Nursing Students General Students
Published Oct 30, 2002
Thendar
15 Posts
After reading several messages here I've come to the conclusion that we nursing students have to work twice as hard as someone who is getting their degree in another field like accounting, computers, business, basket weaving...etc.
Take for instance the school I attend. Before I was even able to apply for the nursing program I had to take the following classes:
Intro to Health Careers
English I
Biology I
A&P I
Social Science I
Intro to Psychology
Chemistry I
And these classes don't even count towards your degree. Besides the actual nursing classes the only classes to go towards you degree are:
English II
Social Science II
A&P II
Micro Biology
American History
Computer Information Systems For Health Careers
Electives (6 CR)
Then it gets worse right now I'm taking "Nursing 101" which is 8.5 credit hours but yet I'm at school or clinical rotations for a total of 17 hours per week.
So if you add up all the time spent at school you would have enough credit hours for a 4 year degree.
Well enough ranting.... I just wanted to point out how special we are buy having to work twice as hard to acheive our goals.
sunnygirl272
839 Posts
hee heee hee..get used to it, babe...after ya graduate, you will work twice as hard to earn half as much as those professional underwater basket weavers...
Darn:(
I knew I should have gotten my degree in "Underwater Basket Weaving"
It would look so good on my resume.:)
kittyw
312 Posts
yeah, but I'm going for the "advanced" upside-down underwater basket weaving degree.
MK2002
97 Posts
Computers? Are you joking?!
I completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. This was real CS, not that phony Computer Information Systems stuff. If you want work, there is FAR MORE of it in CS. Be glad you do not have to suffer through...
University Physics for Scientists and Engineers I and II
Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III
Chemistry for Scientists and Engineers I
Discrete Mathematics
Advanced Discrete Mathematics
Statistics I, Statistics II
French I, French II
And by the way, I had an average degree program in CS. Some CS degree programs have more prerequisites. Like a full year of Ordinary Differential Equations and other time consuming courses. Or a full year of Chemistry.
Those are the FEW that I remember while just trying to write a quick post. Of course there were many more DIFFICULT courses in the major. Don't even waste your time listing those easy English, social science, and history prerequisites. I completed plenty of them. CS students just spend a few minutes on them and typically get an 'A'. The real work in other courses is far more difficult. I have a long list of those that I will not even attempt to record here.
Accounting can be quite difficult also. You do not know what real work is until you have tried one of these majors. I can tell you plenty of stories, such as spending 8 - 12 hours every Saturday writing a lab report for a Digital Circuits course. Or having to research a programming technique for my class in Introduction to Artificial Intelligence taught by a professor from MIT. Good thing I only went to a state university. I would not want to think about how much work would be required at a private institution.
Compared to what I went through with CS, getting a BSN will be a breeze. Work twice as hard? Sorry, but you have no idea what real work is.
Mkue
1,827 Posts
A girl in my class swears she will "drive an ice cream truck" if she doesn't pass:chuckle
Her plans might not work out well at this time of year. Besides, I think all those Good Humor ice cream truck drivers are men, aren't they?
Originally posted by MK2002 University Physics for Scientists and Engineers I and IICalculus I, Calculus II, Calculus IIIChemistry for Scientists and Engineers IDiscrete MathematicsAdvanced Discrete MathematicsBiology IStatistics I, Statistics IIFrench I, French II
While your list of accomplishments is most impressive, I was comparing 2 year degrees. I agree with you that at a university level computer science is quite rigorous, but at the community college level I could get a degree in computers in my sleep.
Accounting can be quite difficult also. You do not know what real work is until you have tried one of these majors. I can tell you plenty of stories, such as spending 8 - 12 hours every Saturday writing a lab report for a Digital Circuits course.
I don't know of any accountants that design digital circuits.
Sorry, but you have no idea what real work is.
How could you possibly know what I consider real work, you don't even know me. I could post all of the other classes that I've taken which were as equally demanding as any you listed above, but I just listed the ones the pertained to the nursing program.
Have a nice day:kiss
I meant that Accounting is equally difficult with a lot of required classes.
As for the real work, it is obvious from my post that this refers to the quantity of courses and their difficulty level.
Also, as someone else pointed out, the greater challenge comes AFTER school. If you think you have a difficult time now, just wait until later.