Study Tips from Former Nursing Students
Find out how to get the most out of classes and textbooks, as well as how to thrive in clinicals!

Test Taking Tips
Direct from Drexel University's School of Nursing and Health Professionals! These tips are tailored to the case or scenario type of multiple choice questions found on nursing exams. Print this off and post in your study area.

Test Taking Tips for dissecting NCLEX Exam questions
PODCAST: Get past the intro to sample questions and analysis of the answers. All of the answers may be right, but you may need to re-read the case to find the clue to the best answer. Learn how here.

Test-Taking Strategies
Tips direct from the School of Nursing, University of North Carolina. Use a rating system to help select the best answer. Check this one out!

Online Training Manual
This comprehensive manual from the University of Michigan School of Nursing looks at 8 key issues: learning styles, stress management, organization, study skills, note taking, effective reading, and test preparation.

Study Skills and Test Strategies for the New Nursing Student
This starts off with general study skills, but moves into specific guidelines for nursing students with the nursing process and specific nursing content test questions.

Medical Mnemonics.com
Need help to remember the Median nerve? It suggests "LOAF" for lunbricals, opponens pollicis, abductor pollicis brevis and Flexor pollicis brevis! This site is a database and has all kinds of mnemonics to help you remember medical information. Just type in the items that you are trying to remember and you will get a suggestion. You can also browse by category, so A and P ones are all together.

Pronounciations - Merck Manual
In reading your textbooks, if you meet any technical term, check out the pronunciation here! Do this before the lecture, so when you hear it in class, you will recognize the term. If also helps in class discusions, if you can pronounce the word correctly.

Care Plans
Steps to follow in developing a care plan.

English for Nursing Students
Language practice for nursing as well as study aids.

A Guide to Writing in the College of Health
7 different kinds of writing from Experiential Narrative to Concept or Nursing Process Mapping to Charting. Nursing has very specific writing guidelines. This is not Freshman Comp.

Relective Writing in Nursing
Journal writing in Nursing. What every first year student needs to know! What they don't tell you about in Freshman Comp!

Writing in the Field: The Three Kinds of Charting   
Did you know that there were 3 kinds? Flow Charts, Care Plans and Narratives!

APA Stylesheet
Includes the most common errors pertaining to Nursing Papers!

Article Reviews
This is not a book review. Article reviews for nursing have very specific requirements.

Writing as a Professional Nurse   
You might as well get started now! Find out what the 3 general rules are.

Using Sources: APA
Designed to answer nursing students' more frequently asked questions!

General Instructions for Transition Paper
Do you have one of these to write? A transition paper is a research paper which deals with a particular problem encountered in the nursing field.