I Hate Nursing School

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I hate nursing school. Our school has a reputation for being one of the top 100 in the country (whatever that means), and in the area, it is known for being the toughest, but now in the last semester, I just hate it.

I want to learn the subjects we are learning, but I'm sick of arrogant instructors, stupid extra projects, and the continous stress of tests--that have to be passed with an 80% or better. I'm all about a C this semester. I couldn't care less what grade I get so long as I pass. I don't care about my GPA, I don't care about anything except passing and finishing this horrible program.

We have less than half our original class that started in level one, and people are failing now in level 4. We had 51 now we have 23. I'm doing alright, but I won't be getting an A this semester.

All I want is out, an official transcript, and then the place can burn to the ground for all I care.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

If you ever see a day in nursing school when you feel 100% confident, you ought to rethink your career goals! The only people who get that cocky are the ones who think they know it all, and nursing doesn't need people like that. I've been at it for seven years, and I'm STILL just a little nervous every time I go out there on that floor, even though my skills are just as good as any other nurse's, if not better. In my way of thinking, being slightly nervous keeps my mind sharp and makes me more careful and more thorough in my work........and as a result, I don't make very many mistakes.

Yes, as time goes by you'll become more comfortable with your skills and your abilities, and that's good. Just don't get OVERconfident, and you'll do fine.:)

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Btrflygrl,

I am STILL waiting for the day I feel 100% confident---and I've been a nurse for almost 4 years (2.5 in critical care area).

You WILL feel better though, as time goes by. We learn every day, always one step forward, two back.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.
Originally posted by SC RN

Suzy,

Without going into details, ADNRN is a trouble maker and an instigator and if you take a few minutes and do a search on this posters previous postings, you'll realize that it's not even worth your time to respond. I've stayed away from most of this persons threads but I hate to see someone innocent drawn into the drama that is always created.

Anyways, best of luck to you (and all of us) in our courses and clinicals ... :kiss

SC: thanks so much for your advice. Yes, I have seen posts by the OP in the past but this one started innocently enough. I felt I had to reply because I'm really enjoying my experience and praise my traditional type nursing school. I'm really happy about my success (so far). I believe the instructors are what makes it work so well and we have a great class taking away a bit of the stress which everyone faces while in nursing school.

Thanks for your support!!! :kiss

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Specializes in Emergency.

I think you are just getting antsy about being near graduation, and wanting to be a "real nurse". I don't think you really "hate nursing school". You've come this far already.

it all comes together once you start working, and it's weird, because you will do something someday, or have to talk to someone, and you will remember a project, or a paper, or a patient you cared for while you were in school. I know it's difficult to understand now as you are finishing up the home stretch.

My advice to you is to hang in there, pass, and have fun with your peers as you finish up, you are almost done with school, congrats!!

xo Jen

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Specializes in Critical Care, ER.
Originally posted by dphrn

I remember during nursing school how tired I got of the same people always complaining. Yes, nursing school is stressful just like the profession. Any degree program has it's pain in the neck courses and projects to be completed.

We all have our stories to tell of the hardships we have gone through during school. If you want it, then do it. If it is too hard, then quit. It is that simple.

Nursing school isn't hard, it's stupid. I'm in a "national top ten" ranked BSN program and UGGGGHH. I have a 3.6 GPA without ever having opened a textbook. Thank god I'm graduating this semester and doing my preceptorship in the ER where I am actually learning something. The school DID NOT PREPRARE me AT ALL for my preceptorship. I am so peeved because when my preceptor asks me "you never did this...?" or "they never taught you ACLS drugs?", I just look like a MORON when it's not my fault. GRRRRRRRRRRRR. Not to mention all the last minute schedule changes. Sitting in psych clinical ALL SUMMER TWICE A WEEK for 8 hours at a time just playing board games with the mentally ill. Right now I am in Community (another 8 hours a week) and they don't even have enough families for all 9 students in our program so I am just sitting on my orifice for 5 or 6 hours chating with my classmates in a conference room. If I am lucky, I get to go to a breastfeeding support group where I get to watch 14 moms (ok, and 14+ very cute babies;) ) talk about all the crap my friends and I did when we breast fed.

So, in summary, I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU ADRN!

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Originally posted by suzy253

My diploma program is a hospital-based nursing school and some courses you take at associated colleges in the area. It has consistently received accreditation from NLNAC. And what are you referring to with your statement "is a diploma program even college? Do you have to attend 'college' to prepare yourself for the NCLEX and get your well-deserved RN? We are well prepared after our intense 3-year program to take the NCLEX.

I don't know. I don't know if one needs the other college coursework to be a good nurse or not. Personally, I don't think so. Nursing school is nursing school. But your experience of it and mine are 180 degrees out. So maybe a diploma program over 3 years is not as intense as nursing school + general ed requirements over two years. Again, I don't know. I do know that I have two associate degrees and a bachelor's degree and I slept through getting them compared to what nursing school is like.

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Originally posted by SC RN

Suzy,

Without going into details, ADNRN is a trouble maker and an instigator and if you take a few minutes and do a search on this posters previous postings, you'll realize that it's not even worth your time to respond. I've stayed away from most of this persons threads but I hate to see someone innocent drawn into the drama that is always created.

Anyways, best of luck to you (and all of us) in our courses and clinicals ... :kiss

A big WHATEVER to you. I'm glad to see that you've tried so hard to stay away from my posts and yet, bing!. Here you are. I am so sick of this. I exist; therefore I'm a troublemaker. Is it really me that makes your world so hard to live in?

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Originally posted by dphrn

We all have our stories to tell of the hardships we have gone through during school. If you want it, then do it. If it is too hard, then quit. It is that simple.

Nice. By the way, I've always known that quitting was an option. But thanks for the priceless advice, anyway. I'll make sure to pass it along to the remaining members of my class.

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Originally posted by RNPATL

While everyone on this board who knows me, knows that I advocate BSN as entry-level for nursing, I will always have a high level of respect for the diploma graduate.

I've noticed that about advocates for the BSN. They always give the diploma people a pass. Evidently, the conflict between BSN and ADN has nothing to do with one's ability to be a nurse. The conflict must be about something else.

Could it be as simple as: "Hey, if I had to go four years, why doesn't he?"

Well like I said before, let's skip all the middle steps and just make nursing like law or medicine. A person gets a bachelor's and certain prerequisits and then applies to nursing school and graduates with a masters of applied science in nursing. If we're not going to do that, and if we're going to keep saying that diploma schools are great, then I suggest for the sake of reason and logic that we abandon all this BSN ADN garbage.

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Originally posted by happystudent

I am soooo feeling you right now adrn, I just finished my "busy work paper" My Self Assessment 7 pg paper!! ughhhhh.. I too am sooo frikkin sick and tired of nursing school! If i hadn't put so much effort, blood , sweat, tears. kids, hubby, money etc (you see where im going with this, right?) I'd frikkin QUIT!

thats how sick of it I am.....

13 more weeks...........lets count it down together:kiss

Yes ma'am. I'm counting them with you. Thanks for the encouragement.;)

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originally posted by 3rdshiftguy

if you would have told me you were insulted, then i would have apologized. so please accept my apologies. (can i use the excuse i'm working 20 hours of overtime, waiting for all frustrated student to hurry up and finish and come help me out?)

yes, you do have some growing up to do.

(then again so do i.)

save your apologies. what good are they edited for inappropriate language

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Originally posted by TinyNurse

I think you are just getting antsy about being near graduation, and wanting to be a "real nurse". I don't think you really "hate nursing school". You've come this far already.

it all comes together once you start working, and it's weird, because you will do something someday, or have to talk to someone, and you will remember a project, or a paper, or a patient you cared for while you were in school. I know it's difficult to understand now as you are finishing up the home stretch.

My advice to you is to hang in there, pass, and have fun with your peers as you finish up, you are almost done with school, congrats!!

xo Jen

Not that I would correct you on how I feel, but I pretty much hate nursing school. As I said, I love nursing, and I want to learn the remaining subjects that we are being taught. But I'm sick of the instructors, and I'm sick of the poorly managed ciriculum, and I'm sick of being blamed for being stupid every time the chairperson makes one of the idiot instructors throw out a question because they failed to provide a correct answer in the four choices! I hate nursing school.

But it's going to end, and then the real--the good--education will begin: experience, certification and CEUs. That's how I feel about it anyway.

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