THE STUDENT NURSE AS A PERSON

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THE STUDENT NURSE AS A PERSON
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STUDENT NURSE AS A PERSON

• Motivation to become a nurse
• Know understand yourself Self Awareness
• Conflict
• Moral value beliefs
• Ethics
• Priorities

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  Motivation to
  become nurse
• Purpose direction
• Critical to be a nurse
• Accomplish certain tasks when due
• KNOW YOURSELF
• Take a good look at yourself in times of
  decisions or transitions
• Be true to self
• Dont let others influence you
• Strengths and weaknesses

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Self Awareness

• We as nurses need to be aware that our health and
  self care is reflected to our patients.
• Good health is important for anyone working in
  health care. It makes it easier to perform your
  duties

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• Conflict
• Family, Co-workers, Bosses
• Studying
• Family responsibilities
• Jobs
• Need good support system
• Try to find compromise

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• Beliefs
• Truths held by culture
• Determine influence how a person deals with
  views social problems and concerns
• Affect our thinking and organizing ability
• Influence our behavior and concepts about health,
  illness, and death
• Formed in childhood

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• MORALS
• Customs of society
• Justifies what our moral judgment actions in
  our everyday life
• VALUES
• Ideals held by individual
• What is considered good or bad right or wrong
• Usually influenced by culture
• Gives direction foundation for their decisions
  and actions

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• Ethics
• Ideal human behavior
• Parent taught
• No lying
• No cheating
• No stealing
• Well founded standards of right or wrong
• Moral principals values that guide
  behavior of honorable people
• Requires critical thinking understanding of
  situation

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Priorities

• Whats important
• Everybody has different priorities
• Communication
• Interaction between two or more people
• Social used in everyday life between family,
  friends and co-workers
• Speech is dependent on who you are talking to
• Therapeutic purposeful and goal oriented
• Promotes trust and good rapport with others
• Choose your conversation

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Professionalism

• What is a professional
• Look the part Dress appropriately
• Treat everyone with dignity or respect
• See value in people no matter where they are on
  the totem pole
• Commits to lifelong learning
• Does their best at what they are paid to do
• Use title at work e.g. Dr., Professor, Mrs.,

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• Team Player
• Go along with majority even if you disagree
• Try to see others point of view

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• Courtesy
• Politeness
• Do unto others as you would have them do to you
• Dont talk when someone else is talking
• Pay attention
• No sarcasms or talking down to people

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Maslow's Hierarchy
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• Maslows hierarchy can be used to consider what
  needs of a person are the most important at any
  given time.
• Certain needs are more essential than others and
  must be met at least in part before looking at
  other needs.
• Physiological
• Safety Security
• Love and Belongingness
• Esteem
• Self-Actualization

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• Level 1 Physiologic
• Oxygen, water, food, temperature, elimination,
  sexuality, physical activity, and rest
• These must be met at least minimally to maintain
  life
• They are essential to life and therefore have the
  highest priority

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• Level 2 Safety Security
• Involves both physical and emotional components.
• Physical means being protected from potential or
  actual harm
• Emotional means trusting others and being free of
  fear, anxiety, and apprehension
• Stability Security

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• LEVEL 3 Love Belonging
• Includes the understanding and acceptance of
  others (peers and community) in both giving and
  receiving affection or love
• Feeling of belonging

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• Level 4 Self Esteem
• Selfrespect
• Need to feel good about self.
• Fosters the individuals confidence and
  independence.
• Feelings of self-worth

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• Level 5 Self Actualization
• Need to reach your full potential through
  development of unique capabilities
• Full use of individual talents

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• HOLISTIC HEALTH
• Care given to the patient taking into
  consideration all parts of their needs
• Physical
• Psychosocial
• Spiritual
• Economic
• Environmental

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Physical Wellness

• Grooming
• Cleanliness begins with personal hygiene
  including oral hygiene and personal hygiene
• Oral Keep in mind that your will be working
  very closely with your patients
• Personal hygiene clean skin, clean neatly
  combed hair, and absence of body odor
• Keep in mind that perfumes and scented deodorants
  my cause problems for your patient

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• Uniforms
• These should be kept neat and clean. The first
  impression you make on your patient is what they
  remember
• Uniforms make a statement about you, and your
  authority
• Posture
• Good posture again will improve the image that
  you project to the patient, it will also help to
  minimize problems with your spine later on

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Body Mechanics

• Using proper body mechanics will increase your
  performance and energy level.
• By using proper mechanics this helps prevent
  strain and tensing of the muscles.
• Smoking
• Health professionals that smoke give unspoken
  approval to patients to do the same
• Unhealthy and again can cause increased breathing
  problems for patients.

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Nutrition

• You are what you eat.
• Proper nutrition will give you more energy and
  you will be better able to deal with the stress
  of day to day life
• Sleep and Rest
• Try to get 7 8 hours of sleep
• Take rest periods during the day
• Exercise regularly

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Personal Illness Your Patients

• The same standards of care and protection you use
  when working with patients with transmissible
  illnesses apply to you when you are sick

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Intellectual Wellness

• Mentally healthy students see a need to act and
  then act responsibly. They act independently if
  the duty is theirs.
• Mentally healthy students keep an open analytical
  mind
• To help maintain geed mental health you need to
  understand yourself to assess your personality
  to examine your personal values, beliefs, and
  prejudices, and to learn to cope effectively with
  stress

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• THE ADULT LEARNER

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Formal Education
• Planned
• Organized Learning
• Learning from textbook and lectures, etc

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Informal Education Experiences
• Learning from day to day experiences
• Learn by trial and error

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Traditional adult learner
• Comes directly from high school or another
  program
• Late teen or early twenties
• Transition from late adolescence to young
  adulthood

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Traditional adult learner
• Have developed reading, writing, studying
• and test taking skills
• Prime physical health
• Filled with energy and stamina
• Fewer out-of-school responsibilities

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Returning adult learner
• Out of school several years
• Can be any age
• Experiencing many different transitions
• Built strong foundations for personal
  commitment and transition needed for
• nursing school

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Returning adult learner
• Serious learner
• Ready to work
• Have many responsibilities life
• experiences
• Mature, motivated, and self directed
• Set goal for self

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Recycle Learners
• Prior education beyond high school in
• another discipline than nursing
• Brings maturity and experience in mastering a
  challenging educational program

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Recycled Learners
• Experts in educational routine
• Opportunity to develop reading, writing,
• studying, test-taking skills.
• Serious, motivated and self-directed

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Liabilities, Pitfalls, Hidden Dangers
• Greatest liability is FEAR
• Fear of failure
• Look at school in negative threatening
• way d/t past failures in school

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Past is history
• Have clean slate
• Picture yourself succeeding
• Replace negative thought with positive
• thoughts
• Practice using positive thoughts continuously

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Dangers Traditional adult learner
• Social events compete with school study
• Party mentality
• Employment
• Lack sense of direction
• No clear goal

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Dangers for returning adult learner
• Study test skills are rusty
• Age affect learning
• Feelings of guilt
• Energy crisis

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Dangers for recycled learners
• Same as traditional and returning adults
• Advance degree, technical program breeze

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THE ADULT LEARNER

• Special challenges
• Single parent
• No spousal support
• English as a second language

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HOW TO SUCCEED

• Characteristics of a Master Student
• Inquisitive
• Posing questions can get interest in the most
  boring lecture
• Able to focus attention
• The world is new with information
• Amazement that keeps attention focused

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• Willing to change
• Unknown doesnt frighten student
• Even unknown in self
• Open to changes in environment self
• Able to organize and sort
• Able to take large amts of information and
  discover relationships
• Able to categorize information

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• Competent
• Mastery of skills
• Studies until become second nature
• Able to apply what she learns to new
  different situations
• Joyful
• Has a smile on face
• Caused by amazement of world experience of it

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• Able to suspend judgment
• Has opinions positions, able to let go when
  appropriate
• Able to listen to opposing viewpoint
• Not let judgment get in way of learning
• Asks What is this were true?

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• Energetic
• Enthusiastic and involved in class
• Reads sits on edge of his chair
• Plays with same intensity
• Well
• Values body treats with respect
• Tends to emotional spiritual health as well as
  physical health

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• Self-aware
• Willing to evaluate self and behavior
• Regularly examines his life
• Responsible
• Takes responsibility for everything in life
• Looks for ways to change situation
• Chooses response to situations

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• Willing to risk
• Takes on projects with no guarantee of success
• Willing to participate in class dialogues without
  risk of looking foolish
• Willing to tackle difficult subjects on term
  papers
• Welcomes risk of challenging course

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• Willing to participate
• Not on sidelines, but in game
• Can be counted on
• Willing to make commitment
• Follows through on commitment

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• THE NUMBER 1 CHALLENGE IS
• STRESS

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Taking control of stress
• Put stress in as positive a positive frame as
  possible
• Put stress in its rightful place
• Look at what you can control and what you cant
• Slow diaphragmatic breaths do to count of 4

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• STRESS BUSTING ACTIVITIES
• Play Develop a new interest or renew an old on
• Meditation Yoga
• Exercises Endorphins lift
• Practice self-affirmation

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• LEARNING STYLES
• Different approaches to learning
• What is your learning style?

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Visual Learner
• Reader/observer
• Scan everything wants to see things
• enjoys visual stimulation
• Doesnt like lectures
• Daydreams
• Usually takes detailed notes
• Think in pictures

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Auditory Learners
• Interpret underlying meanings of speech through
  listening
• Prefers directions given orally
• Seldom takes notes or writes things down
• Often repeats what has just been said

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Tactile / Kinesthetic Learner
• Do-er
• Needs to touch, handle, manipulate object
• material
• Counts on fingers talks with hands
• Good at drawing designs doodling
• Hard to sit still for long periods of time

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Study Tips From Former Nursing Students
• Get the most out of classes
• Get the most from your books
• Thrive in clinicals
• Ace the test

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• 5. Adjust your attitude
• 6. Forming and using a study group
• 7. Use tech knowledge
• 8. When you also have a family
• 9. Study in short, frequent sessions
• 10. Take guilt free days of rest
• 11. Honor your emotional state

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• 12. Review the same day
• 13. Observe natural learning sequence
• 14. Use exaggeration
• 15. Prepare study environment
• 16. Respect brain fade
• 17. Create a study routine
• 18. Set reasonable goals
• 19. Avoid the frustration enemy

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Reading Textbook
• Start from beginning of Chapter Preview it
• Get general ideas what reading is about
• read the introduction, headings
• subheadings
• Read any paragraphs that summarize content
• Look at illustration or graphics charts and
• read captions

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Go back and read chapter or section carefully
• Look for main idea
• Look up in dictionary any words that are
• unfamiliar
• Periodically stop reading try to remember what
  you just read
• Main ideas evidence or examples that support
  ideas

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Finish reading, pretend teaching somebody about
  material.
• Explain out loud in your own words
• Read text before class
• Have questions ready for teacher
• Most Important REVIEW RECITE

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Two types of notes
• Study notes in preparation for lecture
• Class notes during lecture or laboratory
• Notes before class
• Enhances learning because the material has
  already been looked at
• Repetition is essential to retention of
  information
• Trying to write notes in class much is missed in
  what is being said
• Use method that allows room for additional notes
  during lecture

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Note Taking
• Taking notes in class
• Be ready to take notes
• Bring everything you need for class
• Review notes from previous class
• Take notes during class
• Start c fresh page date at top
• Dont write down everything said
• Listen for signal statements
• Anything repeated or written on board

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Rewrite notes after class
• Check with other students to be sure did not
  leave out important info

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Highlighting
• Use 2 colors highlighter, one color for main
• idea and other color for details
• Only highlight what is important
• Key words phrases, not whole
• sentences
• Skip more than highlight
• Only 20 30 should be highlighted

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Can highlight handouts class notes
• Look for definitions, methods, sequences,
• cause-effect relationships
• Comparison contrast
• Go back read highlighted text have good
  understanding of text.

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Note taking systems
• Cornell Method
• Outlining Method
• Mapping Method
• Charting Method
• Sentence Method

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Cornell Method
• Rule your paper with 21/2 margin on left
• During class take info down on 6
• Moves to new point, skip a few lines
• Every significant into write cue in L margin
• Cover material, only see cue say as much info as
  you can

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Outlining Method
• The info which is most general begins _at_ L with q
  specific group of facts indented c spaces to the
  right
• Relationship between different parts carried out
  through indenting
• No numbers, letter, or Roman numerals needed

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Extrasensory perception
• -definition means of perceiving s use of sense
  organs
• -three kinds-
• -telepathy
• -clairvoyance forecasting future
• - psychokineses perceiving events
  external to situation
• -current status-
• -no current research to support or refute

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Mapping Method
• Uses comprehension/concentration skills
• Note taking form relates q fact or idea to q
  other fact or idea
• Graphic representation of the content of lecture
• Maximizes active participation, affords immediate
  knowledge to understanding
• Emphasizes critical thinking

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• EXTRASENSORY PRECEPTIONS
• 3 TYPES
• Telepathy Clairvoyance Psychokinesis
• Sending Forecasting Perceiving
• messages the future events
  external
• to situation

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Charting method
• Set up paper in column form
• Label headings
• Record information (word, phrases, main ideas)
  into appropriate column

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS
Period Important People Events Significance
1941-45 FDR WWII USA involvement


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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Sentence Method
• Write every new thought, fact, or topic on a
  separate line
• Number as you progress

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Sentence Method
• A revolution is any occurrence that affects other
  aspects of life, such as economic life, social
  life, so forth. Therefore a revolutions cause
  change.(See pg 29-30 in text)
• Sample Notes Revolution occurrence that
  affects other aspects of life e.g. eco., soc.,
  etc C.F. text pp 29-30
• 2. Melville did not try to represent life as
  it really was. The language of Ahab, Starbuck,
  and Ishmael, for instance was not that of real
  life.
• Sample Notes Mel didnt repr life as was e.g.
  long. Of Ahab, etc. not of real life

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Sentence Method
• At first, Freud tried conventional, physical
  methods of treatment such as giving baths,
  massages, rest cures, and similar aids. But when
  these failed, he tried techniques of hypnosis
  that he had seen used by Jean-Martin Charcot.
  Finally, he borrowed and idea from Jean Breuer
  used direct verbal communication to get an
  unhypnotized patient to reveal unconscious
  thoughts.
• Sample Notes Freud 1st used phys. Tx e.g.
  baths, etc. 2nd used hypnosis (fr. Charcot)
  Finally used dirct verb commun, (fr Breuer) -
  got unhypno, pt to reveal uncons. thoughts

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• DEVELOP SELF-DISCIPLINE
• Avoid procrastination
• Figure out why you procrastinate
• Fear Doesnt think can do the work
• Antiprocrastination plan
• Make it meaningful
• Take it apart
• Write an intention statement
• Tell everyone
• Find a reward
• Settle it now
• Say not

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Finding Time To Study
• Time Management
• Gives us a chance to decide how to spend a
  valuable resource
• Allows us to get the most out of the least
• Helps us organize learn how to spend time

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• The ABC Daily To-Dos
• Write out daily to-do list night before
• Label each task A, B, or C
• As on list are most important
• Bs on list important, but less than As
• Cs do not require immediate attention
• Schedule time for all As. The Bs Cs done
  in odd moments during day

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Management Process
• Plan Specify what goals want to achieve
• Organize Activities to achieve goals
• Staff ask for help, delegate tasks, form study
  groups, take advantage of supportive programs
• Direct - Positive reinforcement
• Evaluate Monitor attitude and behavior

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Hints Tricks
• Study difficult or boring subjects 1st
• Be aware of best time of day to study
• Use waiting time to study
• Ask Am I being too hard on self
• Use regular study area or library
• Pay attention to you attention

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

1. Get off the phone
2. Learn to say no
3. Get ready the night before
4. Avoid noise distraction
5. Notice how you misuse time change habits
6. Ask Would I pay self for what doing right now

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

1. Agree roommates or family members about study
   time
2. End of day Ask Can I do one more thing?
3. Ask Doing most important or urgent work 1st.
4. Task seems hard get started
5. Schedule time for errands fun

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

1. Start projects early
2. Allow flexibility in schedule
3. Avoid scheduling marathon study sessions
4. Set realistic goals
5. Ask What task can I accomplish toward goal

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• CHUNKING
• Study for a set period of time.
• Take a break start to lose focus on studying
• Time to take break
• Breaks are important for refreshment relaxation

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Studying for Tests
• 1. Before Test
• What material test will cover
• Type of test
• How test graded
• How much test will count toward final grade

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

1. Study in place free of distractions
2. Study at time when alert, not hungry or sleepy
3. Dont wait until last minute to study
4. Set goal for each study period
5. Repetition is key
6. Cover notes periodically summarize out loud

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Create own study aids
• Make outline from notes for main ideas
• Make timeline of important dates
• Make flashcards for studying vocabulary
• Make up own quiz or test based on no

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

1. Do any practice exams or study sheets produced by
   teacher
2. Night before exam get at least 7 hours of sleep
   Eat a normal meal test late in morning take
   a high powered snack and eat 20 min before test
   Stop reviewing 30 min before test do
   something relaxing before test

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Test Taking Strategies
• Be prepared
• Always arrive early take moment to relax
• Listen attentively to last minute instructions
• Read test directions very carefully watch for
  details

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

1. Plan how to use allotted time
2. Maintain positive attitude
3. Rely on your first impressions
4. Plan to finish early have time for review
5. Consider every test a practice session analyze
   your performance

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Multiple Choice Test Taking Tips
• Read question before looking at answers
• Develop answer in head before looking at answers
  presented
• Before figuring out which answer is correct
  eliminate incorrect answers
• Read all answer choice before choosing your final
  answer

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• If unsure of answer take educated guess
• Usually 1st choice is right
• In all of the above if one statement is false
  dont choose it
• In none of the above if one statement is true,
  dont choose it.
• Avoid choosing answers that use words
• always, never, must, all, none, etc

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

1. Positive choice more likely than a negative
   choice
2. Usually correct answer is the one with the most
   information
3. There may be more than 1 correct answer so must
   choose best aswer

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• True/False Test Tip Preparation
• Usually more true answers than false
• Take educated guess
• Read entire question carefully
• Qualifiers like never, always generally indicate
  a false answer
• Qualifiers such as usually generally,
• sometimes etc. Can be either true or false
• 6. If any part of question is false, the entire
  question is false

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

• Open Book Test Preparation Tips
• Open book tests more difficult than closed book
  exams
• Usually longer more involved
• Highly recommended write down important info on
  separate sheet of paper or in margin of book

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

1. Familiarize self with main ideas concepts
   covered in class
2. Answer all questions you know answer to 1st.
3. Do not write directly from book

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STUDY TEST TAKING SKILLS

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