Chenevert, M' 2006' Tour guide to nursing school:

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Time Management

• Chenevert, M. (2006). Tour guide to nursing
  school
• A students road survival kit (5th ed.). St.
  Louis, MO Mosby.

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Riddle

• What comes in short supply, cannot be purchased
  for any amount of money, and once used, cannot be
  recouped?

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TIME

• How many hours of time do you have in a week?
• 24 X 7
• 168 hours in a week
• So what do you do with YOUR time?
• Most of us think there are not enough hours in
  the day!

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Keys to Success and Time Management
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Keys

• Effectiveness

• Efficiency

• Attendance
• Budgeting
• Concentration
• Dirty Jobs
• Equipment
• Filing System
• Goals
• Hanging in there

• Investments
• Jotting it down
• Knocking off
• Librarian
• Majoring in minors
• No
• Other peoples time
• Prime time

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Keys

• Effectiveness

• Efficiency

• Questions
• Regrets
• Saving time
• Tomorrow
• Urgency

• Vacillating
• Wastebasket
• Xeroxing
• Yakety Yak
• Zzzzzzzs

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Attendance

• You hear us say all the time.You need to come
  to every class. Nursing school takes
  precedence. You need to get your priorities in
  order.
• Some students will skip class in order to study.
• Is this an example of poor time management?
• Guess what?
• For every hour you spend in class, you will
  reduce your study time by 3 hours!

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Budgeting

• You have to budget your time just like you do
  your money.
• You have 168 hours in a weekuse it wisely
• If possible PDA, Day planner, large
  calendartrack it ALL well in advance.
• Test days, clinical, final exam, concept maps,
  time to study, time to spend with family, time to
  sleep, time for RR!
• If you only have class 3 days a weekthose other
  days are not days off!

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Concentration

• Focus, focus, focus.
• Remove all clutter from your study area.
• Cluttered study area cluttered mind.
• Focus on one thing at a time.
• You should only keep items on your desk that deal
  with the task at handeliminate confusion.

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Dirty Jobs

• We all have that one assignment/task that we
  absolutely do not want to do!
• Guess what---do it first! Get it out of the way
  so you dont ruin the rest of your day thinking
  about how bad you hate to start that project!
• Eventually, if you put it off, tomorrow will come
  and it still wont be done.
• Then, tomorrow is ruined as well as today?

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Equipment

• You cant put out a fire with water pistol!
• Before you start a project or an assignment, make
  sure you have everything you needpens, pencils,
  index cards, poster board, blank concept maps,
  articles, you name it!
• You waste time when you are not prepared.

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Filing System

• I know that article is around here somewhere.
• You have now lost 20 minutes of prime time
  looking for an article----
• Have a place for everything and everything in its
  place.
• Dont keep papers from NUR 3030 by your desk when
  you are in NUR 4350. File away the 3030 items in
  a filing cabinet, under the bed, out of your way!

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Goals

• Be goal oriented
• Set short term and long term goals for yourself
  every day
• If you know what your goals are, you can skip
  activities and even avoid people who are not
  relevant to the accomplishment of your goal.
• Dont sit around and say I wish I could get a
  better grade in Adult Health II. Instead
• SayHow can I get a better grade in Adult Health
  II?----Make a list of steps

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Goal Improve my grade in Adult Health II Fall
2008

• List the steps you need to take to achieve this
  goal.
• Decide which steps you are able to take to
  achieve the goal.
• Decide which steps you are willing to take to
  achieve this goal.
• Identify people who can help you achieve this
  goal.
• Consider how you might allow yourself or others
  to get in the way of achieving this goal.
• Bottom linedont whineonly YOU can do something
  about it!

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Hanging in there!

• The harder the assignments get, the more tempting
  it is to put them off.
• Fight the urges to blow it off and watch TV or go
  partying---fight, fight, fight!
• If you stop working on the assignment when you
  find it difficult, you will leave with a defeated
  attitude---instead, work on it for a while until
  you feel like you are winning the battlethen
  stop.
• It will be much easier to return to it tomorrow!
  Promise.

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Investments

• This is a tough one---You have to think of your
  time as an investment or a deposit.
• You must learn to prioritize your activities.
• Every minute you spend studying is an investment
  in yourself and your future.
• Are you worth it?
• Invest more time in high-priority activities.
• Example

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Investment

• Tomorrow, you are having a test in Nursing course
  A that is worth 40 of your grade. You are also
  having a quiz in Nursing Course B that is worth
  5 of your grade.
• Where will a wise student invest the bulk of
  his/her time?

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Jotting it Downnot just for the elderly!

• Lists!
• Help you prioritize.
• Help you remember.
• Give you a sense of accomplishment at the end of
  the day.
• Helps you consolidate and use your time wisely.
• Tonight, before bed, make a list of 6 things you
  need to accomplish tomorrow. Then put them in
  rank order and tomorrow start with number 1. Try
  it!

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Knocking Off

• Sometimes just good enough is good enough.
• Settle for an A..Dont spend 5 additional hours
  for an A
• Know when you have had enough and are no longer
  productive.

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Librarian

• No person can save you more time---just ask.

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Majoring in Minor Activities

• Busywork
• Gives you a false sense of accomplishment
• Makes you tired
• Produces no results
• Be proud of your results, not your efforts

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One Word

• NO

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Other Peoples Time

• A lack of planning on your part does not
  constitute an emergency on my part.
• Piss Poor Planning results in Piss Poor
  Performance

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Prime Time

• Everyone has their best time of the daywhat is
  yours?
• Use it to your advantage.
• If possible, block this time off as your study
  time.
• Use your less-than prime time for non-cognitive
  tasks like xeroxing articles, Internet research,
  etc.

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Question Yourself

• Several times a day
• Is this the BEST use of my time right now?
• Is this activity helping me to achieve one of my
  goals?
• Is this worth the amount of time it is going to
  take?
• Is this still worth doing?
• If I didnt do this, what would happen?

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Regrets

• Dont waste your time with them.
• If you find yourself saying.. If only I had not
  ____________ or I wish I had ________ change
  your mindset and sayNext time I am going to

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Saving time

• Cant be done!
• You cant find it.
• You cant make it.
• You can only make better use of what you have.

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Tomorrow

• Never gets here.
• Do it today!

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Urgency

• Urgent things are not always important.
• Important things are not always urgent.
• If you make time for the important and ignore the
  pseudoimportant you will be a better student.

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Vacillating

• Indecisiveness wastes time
• Be decisive
• Establish your own policies
• Give yourself a deadlinestick to it
• Give yourself a study timestick to it
• Run your education like a business

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Wastebasket

• Use it!

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Xeroxing

• Keep copies of all of your written papers and
  major assignments.
• Save all of your written papers and major
  assignments electronically.
• This is your insurance policy against loss.

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Yakety Yak

• Unplug the phone or..
• Tell callers you will call them back after your
  study time.
• If you close the door and someone walks in and
  asks if you have a minute, tell them no, but I
  will have a minute at 900 p.m. and I will meet
  you in the library.

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ZZZZZzzzzzzzs

• Schedule them!

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Your time management calendar

• Keeping in mind all of these concepts----Create a
  weekly time map