In my job as a CNA, I'm always meeting new coworkers who say they are nursing students. After talking more about it, they tend to mostly be pre-nursing students not yet admitted into nursing school.
I don't know why, but it bothers me when people say they are nursing students before they are actually admitted into nursing school. Almost as if a pre-med student tells people they are in medical school.
What are your thoughts on this? This is really not an important topic, but I've been curious what others would think about this!
I know one thing. If I were a nursing student, I wouldn't be pulling my hair out waiting on my acceptance letter to come. I'm not a nursing student until my school tells me I'm a nursing student.
Who cares? Lol I always say nursing student because my plan is to become a nurse. Therefore everything I do/study is preparing me to become an RN - tah-da nursing student.
Who cares? Lol I always say nursing student because my plan is to become a nurse. Therefore everything I do/study is preparing me to become an RN - tah-da nursing student.
Unless you are *in* a nursing program, you aren't exactly a nursing student - you're a student. The nurses and nursing students who have put in the work to be accepted and begin a nursing program likely care about this.
Unless you are *in* a nursing program, you aren't exactly a nursing student - you're a student. The nurses and nursing students who have put in the work to be accepted and begin a nursing program likely care about this.
They will honestly be okay. You all should be really secure in yourselves then. I'm really not trying to be crass and (: I'm sorry if this offends anyone but I'm working hard too. This isn't to say your work isn't especially hard. I know that it is. It makes it easier when it comes to explaining to others. Even my degree audit says nursing student. I'm still not sure why we care about labels all that much anyway.
I've been accepted to my program and will start in August. I won't consider myself a nursing student until the first day of class. Right now I'm pre-nursing in my mind but I don't have any issue with someone who is in my same boat considering themselves a nursing student.
You can be confident about something all you want but it doesn't mean you're right. I can confidently believe I'm a wombat but it doesn't make it true or accurate. I don't care either way, and while I don't call myself a nursing student, I do tell people I'm in pre-nursing. The above poster does have a point about people who might not even be able to get into nursing school flaunting the title of nursing student when they haven't been accepted into a school yet. That's like a pre-med calling herself a medical student. It's inaccurate.
Unless you're waking up at 4 am for clinicals, studying for 3 tests in the same week, spending hours in lab and having a nervous breakdown, you're not a nursing student.
I mean why would that bother you? Maybe they're confident that they will get in like myself. You sound like a hater
You can be as confident as you want, but that doesn't mean you'll 100% be accepted. Personally, I have a 4.0 for admissions purposes and only GPA is considered (and the average accepted applicant has a 3.8), but I'm not going to hang my hat on that until I get the acceptance letter. You don't want to tell people you're in nursing school and then have something go wrong (like a part of your application being incomplete) and then have to back track and tell people what went wrong.
Unless you're waking up at 4 am for clinicals, studying for 3 tests in the same week, spending hours in lab and having a nervous breakdown, you're not a nursing student.
Thank you. I have busted my butt in my RN program so far and gone through the most stressful academic experience of my life and it infuriates me when pre-nursing students say they're a "nursing student". Sorry kids, you didn't earn that badge quite yet.
Nursing24/7, LVN
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I consider myself a pre nursing student. I won't refer to myself as a nursing student until I am actually in a nursing program.