BS!

[rngreenhorn]

As near as I can tell, when I finish my BS, I will have a BS in BS. Nursing academia is so wrong. They take an easy subject and twist it with their damn semantics and esoteric ideals (constructed during committee meetings of course) and develop a freaking corriculum that is not educational, but instead a damn exercise is reguritation of conceptual BS.

[Turd Ferguson]

JUMP MONKEY JUMP!

[EveryDayAGift]

Wow...

What a depressing thread. As someone approaching nursing school, I hate to think that this is just a $20000+ hurdle. I'm convinced that in higher ed, most degrees are what you make them. Those of you who have posted - do you have any advice about how to make the most of the situation? Either getting the most out of classes or the most out of clinicals? Can nothing be redeemed?

Thanks.

[Turd Ferguson]

When your instructors hold up a hoop, jump through it

And try not to kill anybody in clinicals

That's about it

[kgh31386, BSN, MSN, RN]

Wow...

What a depressing thread. As someone approaching nursing school, I hate to think that this is just a $20000+ hurdle. I'm convinced that in higher ed, most degrees are what you make them. Those of you who have posted - do you have any advice about how to make the most of the situation? Either getting the most out of classes or the most out of clinicals? Can nothing be redeemed?

Thanks.

Some people love to complain when they fail or struggle. Some of them are in it for the wrong reasons and will never be happy with it. If they graduate, they'll join the numerous threads over in the first year after licensure section titled "I hate nursing, I hate my job, I want to quit". some folks are just depressing. My school wasn't a hurdle, but who knows what the next school has to offer? Like I said, OP if you hate it that much and it makes you that mad, then quit.

[ImThatGuy, BSN, RN]

Wow...

What a depressing thread. As someone approaching nursing school, I hate to think that this is just a $20000+ hurdle. I'm convinced that in higher ed, most degrees are what you make them. Those of you who have posted - do you have any advice about how to make the most of the situation? Either getting the most out of classes or the most out of clinicals? Can nothing be redeemed?

Thanks.

Honestly, the way I look at it I'm buying a license to practice. The financial cost is a little more than I think it's worth albeit education is cheap in my state.

This is my second degree / career change. I think my background has prepared me well for nursing school since the challenge centers more around either coping with busy work or dealing being in the same room with some of my classmates. If it didn't come as readily to me as it does I'd have left early in the first semester.

I think since my program is brand new and since my class size is so small that things are inherently more student-friendly for my cohort. Some of the things people complain about on here in regards to the teaching methods aren't evident in my program, yet I can see how they'd present for others. The instructors are in a learning curve on how to present and manage this new program, which came with some new classes never offered before, and a lot of their success rides on learning from us and our marketing of the program which is immeasurably more student-friendly than the large associate degree program.

[JBudd, MSN]

BS, then MoreS, then Piled-High&Deep:lol2:

Seriously, you learn more than you think you do.... hopefully enough of it has become 2nd nature that you don't realize it.