Do friends outside of nursing school give you a hard time?

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Specializes in Tele, Cardiac Post Op, ER.

Basically the question above...I have friends who aren't in nursing school give me a hard time because I spend a lot of time studying (hello, its nursing school). They seem angry but when I explain to them, its a lot of work, they don't seem to understand and get offended when I don't hang out with them. This isn't like regular school, and I feel bad that I can't be with them, but come on! This is my career and my grades.

Does this happen to anyone else?

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Specializes in Tele, Cardiac Post Op, ER.

Sorry I didn't know it was one.

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This happens to me all of the time. I have lost friends from not being able to hang out with them so much, and it sucks, but that's life I guess. In the end you will know who your true friends are, and I know for a fact that my fellow friends in nursing school will be there with me until the end because they understand. Everyone else doesn't seem to "get it".

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Specializes in cardiac/critical care/ informatics.

there is no swearing and that is swearing.

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

Nope. They've given up on me. :crying2:

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Specializes in LTC.

What friends ?

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I've actually lost a friend because I was accepted in a nursing program and he wasn't. It hurt me at first but then I thought about, no matter how good of a friend i am to him, he can never pay 50,000 a year just to be his friend but nursing does! So I sighed and then went to class the next day.... smiling!:icon_hug:

If things get too rough, Ill be your friend!

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Yes.. it's happend... After the first year, they caught onto it and stopped asking me to go places with them!

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

I find that not too many of them want to hear about code browns, infected wounds, and other bodily secretions.

Dang! :p

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Except for my two best friends, none of my other friends understand the amount of homework and studying I have to do. They all get angry and think that I hate them or want to stop hanging out with them, or get furious at me if I drop off the face of the earth for a few days just to study! Even when I explain myself it just goes over my head. It definately adds a bit more stress to the load :(

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Haha!!! I'm about to loose in-laws because they believe the mother belongs in the home - ONLY! I love being home with my son, just would like to work 1 or 2 days outside the home - to have something FOR ME... to serve & to make a little extra income!

Luckily my husband does NOT believe the way they do. He still wants me home as much as possible, but is totally supportive of me continuing on & learning as much as I can. Praise God for husbands who support, but still allow us to stay home the majority of the time!

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Specializes in M/S, Tele, Sub (stepdown), Hospice.
Praise God for husbands who support, but still allow us to stay home the majority of the time!

Allow?!? :p

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