why is med/surg so difficult?

[Nolander]

I've not actually taken this class yet but I hear it is one of the hardest parts of nursing school, so why is that? Are there a lot of tests/assignments?

[Nolander]

Yep, I think the Potter & Perry foundations book even mentioned that. Granted, that was a sorry excuse for a book

uh-oh, I just realized that I'm using that book for my first semester of school coming up, I was hoping the $150 I spent on it would get me something worth the price haha

[ImThatGuy, BSN, RN]

uh-oh, I just realized that I'm using that book for my first semester of school coming up, I was hoping the $150 I spent on it would get me something worth the price haha

There was a thread that bashed that book from several people, lol.

[NCRNMDM, ASN, RN]

I'm always amazed by this. It must be other states are like this because where I live its not like that. As pre-req's I had to take organic chemistry, general chemistry, REAL microbiology (now the community colleges require a health something no lab micro-bio which is what I'm assumming you feal is FAKE micro) with a lab and all the fun gram staining you could dream of, advanced upper division pathophysiology and thats all I can think of now. Thats the norm for BSN programs where I live. I do live in a bigger metro area.

I'm in a two year ASN program at a community college and our pre-requistes were as follows: Bio 168, 169, and 275 (Anatomy and Physiology I and II, and Microbiology. All of these classes were the, "real deal," and they would transfer to a four year university. We weren't allowed to take the watered down two year community college version of these classes), Chemistry 101, 111, 112 (one of these courses had to be an introduction to chemistry and one had to be organic chemistry. For the third course, you could pick a chemistry class from a list; I chose intro to biochemistry), English 111, 112, 114, Psychology 121, 240 (introduction to psychology and developmental psychology. These courses also transferred to a four year university), Math 111, 112, and an upper level class (like college algebra, calculus, physics, or statistics), Sociology 101, and two humanities electives (I took history of the world from 1600-the present and a philosophical introduction to ethics). All of my courses will transfer to a four year university, and they were all challenging enough to prepare me for nursing school. I do agree that nurses have to have a mastery of science, but I feel that it isn't that way at every program. Maybe the people who are objecting to this just aren't getting the quality education that they should be.

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

I can see both sides of this argument. Obviously Nursing has Science but I see the argument that it's not a Mastery of Science. It's a whole different type of Science in my opinion then the Science one might automatically think when thinking of a Scientist, Chemist and so on.

[Beth2657]

In all nursing courses, it is basically because they try to cram too much into your head in a short time. And then sometimes it is hard because the teachers don't teach the material, and then they test over material that wasn't taught. It makes no sense.

The schools try to weed out people, and in doing so, society is probably losing a lot of people who would be excellent nurses. They always act like weeding out is a good thing, because it gets rid of the people who can't handle things academically, but that is just not the case all of the time.The weeding out process gets rid of people who will not put up with the stupidity of the nursing schools, and believe me, there is plenty of it.