Nursing school and social life?

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I was wondering about anyone out there that was doing nursing school with no kids. The reason is is that it is still hard not having kids going through school because I bet your use to having a social life and out partying some times (some not all people). When you have children though for me its like I dont really have a social life because my kids are my life and I never have a babysitter to go out and have fun. But when I was in school and didnt have kids I remember sometimes it was hard balancing a social life and school. Sometimes you want to just go out the night you should be studying hard. I was just wondering on that topic. Thanks

Specializes in LTC.

I wish my nursing school let us go to the hospital/nsg home and read up on our patients chart the night before and prepare for the next day.

I didnt have much of a life during nursing school and the nights i did have off I would catch up with cleaning/laundry/errands etc.

(I'm gonna rant my heart out so this is a long post...)

I'm curretly a Nursing student and my social life is oficially dead. It's dead, dead, dead.

This semester, because of one measly class we have to take, our schdules were restructured and has become more toxic than ever.

The first three days of every week (Mon-Wed) is our hopsital duty day, while the 4th and 5th days lecture days. Me and my groupmates are on the AM shift for the whole of this month.

First day of duty: aside from the typical VS taking, CBG monitoring, etc., we have to thoroughly interview our clients, perform physical assesment, and make a sample SOAPIE which will be checked by our Clinical Instructor 1-2 hours before the end of the shift. By 2 PM, we have to rush out of the hospital and go back to our school for our 3-4PM lecture. If you're not home by 6 PM, say goodbye to sleep since you won't have enough time to complete the requirements that it to be passed tomorrow.

Second day: we have to submit a Nursing Care Process, at least two Nursing Care Plans, a Drug Analaysis of all of the drugs the cleint assigned to us is currectly taking as well as patophysiology of thier disease. Then, charting and whetever it is that's to be done to our patients for that day. By 2 PM, we have to, again, rush back to school for the Post Conference which will last until 4PM. By the time we get home, we feel so tired and so sleep-deprived that we can berely change out of our uniforms.

Third day: we have to sneak some of our review materials in the hopital 'cause we have a case presentation at the end of our shift and a whole day of lecture the following day.

Why review? It's because our professors are bound to give quizzes after thier lecture which could greatly affect our grades for that particular concept. By 2PM, we have to rush back to shcool for our 3-4PM lecture again.

Fourth day is very tiring for the mind. Eight hours of lecture (8AM-5PM) and we have to cram those information in our worn-out brains within 30 minutes. If I were to list the Mnemonics I use for recalling information, it'll be longer than this post.

Fifth day is just the same as yesterday.

Sixth Day? If we're unlucky, we'll be on duty for 8 hours again... if not, we'll spend most of the day on bed, snoozing away.

Seventh day: prepare for tomorrow's duty.

That's the same cycle we have to put up with this semster.

Specializes in OB/Gyn, L&D, NICU.

I'd count that as a social life. "No social life" to me means: commute 4 hours round trip to school, run kids around to band & cheer & back again, help kids w/homework, cook for kids, tell kids 5 times why I need them to do the dishes, tell kids to take a shower, see if kids are actually taking showers, yell at kids for not showering yet, yank kid's computer out of wall, put kids to bed, study, do dishes kids did not do, go to bed.

Married, no kids here. No real social life except for talking to classmates between classes, and talking to my work friends at work. You couldn't PAY me to go to a bar or a party though, that's never been my scene.

In my spare time I like to just hang out with my hubby at home, watch tv/movies, and play video games. I love reading, but I'm resigning that to school breaks or I'll get carried away and never stop reading!

Wow. And you can keep up with this for 2 looooooooooong years? I am kind of very scared to start my first semester. I have a family and a lot of responsibilties. I am trying to make my son to go into nursing, but he's saying that he wouldn't be able to study that much, but I was only taking a prereq., so by the time I'm in nursing school, for sure, he wouldn't want to go into nursing.

Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Wow. And you can keep up with this for 2 looooooooooong years? I am kind of very scared to start my first semester. I have a family and a lot of responsibilties. I am trying to make my son to go into nursing, but he's saying that he wouldn't be able to study that much, but I was only taking a prereq., so by the time I'm in nursing school, for sure, he wouldn't want to go into nursing.

You can have a social life, it's not impossible. I have one that is just fine.

May I ask though why you are trying to make your son go into nursing?

To be honest, I don't have any particular reason, but one of them that when he grows up (he is in high school now), he would be able to financially provide for his family. His family would have a health insurance and when history repeats and again everyone around in another economic crisis, he won't struggle and suffer financially like our family does right now because my husband was alway a businessman. And when son matures enough, he can go into medical school. Well, that is my plans and not his. That's what I would do in his age.

Do you believe that it is a bad reason to go into nursing, honestly? Thank you for your opinion.

Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

Honestly I think trying to push your son into doing something that YOU want him to do or something that is YOUR dream and not his will come back to bite you in your rear end :p

I can understand your reasoning's and you wanting good for him absolutely, but you have to let him have his life and make his own mistakes and pick a career that he will want to have and will be happy with. :heartbeat

Oh, I am saying to myself the same things. You are absolutely right. The thing is that he doesn't know who he wants to be and changing his plans every month, so I am just suggesting... , but my daughter already wants to be a doctor, so I am happy for that, lol

Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Oh, I am saying to myself the same things. You are absolutely right. The thing is that he doesn't know who he wants to be and changing his plans every month, so I am just suggesting... , but my daughter already wants to be a doctor, so I am happy for that, lol

That is great, and throwing out suggestions is fine, just remember they are different kids with different identities, and expect that he will change his mind many more times LOL, :D I hope you don't think I am trying to tell you how to parent either, I wouldn't have said anything had you not asked my opinion. I mean it's your kids and your life LOL.

When do you start nursing school?

OH, of course I don't think you parent me or my kids. I love the way we can communicate. Nursing is even new for me so I like to have other opinions. Thank you for that.

Well, in one week I'll find out if I made it. I applied only to one school - Sacramento State University. Program starts in January.

Who is that beautiful baby?

Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

That is my youngest kid and only daughter Sophia :D

I hope you get in!

Sophia is so cute.

Are you a nurse already?

I hope I get in, too...

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