excuses this week i have two exams that i'm studying for i have an exam in my professional nursing skills i think that's what the class is called it's kind of just like a skills demonstration that i have to demonstrate i can do certain things so i'll be graded on that that's tomorrow so i actually need to get on that and then a week from today so next monday i have an exam in my multi-dimensional care class so i'm going to be studying for that this week on top of just doing like my normal assignments and lectures clinicals and stuff like that so i'm excited to bring you guys along and i hope you enjoy this video [Music] i just finished my class i had a 9 a.m lecture and it went until about 11 50 then i had some lunch now i am just going to work on filling out my calendar i love starting the week off by just like putting everything that i need to do for the week in my calendar so that way i'm not confused on when things are due and i can stay on top of like all of my assignments so last quarter i don't know if you guys remember i think i had shown you um how i did my calendar and like in the past well let me just show you like last quarter so like for example last quarter i would like fill out my calendar like this i would put like my classes in a certain color and then i would maybe put like my assignments in a different color my test in a different color etc i liked color coding to stay organized but i tried doing that this quarter i am taking seven classes and this was just my first week like i had to like go down into other dates just to fill everything in so i was like why am i putting it all in this part of my calendar i like to see like the big picture but it was stressing me out it was way too much information like my i would get nervous just looking at my calendar so i ended up switching to just writing it in um like their actual location i don't know if you can hear me i ended up switching it to like the weekly planner versus the monthly planner so i just moved it and it's working so much better because i'm just focusing on the week and i have plenty of room to write all my seven classes in the spots so i am going to work on filling out my calendar for the week and then i'm going to work on some assignments i think when barrett gets off work we're going to go to the gym and then meal prep for the week we meal prepped my first week of my second quarter and it worked out so well i highly recommend if you're in nursing school i know it's some of you may think it's gross i personally do like i start getting grossed out after like the third day of eating the same thing but we try to like make two different meals for dinner two different meals for lunch uh maybe like two different meals for breakfast and just kind of like rotate those meals so that way it doesn't get too boring or too like repetitive so maybe that will work for you as well so yeah that is what i plan to do today [Music] so i wanted to show you guys how i like to set up my calendar um i like to have my laptop hold up with like all of my classes so i can easily go through and figure out like what days have things assigned to them so the way i set up this week was i've made all of my classes in green then i made all of my assignments in purple and i made anything that i found important like in a different color so like studying for my test as well as like reminding myself that i have dinner with my friend so that's how i did that and then i am going to try to do all of my assignments in like the first part of the week but they're actually not due like some of them aren't due until sunday however i like to pretend like they're gonna be due on wednesday so that way i have the last half of the week to study for my first exam it's like not the prettiest setup but it does help me stay organized and so i obviously like that aspect about it [Music] so it is about 6 15 in the evening and i just finished all my work for the day so i was originally planning on going to the gym after barrett got off work but he just called me and said he's working late so i decided i'm going to stay home and do a little like at home workout [Music] okay so i just completed my workout um i like literally could not even make it through the workout it was so hard so now i am going to wait for barrett he's like almost home and we're going to start meal prepping [Music] so [Music] a little bit of pink salt you're loving this i feel like he's like your cooking channel it's very cooking channel cooking with me that's like my life [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] okay so i just got to campus and i'm about to go inside i'm going to eat some lunch i'm going to try to work on an assignment because i have like 40 minutes before my class starts um but then i'll have my skills demonstration so i'm a little bit nervous about that but i'm hoping that it goes okay because it's just vital signs so i think i'll be okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello i am back from my class i i literally thought that i thought the yellow jacket was back attack i mean this yellow jacket will not stop attacking my car anyways i just finished my class i had my demonstration it went super super super well i made a 100 i hit all of my points like it was based on accuracy so you had to like get the correct number of like for example for blood pressure like you had to like get the correct blood pressure to get the points or like the full amount of points and so i was just like super happy that i did well i feel like i can actually breathe now and now i can focus on studying for my multi-dimensional care class um i actually had time in this class while like other people were being tested to work on some of my assignments so like i'm all caught up in my assignments for the day and now i'm just going to focus on studying i actually forgot that i have a it's not a real test like i'm not being graded on it however i am being recorded tomorrow i have a demonstration in my nursing care of the older adult class and so i have to be recorded on that and so i obviously the perfectionist in me even though i'm not being graded wants to get it perfectly so i'm gonna go home and probably start studying for that but yeah that's gonna be my night [Music] [Music] so i just made it to campus i am so exhausted i do not know what came over me while i was driving here but i just feel like i want to take a nap and drink like 20 cups of coffee just to get through the day i don't think it's helping that it's like 80 degrees not a cloud in the sky super breezy like i could take a nap in like a hammock right now that sounds amazing but instead i get to spend like 18 hours inside a building today so yay [Music] good morning it is thursday i just finished my online class and the assignment that i needed to do for that now i'm just going to spend the rest of my day studying for my exam on monday so basically what i'm going to do is just like look over my lectures do the assigned reading i'm also going to use like quizlet some of my classmates made quizlets for the exam which i'm super thankful for that's pretty much it if you want like an in-depth version of the way i study i do have a video on that so you can check that out if you're interested i'm also going to dinner tonight with one of my friends from high school it's really cool because we actually now two of my friends actually three three of my friends from high school in georgia live in florida now and we're all in like the same area so like we can easily meet up and it's just awesome like i'm like i feel so lucky like some of them are like my best friends like ones that i lived 15 minutes down the road from and now i'm like basically doing the same thing and i'm like this is awesome so i'm going to meet up with one of my friends and then after that i probably won't do anything i mean i'd like to think that i'd come home and study some more that's wishful thinking i i hope that's what i do but i'm going to try to be realistic in the sense that i'm probably going to be ready to just like go to bed so i'm going to try to do as much as i can before dinner so i need to get started on that [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] i'm so tired i just got to campus it's about 7 20. um i'm super early but i feel like if i left any later i would be late so it's going to be a long day i have class from 8 am to 6 pm so it's just going to be one of those days hi can i just get a grande pumpkin cream cold brew sure but actually i'm sorry around the whole brew but it makes something very soft okay that's fine so i'm out of class i got out a little early it's friday i am ready to have a good weekend but in reality i'm going to be studying all weekend so hello today was fun i didn't really like explain what we did after my class i feel like i was just so excited to get out of there that i was like not thinking clearly but it was my multi-dimensional care class we had to you know like practice going into the room um we all got like a signed position so like someone would be the nurse someone would be the patient's family member and then we would like do a run through of everything and then i don't know it was just like a lot of fun i enjoyed it now i am going to work on a project and then upload some assignments that i need to get in um barrett and i are supposed to be going to dinner at six and it's five o'clock so i have like an hour to like knock some stuff out because i know i'm gonna want a margarita tonight so i'm going to be useless after that [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] happy saturday good morning good morning just walking around it's a beautiful saturday we got some coffee we went to the market and now we're walking around this lake [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay we are back from our walk it was seriously such a nice day outside but of course i have all this studying that i have not started so i plan to dedicate the rest of today and all of tomorrow to just studying cramming for this exam so what i plan on doing is using quizlet to study um but how i do that is i use their flashcard setting and then i use a whiteboard an extra expo marker and before flipping the card over i like to write what i think the answer is down on my whiteboard and then i kind of like test myself and i basically do that over and over again until i get it all correct so that's what i plan on doing and then i also like to pretend to teach my imaginary class um whatever the topic is to make sure that i can fully like understand it and teach it and apply it because i know that this exam is going to be mostly like application based not just with memorization so that's my plan hopefully it works it's my first exam in this class so who knows if this method is going to actually be beneficial or not um i'll be sure to let you guys know if it is so yeah that is what i plan to do today and tomorrow um barrett does want to go see the new james bond movie later tonight so i'm gonna try to get like all my work done so that way we can go do that but other than that i'm just gonna be keeping my booty on the couch and studying away [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

Channel: Courtney Elizabeth

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Length: 21min 34sec (1294 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 26 2021