Ipad for nursing degree?

Hey , I’m going to start uni in September doing child nursing and I’m really excited for it!

I wanted to find out from former and present nursing students whether or not they thought it would be worth getting iPad. I know that it’s down to person but I would like to hear about the pros and cons of getting one. As I need to save towards potentially getting one

Reply 1

normaw

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Original post by risasakura

I've amended your thread title a little to help you get replies. :smile:

Reply 2

Tracey_W

Original post by risasakura

Hey , I’m going to start uni in September doing child nursing and I’m really excited for it!
I wanted to find out from former and present nursing students whether or not they thought it would be worth getting iPad. I know that it’s down to person but I would like to hear about the pros and cons of getting one. As I need to save towards potentially getting one

Hi

I would suggest that you just get a decent price laptop for your nursing degree course as you'll probably hardly use it as most students actually write things down with pen and paper during lectures as you'll find it difficult to keep up with what the lecturer are saying when writing it on a laptop/ tablet compared to paper.

I use to just write it down on a A4 notebook and then when I have time back home I transferred my notes onto my laptop 💻 💻 ( it also saves you carrying it around and hoping you don't break it or someone else bump into you and you drop it !!!

Personal it is down to individual people whether or not they use a laptop 💻 or tablet during lectures......

Good luck with your children nursing degree 😊 😊 😊

NHS registered band 7 midwife

Reply 3

Littleemma98

Original post by risasakura

Hey , I’m going to start uni in September doing child nursing and I’m really excited for it!
I wanted to find out from former and present nursing students whether or not they thought it would be worth getting iPad. I know that it’s down to person but I would like to hear about the pros and cons of getting one. As I need to save towards potentially getting one

Hiya

Best with a laptop, cheaper than a iPad.
Make sure you get a decent laptop so you can print off all of your coursework ( unless they ask you to submit it all online as PDF file when eventually they ask for it).

I bought a cheap one for when I did my veterinary nursing degree and then I went straight back to university to study adult nursing and I was still using the same laptop until few months into my final year as a student adult nurse when I bought a newer one, iPad is okay but very expensive compared to a laptop.

I found it that you only used your laptop/ iPad or tablet for revision work and updating your coursework that you have written up on notepad for future information when you have to look back at when doing any essays, assignments or exams.

It's definitely down to each individual person on what sort of technology that they use for university. A vast majority of students preferred to jog down what the lecturer is saying about things as it's quicker than trying to keep up with what was said on a laptop etc.

NHS registered adult nurse ( qualified summer 2023 ).

Reply 4

carmendarling

Original post by risasakura

Hey , I’m going to start uni in September doing child nursing and I’m really excited for it!
I wanted to find out from former and present nursing students whether or not they thought it would be worth getting iPad. I know that it’s down to person but I would like to hear about the pros and cons of getting one. As I need to save towards potentially getting one

I would recommend an iPad. You can annotate lecture slides, annotate journals and papers etc. You can even get a screen protector to make it feel like you’re writing on paper.
On the other hand, it is quite a hefty price tag and as nursing students we don’t really use our laptops etc as much as other students.
I think it just depends on your learning preferences. If you don’t want a laptop and an iPad, you can get a Magic Keyboard and then you’ve got the best of both.

Reply 5

ErasistratusV

I am not a nursing or midwifery student but I would wholeheartedly suggest you stick to digital note-taking using OneNote/Notion and use and get an Ipad, stylus and keyboard. During lectures you can scribble on the screen and they are saved to the cloud. It is so much faster than carrying paper and trying to manage pieces of paper and if your device exploded in the next instant, it is all saved to the cloud for you.

I don't know how much content you will be expected to cover but having all notes neatly organised for future retrieval if needed is key in healthcare so you can locate and revise anything at a later date.

I am not an Apple product user but the way some of my colleagues use Apple apps and their ipads is off the scale amazing and so very fast. Annotate lecture slides, cut and paste images, diagrams or articles into their notes, take photos of things in their work etc etc Using a pen and paper combined with a laptop you just realise is miles behind.

Unless you are a superb typist I don't think you'd be able to really take notes in all lectures on a keyboard because of the pace of some of them. With a stylus you can highlight and write at any speed and make really effective notes.

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Reply 6

HNRaja

I will be starting the adult nursing degree in September and have been debating on what to buy. I know laptop is a definite however, my husband wants to get me the note (I think that's what it's called), it's an electronic writing pad, which allows you to write notes, download articles and books. Although, I am more of a pen and paper sort of girl, the selling point for me with the electronic writing pad is that it converts your notes to text and you can save it straight away into a document. In practice I don't know if it's better than pen and paper but I can see how it can be more efficient.

Reply 7

ErasistratusV

I haven't heard of the Note but I have heard of remarkable. This is cool but it's not got the functionality of a laptop. Or at least the one I tried didn't yet have that level of functionality.

Various devices, Ipad, Microsoft SurfacePro. Go into PC world/Apple store/John Lewis and try them basically. None of them are cheap so it's important to get the right one for you from the outset.