Are there any others who don't 'love' nursing school?

coolpeach · Mar 5, 2009

Are you kidding...I hate nursing school, and most of my class hates nursings school. It's horrible. We pick patients on Sunday, and literally stay up all night on Sunday before going to clincial at 6am on Monday. After doing 12 hours with no sleep we are getting to bed Monday night after being awake 40 hours. Then up at a 5 hr lecture on Tuesday morning. We have skills on Wednesday at 9am. We are fighting for every chance to get an extra second in open lab because there is too much going on at once, and not enough open lab time. Tests, check off, presentations, major care plans, case studies, community service time, and everything going on at once, due at once. Stress...Stess...Stress. A good number of us have started taking meds for high blood pressure, anxiety etc. Who could like all of this.

I am in second semester, and I did get to start giving Sub Q injections last week which was really awsome. I also D/C an IV, and Cath, and hung an primary and piggy back. By the end of the semester I will be able to give IM, and start IV's. All of this is very cool, but I will still hate nursing school. Only 9 months and 1 week to go.

Nursey103, ADN, RN · Mar 5, 2009

It does get better!! I'm in 2nd semester of an ADN program. I hated first semester - I felt so uncomfortable and YES....an assistant to the CNA who hated having me around. I feel so much more comfortable this semester and am doing a whole lot too! Just try to hang in there and get through it!!!

Good luck!!

Hotdharma2011 · Mar 5, 2009

Thanks coolpeach and soon2bnurse3! I feel better knowing I'm not the only one. I have a pretty good idea that many of my classmates might feel the same way, but we're still kind of new to each other, so I don't think anyone wants to say it first! :) You know, nobody wants to admit it's getting to them, because we're all still just a bunch of 'over achievers'! LOL! That's what my A&P Prof. called all of the pre-nursing students!! Good luck! and keep in touch!

fiveofpeep · Mar 5, 2009

I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate nursing school but love nursing

Fish Feng · Mar 5, 2009

wow----

am realy surprised to see that

the no.4 commentor said she hated nursing school but she loved nursing !

then could u tel me why u love nursing ?

and is there anything wrong with nursing school?

just tel me pls , thanks

fiveofpeep · Mar 5, 2009

I love nursing so much. Taking care of people and learning and advocating and doing techniques is amazing and I love every minute of it. Doing busy work assignments (not careplans, but other things like brochures, powerpoints, and random papers), having tests every week for four weeks straight, and having the school feel like they "own you" and not compromise is what sucks. There are some really amazing teachers that are more realistic and better, but sometimes the bueracracy just really gets to me. Most nurses cringe when they think of nursing school, or at least thats what my mom (an RN) says.

DDRN4me · Mar 5, 2009

All i can say to you after many years of experience is learn patience. You are not just learning how to make beds and do peri care etc... you are learning PATIENT care and compassion. if those are missing then you might as well make widgets.

yes it can be boring. yes you can do that. yes it is frustrating to not do the "real" nursing stuff. but savor this opportunity to meet your patients and learn how to develop a rapport with them .talk to them. learn from those CNAs who probably have been doing this forever and know their patients well. bedside manner cant be learned in a lab or a book. you learn it from experiences like this. good luck... dont worry it will be challenging soon enough!

Blove86 · Mar 5, 2009

I dont some much hate nursing school as more of a up and down effect of it. When I love it I LOVE it, when I hate it I HATE it. I more dislike the paperwork we have to do, or sometimes are held to unbelievable standards. But I love the patient care, the unknown's, getting to do things like IV, or pass meds (yea this does excite me for now lol), or getting to know those patients that are so nice and cool you wish EVERY patient was like, thats what what makes my love look past the hate!!!

LongBeachJules · Mar 5, 2009

hang in there - nursing school does get better. you have to crawl before you walk and walk before you run! i am in my final semester - last 5 weeks to be exact. yesterday i met with one of the nurses i was assigned to in my first semester - for preceptorship - and to be honest i remembered all the baths and chaning linens - it was alot of work but it taught me many things - such as patient care, how to be compassionate to people - getting bathed is no cake walk - it can be humiliating and difficult for most patients - so we need to learn that, also bathing / peri care is a great way to learn how to assess patients from head to toe.

as each semester passes you will progress to more and more interesting things. it's taken me a while to figure it out - just go with the flow - look for the learning opportunites and yes it does get better! :)

Hotdharma2011 · Mar 5, 2009

It is really so refreshing to hear that it's so common to feel what I'm feeling! I agree that giving baths, doing peri-care, etc is a way we learn compassion, and what not. I get it. I even enjoy hair care and bathing. I love it when a client looks up and smiles and gives me their hand. I get the 'warm fuzzy feeling' all day long, when I'm actually able to do the things, how I was taught. Everytime I go into a room of a compative client, I tell myself,"this is someone's grandma".

And it isn't necessarily the CNA work that I dislike, but in school they teach us the systematic way to do things, using proper lifting techniques, isolation as needed, wash hands and change gloves religiously and report anything unusual because it's all about patient care and C.Y.A.!! However, I have been "practicing" at a facility that is known for having multiple marks against them for 'elder abuse', I haven't seen anyone use a gait belt, and the place also has multiple patients with MRSA which isn't all that hard to believe considering that things like gloves and linens are worth more than gold in this place!! The CNA that my classmate and I shadowed all day the first day, never washed her hands once, and she only put gloves on to change an attends with a really messy BM, when we asked her about it!!

I guess, I feel like if they're going to put a nursing student who is 'greeener than green' in a LTC facility, and expect us to do as the CNAs do, it should be done atleast somewhat correctly. right? I don't feel like I know the ropes well enough to always distinguish what's right and what's cutting corners and I don't want to pick up any bad habits and I certainly don't want to get in any trouble! I just didn't know that nursing school would involve being 'pimped out' by my school to understaffed LTC facilities. My instructors even admit that the facilities love getting all of the overqualified free labor from our school! Ugh! Just one more week until spring break! Thanks again, for letting me vent!

Bortaz, MSN, RN · Mar 5, 2009

I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate nursing school but love nursing

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