What is the hardest thing about Nursing school?

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hikernurse

1,302 Posts

Specializes in NICU.

Time, time, time. Working, school, homework, kids, church. Throw out sleep and cleaning house and I think I'd have a fighting chance ;-).

The biggest problem is that the school keeps changing their (my) schedule at the last minute. Work and my husband (we juggle watching the kids) would like to know when my clinicals are, but we often can't find that out until the first week of school--or even later. Ooh, this is sounding like a vent, sorry!

Mostly I just plug away and try not to look more than a week in advance.

You'll get through because you have no other choice, right? :-) And you'll be glad you did; the time really goes by a lot faster than you can imagine.

Specializes in ER/ ICU.

I worked 40 hour nights and went to school during the day. I basically was sleep deprived from day 1, which was good training for children! Hardest class was peds because I had no children yet and had nothing for reference.

i_am_evergreen

18 Posts

the hardest part for me was the mental abuse from the instructors.

most would literally browbeat you to death, making you feel 2 ft tall.

i heard they did this to teach us advocacy: that if we could defend ourselves, then we could assert ourselves to doctors, families and advocate for our pts.

i'm telling you, it was brutal.

and attending a diploma school meant i was constantly in clinicals-where most of this abuse took place.

i graduated with only a handful of students remaining.

leslie

I know EXACTLY what your mean. Just had a teacher like that... things didn't turn out so good. Definetly my biggest pet peeve is all the belittling and favoritism that goes on.

tammy10221961

18 Posts

Specializes in ER, ICU, Long Term, Skilled,.

Nursing school hardest thing? I'd have to say all the homework and getting up early for practicals. I'm a new nursing student (LPN) and the homework is outrageous.

I'm fortunate enough to have a boyfriend that is gone through the week so I can study, a daughter that is a senior in high school and friends that are understanding.

You can't let it get you down though. You need to take the time for yourself, and relax, and take things (classes) one day at a time.

BlueEyes1022

huntryss

8 Posts

Specializes in geriatrics.

The hardest thing? Just one? Hmmm....being older than some of my instructors? Getting by on 3 hours sleep a night. The hellacious amount of reading. The 3 tests every week. The clinical prep info you have to have on your patient. It's like a novel!! The 3 year wait I had to get here. The way the nurses at my clinical site forget that they were once just like us. Spending 4 hours on a clinical prep tool and looking up all the drugs just to find out your patient discharged the next day. OMG..I could whine all night. Please tell me this is worth it? I am missing so much with my family and they understand but it still hurts.

twillscowboy

6 Posts

Specializes in Critical Care.

First of all I would like to say I only have two semesters left but I figured I would lay my pieace in this topic. The things I do to make it easier is my wife. The funny thing is we have the same classes, same clinicals, and on the same days. Heck we met a few years back in A&P before we got in the nursing program and we just got married. Over all her and I drill each other all day long, in the car, out on the lake, in the bed, and heck even in the deer stand when november roles around. Furthermore, it is time management like every one has said, but it is also commitment and devotion. I love nursing, and I want to be the best and to do that you need to put 110% towards it. As we all know each semester you see a handful of students that end up getting kicked out or dropping out because they did not put all they had. Its a big prize and a great award at the end and that is what I am shooting for. And the light at the end of the tunnel is a lot brighter for us now.

Sunny01

30 Posts

The hardest classes in Nursing School for me were Patho and Acute. A lot of details/information to remember in both of them and so little time... I was studying all the time and getting very little sleep. There was no other way if you wanted to do well in these classes...venting to my friend who was also in my class helped a lot!

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