 Hi and welcome to Nursing School Explained. Today's video is a little bit different from the usually content heavy videos that I present and this will go specifically into how to be successful in nursing school. These are some strategies that professors many times discuss with students either at the beginning of their nursing career or at the beginning of each semester, but then sometimes these techniques or strategies kind of fall by the wayside. And then many times, for example, I find students coming back to me after they have been unsuccessful on an exam and I will go through all these different steps with them and come up with personalized strategies to help them out. So let's look at those and see how you can be successful going through a nursing school. Number one, plan your day, week, month and semester. There's something to be said about being well prepared. There are only 24 hours in a day and certain activities have to happen. You have to eat, you have to sleep, you most likely have to go somewhere and the more you can plan out your day, the better prepared you'll be. If you know you have an exam next week on Friday, it's probably not enough to start studying for it on Thursday evening. So plan your day out and that also means planning out time for lunch, planning out time for getting away, planning out time for maybe spending with family and friends and so forth. We'll discuss that a little bit later. So getting a planner when it's electronic or on paper will certainly benefit you.