ENCORE! #126: The Ultimate Nursing School Pep Talk

Straight A Nursing: Study for nursing school exams & NCLEX

Straight A Nursing

Education, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Every other week I'm republishing one of my most popular or impactful episodes and adding an update, new insight, or context that will help you benefit from it even more. This week I'm highlighting Episode 126, which is the ultimate nursing school pep talk that even the best students need sometimes. Listen to this very special podcast episode when you need a pep talk, when you feel like you just can’t go on, or any time you doubt your ability to get through nursing school. Looking for peer support from others going through the same things you are? Join the most positive and helpful nursing student group on Facebook. 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! Study Sesh – Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! 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. Pharmacology Success Pack – Want to get a head start on pharmacology? Download the FREE Pharmacology Success Pack. Clinical Success Pack – One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is having the right tools. This pack includes report sheets, sheets to help you plan your day, a clinical debrief form, and a patient safety cheat sheet. 20 Secrets of Successful Nursing Students – Learn key strategies that will help you be a successful nursing student with this FREE guide! 💕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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0:30.0	Hello and welcome to an encore episode of the Straight A Nursing podcast. Now, if I had to pick one episode that I'd want for you to definitely bookmark or save,
0:43.2	it would probably be this one.
0:45.4	Because no matter where you are in your nursing school journey,
0:49.5	whether you're in your prerect classes, applying to a program, in a program, or prepping for the NCLEX, you are going
0:59.0	to need a pep talk at some point. And probably more than a few. Hey, you might even need a pep talk every
1:07.7	single week. And that is why this episode is so impactful and why I'm bringing it
1:15.2	to the forefront of your podcast feed with this encore airing. Now, I recently relistened to this
1:23.5	episode, which was originally published during COVID when schools went bonkers, everything
1:30.3	shut down, school went entirely online. But as I'm listening to it, I realize a lot of it still
1:37.2	applies today. Nursing school is just tough, no matter what's going on in the world. But guess what? You are tougher.
1:49.2	And if there's one thing I want to add to the episode, it's this. Can you find some gratitude
1:56.9	around this concept of nursing school being really tough.
2:03.2	And I know, I know that sounds really strange, thinking about being grateful for something
2:08.9	that's really hard.
2:10.8	But yes, yes, I do.
2:13.8	And that's because I believe, with every fiber in my being, that nursing school should be rigorous and challenging because of the enormous responsibility that nurses hold.
2:28.8	And if your program is tough and tough in the right ways and for the right reasons, then you are being prepared
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