Nursing School Study Tips & Hacks, Part 1: Reading Textbooks in Nursing School It's not uncommon in nursing school to be assigned 5-15 chapters to read for multiple classes within a few days. And in most cases, your nursing professors are going to expect you to have read those chapters before each class (check your syllabus). Therefore, you have to be smart in how you approach reading in nursing school. What I would do is I would skim each chapter, focusing on bold words, chapter and paragraph h