Nursing prerequisites vs. nursing school - degree of difficulty?

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Someone told me that she thought the prereq's required for nursing school were actually harder than nursing school itself. Did anyone else have this experience?

Specializes in M/S, MICU, CVICU, SICU, ER, Trauma, NICU.

Hm....I didn't think so.

We're talking straight didactics vs. clinical presentations.

Depends on one's strengths, I suppose.

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Specializes in med-surg 5 years geriatrics 12 years.

For me, 12 hrs of clinicals were harder than 17 hrs of pre-reqs. No question about it.

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In prereq classes, you primarily assimilate information. In nursing school, you are not tested on your ability to learn information. You are tested on your ability to apply information. I think nursing school is much more difficult.
I COMPLETELY AGREE! Nursing test your critical thinking ability.....very tough sometimes!!
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