There's a specific moment familiar to almost every nursing student: sitting in lecture, nodding NURS FPX 4045 Assessment along as the instructor explains the pathophysiology of acute pancreatitis or walks through the nursing management of a patient in diabetic ketoacidosis, feeling like the material makes complete sense. Then, two or three weeks later, staring at a review sheet before an exam, that same content feels foreign, as if it had never been covered at all. This experience isn't a sign of poor intelligence or inadequate effort. It's the predictable result of how human memory works, and understanding the mechanism behind it reveals why one relatively small habit, reviewing lecture content within the same day it was first learned, produces outsized returns for the amount of time it requires.