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Title: Chenevert, M. (2006). Tour guide to nursing school:


1
Time Management
  • Chenevert, M. (2006). Tour guide to nursing
    school
  • A students road survival kit (5th ed.). St.
    Louis, MO Mosby.

2
Riddle
  • What comes in short supply, cannot be purchased
    for any amount of money, and once used, cannot be
    recouped?

3
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!

4
Keys to Success and Time Management
5
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

6
Keys
  • Effectiveness
  • Efficiency
  • Questions
  • Regrets
  • Saving time
  • Tomorrow
  • Urgency
  • Vacillating
  • Wastebasket
  • Xeroxing
  • Yakety Yak
  • Zzzzzzzs

7
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!

8
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!

9
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.

10
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?

11
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.

12
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!

13
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

14
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!

15
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.

16
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

17
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?

18
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!

19
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.

20
Librarian
  • No person can save you more time---just ask.

21
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

22
One Word
  • NO

23
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

24
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.

25
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?

26
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

27
Saving time
  • Cant be done!
  • You cant find it.
  • You cant make it.
  • You can only make better use of what you have.

28
Tomorrow
  • Never gets here.
  • Do it today!

29
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.

30
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

31
Wastebasket
  • Use it!

32
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.

33
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.

34
ZZZZZzzzzzzzs
  • Schedule them!

35
Your time management calendar
  • Keeping in mind all of these concepts----Create a
    weekly time map
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