Nursing classes are easy...

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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 think nursing school will be very demanding and time-consuming, but not particularly difficult to learn the material. As my A&P instructor likes to say, "It's not quantam mechanics!"

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I'll say that the RN-BSN program has been easy so far. But that's because I already have a good background from both the ADN and real-life nursing experience. Plus, there's a lot less pressure on me, because no matter how I do in school (pass or fail), I'll still be a RN :) So I'm getting into the classes more and really appreciating most of them, instead of focusing just on staying alive grade-wise.

Now the ADN program that I had to take first, that's a different story ;)

And this is the reason why I feel nursing as a profession has a LONG way to go, in how we are viewed by the public.

As long as people on an "allnurses" website....conclude that the nursing curriculum is "easy breezy", the less respect we get in regards to what we do. If nursing is easy...and its not a big deal, then maybe you need to challenge yourself and try medical school.

There is a reason why 140 students start in Nursing 1, and 40 people graduate....(as in my case).

CJ....you posted that you are "about to start nursing school, and have a 3.94 GPA, and never once thought A&P or micro were hard"...You are very fortunate and you have GREAT an advantage over many, many people (myself included).

I graduated, passed NCLEX.... and the thought of going through what I went through to obtain my BSN all over again, scares me to death..

If your GPA is that high CJ, and micro and A&P were a breeze, I'm sure you can become a doctor...and "encompass the patient as a whole".

You are more than intelligent enough to make that connection..

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?

Um, nursing school is not easy. Yes, it is easier if you do not have to work, have a significant other, or have kids. For those who comment that Micro and A & P were easy, yes, they probably were because you're learning vocabulary and functions. In nursing, EVERY question will be applying the vocab and knowledge of those functions in formats you can never imagine. You will RARELY get asked a question of how a kidney works, but what's the priority action for a nurse to take for renal failure patient who has urine specific gravity out of range and has made the statement "I have no reason to live."

You're right, its not quantum mechanics, but its a totally different way of thinking that EVERY nursing student has had a doozy grasping. Its not about learning the material, its ALL about application.

I think nursing school will be very demanding and time-consuming, but not particularly difficult to learn the material. As my A&P instructor likes to say, "It's not quantam mechanics!"
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23 textbooks and this is just the first semester of lpn-rn bridge.. I didn't have half as many( I don't think) in LPN school.

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Nursing school is tough, but do-able. I can tell you that it is much harder than when I went to graduate school including biochem, and several other lab courses. Mostly the volume thrown at you so fast.

Nursing school was harder than hell.

It wasn't the content.

It was the time frame in which we had to learn the content and the projects, reports and exams that came at us fast and furious...

Oh yeah, and we had to squeeze clinical prep work and actual clinicals in there somewhere...

Oh, and labs... had to work on the lab stuff...

And work... gotta get the hours in at work to keep my tuition reimbursement and insurance...

Kids?

What??

Divorce?

Moving?

Who's got cancer now?

What the hell happened to my thyroid gland?

What????

Oh... my... GAWD!!!

I can't believe I did it.

To those who cite family as a factor that makes nursing school hard, my response is that it has nothing to do with nursing school per se. Family can be an interfering factor in ANY school.

And this is the reason why I feel nursing as a profession has a LONG way to go, in how we are viewed by the public.

As long as people on an "allnurses" website....conclude that the nursing curriculum is "easy breezy", the less respect we get in regards to what we do. If nursing is easy...and its not a big deal, then maybe you need to challenge yourself and try medical school.

There is a reason why 140 students start in Nursing 1, and 40 people graduate....(as in my case).

CJ....you posted that you are "about to start nursing school, and have a 3.94 GPA, and never once thought A&P or micro were hard"...You are very fortunate and you have GREAT an advantage over many, many people (myself included).

I graduated, passed NCLEX.... and the thought of going through what I went through to obtain my BSN all over again, scares me to death..

If your GPA is that high CJ, and micro and A&P were a breeze, I'm sure you can become a doctor...and "encompass the patient as a whole".

You are more than intelligent enough to make that connection..

It's perfectly fine for SOME people to conclude that nursing school or especially PRE-nursing classes were easy..or not hard. That's a subjective statement that anyone who has earned their degree has a right to. You found your classes difficult and you are in the company of probably more people than those who feel otherwise so relax. Furthermore, as I and other posters have stated to you already, medical school is not the superior counterpart to nursing school. Please stop repeating yourself.

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?

It makes me think that if he actually OBTAINED a PRESCRIPTION and did not buy it illegally that he was probably DIAGNOSED with adhd or narcolepsy. Adderall's indication is not "a study drug". I hope this misunderstanding isn't any indication of the difficulties you may encounter in pharmacology.

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Nursing school was both the hardest and easiest thing I've ever done.

Hard because I was raising four young children and working nights and weekends at the hospital, while having severe menstrual problems and marital issues. Hard because there was SO much to do in so little time. Hard because I was an older student and a leader in my class, and that meant being held to a higher standard by my instructors.

Easy because I had waited my whole life to do this, and I absorbed nursing like a sponge. Easy because I knew I was in the right place at the right time and doing the right things the right way. Easy because I LOVED it---every skill I mastered, every test I passed, every minute of clinicals. :D

Like I said I haven't been to nursing school yet, but I am expecting it to be extremely hard and time consuming! Thank you very much! However, I don't see physicians superior to nurses, and I work with both parties all day in the OR as an anesthesia tech. I've even seen a nurse give a physician orders. In the OR, if the CNOR circulator sees that a surgeon isn't performing adequately, he/she has the right to suspend him/her from the OR. Is med school harder? Probably, but I don't know that personally. Like a previous post said earlier, it is all subjective.

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