Does anyone have friends that "just don't get it?"

lilk8tob · Jun 16, 2005

Although my friends are extremely supportive, I know that they don't understand why I study so much or why I am always stressed out. They majored in subjects where you finish a project and don't worry about school until the next project is assigned. Explaining the concept of never being done studying is hard to do. But that's how school is for me- I never feel like I reach that point of, "Ok, I've studied enough, I'm going to relax up until the exam." That would be a wonderful feeling, but I doubt I'd pass!!

GrnHonu99, RN · Jun 16, 2005

no kidding!!! no one really understands but us nursing students:) I was telling my roommate about the paper I had to write and he actually said, "i didnt think nursing students had to do stuff like that.." HA! he doesnt even go to college sooo until he goes he wont understand!

Altra, BSN, RN · Jun 17, 2005

Aside from the people I know from school, everyone in my life thinks I just "chose a career change, and it's no different than deciding to major in business."

I hear ya ... and the sad/funny part is, I think that prior to nursing school, and even in the early days of being in school ... I thought this too.

I got over it in a hurry. :rolleyes:

I hate to get into a rant that sounds like "my profession is more demanding than yours ..." -- no one really wins that debate. But I've spent the last few days trying to ease back into "real life" after graduation last Sunday, and I'm finding that my perspective on the "landscape" is permanently altered. And there are people in my life who I can definitely say have no idea what I've been through in the last 3 years, or what I'm about to undertake. I'll have to either be comfortable with that, or there may be friendships that fall by the wayside.

It's all about growth.

Best of luck to you. :)

Nikkik163 · Jun 17, 2005

Yah it is hard when you are living with 4 other girls that want to go out and have fun all the time. I am taking physiology right now. At my school it is the class that is the most often re-taken because people fail or get a D the first time they take it. I am studying so much everyday. It is especially hard during summer when you want to go out and do things, but you have to study. It also is hard when everyone, especially your boyfriend, gives you a hard time about how you are always so stressed. yahhh like I can help that! haha....that is how it is.

wonderbee, BSN, RN · Jun 17, 2005

My ex used to tell me that there was no reason why I had to study so much and that I was obsessed. I didn't even try to explain it to him. After all, there are reasons why he is my ex.

RNKPCE · Jun 17, 2005

Though nursing school was a long time ago for me I felt the same thing when I was in school. Here I was 21 years old dealing with people both physically and emotionally and actually doing the job I would be doing when I graduate. A lot of other majors don't get real hands on until they get their first job after graduation. A huge responsibility compare to most of my friends in non nursing majors.

Yes they don't understand but once you get your first job you'll be saying that they don't get why it is so difficult taking care of 5 surgical patients. I would love for my spouse/friends to be a fly on the wall for one shift I work.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jun 18, 2005

.....thought that it was "just like any other major."

Well, let's see. If I'm an English major and I forgot to conjugate something properly, no one began crying out in pain.

If I'm a criminal justice major and I show up to enough of my classes to squeak by and pass, no one became physically ill.

And if I'm a business major who blew off my last exam but still graduates because of my overall average, no one died.

If we don't get it all down as close to perfect as possible, we're risking that someone who trusts us with his health and safety is going to scream, cry, get sick or die.

Yep, there's the difference!

Kaseyrn2b · Jun 18, 2005

My ex used to tell me that there was no reason why I had to study so much and that I was obsessed. I didn't even try to explain it to him. After all, there are reasons why he is my ex.

:chuckle

Very funny..I needed that tonite!

enfermeraSG · Jun 18, 2005

Ya, and the sad part is that one of them is starting nursing school this fall. She actually made the comment that if she could make it through her last couple of prereqs (microbiology and A&P II) that she was no longer worried. In other words, she thinks nursing school will be easier!? Ha! She'll find out soon enough. Also had a coworker say to me "If you think you have it hard, be glad you're not in the Vet tech program like my daughter. " Somehow, I doubt that program is anything like a nursing program. But then, what is? SG

RNKPCE · Jun 18, 2005

One thing to consider that anyone dealing with animals doesn't get their patients to verbalizes their discomforts likes humans do. Also that people in the vet. world have to deal with more than one species. Just looking at the other side. Not saying one is harder than the other but both can be equally challenging.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jun 18, 2005

"If you think you have it hard, be glad you're not in the Vet tech program like my daughter. " Somehow, I doubt that program is anything like a nursing program.

Well, hey, we all know how many litigious cats there are who know how they wish to be treated, and there's probably a whole course on how to avoid decubitus ulcers in dogs and birds.