Hi everyone,

I'm taking two classes this summer: Pathophysiology and Nursing as a Profession (history of nursing, theory, etc.)

I love my pathphys book but I really dislike my second class. It is boring and redundant...I really dislike the theory. Why do I have to read 10 definititions of nursing? Why do I really care if nursing is considered a profession or not? I think part of the problem is that I am not responding to the instructor but mostly I just don't like the theory.

I'm in an accelerated BSN program, if I don't like the theory am I going to be doomed? Is it all going to be about theory?

Thanks for reading!

Hi everyone,

I'm taking two classes this summer: Pathophysiology and Nursing as a Profession (history of nursing, theory, etc.)

I love my pathphys book but I really dislike my second class. It is boring and redundant...I really dislike the theory. Why do I have to read 10 definititions of nursing? Why do I really care if nursing is considered a profession or not? I think part of the problem is that I am not responding to the instructor but mostly I just don't like the theory.

I'm in an accelerated BSN program, if I don't like the theory am I going to be doomed? Is it all going to be about theory?

Thanks for reading!

You will if you don't pass the course! I didn't care for it either, but sometimes you just have to bite the bullet. Some people do care quite a bit about the image of nursing, and whether it is considered a profession or not. If you don't, you don't, and there does not have to be a value judgment placed on that. We all practice for different reasons. Now I'll stand aside and let my colleagues have their say. Good luck to you BTW.

Try to make the best of it.

I don't know how BSN programs are structured but, I was bored to tears during the first semester of my ADN program. They kept going over and over all of this psychosocial psychobabble, which all basically boiled down to, "be nice to the patient."

After first semester though, it's much more focused on the the nitty gritty, which is the pathophysio of various diseases, conditions, etc. and what the nursing interventions are. Hopefully it will get better as you go along.

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oops. double post.

I agree w/indigo on this one. Get it over with! @ least it's a summer course, you don't have to listen to it quite as long.

SAVE THE BOOK. Keep it under your bed, anytime you have a little insomnia, pull it out. You won't last more than 10 minutes!! LOL

Linda Lou. . .you have to understand that most of these nursing theorists got their PhDs and Doctorates based on their theories. Being as you are in a BSN program you have to appreciate that the university you attend is going to give due diligence to these nursing theorists. In fact, don't be surprised if you are going to be required to quote some of the ideas of these theorists in your papers and care plans to come. That is just part of the upper division collegiate experience. Nursing has been struggling for some time to legitimize the reason for higher degree education of it's nurses. This is the price to pay for it. Theorists exist in almost all other professions as well. What makes it so hard to swallow for nurses, I think, is that it is mostly behavioral and so very hard to prove anything empirically. Mathematicians, chemists, physicists have it so much easier.

my nursing theory/foundations class was not very fun either, in fact boring at times. but looking back i appriciate that information. it was the building blocks for my future classes. i wanted to jump in and get to the meat of nursing, but it is helpfull to know the roots of nursing and where it came from, because then we can look back and see how far nurses have come. and we have come really far, doing things that we couldn't do years ago, and it's constantly changing. just get through it as best you can, i don't think anyone likes it, but i think it is important for nurses to know.