Well, hello there. I'm Nurse Mo and welcome to Mo's Monday Minute, a shorty episode of the

Straight A Nursing podcast where I share a quick tip you can start using to improve your

practice or habits right away. For more in-depth topics, check up the episodes that I release

on Thursdays. So today, this one is probably more geared towards student nurses and we're going to be

talking about highlighting. Now, I know nurses and nursing students love,

love, love their highlighters, but if your notes look like you're just highlighting everything,

guess what? You know, I know that is not especially helpful. If your notes look like a unicorn

dyed all over it, that is not helpful when there is no rhyme or reason

to using different colors. So today, and I swear I've talked about this before on the podcast,

maybe I have. It bears repeating because it is so helpful. And that is a simple system for

utilizing color coding that really, really does make a lot of sense for nursing school. And that is a simple system for utilizing color coding that really, really does

make a lot of sense for nursing school. And if you're not a student in school, but you're a nurse

and you're learning about different disease conditions, guess what? You can use this color

coding system for that as well if that is your jam. So what I like to do is basically divide things into clear categories and some

basic categories, and you can choose your own, but this is how I like to do it, a category for

pathophysiology related things, medications is another category, lab values, things like that, is another category. Lab values, things like that is another category. In school,

I had a category for numerical measurements because you had to be so specific and know like

what size Foley catheter for this type of patient, what size needle, et cetera. So I would have

one for that. I would have a category for signs and symptoms of different disease conditions.

And of course, each category is a different color. So let's just talk briefly through how this

might look for you so you can use the system too. So again, a key

category is pathophysiology. Let's say that's yellow and this would be your disease processes. And I'm

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