Anyone HATE nursing school but LOVE being a Nurse?

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Hello everyone! I hope everyone is staying healthy. I wanted to ask today, has anyone here hated nursing school but loved being a nurse? Currently I'm in my third semester of an ADN program and some days I'm just ready to give up. The only thing that keeps me going is the compliments I get from patients and how much I love interacting with them. I had a terrible clinical instructor last semester and reported her for inappropriate behavior, which caused the whole nursing 2 staff to turn on me. I almost failed until I proved myself. Now this semester, I'm having issues with another instructor again! She's grading assignments as late, when I'm turning them in early, refuses to answer my emails or talk to me about the matter. My program is drama filled, disorganized, and they don't really care if you succeed. I really HATE my nursing school, but I don't want to give up being a nurse. Has anyone been here before and made it through? 

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Specializes in Wiping tears.

I just started my journey in the RN program. I'm happy with my school or instructors. 

That's strange that your instructors are teaming up against you. How many students are experiencing your problems?



 

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11 hours ago, ThursdayNight said:

I just started my journey in the RN program. I'm happy with my school or instructors. 

That's strange that your instructors are teaming up against you. How many students are experiencing your problems?
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There have been a few students that have come forward and reporting and usually they are silenced, retaliated against, or the instructor fails them. Some have just dropped out and went on to another school to graduate. It's just kind of sad because I fought so hard to get here, and now I'm feeling so discouraged. 

 

 

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Specializes in Flight Nursing, Critical Care Transport, ER.

I say, keep at it. For two reasons: 1. You are in your 3rd semester meaning you're almost done! Nursing schools are notoriously hard to transfer between in the middle of the program. (Mostly due to different content being in different classes, and each school has a different order of class progression.) 2. You express how much you're enjoying working with patients. This is one of the best signs to you that you'll love nursing; at least until you reach the point of severe moral injury. (See ZDoggMD for more on that.) I hated nursing school because of very similar reasons. Granted I wasn't always the stellar student, but I spent many hours in out program director's office and in our college president's office fighting for our student body. We had one teacher dismissed and a couple others quit under questionable circumstances. We went through three program directors. Our handbook changed every semester often drastically. All while working towards accreditation which we received the semester before I graduated. I questioned often whether it was worth it to keep going. In the end I stuck it out and graduated, now I'm happily working as an RN! (Forgot to mention the whole COVID-19 and going to online thing!) Keep it up you're almost there!

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Specializes in Long term care.

I hated a lot about nursing school. I hated putting on the fake smile for the teachers, pretending to care about stuff that I was obviously never going to need to know, getting along with some of the idiots in my class that were super bigoted and mysoginistic. I thought some of the teachers were stupid and shouldn't ever be teaching. 

I also loved the learning process- especially the hands on learning times, I loved pscyh and adult health. I loved some of my clinical professors. 

Just find what you love and thrive on it. Bite your tongue and bear the BS. That is also good advice for life too. 

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I'm just on my way in this journey. However I find usefull your comment. The whole education system is built wrong. The thing that you need to "care" about teachers and be with your classmates to succeed, is ***. 

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On 11/6/2020 at 10:16 PM, Grande_latte04 said:

I hated a lot about nursing school. I hated putting on the fake smile for the teachers, pretending to care about stuff that I was obviously never going to need to know, getting along with some of the idiots in my class that were super bigoted and mysoginistic. I thought some of the teachers were stupid and shouldn't ever be teaching. 

I also loved the learning process- especially the hands on learning times, I loved pscyh and adult health. I loved some of my clinical professors. 

Just find what you love and thrive on it. Bite your tongue and bear the BS. That is also good advice for life too. 

"Bear the BS" should be the official slogan of just about every nursing program. 

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Specializes in RN-SICU/Hospice CM.

You got this, dude! It sounds like those professors are being completely unprofessional and rude. But do your best to hold your head high, push through and get to your first nursing job! 

Nursing school is so off point compared to bedside nursing. 90% of my learning has come from the bedside. Even though nursing is one of the hardest jobs ever, I am really grateful to be doing what I do and love my patients most days. Keep at it dude, you got this!

Maybe bring up your concerns to the head of the nursing department when you're almost done (like after finals LOL). You don't deserve to be treated that way. 

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Keep at it. Your hard will pay off. I heard the real learning starts once you are on the floor.

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