What was the HARDEST PART OF NURSING SCHOOL for you?

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What was the HARDEST PART OF NURSING SCHOOL for you?

Getting used to the testing style. my pharm class was ridiculous, didn't learn anything (so it was so easy to get an A) but now it's biting me, I dont know ANYthing about drugs! I just finished Peds, it was tough too. The material is so different from adults, AND I just don't mesh well with kids, so clinicals were awkward for me too. Still got a B tho. Which brings me to my last point... the grading scale! Ughhh!!!! I've gotten a few B's, but they WOULD be A's if a 90% was an A!

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Skills check-offs are the hardest for me. I get so nervous that I feel sick!

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Being chronically sleep deprived. I am not one of those people who can function on a few hours of sleep, I need at least 7-8 hours a night.

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Working full time. And after how I did on today's test, I'd have to say labor and delivery.

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Specializes in ICU.

Having a teacher who did know how to write test questions ... it was a pathopharmacology class. I usually rock pharm and even scored 100% in pharm on my comprehensive ATI test (24 pharm questions, 150 total questions). However, I ended up with a B in her class because of her terrible tests. My only B in a nursing class.

Also, trying to look busy at clinical in the afternoon or in a mental health inpatient unit at any time - that's hard.

Other than that, nursing school has been great!

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It's a tie for me between the constant stress of "if I bomb this test I may not be able to recover and fail out of the program" and time management. By time management I specifically mean the first couple semesters. It was very tough trying balance the hours and hours of clinical prep and paperwork that would have little to no effect on my grade and the necessary study hours I needed to pass my weekly test that was 100% of my grade. My program was concept based so we didn't have a pharm, cardiac, renal, etc. class separately in a semester. Each semester had one class (nursing 111, 112) with a little bit of everything and you either passed or waited a year to start again where you failed.

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Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

Graduating.

Then getting a job.

The first months as a new nurse makes nursing school look like kindergarten.

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The first months as a new nurse makes nursing school look like kindergarten.

You can say that again...feels like im a fish outta water.

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The hardest part of nursing school was saying goodbye to any social life that I had, say goodbye to any tv show series that I loved to follow, and getting use to no longer caring about putting make-up on.... Sleep is more important. (Always think Maslow's Hierarchy of needs...)

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Mix. Psych was horrible but we had a teacher who treated the online class as her b**** stepchildren and ignored us in favor of the campus lecture. Seriously, the clinical I was in was mixed and the online class had a lot harder time. She also would not respond to us if we sent her emails. Communication was horrid. The tests were iffy too.

I think trying to schedule things outside of the classroom was frustrating. It wouldn't be just a single class time. It would be two to four week notice that you need to do a class offered only certain days and times. If you do other classes, then it may not work.

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Specializes in CCM, PHN.

How expensive all the booze & drugs I relied on to get me through each day got.

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How expensive all the booze & drugs I relied on to get me through each day got.

LOL! On the first day of nursing school our Psych professor said "nursing students don't know how to cope- I suggest you find a vice- make sure it's legal".

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