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I am a mother of five children and also a wife and I have been accepted to Notre dame college for their BSN program I want to know what was the hardest and is nursing school really that hard I have heard some crazy stories!!

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

Yes it is that hard.You will be expected to learn large volumes of information in a short time. You will have reading assignments that will be many long chapters and you will have a day to read them. You will want to pull your hair out and you will feel like you will never learn it all.You will eat sleep and breathe nursing school.You will feel queasy on the morning of your first clinical placement.You will learn to look at eveything differently.

But you will be fine, and you will make it through.Best of luck.

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Specializes in Forensic Psych.

It's very, very time consuming. Everyone is different so somethings you'll find to be easy to understand and some you'll struggle with. But you will always be busy with long reading assignments, homework, tests, lab skills, clinicals, and projects. For me the work itself isn't difficult, it's the time management. With little kids my out of class time is limited but most of the time commitment is outside of class. I don't see my husband much because I'm out the door headed to the library as soon as he gets home. My time with my kids has probably been cut in half and things are only going to get busier.

Just to give you an example, this weekend I have to read 4 chapters to get ready for next weeks lectures, read three chapters and do 10 quizzes and an assignment to get ready for medication lab next week, do post clinical write-ups from last week's clinical, finish up part of a geriatric project, and study for a test coming up next week. And my husband has been out of Teton working since Wednesday so I'm trying to do all of that while taking care of the kids and getting the house cleanish for next week.

Busy busy. Doable? Yes. But the more you have on your plate, the more hectic it'll be! Most of us in my cohort have kids. A woman with 9 of them finished our program with all A's. A woman with 2 kids just dropped out a couple weeks ago because she couldn't keep up.

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@ Stephalump, you are super woman. And very inspiring to a 20 year old who has no children and is in pre reqs. I hope I have your dediction in nursing school!

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