Is anyone actually happy with their program?

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Everyone at my school bi+ches about our program, and all along I've tried to be tolerant and not dog on it too much. I just thought, they are just letting off steam or whatever, there are "things" about every school that people complain about. But tonight I'm kind of frustrated too, after sitting back and thinking about several things that have me pretty peeved when taken all together. Most of the instruction itself is good, it's mainly other program issues/ instuctor issues/ peripheral/ administration type things, but not always minor (at least to me).

So anyway, I'm just wondering, on a scale of 1-10, how happy with your nursing program would you say you are? If not happy, why?

I really like my program....we are now down to about twenty students with 3 instructors, and have a 4 students to 1 teacher ratio for clinicals. Classes are hard, but Ive always been booksmart, so thats no problem. My biggest complaint is that we are in an isolated rural area with 1 hospital. Anything really acute gets coptered out to the big city, so we dont see much neat stuff. Its possible to go through your entire L&D rotation and never have a mom in labour! So thats a problem, but my class and instructors are really like a family...we are also a chapter of NSA, so we do a lot of fundrasing....we see eachother more than our spouses....at first I really resented this, but now Im into it...so I give it an 8.

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I am so sorry to hear about your problems with your school. It would be hard for me to deal with such dis organization. In my school I really don't have any complaints yet. We are a small community college with one rotation of each class. We started with 27 in the fall and now are down to about 18 I believe. What scares me is that in December only about 8 girls graduated and in March ( last week) only about 8 graduated. ( We do have males in our school just not any in our rotation although I hear when we go back Tues we will have one). My sister is a RN and went to another college one of her good friends from work went to the same school I am going to and said she was very well prepared when she went on the floor. I hope so right now I am not working and have no medical experience what so ever... I have my hands full with school and the kids ( another story). I would rate my school an 8. I will agree with some of the others who said about looking the patients up the night before and some of the nurses act like your in the way. I guess some of them do not remember being a student

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I am so sorry to hear about your problems with your school. It would be hard for me to deal with such dis organization. In my school I really don't have any complaints yet. We are a small community college with one rotation of each class. We started with 27 in the fall and now are down to about 18 I believe. What scares me is that in December only about 8 girls graduated and in March ( last week) only about 8 graduated. ( We do have males in our school just not any in our rotation although I hear when we go back Tues we will have one). My sister is a RN and went to another college one of her good friends from work went to the same school I am going to and said she was very well prepared when she went on the floor. I hope so right now I am not working and have no medical experience what so ever... I have my hands full with school and the kids ( another story). I would rate my school an 8. I will agree with some of the others who said about looking the patients up the night before and some of the nurses act like your in the way. I guess some of them do not remember being a student

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Specializes in Oncology, Cardiology, ER, L/D.

Hey y'all, I would have to say I am fairly happy with my program so far. Just finished second quarter of a seven quarter ADN program and still hanging in there! My instructors are a little disorganized sometimes but they at least admit when they screw up and have been to known to go back and look at the test questions if there are major questions about the rationale and occasionally even change the answers in favor of us little peasant students! :p The only problem I really have with my program isn't so much the instructors or the curriculum but my fellow students! I have never seen such a fricken whiny, competitive bunch of people in my life and I was in the Navy for crying out loud.... I just can't believe someone would get so jealous of someone if they had a better grade than you! Give me a break, congratulate them and get on with your life, just study a little harder next time and you might be the one with the better grade......but in the end, who really gives a darn?

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Specializes in Oncology, Cardiology, ER, L/D.

Hey y'all, I would have to say I am fairly happy with my program so far. Just finished second quarter of a seven quarter ADN program and still hanging in there! My instructors are a little disorganized sometimes but they at least admit when they screw up and have been to known to go back and look at the test questions if there are major questions about the rationale and occasionally even change the answers in favor of us little peasant students! :p The only problem I really have with my program isn't so much the instructors or the curriculum but my fellow students! I have never seen such a fricken whiny, competitive bunch of people in my life and I was in the Navy for crying out loud.... I just can't believe someone would get so jealous of someone if they had a better grade than you! Give me a break, congratulate them and get on with your life, just study a little harder next time and you might be the one with the better grade......but in the end, who really gives a darn?

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Specializes in Emergency Dept, M/S.

Why does everyone think the programs they are in are disorganized? Do you think it is truly an instructor problem, school problem, or clinical site problem? Or a combination of all of it, with no one knowing what the other one is teaching at that particular time?

It was one of the things I considered when choosing between the two schools I was accepted to. One had only graduated one nursing class so far, but the other has been around 75 years. I figured that was a good amount of time to have a system that works! :rotfl:

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Specializes in Emergency Dept, M/S.

Why does everyone think the programs they are in are disorganized? Do you think it is truly an instructor problem, school problem, or clinical site problem? Or a combination of all of it, with no one knowing what the other one is teaching at that particular time?

It was one of the things I considered when choosing between the two schools I was accepted to. One had only graduated one nursing class so far, but the other has been around 75 years. I figured that was a good amount of time to have a system that works! :rotfl:

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Ironically, the one thing I LOVE about my program is my classmates. Yes there are the usual overachievers, underachievers, arrogant/cocky/know-it-alls (what nursing school is complete without them?) but for the most part we all get along amazingly well. If not for the support of my classmates, I'd probably be assistant manager at Pizza Hut right now. (Not that there's anything wrong with that).

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Ironically, the one thing I LOVE about my program is my classmates. Yes there are the usual overachievers, underachievers, arrogant/cocky/know-it-alls (what nursing school is complete without them?) but for the most part we all get along amazingly well. If not for the support of my classmates, I'd probably be assistant manager at Pizza Hut right now. (Not that there's anything wrong with that).

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I'd have to say that with the week I've had, about a 1/10. Otherwise, about a 4/10. Of course there are some things that aren't so bad, but overall, it sucks. Over the past year, I've probably said 20 times that if I hadn't already put in so much time, I'd change schools. It's just the basic stuff - instructors, teaching (or lack of), costs, uniforms, administration, etc. I'm just so glad that today is Friday.

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I'd have to say that with the week I've had, about a 1/10. Otherwise, about a 4/10. Of course there are some things that aren't so bad, but overall, it sucks. Over the past year, I've probably said 20 times that if I hadn't already put in so much time, I'd change schools. It's just the basic stuff - instructors, teaching (or lack of), costs, uniforms, administration, etc. I'm just so glad that today is Friday.

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Wow, I had no idea some many people are unhappy. I am in my first semester and so far I am very happy. We have a large clinical group, 10 students/1 instructor, but she is very good. Some people don't like her because she is picky and requires a lot of paperwork, but I feel that I am learning a lot from her.

My lecture class has a lot of reading, but I don't do it all. I read the topics she covered in her lectures. There are several questions that I miss because they were only in the reading, but I still get B's and it not worth the stress for an A.

To get into my program, you had to have a 3.77 GPA, so we don't have anyone who isn't a strong student. The only people I see struggling are those who don't speak English well and those who work a lot and/or have family issues.

I feel really badly for everyone in bad programs. Nursing school is hard enough without having nasty instructors, disorganized programs, etc.

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