Busy Work

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I am in my third year of a four year BSN program. Nursing school has been tough so far but not impossible. This semester feels as though it is going to be impossible. In addition to our two clinical classes and pharm some of us are taking 1 or 2 humanities. After looking over our nursing syllabi it seems as though our nursing instructors are giving us busy work. For example, reading 30 pages of extra articles, writing annotated bibliography for a paper that we will write a year from now, and seemingly silly writing assignments. It doesn't help that our school adopted plus/minus grading which will kill everyone's GPA (and i don't have a perfect GPA to start with). I think it is in response to the school's NCLEX scores being down the last few years but that doesn't mean they should literally work us to death right? Does anyone else feel like they spend most of their time doing busy work?

Maybe I will end up joining my Psych patients by the end of the semester.

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Specializes in Peds, PICU, Home health, Dialysis.

I have discovered that a great deal of the difficulty of nursing school is because of "busy work". It is hard to focus on the class material that needs to be learned for an exam when all of the professors insist of giving everyone busy work.

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Specializes in Oncology, Med-Surg, Nursery.

Yep, same thing happening to me this semester too. I'm also in semester 3 of a 4 semester program.

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Specializes in Urgent Care.

I'm in my last semester and it seems that the clinical paperwork has just increased darmatically, and it is busy work as well.

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Specializes in Peds, PICU, Home health, Dialysis.
I'm in my last semester and it seems that the clinical paperwork has just increased darmatically, and it is busy work as well.

I cannot wait for my final semester because they do not require any type of clinical paperwork/careplans. Instead, they want the students to focus on patient care and pulling everything together that we've learned over the span of the program.

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I doubt this is any consolation right now, but busy work is good practice for the real world. As much as I enjoy nursing, you'll find that there can be a ton of work you do (esp paperwork) just because it's part of the job, instead of for any foreseeable benefit to the patients.

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