#420: A Budgeting Hack Every Nursing Student Should Know

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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If there’s one thing nursing students are familiar with, besides early mornings and endless exams, it’s a tight budget. Between juggling school, part-time jobs, and sky-high stress levels, managing your money can feel like one more thing on an already overflowing to-do list. In this episode, I’m introducing you to a simple, hands-on budgeting method that’s been trending on social media for good reason: cash stuffing, also known as the envelope system. Whether you're trying to make your student loan stretch, pay the rent, or just want to avoid those “how did I spend that much?” moments, this method can help you take control of your finances in a way that’s visual, satisfying, and even kind of fun! I’ll walk you through: Exactly what cash stuffing is and how it works A step-by-step guide to setting up your own budget, even with a variable income How to create “sinking funds” for things like NCLEX fees or yearly expenses Tips for using this system alongside online purchases (because yes, Amazon still happens) How cash stuffing helps reduce stress and curb impulse spending Whether you're a student looking for a smarter way to budget or a nurse wanting to be more intentional with your spending, this episode will help you ditch money anxiety and feel more in control of every dollar. 👉 Ready to make your money work for you? Grab your envelopes (or a cute binder if you’re fancy) and let’s get stuffing! ___________________ FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Confident Calculations - Learn a foolproof method for performing dosage calculations so you can pass your nursing school math exams on the first try! Crucial Concepts Bootcamp - Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. FREE Dosage Calculations Guide - Kick math anxiety to the curb and learn the basics of how to set up and perform dosage calculations using dimensional analysis with this FREE guide. Includes 10 free practice questions! FREE 20 Secrets of Successful Nursing Students – Learn key strategies that will help you be a successful nursing student with this FREE guide! FREE New Nursing Student Checklist - Get prepped and ready for your nursing school program with this free checklist! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight A Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.3	Thank you. science podcast to get all of your questions answered. Well, hello there. I'm Nurse Mo, and this is the Straight A Nursing podcast where I teach
0:52.1	concepts and share tips on how to thrive in school
0:55.4	and at the bedside. So today we're talking about a subject that comes up a lot with nursing
1:02.3	students, especially even new nurses too and old old OG nurses like myself, but mostly with
1:09.3	the nursing students and that is budgeting and how to
1:12.1	handle finances, especially when they're really tight when you are in nursing school. So today
1:18.1	I'm going to share with you a budgeting hack that every nursing student, and actually I think
1:23.2	everybody, should know. This week's listener shoutout goes out to CJ who says, I love,
1:29.6	love, love this podcast. I loved it during nursing school and love it now as a new grad. I listen
1:34.0	to it still to refresh and learn more as I become more skilled. Nurse Moke keeps things simple
1:38.7	and easy to understand. CJ, thank you so much for submitting that and I'm so happy that
1:43.1	the podcast is helping you even beyond nursing school into your job as a new grad nurse.
1:48.7	Amazing.
1:49.8	All righty.
1:50.6	So we're talking about a hack, a budgeting hack that can definitely help anybody who is listening.
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