Okay, so I'm a junior in a BSN program and am really wondering if my school is taking things too far and here's why; first, we were required to purchase 16 books, that's right I said 16, and that's just for one semester! I paid somewhere around $1200 for the used version of all of them! Then they gave us five more ati study guide books. To this day, I have only utilized three of the totaled 21 books and the others haven't even been opened. Second, the amount of material is almost impossible to manage. Every week we have five chapters worth of end of chapter questions, a small 2 page paper, and care plans from clinicals (18-36 pages!). We have an exam just about every other week and now we've been told that not only are we having class tests for grades, but we're having to do these ati tests and get at least a 75 to pass the course! That means, if you have an A average, but get a 70 on ati you won't be able to continue to next semester even though your average would be passing! I currently have 2 A's and 1 B (that's the other thing, 21 books for 14credit hours!), that's medsurg, pharm, and nurse concepts, I have a 3.9 gpa, and was just inducted to Alpha Chi National Honor Society (top ten percent of juniors from all disiplines across America), I haven't really been challenged by the content of these courses, but more so the quantity of it. It literally takes between 12 and 16 hours to complete care plans alone! There is, quite frankly not enough time in a week for anyone to complete all assignments and study for exams simultaneously, especially now with ATI! Did any of y'all go through anything like this? I feel as though I have so much on my plate that I'm learning less by simply trying to finish everything. Advice?
cherryames1949
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I would never make it through nursing school today! Don't give up! It may be hard but it's worth it.