Did anyone hate nursing school?

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I am in second semester and I am just sooooo tired and run down. Every week I feel like quitting. I have an hour commute and 2 small kids so thats an added difficulty. Is it normal to dislike nursing school so much? I know Im probably just not thinking clearly at this point being so exhausted, but please tell me it all pays off in the end!

I, like many others worked toward this goal for so long, just trying to get in. I have always loved school. But since becoming an actual nursing student, I can barely get B's much less A's. I guess I thought nursing school would be so fun and interesting and full of cool new things to experience. But hard instructors and hours of clinical are more the case. And I feel so dumb all the time!

Just trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I need help seeing the good in it again. Thanks.......better go study!

Nursing school was by far one of the most miserable times in my life. At my school, it was a prereq for all instructors to be bipolar. I had one clinical instructor who was the wicked witch of the west. I honestly have never seen so much disfunction in my life -- from the instructors, to the nurses that precepted me. You couldn't pay me 10 million dollars to ever go through that experience again. I put my time in the hospital for experience, and now do home infusion nursing. It's much better than running around like a chicken with your head cut off for 12+ hours. I would never recommend nursing to my worse enemy. You have to be a glutton for punishment, or just not like yourself -- to ever like this job.

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I absolutely detest it to the fullest extent of the law. I'm glad to see that I'm not alone. I was starting to think something was just plain wrong with me. I don't even have a large family or too many extra things to worry about and I detest it..I can only tip my hats off to those that do have to deal with that. I'd shoot myself first. Thanks

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You couldn't pay me 10 million dollars to ever go through that experience again.

Not even $10 million dollars? Now I know I'm not the only one! lol ;)

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I know what you mean about quiting! I'm at a 77% in my RN, L&D, postpartum, women's health class with only 2 more exams to make it up otherwise I have to take it over again. I have never felt low self esteem like I have in nursing school. IT'S AWFUL!

I keep telling myself that maybe i'm doing so bad because i'm a guy in a women's class?? I also think I should just take the LPN exam after this is over and be done with it instead of going through for my RN. I just don't think I can deal with the torture of this anymore.

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I HATE NURSING SCHOOL TOO! i am going for my lpn and will be hopefully done by the end of july! am i going back to get my rn? hell no.

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I HATED NURSING SCHOOL and i recently graduated as an LPN. I've already started taking pre reqs towards my RN and I really have nightmares when i think about going through that all over again. My instructors treated me like I was worthless like I'm nothing, and other students bullied me and each other, I would go home and just cry my heart out and dread waking up the next morning. My mother's a nurse too, she said she went through it also (back in her day) I'm in my 20s. I like helping people but I HATE NURSING. I've been through a lot of things in my life and this was the hardest... out of sexual abuse, violence in relationships, trying to quit smoking and drinking, foster care, group homes, running away, and living on the streets.

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I'd call my feelings about nursing school a love/hate relationship. LOL. One needs to make many sacrifices to make it through and it definitely puts a strain on family. However you can learn so much and there were many rewarding clinical experiences.

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Specializes in CCU.
I HATED NURSING SCHOOL and i recently graduated as an LPN. I've already started taking pre reqs towards my RN and I really have nightmares when i think about going through that all over again. My instructors treated me like I was worthless like I'm nothing, and other students bullied me and each other, I would go home and just cry my heart out and dread waking up the next morning. My mother's a nurse too, she said she went through it also (back in her day) I'm in my 20s. I like helping people but I HATE NURSING. I've been through a lot of things in my life and this was the hardest... out of sexual abuse, violence in relationships, trying to quit smoking and drinking, foster care, group homes, running away, and living on the streets.

I'm a new grad RN and also hated nursing school to no end. I've cried and been humiliated in my life in many ways and nursing school takes the cake of being the most emotionally and physically draining challenge in my life. I just can't figure out why it is this way. Why is nursing education so brutal only to then finally make it through, graduate and work as a new nurse...the torture starts all over again. I'm going back for my BSN and hate the thought of the coursework ahead of me.

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I have always been a person who loves school and learning. I loved all of the college classes that I took before I actually entered the nursing program at my school. I made A's in every class.

Then, I entered the nursing program. I still made A's (except 265-B there), but I no longer loved the process. The environment was one of fear and intimidation.

Many of the instructors talked to the students like we were complete idiots, and raked us over the coals if we had a question.

The program had no compassion for students at all. Keep up, or get out.

I am thankful that I did keep up, but I saw many students "weeded" out of the program due to uncontrollable events in their personal lives.

I wanted so many times to quit.

The thing was, I wanted to be a nurse more than I hated anything they threw my way. It meant enough to me to grit my teeth and keep on keeping on.

I prayed everyday for strength and endurance, and with the help of the Lord Jesus, I made it.

Think of nursing school like giving birth. The process is painful, but the result will be a brand-new nurse...YOU!

Best Wishes

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Specializes in Certified Wound Care Nurse.

Seriously - and I started out with low self esteem. Now that I've actually been a nurse for three years now, I feel like my self esteem is even lower (how in the world is THAT possible???) and that I'd be no good anywhere else. Wow - how sad is that?

Right now I'm in school - again - pursuing my BSN. After that, I'm probably going to take that degree and try to transition into something else other than nursing. The disrespect is too overwhelming and I deserve better.

Best of luck to you...

RiverNurse

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I hated it hated it hated it !!!!!!!! Now that I am an RN and working as an RN and not a SN - it's completely different!!! The clinicals at my school were a waste of time. We learned how to be perfect CNAs, not RNs!

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Specializes in Certified Wound Care Nurse.

I didn't learn even that much. My clinical instructors were rarely around, and there were times when I needed input. On those rare occasions that they were around - the input they gave was minimal at best. I definitely didn't get my money's worth from school.

I'd have done better spending my money elsewhere - but by the time I realized it - I was too deep into the program to take another financial/professional risk. What I can say is that if I had known what nursing was all about - I'd never have signed up in the first place.

RiverNurse

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