What did you learn during the first year of nursing school? Subject wise.

[VanessaTitoyan]

I am curious to know what nurses learned the first year.

If you can remember, please let me know the other subjects during the nursing study! Thank you.

[kingvonnBSN2017, BSN]

Med-Surg, pharmacology, health assessment, informatics, pediatric, and maternal and newborn care.

[cleback]

BSN program in which students were prenursing before applying/being accepted into the nursing program, so my first year wasn't much....

1) chem with lab

2) diversity class (environmental health and minorities)

3) health systems in the us

4) foreign language

My first year in the nursing program was.... I don't even remember... one clinical, health assessment, and a bunch of nursing theory classes that blend together.

[Beatlefan, BSN]

I learned that most nursing instructors were not very nice people, and that nursing school was not like college when I went in the late '80s. We had to basically teach ourselves and be expected to know everything already.

[VanessaTitoyan]

Seriously? I am in the same situation. The teachers want to be more superior than the students, & actually get mad when you mention something they didn't.

[gere7404, BSN, RN]

First quarter was basically a CNA class with assessment skills added into it. Second quarter focused on chronic illnesses (COPD, DM, HTN, CAD, etc) and clinicals in a LTC/SNF/ALF setting along with first parts of pharmacology and pathophysiology. Third quarter was acute illnesses with clinicals in med surg with the second portions of patho and pharm.

[kai_altair]

I'm going to a direct admission college this fall. We are going to take algebra, 2 psychologies, A&P 1 and 2, speech and communication, ethics, writing, concepts of behavior change, and service learning. Not sure what some of those entail, but I think that the first year is mostly general studies that do not have much to do with actual nursing knowledge that you will learn in the later years