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yakisikliadam t1_ja4zd7t wrote

How does this method work? How does the excel help you? I ask because I find having the table format helps for me but interested to hear more.

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Pro_CKM t1_ja52jxx wrote

For context: I'm studying nursing and I haven't fully fleshed out these documents because I started this method only fairly recently. Lots of memorization involved I my classes and I haven't retained last semester's information. And later classes build on top of each other heavily. Some of the classes I've taken are:

Pathophysiology Pharmacology Fundamentals & Health Assessment

Each of these classes/subjects have their own link to a document (except I actually find it easier to have Health Assessment and Fundamentals combined into one link/document).

Each link/document can have several sheets, which help me organize the material within these subjects by organ system. For example, for Pathophysiology I have it divided into the following sheets all in one link:

Cardiovascular System Respiratory System Integumentary System Nervous System Urinary System Digestive System etc

So now I can organize all my information from my classes in a way that's very easily accessible and easy to understand. The tables are organized, sorting everything by Disease Name, Definition/Pathophysiology, Causes/Risk Factors, Signs and Symptoms of the Disease (including the reason these manifestations occur), and potential complications that the disease may lead to down the road.

If this were Pharmacology, it would be separated by Drug name, Drug Class, Mechanism of Action, Side Effects, etc.

It's super nice to have everything all in one place, easy to find, easy to understand, easy to compare/contrast, and easy to edit. Plus, it's all saved online in the cloud (I used to do written notes with multiple notebooks I wouldn't even really go back to). I highly recommend this method of studying for subjects that are memorization-heavy.

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wunkadurgenfaceball t1_ja73qpa wrote

Nurse here, graduated May 2020. Remember. The. Interventions.

I always felt like I focused on learning the background of everything like risk factors and the Patho, but the tests are almost 80% interventions based and it will feel like they spend only 2 seconds on it in class.

Nice technique tho - mine was white board spam and trying to get all the info onto one paper for a subject.

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