What has been the most difficult course for you while in the nursing program??

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i'm guessing pharmacology will win???

Specializes in Med Surg, Specialty.

Have to say I loved A&P. Had great teachers, and was told exactly what we needed to know for the quizzes/tests. Was extremely concrete. Nursing classes seem a lot harder to me due to ambiguity of many of the questions (don't pick the answer that's right, pick the one that's most right), where some of these are very arguable.

Right now I'd have to say that OB/Peds class is the hardest. 1/2-2/3 of the people fail every quiz.

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Specializes in MICU for 4 years, now PICU for 3 years!.

manna, are we at the same school?!?!?! Community is kicking our butt's too! It's not a hard class, but man are our instructors aweful!!

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Statistics....:angryfire

Me too! How could I have forgotten my most dreaded class! Stupid me for taking it our notoriously hardest semester and at night! (let me remind you I have 2 little kids and a 150 mile daily commute). Ugh!

Just hoping to pass it with a big fat C so I can graduate on time! :o

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Me too! How could I have forgotten my most dreaded class! Stupid me for taking it our notoriously hardest semester and at night! (let me remind you I have 2 little kids and a 150 mile daily commute). Ugh!

Just hoping to pass it with a big fat C so I can graduate on time! :o

Pardon me for jumping in on your conversation.... :)

Math I sort of dread to take...as I can tell many others do too, I have to take Algebra...this won't be pretty, but I'm thinking as positively as I can! ..and obviously Statistics, as you noted. I'm reading a book called Majoring in Nursing by Janet Katz...it's pretty interesting so far, and I also read some about Florence Nightingale, only cause I'm so curious about Nursing of course. Anyway...from the looks of it, learning Statistics sounds like something that could be very helpful, just gotta get in the right frame of mind to learn it I guess.

One more thing I noticed on your post......a 150 mile daily commute. Lordy! that's alot of miles....how do you do it?I was looking into Pharmacy..but it would be about that as well for me. They really only have Pharmacy at WSU near here. Do many people commute like this regularly?

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Micro! But I also had a horrible instructor!

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I'D say Peds for sure as number One then Maternity then Micro. In the thick of passing Peds................Barely..... One semester Left...Yipppeeee!!!!

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Specializes in OB, lactation.

Stats sucked but I took that like 15 years ago thank god.

Patho was probably our hardest content & challenging to get a good grade but fair and the teacher was excellent.

The only class I haven't gotten an A in so far is Pharm but I think it was more just because I couldn't peg the things that the teacher would pick for the quizzes & that worked against me. It wasn't hard to understand & I did well on the exams & papers... sigh

Research also sucked.. boring content-wise & difficult teacher/exams - was never so happy to be done with a class.

Community is a ton of work that is making my life miserable for a few more weeks but not difficult content-wise.

So I guess it depends on how you look at it! Most difficult content - patho - but also the most fascinating!!

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Patho Phys at TWU was very hard....many years ago. The teacher was awesome though.

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My hardest right now is Assessment. We covered the whole book in 2 months. It was way too much at once. We did Abdomen, Breasts, Female Reproductive, Male Reproductive, Neuro, and Muscular in ONE DAY!:eek: I just sit there with my mouth hanging open, hoping it will go in that way if nothing else...:D

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

Advanced Med-Surg (Critical Care Nursing) was the hardest course I had to take during school...mainly because I had so much trouble reading and interpreting EKG's. To make matters worse, it was the last course I had to take before graduation. I passed it by three points, and it was the only 'C' I received during my Senior rotation. I remember going home afterwards and getting a phone call from my husband who was at work, who asked: "Did you pass?" When I answered yes, I heard him tell his co-workers who were standing in the background: "She passed". I was laughing and crying at the same time, as they broke into cheers and applause. What a moment that was!

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Specializes in Telemetry, OR, ICU.
Nursing Research is it. I can't stand that class. I just can't seem to get it. Hopefully I get a passing grade, right now I am on the edge.

Kristen

:yeahthat:

I received [earned] my BSN through the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School of Nursing RN-BSN online program. The Nursing Research course was by far the most difficult of all taken while in this program or my ADN program. The textbook was a terrible read, the instructors were poor to respond promptly to the message board, or to emails. In fact, I dropped the course the first time in order to concentrate more on another course in the curriculum. The instructors did not understand why I wanted to drop the course with a low "B", yet it was too frustrating for me. Funny thing is I completed the course the very next semester ... with the about the same low "B". :rolleyes:

*On a side note; Before anyone [w/ADN] decides to pursue there BSN online be advised it will not be a walk in the park. I had to drive 7 hrs round trip 2-3 x's per semester, and get very familiar with my PC real fast. Luckily, I had a co-worker [she only worked part-time] that became my study buddy/car pool buddy. I did finish the program with a 3.766 GPA. :)

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Specializes in Telemetry, OR, ICU.
Patho Phys at TWU was very hard....many years ago. The teacher was awesome though.

A good instructor can make all the difference in the world.

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