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Nursing School 101
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items If you’re in nursing school (or thinking about it), you’ve got this! 🩺✨
You’re going to do amazing. These are a few things that helped me stay organized and made studying just a little more fun along the way. 📚
This are wonderful for note taking and you can even stick them in your books while studying. I loved that I could take notes on them but also trace over drawings or figures in my books.
Transparent Sticky Notes
I really liked these high lights for studying and reviewing notes. I didn’t feel like they bleed through my papers too much and I still felt like everything I highlighted was still legible.
MILDLINER Dual-Tip Creative Highlighter
This is one of my favourite planners. It has an all the goodies a normal planner has but with some added bonuses. I love that it also gives me weekly and monthly ‘to-do’s’ to help remind me to clean the fridge or rotate my mattress. Plus I love a goo...
Work Planner - 2026
These are some of the best at a glance reference materials I have found. I cannot recommend them enough. It was created by a nurse for nurses. 10/10.
ScrubLifeNotes
This series of books really helped me break things down and understand concepts better. As a visual learner these really were a game changer. I even continued to use them when I started working in the ICU.
Health Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!
I lost my very first stethoscope shortly after I started working. I set it down on a desk at work and when I came back to grab it… it was gone. Never to be seen again. 😅
When I replaced it, I ordered a cute stethoscope charm with my name on it so i...
Stethoscope Charm
As someone who hand writes their notes these pens were a lifesaver. The colours are so pretty and vibrant on the page and I swear they must have an infinite supply of ink. 12/10.
Amazon.com: B2p Pens
A watch on a badge reel.
I forgot my watch with a second hand more than once in nursing school 🫣 I wish I had something like this to keep in my nursing bag so I was always ready for clinical days.
Badge Reel Watch
Compression socks.
You don’t realize how much you’ll be on your feet until clinical starts. Compression socks seriously helped with long days of standing and walking.
Women's Compression Socks
A small notebook for your scrub pocket.
Perfect for writing down quick notes, reminders, or things you want to look up later.
Pocket Notepads
A good stethoscope.
Stethoscopes can be expensive, but I would definitely recommend investing in a good one. The one I bought during clinicals lasted until I lost it shortly after I started working. The replacement I bought is still going strong near...
3M Littmann Stethoscopes: Cardiology IV
A foldable clinical clipboard.
A great place to keep your clinical notes and a handy little cheat sheet to boot. This thing was such a lifesaver during clinicals. It held up so well that I kept using it even after I started my first nursing job. 🩺📋
Nursing Clipboard
I am such a visual learner that this book really did help me so much. It made it so much easier to really understand concepts instead of just memorizing things for an exam.
Cardiovascular Care Made Incredibly Visual! - Wolters Kluwer
A good note-taking app on my iPad.
I really loved using this app to take notes and study because I could “write” on my notes digitally. It made studying more interactive and helped me stay engaged without carrying around stacks of notebooks. 📱✏️
Notability
This spray has yet to meet it's match for me. It does the impossible getting all the mystery stains out. A must have for working in a healthcare setting.
Miss Mouth's Messy Eater Stain Treater Spray 4oz
