NR 500 Week 3: Graduate Skills – Time Management

Time Management Plan Tool

Times	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
12 a.m.–1 a.m.	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep
1 a.m.–2 a.m.	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep
2 a.m.–3 a.m.	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep
3 a.m.–4 a.m.	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep
4 a.m.–5 a.m.	Study time	Personal time	Assignment	Assignment	Study time	Sleep	Sleep
5 a.m.–6 a.m.	Study time	Study time	Assignment	Assignment	Personal time	Sleep	Sleep
6 a.m.–7 a.m.	Personal time	Engagement with Course materials	Personal time	Personal time	Personal time	Personal time	Personal time
7 a.m.–8 a.m.	Work	Work	work	Work	Engagement with Course material	Personal time	Personal time
8 a.m.–9 a.m.	Work	Work	Work	Work	Assignment	Assignment	Family time
9 a.m.–10 a.m.	Work	Work	Work	Work	Assignment	Assignment	Family time
10 a.m.–11 a.m.	Work	Work	Work	Work	Assignment	Assignment	Family time
11 a.m.–12 p.m.	Work	Work	Work	Work	Family Time	Family Time	Personal time
1 p.m.–2 p.m.	Work	Work	Work	Work	Family time	Personal time	Personal time
2 p.m.–3 p.m.	Week 3 readings	Engagement with course materials	Assignments	Assignments	Assignments	Family time	Family time
3 p.m.–4 p.m.	Work	Work	Week 3 readings	Week 3 readings	Engagement with course materials	Family Time	Family time
4 p.m.–5 p.m.	Work	Work	Assignments	Study time	Assignments	Family Time	Family time
5 p.m.–6 p.m.	Work	Work	Study time	Engagement with course materials	Week activities	Family time	Family time
6 p.m.–7 p.m.	Work	Work	Friends time	Friends time	Friends time	Friends time	Friends time
7 p.m.–8 p.m.	Family time	Family time	Family time	Family time	Family time	Personal  time	Family time
8 p.m.–9 p.m.	Family time	Family time	Personal time	Personal time	Personal time	Family time	Family time
9 p.m.–10 p.m.	Personal time	Personal time	Family time	Family time	Family time	Family time	personal
10 p.m.–11 p.m.	sleep	Sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep
11 p.m.–12 a.m.	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep	sleep

            Adequate study time is required for the accomplishment of all the set goals. As such, it is important to make appropriate arrangements to ensure that some extra time is created to help boost study time. One of the strategies I would use is to take some time from the sleeping hours. For example, waking up an hour earlier or sleeping an hour later than the current time. This would add more time for studying. I will also create some more time from the weekend hours and convert them to study hours.

Time management is an important aspect of your schedule at Chamberlain. If you have not already downloaded the time-management tool, please do so in the lesson before continuing. For those who like to use digital calendars, such as Google Calendar or iCloud calendar. You may also use your digital calendar instead of this tool. The time management tool consists of a table with the days of the week, as well as the time slots in one hour increments. Boxes are available to enter specific activities that you will complete during that timeframe. Consider the following categories as you work on your time management tool: Personal time (TV, self-care, community); time with family, pets and friends; sleep; meal prep and eating; work; discussions and assignments; readings and lessons. To begin, add your desired activity or activities to the appropriate day slot on the time management tool. For example, refer to the plan shown. This shows a breakdown of activities spanned throughout the day and week of this plan. As you prepare your time management tool from start to finish, consider your own life. What activities take up time during the day? As an example, When do you work, Sleep, and spend time with family and friends?