Agreed with decreasing the amount of dishes you have. Also cleaning your dishes right after a meal is also a great thing... although I can understand why it can't happen all the time.
Oh yeah, debt reduction too is key. Thing is public health nursing only gives you 35 hours a week. If I can work on the side in acute care, I can add a 12 hour shift to that and give me 47 hours a week. I'll be dead every week, but I can use those extra 12 hours to pay down my debt directly.
My plan when I get out of school to help pay down my debt is to work in Public Health and work in acute care on the side casually... thing is, I love public health nursing but if I'm to do NP school I need to have some sort of experience in acute care otherwise it'll be very difficult.
I suck at charting. Just, in general. Like, here I am regretting the shear lack of detail I took in my scratch notes while trying to write a report. Happens everytime.