This post is out of concern because I've been reading other posts from current nursing students and alot of it is about how hard nursing school is and how their grateful for C's on tests and so on. My question for you all (yall if from TX)is did you have problems keeping good grades while in nursing School? I start in Aug.(BSN) and know it will be a challenge but to think I'll be happy with C's is ridiculous.
No disrespect, but it's obvious that to be a CRNA you have to do well in school so are these students just "those kinds of students"that barely get by in the first place? Once again, no disrespect to anyone but lets face it there are A and B students and then there are those who are happy with just getting by.
well if you are offended so be it. I don't think you understand the quote or question. It was only addressing NURSING COURSES.. Not your first year in college. I didn't mean if you makle a C you are happywith it, but the posts I have read on OTHER sites concerning nursing students THEY are happy getting C's because other NURSING students concurred with her. So you really shouldn't be offended because I feel you misinterpreted the question. HEck I"ve made a C too ya know, but I was wanting to know about nursing courses, because the question was about finding out if CRNA OR SRNA or any one going in that path had a problem with nusing school not their first year in college!!!!
If someone had a C average and barely made it through nursing school, they aren't going to be accepted to a CRNA program. I'd bet just about anything on that. I am sure there is probably an exception or two out there because nothing in life is ever clear cut. Or maybe there could be some major extenuating circumstances leading to the student's mediocore performance which they later corrected. Meaning the applicant made up for their barely passing grades somehow. However, as a general rule and as the minimal requirements for the majority of CRNA schools the minimum undergraduate GPA that they want is a 3.0.
In my opinion, nursing school was not all that hard. It was time consuming because there was clinicals and classes and I was also running division one xc and track at the time. However, it was not THAT hard.
Do keep in mind as well that often the grading scale is different in nursing school. A person who got a C ....well their average may have actually been a 84 or 85. The scale is not the typical anything above a 90 is an A/A-. Just keep that into consideration when looking at grades.
Also, not everyone wants to go onto advanced practice. Some just want that RN. That is perfectly fine, no reason to judge them.... they probably will make wonderful nurses one day.
Lastly, I'd just like to say that one's school performance does not predict their job performance or knowledge level. I went to school with some gals who studied their behinds off, knew their stuff, make great nurses now but got test anxiety.... I also went to school with a girl who got straight A's... she stunk in clinical, had awful bedside manner, and was just a good test taker. She already is onto getting her masters in administration because she couldn't hack being a bedside nurse..........
I find the VOLUME of work in nursing school to be what is hard, not the fact that the actual information itself is difficult to learn. (maybe that's cause I'm in an accelerated program, haha!) I find that there is lots of busywork like tons of 6 page papers, plus prepping for clinical the night before is time consuming. However, the subject matter from my first degree (biology) was much, much harder. I am one of those people who "got by" with my first degree, because I was young and more interested in having fun than studying my butt off, and I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I graduated with a 2.85. Since entering nursing school, I've completely changed my act and have gotten all A's and only one B. I now regret not having better study habits before, and I have some classes to retake before I apply to CRNA school.
I beg to differ about nursing school being so simple. While there are harder undergrad subject matters, if you factor in the volume of material for a nursing undergrad. class plus clinical time it can be very challenging for the undergrad level.I even had a few of my classmates who had other graduate level degrees ( MBA, MAsters in edu.) comment that they found nursing school rather challenging.
I also think it depends on the school, I went to a program that was in a medical center, and we had access to science professors that taught in the graduate programs and the medical school. They also had a cadaver lab for anatomy.The pharm. was very challenging, for example, the class was lecture driven and did not require the text, however, the faculity suggested LIppincott's study guide for our main reference. This is the same study guide the crna program and medical school uses at this medical center. Now, I am sure that the undergrad. class did not touch the level of difficulty that the grad. level does but it sure was hell as an undergrad class. By the way, I will find out next month just how much they did not cover when I took it as a undrgrad student. Now maybe some of the people who commented just how easy undergrad. nursing school is, are exceptional students and to them it was easy. However, the only grad. class I have taken was a biomed stats course at the same medical center and while it was very time consuming it was not as difficult as the pharm class I previously mentioned or some of the other classes I took in that nursing program. Now, I don't think all nurses programs have those types of resourses and this program at the time was extremely competive, they told us they had about 400 applicants and accepted 60, so I guess most of my classmates where pretty good students. Don't get me wrong, I realize that when I start at the next level it will make the undergrad work seem easy, but i don't think I will ever say it was simple. I know I am in for the ride of my life and just hope to come out the other end intact. Just my 2 cents. AND please, especially the current SRNA students, keep given us your insiders view of what it is like. I have learned so much from reading this forum and hopefully soon I will be able to pass on my experience from the inside.
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If someone had a C average and barely made it through nursing school, they aren't going to be accepted to a CRNA program. I'd bet just about anything on that. I am sure there is probably an exception or two out there because nothing in life is ever clear cut. Or maybe there could be some major extenuating circumstances leading to the student's mediocore performance which they later corrected. Meaning the applicant made up for their barely passing grades somehow. However, as a general rule and as the minimal requirements for the majority of CRNA schools the minimum undergraduate GPA that they want is a 3.0.
In my opinion, nursing school was not all that hard. It was time consuming because there was clinicals and classes and I was also running division one xc and track at the time. However, it was not THAT hard.
Do keep in mind as well that often the grading scale is different in nursing school. A person who got a C ....well their average may have actually been a 84 or 85. The scale is not the typical anything above a 90 is an A/A-. Just keep that into consideration when looking at grades.
Also, not everyone wants to go onto advanced practice. Some just want that RN. That is perfectly fine, no reason to judge them.... they probably will make wonderful nurses one day.
Lastly, I'd just like to say that one's school performance does not predict their job performance or knowledge level. I went to school with some gals who studied their behinds off, knew their stuff, make great nurses now but got test anxiety.... I also went to school with a girl who got straight A's... she stunk in clinical, had awful bedside manner, and was just a good test taker. She already is onto getting her masters in administration because she couldn't hack being a bedside nurse..........