ENCORE! #184: My Fave Online Tools for Nursing School Success

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 32 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 184, where I take you through my eight favorite online tools for nursing school that help set you up for success. NEWLY ADDED! Organize your school and study schedules with My Study Life. Get Google Drive with a free Google account: Google Drive. Say goodbye to password frustrations with LastPass. Take your notes for nursing school into digital format with GoodNotes and Notability. Improve your writing with Grammarly. Start your online search for research articles with Google Scholar and PubMed. Manage your bibliography and make writing scholarly papers easier with Zotero. Demystify APA formatting and scholarly writing with Purdue Owl APA. Reclaim your focus and embark on powerful work sessions with the Focus Keeper App for iOS or Pomodoro Timer for Android. ———— Full Transcript – Read the article 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! 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. New Nursing Student Checklist – Grab this checklist which includes clinical and school supplies, things to organize, what to review, and more to help you prepare for nursing school. 💕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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0:30.7	Well, hello, hello, and welcome to an encore episode of the Straight A Nursing podcast. Every other week,
0:40.3	I am re-releasing an especially impactful episode or one that could have gotten overlooked or one that I think is really great,
0:47.9	but that I could add a little context to to make even better. And this episode hits all three points. And this episode is about some online
0:57.5	tools that are really crucial for nursing school success. But I'm going to add one more
1:04.9	extra tool to this list before we dive in. And that is a tool called My Study Life. Now, I am not a spokesperson or being
1:15.6	paid for this. I just want to let you know how cool I think it is. So this is an app that you can use
1:23.0	on your phone, on your mobile device. You may even also be able to use it on your computer. I'm not sure
1:27.8	I didn't look because I was just really excited about its mobile capabilities because let's face it,
1:32.8	nursing students are always on the go. And it just has some really cool features. Basically,
1:39.7	what it is is a daily school planner and a schedule maker. all you do to use this awesome app is input all the
1:49.1	information basically from your classes your class times your exams any extra curricular
1:55.8	activities that you're doing any tasks that you need to do. It will even help you set up reminders and things
2:02.6	like that so that let's say you've got a paper due in three weeks. And wouldn't it be awful
2:08.3	if you only realized that the few days before it was due, right? So it's going to set reminders
2:14.2	to let you know that you, hey, time to go work on your paper or time to start
2:19.3	studying for your med surge final, all those types of things. It also has a built-in
2:25.1	Pomodoro timer, which if you listen to the rest of this episode, I do talk about that as
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