Have you made good friends while in Nursing School?

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

I keep in contact with many of them and 2 of my best friends I met in Nursing School.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

Oh yes.I have been out of school for 4 years and I still am good friends with several of the girls I went to school with.One is my best friend and along with her about 5-6 others we get together regularly.

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Surprisingly, yes! I'm cautious when it comes to making friends, but I've met a few people whose company I really enjoy and I may even tell them more about my personal life one day.

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My entire nursing class is absolutely wonderful, so yes, I've made several good friends in the program. If your class gets along at all, you kind of have to make friends. You are with each other more than you are with your own family most days, so you tend to learn a lot about each other, and you develop a close trust within your group. At the beginning of the semester, I had a four hour class, a three hour lab class, and a 10 hour skills lab with my group each week. Now that clinicals have started, my class of 20 has divided into three clinical groups. We still have the four hour class together, and I now have one twelve hour clinical every Saturday with my clinical group. Two of my closest friends from the program happen to be in my clinical group, so we have a lot of fun. You may not be close friends with everyone, but you will hear plenty about everyone's lives, their families, their aspirations, their fears, and anything else that may be bothering them. In my class, the stress of nursing school, along with the stress of clinical, tends to bring us all closer. We share our clinical stories with each other, we talk about topics and subjects we find challenging or confusing, we discuss our test grades, we talk about different assignments and how we did them, we offer advice and help to each other, and we try to be there for one another. Of course, there are a few people who are very private and don't really have much to do with the rest of the group, but that's just their personalities. As a whole, we are a very tight-knit group, and we are pretty close. I love nursing school, and instructor, fellow students, and clinical group make it a lot easier.

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Met one or two I wouldn't mind keeping in contact with on a regular basis.

Met many I wouldn't mind running into.

Met one or two I could care less about.

I considered any friendships I made in nursing school to be transient friendships that existed to support us all as we attempted to achieve a common and difficult goal.

I figure that's how it will be for me...

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

Yes, I have become very close to several people. It is really nice to know that other people are going through the same thing as me. However, I wonder about what will happen when we all graduate and are competing for jobs...I live in a very saturated market!:)

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No... seems like everyone is very competitive... it's really too bad.

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I have met a lot of people that I would consider true friends in class. Our class is very close-instructors have even said that we are an unusual group. We support each other, call text and message each other, share notes, and study together. And so far (knock on wood) we've only lost 3 class members. Hopefully we can all help each other make it through to graduation in May!

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I go to school with a bunch of lying, backstabbing, selfish drama queens.

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Everyone says it, and it sure seems like it: NS will take over your life!

If I'm not in clinicals, or in class with my classmates, I am studying at their houses, on the phone with them or in constant contact via text or email.

Your classmates know what you are going through (and are going through it with you as well), they are there for help, support and vice versa, and you will be with them A LOT! Through the good, bad, ugly, and even through tears!

Life is still going to happen outside of school, and they are a constant support system because they understand the stress of life + nursing school! (great ex. I was held up at gunpoint recently during this semester. ALL of my classmates were there to comfort me, hug me, talk to me and offer me support. Shortly after, a classmates' son was scheduled for brain surgery! She received the same support! We are all there for each other!)

I've made great friends so far. Not to sound discouraging, but I've also lost some NS friends thus far, too. Some have held me back, or screwed me over regarding school work, but those are few and far between. You'll begin to see which students really want it, and which are most serious, and those are the students I tend to stick closely to because they encourage me to work harder, study more.

You have to understand, after a long day of clinicals with tons of "cool" experiences, I want to share it with anyone who will listen! But my co-workers and family DON'T WANT TO HEAR about my pts' stage 4 bed sore in which I saw her bone and muscle, or about the HIV+ man who puked on me (and then caused his wife to start projectile vomitting as well LOL). Or about the patient who tells you how beatiful you are, or about the family member of a patient who tells you have much he believes in you, and what a great nurse you'll become, or how HUGE it was for the nurse manager on your floor to personally compliment you on your work! Or about the dramas of nursing school! Your classmates will love these stories, however, and will always listen! They understand your test anxiety, and will cheer you on or cry with you when needed! It's a nurse (or student nurse in this case) thing! You share the same goal and same pleasure/love for nursing!

Without NS, I would have never met these people, and I'm sure glad I did!

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Specializes in LDRP.

ive made a few pleasant acquaintances.. im not from the area at all so didnt know anyone coming in. im pretty introverted and dont go out of my way to make friends, and i dont really think i have much in common with most of them. theres a certain type of person that makes up about 80% of the nursing school population and i am not it. not to say i dont enjoy their company and get along with most of them, but i wont really be hurt if they dont keep in touch with me after we graduate.

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Specializes in CNA/LPN.

I'm only in my last semester of pre-reqs, but a few of the people I've met and have come to be friends with will always be remembered! Some of them are on route that is a semester behind mine, as well as various other things, but they are some of the best people I've met in school (in a long, long time!) A lot of people stay bulled up and too themselves a lot of the time, but I like having a couple of friends to talk with and to help out or ask for help. It helps keep down the stress levels that come along with pre-reqs and the program as well.

I don't consider myself close friends with them for I don't have the time to do things with them outside of school, but it's nice to know I have people to converse with or sit with in class that are as focused as I am, instead of trying to take away from lecture time by talking.

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