Not as hard as I anticipated....

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O.k. I am only a first semester student, but I was under the impression from other students that nursing school was going to be insanely difficult. (I am in an accelerated BSN program by the way)

But I haven't found it to be that "difficult". There is a TON of work and information thrown at us, but I have excellent time management skills and read everything before we are lectured and read over my notes after class. But this isn't nearly as difficult as Anatomy & Physiology or Microbiology. And a lot of the clinical tasks are simply common sense tasks with an added bit of nursing/medical knowledge.

Am I the only one that feels this way? I am actually a little disappointed that it isn't any harder, because if it were harder I would probably actually study it a bit more. I am hoping it gets a tad more difficult.

And the most dreaded class (patho/pharm) is actually incredibly enjoyable for me, thus I don't need to study it that much because I am intrigued by it. Furthermore, its basically anatomy & physiology with a little twist thrown in.

Anyone feel the same way as me?? I know this isn't because I am some insane genius, because I am far from that!

Specializes in acute care.

I have an engineering degree and obtaining that was pretty hard, especially since I also worked full time..tons of work and having to study all the time will not scare me...failing nursing school is not an option for me...so far, from what I read on the site, the scariest thing for me is the clinicals...I just hope I don't end up with a clinical instructor who doesn't like me and is bent on failing me...that's the only thing I'm nervous about so far

Specializes in ICU.

I am finding school to be easier than I thought. I was a CNA for over two years, and I think that really helped. I did think Pathopharm was hard and I worked my butt off for my B, but it wasn't my kind of class, one that interested me highly so I had to force myself to study. Med surge was hard too, worked hard for that B, but it wasn't understanding the material it was the NCLEX style tests we had. So while I could explain concepts to anyone and well, and did very well in my clinical, NCLEX would biff me a bit, always get down to the two right answer but psyched myself out of the best answer.

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