So many nursing majors in my class!

Nursing Students Pre-Nursing

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Hey everyone! I'm taking my prereqs, and in my sociology class, every single person in the class is majoring in nursing. There are 32 of us. Is this seriously what its like? I read things on here constantly about the field being flooded... Is it really this bad?! I've been told many of these people will end up not making it or changing their minds, but its freaking me out a little bit.

Have you experienced anything like this?

Specializes in "Wound care - geriatric care.

The shortage of new nurses is certainly over, that is RN's with no experience abound everywhere in the nation, however RN's w/ experience is another thing. As the pool of RN's with a license increase, the RN's w/ experience decrease, as nurses retire, have babies, or simply get burned out and leave or a while/4ever. Since very few new nurses are being trained (since 2008) the bubble will pop at certain point. There will be a enormous amount of licensed RN's no experience and very few with. If the economy picks up this trend will accelerate.

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I am nurse and it's just a job, no calling involved at ALL. I never understood why people in my nursing class thought about patients in their off hours. IT'S A FREAKING job where you are supposed to go home and forget about it.

You haven't even started clinicals yet, when you actually see what working in a hospital is like with crappy management, unruly patients and exhaustion you WILL change your tune.

This "calling" idea is utter BS. I had no calling, I like science, critical thinking and making a decent living like any other Joe out there. As long as the job gets done it doesn't matter.

NEWSFLASH: Nursing has always had flocks of people drawn to it and there is no boat sinking. Hospitals artificially keep nursing staffing low to created the largest gap in nurse to patient ratios to make money. It's simple economics. If you are mad because someone might get a nursing seat ahead of you even though they have no passion for being a nurse and it's just another job you need a reality check. People go where the money is (cough health care cough). People will always be getting sick hence there arw always jobs and money to be had. It's sad but true.

Signed,

Just another RN/BSN...

EDIT: NO ONE (much less a pre-nursing student) has the right to judge if a person's reasons for getting into nursing are for the "correct" reasons. (Unless you live in some fantasy land with unicorns and fairies.) Frankly, your posts scream selfish and it is quite obvious you want the less faithful to jump ship to open up slots for you and people who think like you. No matter how much the economy improves or even if less people go into nursing hospitals STILL don't like hiring new grads.

Lady, take a break. Maybe you should go to therapy. I asked a question, got answers, and people in similar situations posted their experience. Apparently you can complain about your job and talk about it like you hate it, but people can't express that they feel its a calling. Take your soap box and your negativity and post elsewhere. Thanks.

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Lady? I am a man, thanks for assuming...mkay. You can live in your make believe world all you want but one day cold hard reality will slap you in the face. Your thread and post are riddled with insecurities regarding if you will get in to nursing school and you look to here to justify your fears and get support for your "Calling" all the while talking down to those who choose nursing for other reasons. Also nursing pre reqs are often only specific to nursing so hurrrr durr of course there will be floods of pre-nursing students there because the classes don't fulfill anything else except maybe PE or PT majors...

You continue to post inane BS have no doubt you will get responses. Let me know how that unicorn land is while you are at it...

Who said I hate nursing (all jobs have problems)? I said its JUST a job that's it. Let's use reading comprehension next time.

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I've taken chem, but I'm saving A&P for a semester so I can take it alone to give it 100% my all and get an A. I hate to sound rude, but I hope the number does drop. I'm sure someone will read this and take what I'm saying the wrong way, but is it even possible that this many people truly want to be nurses? The dirty aspects of the job and all? I find it hard to believe every last one of these people are really up for every aspect of the job and maybe some of them think its just about handing out pills all day. Yikes.

They will drop. It's not rude to say. There are far too many people who go into nursing for the wrong reasons (money, "job security", mom's a nurse) and don't end up feeling that the process is worth it. Get good grades, keep your eyes on the prize, and you will do great. Good luck!

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Lady? I am a man, thanks for assuming...mkay. You can live in your make believe world all you want but one day cold hard reality will slap you in the face. Your thread and post are riddled with insecurities regarding if you will get in to nursing school and you look to here to justify your fears and get support for your "Calling" all the while talking down to those who choose nursing for other reasons. Also nursing pre reqs are often only specific to nursing so hurrrr durr of course there will be floods of pre-nursing students there because the classes don't fulfill anything else except maybe PE or PT majors...

You continue to post inane BS have no doubt you will get responses. Let me know how that unicorn land is while you are at it...

Who said I hate nursing (all jobs have problems)? I said its JUST a job that's it. Let's use reading comprehension next time.

Ok so if I ask you nicely, will you please go away? There is probably no one, on any thread anywhere interested in your nasty uncalled for BS. How do you even have time to sit around and pick arguments on the Internet? Maybe take up journaling?

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They will drop. It's not rude to say. There are far too many people who go into nursing for the wrong reasons (money, "job security", mom's a nurse) and don't end up feeling that the process is worth it. Get good grades, keep your eyes on the prize, and you will do great. Good luck!

Thank you, I appreciate it!

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There's a lot of people who don't quite understand what nursing entails. Like a previous poster has mentioned, you can't really get even a taste of nursing until you see what happens first hand in the clinical setting. You may have felt for years that nursing is where you were meant to be, but once you get in the throw of things you will see what the nursing world is like. It's the motivated, dedicated, and hard working (calling or not) who will make good nurses.

I understand the frustration of seeing sooooooo many people who have goals of a nursing major, but this really is just the beginning. As long as YOU are willing to put in lots of hard work and be willing to wait your turn, nothing anyone else does will matter

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There's a lot of people who don't quite understand what nursing entails. Like a previous poster has mentioned, you can't really get even a taste of nursing until you see what happens first hand in the clinical setting. You may have felt for years that nursing is where you were meant to be, but once you get in the throw of things you will see what the nursing world is like. It's the motivated, dedicated, and hard working (calling or not) who will make good nurses.

I understand the frustration of seeing sooooooo many people who have goals of a nursing major, but this really is just the beginning. As long as YOU are willing to put in lots of hard work and be willing to wait your turn, nothing anyone else does will matter

I've heard that before... about possibly thinking its for you, but not knowing until you're there. I also heard the same about specializing... People think they know what they want until they experience it. Thanks for your kind words!

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What about this... my 30 something niece who already has Batchelor of Science in Public Health and is a Child Life Specialist (not even sure what she does) but because she isn't making the money she wants to make has decided that she needs to go to nursing school. She have never in her life ever wanted to be a nurse. She barely made it through her college classes to get the degree she has. She didn't work a day while in college and is crying on her parent's shoulder's that her $17.50/hr is not enough and because she works in the hospital, she thinks she will just go get a nursing degree, after all she sees all those nurses and she can do that, without even knowing what it all entails. I get furious when people just want to go to nursing school because they think it big money when there are those that have dreamed of getting their RNs, who have to pay their way, get loans, etc and struggle to make the dream come true. I am an LPN and am taking my pre-reqs to get my BSN. I have been an LPN since 1997 and have had to work full time so my dream of becoming an RN has had to wait. I had given up hope until I have a Partime BSN program that I can take classes at night and do clinicals on the weekend at Brenau. They don't accept a lot of students but it is the only way possible, since I have to work. I knew a girl once who had a degree in Social Work and she never even used her degree, and then she decided to go to RN school, she got into the program and dropped out the 2nd Semester because she shook when she tried to take a pulse and when she tried to give a shot. It ticked me off because someone who really wanted to be a nurse missed out because she took that spot. Schools used to do interviews or have you write an essay explaining why you want to be a nurse, all it seems to be know is based on Overall GPA, Science courses GPA and Teas, Kaplan or Hesi scores. I hope those who are do not have a burning desire, think of all of us that do and find something they have a burning desire to do and let us reach our dreams of getting our RN degrees.[/quote']

Well said! :)

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You know what though? Even though some of those people may take our spots in the nursing program all because they wanted the nursing paycheck, they are the ones who will be unhappy in the end....wait till the first time they have to wipe an ass or get puked on...it will wear them down eventually. If you don't have the heart for it...you will not last. You may stick with it...but you won't be happy!

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Lady, take a break. Maybe you should go to therapy. I asked a question, got answers, and people in similar situations posted their experience. Apparently you can complain about your job and talk about it like you hate it, but people can't express that they feel its a calling. Take your soap box and your negativity and post elsewhere. Thanks.

LMAO!!! Right on!!

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Lady, take a break. Maybe you should go to therapy. I asked a question, got answers, and people in similar situations posted their experience. Apparently you can complain about your job and talk about it like you hate it, but people can't express that they feel its a calling. Take your soap box and your negativity and post elsewhere. Thanks.

Clearly he's one of those people we've all been talking about....that's pretty much just in it for the money!

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