Ashamed of nursing school

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Specializes in Hoping to be a peds nurse..

Are any of you other nursing students ashamed that you are in nursing school? I personally am and heres why- At the community college I attend if you were to ask 10 students what their major is 9 would say nursing and more than likely only 1 would actually be in the nursing program. Many of those same ppl that hope to become nurses cant even read on a college level.

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Specializes in Hoping to be a peds nurse..

Futhermore, anytime I tell someone that I am in the RN program it evokes a huge discussion about how easy finding a job will be and how I will be making so much money. I know that finding a job as a new grad is very hard and nurses are underpaid! But they still want to argue with me!! Its very condescending. I tell ppl that I am an education major...

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Specializes in ER.

Stop worrying what other people think. That's my advice to you. Stand out, and you will be great!

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

I am not ashamed at all of being in nursing school. It's a hard program to get into, it has a strict grading scale, and I find nurses to be well respected, (for the most part) I am proud of my accomplishments and the field I am choosing.

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Will you be ashamed when you are an RN???

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Many of those same ppl that hope to become nurses cant even read on a college level.

How does people who hope to be in the nursing program reflect the nursing proffesion as a whole? Anyone can hope to become a singer, watch American idol...but does that mean that all singers suck at singing?

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Specializes in Telemetry, OB, NICU.

I sure run into people like that, and it gets on my nerves at the moment. Then I don't care about it. You seem to be obsessed about these thoughts. No offense, but saying you are an education major when you aren't sounds weird to me.

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Specializes in Hoping to be a peds nurse..

Telling people that I am a nursing student evokes more discussion than I am comfortable with. I dont like beign associated with ppl that that blindly choose nursing as a means for a guaranteed income, who have no idea what the profession entails.

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I'm uncomfortable talking to some people about choosing nursing, mainly my parents and their friends. I grew up in a household where I was expected to go into my dad's business (finance...), marry a doctor (or someone equally wealthy...), and live within spitting distance of my family.

Now, I'm a nursing major, soon to be engaged to a zoology major, and planning to move out of state. Usually people ask why I chose to be a nurse when I could be a doctor. I hate that question the most. I'm not ashamed of being in nursing school, but I feel sometimes as if other people are ashamed for me. Which is completely ridiculous, but it happens.

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Specializes in LTC, Med-surg.

I am proud to be a nursing student, I am also in my school's nursing program even though I am a freshmen. My school actually chose the nursing students straight from high school because they wanted to try out the new 4-Year BSN program that integrated clinical in the second year of the nursing program. So I don't have a problem with being called a "nursing student."

If I wasn't a nursing student (meaning I was not in the program) I would still proudly declare my major as nursing because nursing is a very respected major in my school. There are lots of people trying to get into my program even though there are only 50 spots available. Some people don't pass the first semester of pre-reqs and drop out and knowing that I am still hanging on strong and that the courses were made to take the best and the brightest makes me feel that much more proud to major in nursing.

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A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to read shift notes written, or should I say printed, as if done by someone in the third grade. Charting of one sentence from hour to hour, not taking up the space of a full line, saying no more than the patient was still sleeping. No repositioning being documented. I realize this was a night shift, but as a minimum, you turn the patient every two hours. And the handwriting acually did appear as if the person was in the third grade, or second grade. Lots of third graders print more neatly. Now that was embarrassing to see from a licensed nurse. I really did stop to wonder how this person made it through nursing school, or how they got into nursing school in the first place.

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Specializes in Hoping to be a peds nurse..
Usually people ask why I chose to be a nurse when I could be a doctor. I hate that question the most.
Tell me about it. And then theres the students that major in nursing with plans to go to medical school. Its just silly.
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