Arrive to class early. Being early ensures that you will be on time and will not miss any announcements or parts of the lecture. Do not leave until the end of class, even if the class gets boring. Every second of nursing school provides students with valuable lessons that they will need to pass their exams and be proficient nurses in the health care community.
Create an organizational system to manage all of your classes and utilize it daily. An average nursing student is juggling 4 to 5 classes at a time. Organization is key to learning all of the objectives. Many nursing students find it helpful to have a binder for each class with the class's syllabus in the front of the binder. This is an easy way to keep track of assignments.
Study a little bit each day. Maintaining what has been learned previously is key to learning the objectives of nursing classes. Studying for at least 20 minutes each day helps to keep knowledge fresh in students' minds. A student that employs this practice will generally have no problem in learning the class objectives by the end of the semester.
Ask for help. Before failing a class, ask for assistance from instructors and classmates. Tutoring and study groups can be highly beneficial to a student struggling to learn the objectives of a class. Do not be embarrassed about asking for assistance. Nursing school is incredibly challenging and nearly everyone needs assistance in learning the objectives of at least one class in the program.