Difficulty of nursing school?

[eman1haddad]

I'm am starting a BSN program in the fall, and I am very nervous about the difficulty of the classes. I heard that the information isn't exactly hard, just stressful. This past semester I was consumed with A&P 2 and I barely made a passing grade in the class and the lab. This is very nerve-wracking for me because I am usually a straight A student. My GPA is lower than I would like it to be, and I don't think I'll be able to bring it up easily just by saying "Oh, I'll just make straight A's in the fall." I am also doubting how I will be able to handle nursing classes if I am already struggling with the prereqs. Can anyone tell me if their GPA's suffered from nursing school? Is it that hard where I will be barely passing each semester? Was A&P 2 just a class I personally struggled with or did anyone else think prereqs were difficult? Are nursing classes actually easier to comprehend than anatomy was? Ugghh, I just need peace of mind

[windsurfer8, BSN, RN]

You are speaking in non defined terms. "easy" "hard"" ..subjective words. Forget all that...do you want to be a nurse? . If it is "yes" then if classes are "hard" or "easy" does not matter. You now transition from "want" to "do" You take the class and you do the work required to graduate. Simple man. "stressful" and all that once again does not matter. IF you want to be a nurse then the step to accomplish this are clearly defined. If you are questioning how hard you are willing to work well then that is different. If you want the big time you have to put in the work. Simple as can be. Is it "easy"? Hmmm....I have no idea what you perceive as "easy".

[fatrabbit]

In my opinion, the hardest part about nursing school is the volume of information you have to learn. If you have good time management skills and find an efficient study method (and try not to be so type A), then you'll do fine. As for A&P, I've found that you have to have a good grasp on physiological concepts (not individual facts) to really understand the material in nursing. You don't have to be the best at memorizing facts and regurgitating them on tests. You have to have good critical thinking skills though. You need to be able to take the concepts that you've learned and apply them to individual patients. That's something that you learn in nursing school though (i.e. thinking like a nurse).