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How many of you thought nursing was going to be easy? Do you still feel this way?

I don't remember the number of books I had to carry but I do remember my back was hurting from carrying all those books.

How many books do you have to read/carry for your nursing classes?

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I personally think having a family and having to work does make it harder for nursing school than it would for any other schooling (especially liberal arts.) Really with every test, its a new/different challenge every time and you can fail two tests if you want to in nursing school but then you're out the door. I can fail two tests in math and still come out with an A. There is no extra credit, process of elimination may not exactly work (because you will still have two answers that are the right answer. :), and there are no extra assignments that buffer your grade. My kid interferring with my missing those tiny details that they decide to test on, could easily make or break my course grade.

One of my classmates, while we were in the program....sang the same song. He always said "nursing" wasn't as hard as medical school...

LOW and Behold....he applied to 4 Medical Schools (in 3 different states)...and couldn't get into any one of them.

And while in nursing school, he obtained a prescription for Adderall...and I never understood why he needed the so-called "study-drug"... because the content...according to him was so easy.

Makes you think...huh?

Pardon my vent but as someone who suffers from ADHD I find this to be very narrow minded and I hope that I never have a nurse with such a judgmental attitude caring for me. A prescription means that there was a valid medical diagnosis of a condition, for which Adderall was prescribed. Many people with ADHD are brilliant, intelligent and highly creative but may be disorganized, have difficulty staying on task or simply staying still in a chair for a 3 hour lecture. As to your comment that anyone who finds nursing school easy should go to medical school instead; even IF someone wanted to go to medical school, admission is limited and even very bright students are turned away because of such petty things as lack of funds, who they know, the wrong extra-curricular activities etc. I personally do not feel that MD's have some superior intelligence, if they did, nurses would be underlings instead of professionals. On a personal note, I find my ADN program to be easy thus far, I also work 36 hours a week as a CNA at the same time. I had less than a second grade education when I began my college career (crazy religious nut parents who decided to "homeschool") but determination and hard work have paid off and my GPA thus far is 3.84. Because I am not struggling with basic concepts right now, I can focus my attention to learning everything I can about critical care and trauma which are my passion. The only reason I find it easy are the learning skills which I taught myself and I don't use them to skate by with the minimum knowledge required but instead I try to learn the materiel in greater depth. To say that because not everyone struggles in nursing school it will undermine the respect that the nursing profession garners is like saying that naturally talented athletes make pro sports gain less respect; it is absurd.

Rant Over!!!!!! :bow:

for those, who said nursing school wasn't that hard....why not just go on to medical school?? why stop at nursing, when you can become a medical doctor and not have to take orders? just a question..

medicine is not a step up on a ladder from nursing, it's an entirely different discipline, philosophy, and structure. if you think of nursing as a stop that's fallen short of some pinnacle, you sell an entire profession (replete with genius) very short indeed.

physicians don't know what we know, and the smart ones know that.

btw, nurses don't take orders, either. no, we don't. i don't care if the old chart forms, reborn in the emr, say, "physician orders." we are not subject to being ordered about. nursing is obligated by law to implement parts of the medical plan of care, and we are also obligated legally to make and implement a nursing plan of care. get the word "orders" out of your head and you will see a much wider horizon in your (and our) nursing future.

lol...not everyone on Adderrall has been diagnosed with ADHD. Its sold on the blackmarket and has been labeled the "study drug"....

This guy in particular bragged about pretending to have ADHD..AND GOT A SCRIPT.

Trust.

Specializes in hospice, HH, LTC, ER,OR.

Some people also use adderall for a quick weight loss.. And not ADHD

Anyone with an average IQ and the ability to study for hours on end can become a nurse or a doctor. The content isn't hard. It's in-depth. A big difference.

This is my first year in nursing school and it's really more about time management, we have unbelievable amounts of reading that we need to get done every week, then there is the preparation for seminar, lab and clinical which is very time consuming. But i'm very passionate about it and I'm enjoying it very much

I would also like to add that, while I agree with those who have pointed out that much of college is mostly rote memorization (especially your 2 yrs of core classes), I must say I learned more in my 2 semesters of A&P than all of the other classes combined. Yes, we memorized body regions and parts, and Systems, but my professor encouraged us to learn the back story, per se - not only wanting us to know what does what, but WHY does it do that and different scenarios. He loved increase/decrease questions - stuff like, "Effect of increased secretion of renin from juxtaglomerular apparatus on urine volume;" "Effect of decrease in pH on amount of oxygen bound to hemoglobin;" or something like, "Which is greater: Permeability of the distal convoluted tubule to water when ADH is present vs Permeability when ADH is absent." He really encouraged us to think - not just memorize. And while to me, getting an A seemed sort of easy, that does not mean I did not take them seriously - I still found many of my classes to be very challenging.

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  7. How many of you thought nursing was going to be easy? Do you still feel this way?

    I don't remember the number of books I had to carry but I do remember my back was hurting from carrying all those books.

    How many books do you have to read/carry for your nursing classes?

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I would also like to add that, while I agree with those who have pointed out that much of college is mostly rote memorization (especially your 2 yrs of core classes), I must say I learned more in my 2 semesters of A&P than all of the other classes combined. Yes, we memorized body regions and parts, and Systems, but my professor encouraged us to learn the back story, per se - not only wanting us to know what does what, but WHY does it do that and different scenarios. He loved increase/decrease questions - stuff like, "Effect of increased secretion of renin from juxtaglomerular apparatus on urine volume;" "Effect of decrease in pH on amount of oxygen bound to hemoglobin;" or something like, "Which is greater: Permeability of the distal convoluted tubule to water when ADH is present vs Permeability when ADH is absent." He really encouraged us to think - not just memorize. And while to me, getting an A seemed sort of easy, that does not mean I did not take them seriously - I still found many of my classes to be very challenging.
This was an addendum to a previous post in the same thread, but that one was apparently deleted by Allnurses Admin - I have no idea why they would do that, since I said nothing offensive to anyone - but now, this post might not make much sense and if Allnurses wants to delete this one too, feel free ;)

I'm in an LVN and I must say the hardest part of nursing school is managing it with the rest of my life. However I think it's on the easy side because it's based on critical thinking which is my forte. In the end it's a matter of opinion and I think we all come to allnurses.com to share our opinions, struggles, triumphs, etc. So for those of us who are lucky and find it easy, hoorah! For those who don't, it's OK the more work you put in the more you will get out of it. I love nursing and have no desire to be a doctor nor do I think I could make it. But there is something that comes natural to me for nursing. I struggle with small portions of it but must admit that the effort I put into studying is minimal. I know when I go into a BSN program next year that must change but know that my experience as an LVN will be priceless.

I'm in an LVN and I must say the hardest part of nursing school is managing it with the rest of my life. However I think it's on the easy side because it's based on critical thinking which is my forte. In the end it's a matter of opinion and I think we all come to allnurses.com to share our opinions, struggles, triumphs, etc. So for those of us who are lucky and find it easy, hoorah! For those who don't, it's OK the more work you put in the more you will get out of it. I love nursing and have no desire to be a doctor nor do I think I could make it. But there is something that comes natural to me for nursing. I struggle with small portions of it but must admit that the effort I put into studying is minimal. I know when I go into a BSN program next year that must change but know that my experience as an LVN will be priceless.
I've heard many say that - that more than anything else, it's about time management and balancing school w/ everything else that goes on in life. If you're already an LVN, then I'm sure you'll do great in your BSN program. I'm only a CNA (which is a requirement for the BSN program I am starting in June), and I know I am really going to have to learn good time-management skills to manage all of the class work and clinical assignments. I know it will not be easy, but I look forward to it. :)
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