Why does nursing school cram the material?

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I hear alot of student say that there is a lot of material to learn in a short period of time. What is the purpose of nursing schools craming their students with excessive amounts of material? Maybe if things were taught at a slower pace more students would be able to complete the program

Not as many people would want to go to nursing school if it was a 6 year program, though. :)

Specializes in LTC, Cardiac Step-Down.

Well, you can go to school for 8 years if you want to...but I don't.

Why would it have to be 8 years though?

The only courses I feel are crammed are pharm and patho...and maybe the transitions in clinicals...

I know in our program the transition into the hospital from skills is horrible...the teachers complain that we aren't ready and the students complain that the expectations are too high.

Specializes in Utilization Management.

With the amount of information introduced in nursing school, a program would definitely take 8 years (or more!) if instruction was slowed down so every student could "get it." Nursing in the real world, for the most part, is fast-paced and nurses are expected to grasp information without it being presented slooooowly or multiple times.

Specializes in Telemetry & Obs.
With the amount of information introduced in nursing school a program would definitely take 8 years (or more!) if instruction was slowed down so every student could "get it." Nursing in the real world, for the most part, is fast-paced and nurses are expected to grasp information without it being presented slooooowly or multiple times.[/quote']

Besides...its doable! Enough people graduate NS and pass NCLEX to prove it.

Specializes in l.p.n.

For me finishing nursing school{pn} in one year was the right thing to do .I was pregnant with my 2nd child so i had to . slow and long schooling was not an option for me.

i guess with the shortage and everything also ..thats why they havent forced everyone to go for their BSN ..im guessing

Its not that they cram a lot of material ..its that they are taking people off the street basically and in 2 short years ..not even because of the summer/winter breaks we get ...You have to turn them into professionals who are responsible for human life

Don't worry, you'll spend hours on bedmaking, explicitly documenting why you've diagnosed "self-care deficit" for a patient, and writing the rationales for getting someone up out of bed. Then you'll have a few hours of lecture cursorily covering hundreds of pages of text that cover dozens of conditions - wham-bam-thank-you-mam! Makes perfect sense! (sarcasm!) ; )

Specializes in rehab, long-term care, ortho.

Oh my god, jjjoy, you've nailed it! :clphnds:

$35,000 later, I can't believe how much time I've spent on foolishness like that. And they wonder why new grads aren't ready for prime time....

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