Anyone hate nursing school then love being a nurse?

Libby1987 · May 31, 2015

I don't think any of my classmates liked nursing school and I don't know how they fared after starting their careers but I work with nurses who like and/or love their work myself included. Not at first but I did once I gained experience in something I liked.

Jules A, MSN · May 31, 2015

Although I was in a very good program and learned excellent things I hated my LPN program, hated it, but I have loved being a nurse. My ADN program was uncomfortable but not horrible and after that school was just more annoying than horrible because so much of it was the nursing fluff courses.

elijahvegas, ASN, RN, EMT-P · May 31, 2015

I think every nurse ive ever spoken to hated nursing school and ended up enjoying nursing (well..for as long as they enjoyed nursing I guess). Youll hear time and time again school is nothing like the real world. Just tough it out

kalycat, BSN, RN · May 31, 2015

I know exactly what you're talking about when referring to the overblown paperwork. I also hated the built in redundancy and buzz words that were everywhere, not to mention some of the dumb politics. Nursing school wasn't my favorite, not by a long shot. I just viewed it as something I had to overcome to achieve my goals, and by the last couple of semesters, I had learned how to tune out a lot of the nonsense and still be academically successful. I love my job now, and after meeting other new nurses from around the country, I realize that I actually got an excellent nursing education. Keep your chin up. It will be over before you know it!! I have found that my patho/pharm education and clinical experiences are really serving me well out in the "real world".

I had planned on going straight through to graduate school, but my last few massive projects really took it out of me, and I'm enjoying just being a worker bee and learning my craft. I'm free to chat anytime if you feel you need support. :)

kp1987 · May 31, 2015

No I love nursing school and I love nursing

vanilla bean · May 31, 2015

Hated nursing school. Love my RN job. There is light at the end of that tunnel.

Anonymous1257 · May 31, 2015

I don't know of anyone who really "liked" nursing school. It's a pain in the butt. The good news is, even if you hate your first job, and second, and 10th, there are a million different things you can do as a nurse. Even go back to school!

nursemaple2 · May 31, 2015

Hated nursing school, particularly the aspects you discussed. Working as an RN involves less manufactured theory nonsense. There are occasional relapses, if you work at large teaching centers. I have suffered through nursing diagnoses terminology standardization, journey to magnet and other silly things. But not a daily occurrence.

Muser69 · May 31, 2015

I loved nursing school, most fun I've ever had. Not crazy about nursing at all. Due to retire in another year.

FloatRN19 · May 31, 2015

So my first two semesters of nursing school clinicals, my two main locations were long term care facilities. Yes I was pissed then I moved campuses(because my school has 5 campuses in different cities). I moved at the promise of going to a real hospital. I did my med surg rotation at a rehab hospital, that's not med surg. My final semester for critical care was spent sharing a patient, and half the time they weren't definitely critical care. It was a specialty hospital where there weren't designated units, patients were just designated certain levels and sometimes they wouldn't have enough proper designations. Throughout the whole time I had professors treat me like ****. They often threw out the lines didn't have what it takes, you didn't look like you wanted to be there etc etc. My final clinical instructor even threatened to fail me because I was 10 minutes late one day. Nevermind the fact I was 3 hours(I liked to pre-assess the morning before)early and ran home to get my stethescope. She even had me write a research paper to make up for the ten minutes. Because I owed her that time. Nevermind the fact three clinicals days I never took lunch. I could probably spend all day typing out examples. the school even failed to find me a preceptorship and I had to find my own. I figured I'd get through it graduate and never use my degree. Then my preceptor nurtured and helped me grow. I finally loved it. It was night and day. 12 weeks of orientation is standard for new grads around here, I was off after 8.

anh06005, MSN, APRN, NP · May 31, 2015

Hated nursing school. Hated NP school. Love being an RN and now a FNP. I don't think about which nursing theory I am going to use. I don't read research papers. I read through journals and look up current guidelines from expert sources. I don't make nursing diagnoses (which I heard schools are maybe getting away from??).

School for anything sucks. It's the end result that matters.