Love Nursing, but School Is Killing Me

[annielee95]

I need help. I love nursing, I love the profession, I love everything about it. I currently work at a hospital as a PCT and I have been a CNA for about 3 years now, almost 4, and I don't want to leave the medical field but school is killing me. I'm currently in school as a Nursing Major and I'm trying to finish prerequisites but I'm struggling. I feel like all of the other people I know are just breezing past these classes without breaking a sweat and I'm struggling to make the meager Cs and Bs in my science classes with As in my general studies. I want to be a nurse so bad and I'm willing to try for as long as it takes but I don't want to pursue this if it's a dead end for me. I score great, amazing even, on classes like psychology, english, history, and other general studies and I love the class while I do it and when I take classes like A&P, Microbio, and Chem I don't score as well (although i still love the class). I love learning but it's just not there, something just isn't clicking and I don't know what it is. I have never felt so stupid in my life, this is frustrating. Has any one else had this problem? How did it turn out for you, did you quit? And if you did, what did you major in once you switched from nursing?

[WanderingWilder, ASN]

I'm in my first semester and nursing classes are so different then any other class I've taken. I did ok in the sciences but was not an A student and I'm holding my own in nursing. Others who were straight A students are having a hard time with the tests and barely passing. Then there are people in between. I wouldn't give up based on your experiences in the sciences, nursing might click with you in a way that the sciences didn't.

[Bettyloublu14]

I was the same way, I was an A student up until Organic Chemistry?! It was very difficult for me since I hadn't had any previous chemistry before, actually the class I took was a hybrid of general, organic and bio chemistry. I was barely getting a C and I was like you, I loved the class, but didn't do well. My school offered tutoring and I was there at least twice a week. I also watched a lot of you-tube videos, especially the Kahn Academy. I didn't feel my teacher was explaining the concepts to me very well. It was very helpful to seek other instruction, because it can be explained in other ways that made more sense to me. It was a struggle but I was able to pull that C up to a B. I'm in my nursing courses now and I'm averaging A's, don't be discouraged by the sciences like another poster said, you find a way to make it click! :-)