SHA Self Study Plan
A six-week SHA self study plan you can run around night shifts
Most nurses fail the SHA paper because revision is unstructured, not because the science is hard. This roadmap fixes the order: diagnose first, close systems one at a time, then rehearse under exam conditions.
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Week 1
Diagnostic & fundamentals
Cold mock, nursing process, assessment, safety and communication.
Checkpoint: A prioritised weakness list.
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Weeks 2–3
Medical-surgical core
One system per day with a closing question set and rationale review.
Checkpoint: 80% accuracy per system.
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Week 4
Maternal, child & community
Pregnancy, newborn, paediatric emergencies plus prevention and health promotion.
Checkpoint: Two timed mixed sets.
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Week 5
Pharmacology & calculations
Drug classes, high-alert medicines and 60 timed calculation drills.
Checkpoint: Zero calculation errors under time.
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Week 6
Rehearsal & booking
Three full timed mocks plus licensing document preparation.
Checkpoint: Consistent 75%+ mock scores.
How to use the plan each day
45 minutes of notes
Read one subtopic from the notes library and write five recall lines from memory before you close the file.
30 questions
Answer a mixed set on that subtopic and read every rationale, including the ones you got right.
10 minutes of error log
Write why each miss happened — knowledge gap, misread stem or rushed timing. Patterns show up within a week.
Ready to start your SHA preparation?
Every plan is a single payment with lifetime access. Switch exam track at any time — the licence rules change, the nursing science does not.