i love nursing school and i can't wait to be a nurse so i can love that even more. i may sound like a pollyanna but, i enjoy all of the responsibilities, hard work, and exams. i admire my instructors and the nurses at clinicals. the future that stands ahead of me thrills me to no end.
here are a few of my favorite things:
nursing school has made me an organized person. at least as far as nursing school goes, anyway. i imagine that it will spill over into other aspects of my life as soon as my life is not consumed by nursing school.
i thought i was a grown-up until i went to nursing school. nursing school helped me realized all of the growing-up i still lacked. everyday i am confronted by something that i can do to improve.
my brain is finally engaged. it feels fantastic to have a challenge. i get an incredible rush sometimes when i am surround by literal piles of books and the clouds are opening around whatever concept i am learning...and i think to myself "i love nursing school."
somehow, in the thick of this incredibly demanding education, i have discovered a profound sense of happiness and contentment.
in a world with dwindling kindness, i am given the opportunity twice a week to treat my patients with kindness and show that there are still many people who care...nurses.
i am midway through my nursing education now. yet still, i wake up each day excited about this education and my future profession.
what are your favorite things about nursing school and nursing?
Honestly I hate it and it's dysfunction. It's all consuming and completely draining! I'm burnt out. I hate doing tech work during clinicals, spending 6 hours writing each care plan only to be told its just ok, which in my program means not acceptable. I'm sure a lot of what I'm feeling has to do with the school/ program I chose. I do love the subject, the physiology, helping people, caring for patients and I do love that my brain is turned on and I feel smarter and quicker in everything I do not just school... But man am I ready for this program to be over with!
I feel your pain!!! I have 11 more days until pinning. THANK GOD!!! I cannot take more much! Lol!
I feel the same way! I am so excited nervous anxious and scared about the whole thing. I think the wait for classes to start is worse than waiting for the acceptance letter! When do you start?!
My school has us begin in early May with 3 credit hours of intro to nursing and intro to pharm and math calculations. Intro to nursing has a gigantic fund of nursing book, it's the biggest text book I've ever seen in my life! I started going though it and I find I actually enjoy reading this!
I am still in pre-nursing and have 2 prereqs left to take before I can enter the nursing program. I am really excited and scared all at the same time but I have to say that all of my nursing courses that I have been able to take already I have absolutely loved and have gotten 4.0's in them. I am excited to get into the nursing program and finally be doing what I am in school for, I am sure that I will love it as much as you do. Thank you for posting it gives me encouragement because all of these english, math, biology, and chemistry classes make me feel like I will never get there and always "hate" what I want to be when I grow up!!
Enjoy your free time while it last ;0) believe you me once its starts you won't know your name by the end of the day. But it is fun and interesting even though stressful. Good luck ya all
I'm in my first semester and getting ready to take my final exam next week. I'm still excited to get up and study and go to clinicals and class. I've learned so much these past few months. It's amazing. I imagine the next four semesters are going to fly by! I enjoy how proud my fiance is of me, as well as my family. I'm thinking of reading the six chapters we weren't assigned over the 3 week break between spring and summer semesters. Of course, my fiance did ask, "Why would you want to do that?"
I'm burnt out with school right now and feel like I chose the wrong school. What I like about nursing school is getting the syllabus at the beginning of every semester and thinking there's no way I'm going to be able to do all of those thing's and I pass all of them. I dread a lot of it but at the end I feel like I've accomplished so much and I know I've learned a lot. I like the friends that I have met in my program, they are the only people that understand the demands of nursing school and are a great support system.
Some good posts on here with many things I agree with. There is something about nursing that when you do well really makes you feel like you accomplished something huge. I like that our profession has such a history and sometimes you almost feel like you're part of something special and important. I love that clinicals have taught me so much and when I get to do something or see something new its so exciting. I like how we're our own community at school and how so many of my class-mates all help each other out and I feel like we defiantely bond. I love thegreat people, nurses, and clinicals instructors I've had at clinicals.
-I have made improvements in my social skills, I think, in nursing school. It's easier for me to talk to strangers, though it's still a work in progress.
-I feel like my assessment skills are sharper from my first day in Health Assessment. I felt like I wouldn't get it, but it's nearing the end now, and I think I do "get it". Of course, my first job may prove me wrong, but I won't let that happen.
-I am thankful that I am still a student. A month ago, I got a bitter taste of the real world, when a nurse stabbed me in the back during my preceptorship. I am thankful that the head instructor for this preceptorship stood by me and did not throw me under the bus. I still had that safety of nursing school. In the real world, I'm on my own if this happens again.
Some great and some real world comments in this post. I just got accepted into the nursing program and I'm so excited! I can't wait to learn, experience clinical, and get knee deep into nursing. I love reading through these posts and articles on scrubsmag.com. It gets me so revved up and excited. I know it's going to be hard, stressful, and dirty. I can't wait! I'm ready to go to orientation and ready to start getting supplies!
Thank you for your positive and encouraging post! I'm about to start an Accelerated BSN-MSN program in September and am so scared that I'm not going to do well. I see and hear so many negative things about Nursing school, and they're pretty intimidating. I know that this is going to be the most challenging thing I've ever done in my life, and know that there might be things I will dislike about it. I am completely prepared for that. However, it is refreshing to see someone post some positive aspects of Nursing school! I hope I can have the same attitude when I start in a few months!
Each day is a day closer to graduation.
cheska_rn, ASN, RN
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I feel your pain!!! I have 11 more days until pinning. THANK GOD!!! I cannot take more much! Lol!