The placement problem
Nursing degrees interleave academic terms with clinical placements, which means the study time is not merely short — it is fragmented and unpredictable. You get twenty minutes on a break and forty on the bus. That rules out any method with a large fixed setup cost, which is precisely what hand-writing a deck is.
What works in those fragments is review: a scheduler that knows which eight cards are due right now and asks you those. Generating the cards has to be somebody else's job. Ours, ideally.
Pharmacology, which is the one everyone means
Drug names, classes, mechanisms, contraindications, interactions, dose calculations. It is large, it is arbitrary, it is safety-critical, and it is examined in detail. There is no clever way to understand your way out of memorising it, which is why it is the canonical spaced repetition subject: generate the cards from your own module's drug list, and let FSRS decide what you see today.
How nursing students use it
- Photograph a drug chart or your placement notes and turn them into cards on the bus home.
- Record a lecture and get timestamped notes — useful when a placement made you miss the session and you're catching up on a recording.
- Generate practice questions in your programme's format from your own material, then convert every miss into a card.
- Ask your own material questions at 11pm without waking anyone up, with a citation you can check.