Importance of Time Management for Nursing Students

You may delay, but time will not stated Benjamin Franklin. The quote is true for all decades and generations. In simple thoughts, time is something that everyone can lose and never get it back. Time cause a change in the world for better if ones can manage their time efficiently. A daily cycle has twenty-four hours period which is one of those things cannot be changed, but people are always wishing they had more time available in a day because they have too many things to do. People do not control time, but they can have more time by utilizing their time wisely. Proper time management is actually changing oner's life on a fundamental basis, especially in the nursing profession. A job will ease and efficiency if a nurse applies to time management while in nursing school and in an actual healthcare environment. I am taking the class was named the foundation of vocational nursing practice this semester, and have an opportunity to have a conversation with the nursing instructor about time management skill. Her name is Antonette Carter who is currently teaching the vocational nursing program at Chaffey College. She tells her story about how she became the professor and how difficult she overcome while she was in school. According to the professor, she said: if you are one of the few fortunate enough to be in a nursing program, you need to make school your priority, to do so takes time. She has seen many students who are deeply concerned about their inability to do well in class and the most frequent reason is they do not have time. But having a chance to become a nurse, it is an opportunity that does not come to everyone and may not come to everyone a second time. After explaining, she points out time management is very important key for the nursing profession. She also demonstrates how time management affects to academic achievement, reduce stress and anxiety. Indeed, being a successful nursing student takes time and need help from others to have time available for school. Nurses need to sacrifice now reap tremendously and they will get a reward later in their lives. Siviterrelates research conducted recently that shows time management is expressed in optimally use the time available including aspects of planning, setting, and prioritizing goals. Appealing to the readers, individuals can carry out several tasks, perceive their responsibilities and adapt with limitations by managing themselves in a single time is very important in the nursing profession. A goal without a plan is just a wish, states Antoine de Saint- Exupery, the French poet and a hero fighter pilot who perished in World War Two. Her research indicates that planning a goal is a key to mapping out the direction in which people should head. In other words, to be effective a goal must be planning specific which identifies precisely what is to be obtained and measurable, be realistic which has a reasonable chance of being obtained, and be in allot time which length of time it will take to attain the goal. In healthcare environments, it is important to be flexible because things change quickly. What makes a busy person as a nurse effective is setting and working towards specific, measurable, realistic goals that can be reached within a given time frame. Constantly introducing new idea relate to time management by Siviter, the study notes that ABC system is an excellent way to help all nurses familiar with the organization and prioritize their tasks. A stands for all things absolutely must get done at that time. From her research, we can conclude A is the task needs to be done at a certain time if wait longer will cause a patient or patientr's family avoidable distress. To understand more the meaning of A, I will give an example. For all nurses who work in the emergency department, they meet with a lot of patients in and out a day with different types and levels of sickness. To be considered of A, nurses should priority to treat the patient has a stroke or heart attack first because their condition is in danger compare with the rest of patients and it will lead to the death of oner's life. In addition, her research indicates that B is better sooner than later which the tasks can wait, but not too long. For instance, a patient has a large bowel movement and needs to be changed, but the nurse is busy taking shower with another patient. Applying B into the scenario, the nurse will get done with a patient in a shower first, then go to the room for the patient who needs to get clean and change. Furthermore, she finishes by noting that ?C is can wait until later which things that do not have any time frame attached. In reality, charting is the last part on the work shift that most of the nurse choose to do after taking care of all patients. Therefore, priority tasks in a healthcare setting are not for the weak or timid and planning time is a necessity for the nursing profession. According to the journal of survival skills for the R.N student, one of the nurses in the article narrates how she overcome a hard time in nursing school and successful was the help from others. She worked a part-time job, married, and was a mother of two infants while was studying in nursing school. She shared her valuable skills to aspire people survive and thrive in balancing between nursing school and personal life by listing all hard time she has been through such as getting a little help from her friends, cooking meal in advance a week and freezing it to save time, scheduling one night a week for family activities, studying at night when her kids go to bed, and the most important part is enlisting her spouser's support. In her life story, she starts from a difficult time to where she is now a successful nurse who is able to provide advice for people who seek. From her story, I realize that most nurses are ordinary people with the same conflicts and responsibilities. Also, everyone has the same twenty-four hours, but not anyone has the ability to use them efficiently which impact of the successful outcome. Her heartwarming story becomes a gateway for all student nurses. A story of life struggles is hard to dislike and gives her credibility on her advice the importance of time management. While connecting to the readers, Ghiasvand et al reinforce their ideas of becoming a nurse as a student nurse. They emphasize time management skill for nursing students will enhance academic motivation in the nursing school. Nurse education is very demanding and especially exams every week, assignment submissions and assessment deadlines, around placement schedules and when dealing with difficult or needy people in the clinical site. As we know, getting into nursing school is very difficult, and learning time management skills in academic years, is necessary for nurses to obtain essential qualifications for entering the clinical setting, and offering high-quality service for patients. To have motivated, nursing students need to utilize time wisely. According to the article by Ghiasvand et al., the study notes that managing time will help to reduce stress in nursing school as well as in a healthcare setting. This is an issue for all nursing students because the nursing program requires a full-time commitment in school. According to Bethann Siviter, learning to cope with stress is a useful skill for people pursue in nursing career and life ahead. Engaging in all of the ideas from the study, I recognize that definitely truth and plays upon the effective application of time management skill associated with stress reduction. The fact that stressful in theory class such as heavy courses, learning requirements, application of new techniques for patients, and fear of making mistakes due to inadequate experience or evaluation of professors are those reasons cause nursing students having experience in anxiety throughout their academic year. Appealing to the readers' emotional side and having a time where the uncontrollable anxiety of one nursing student can lead to academic failure and drop out of school. Indeed, nursing is one of the most sensitive, stressful and challenging jobs which requires a stable and calm mind. Therefore, time management is one of the ways which can be very effective on anxiety and academic motivation of nursing students. In addition, the study finishes by noting that students using the optimal skill of time management will be able to manage time effectively even after graduation and in their professional life. Not only study theory in class, but most nursing students and nurses also have a hard time with the clinical site. Based on the nursing program curriculum, clinical is a crucial part throughout nursing students in school as well as nurses in a career because they provide a roadmap to patient-care and professional development. To be successful of using time management in a clinical site, according to the study of Laurie, nurses should have five components: knowing, planning, support, fulfillment, adapting and being flexible which will help better manage their clinical time in a healthcare setting. At first, knowing which means to control time on the unit in daily work. Nursing students on the way to becoming the nurse need to know what is going on with their patients, then decide what interventions they need to apply and create a care plan. Knowing about the patientr's condition will also help nurses feel less anxious, gain a sense of control, and raise their level of confidence. The next is planning which involves thinking about all the tasks needed to be done and how much time needed to spend on each task. Proper planning leads nurses through their day and secures that important tasks will not be missed. Thirdly, nursing students and nurses should not hesitate to ask from their preceptors. Researching the right answer for a patientr's problem is more time consuming than asking for help since it is the best interests of the patient. To gain a sense of accomplishment, nurses can reach out to manage time and ability to complete all the routine care without help. Finally, adapting and being flexible is essential to mastering time management skills. There are always unexpected and unpredictable events that occur during clinical and being able to adapt and find alternative ways to deal with various situations will help nurses feel less stressed when managing their time in the unit. In addition, my strategy is suggesting all the nursing program should open more workshops once a month for future nurses who are currently in the program to promote knowing how time management skill is effective in nursing school and busy lives. For oner's nursing student should discuss the time-limited aspect of school with family and friends could help them to realize that they need to excuse a nursing student for a while from usual routines. Furthermore, talk to the employer about schedule changes if student nurse needs to work, even change jobs to meet the student responsibilities. In conclusion, time management is one of the major skills of nursing students and will assist them in being successful in the nursing program. Being a nurse naturally comes with stress and difficulties on their job, getting help from planning and prioritizing tasks which help nurses can better manage the time they have at work, allowing more time to provide better care for their patients alike with personal nursing life.

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