Nursing school stress

[Caleb_RN225]

I wonder why nursing school is so hard & stressful...

[BusiestBSN]

A lot of content, a little time. Although it is not necessarily hard as it is fast paced.

[erint91DC]

Like BusyBSN said, a lot to study with not enough time! You become a pro at time management and organization.

[LoriRNCM, ADN, ASN, RN]

Because we will hold peoples' lives in our hands and that awesome responsibility takes lots and lots of knowledge and training. But that doesn't make it suck less, does it? At least while we are going through it. We will look back one day and say, Meh, that wasn't such a big deal.

[canigraduate]

It was stressful and hard for me because it was completely different from any other learning environment I had ever been in. I had been taught to regurgitate facts for mumble-mumble years, not how to correlate and critically think my way through a problem. I had to completely retrain my brain, which took most of nursing school to do.

Don't forget that you have the added stress of taking a lot of college-level courses where the instructors expect you to keep up without hand-holding and to only ask for help if you can't figure things out on your own. It's a completely different paradigm than most younger students have ever experienced.

Older students have it a little easier, because they were taught to be independent learners. I feel sorry for the younger students, because they have been taught to be parrots to pass standardized tests rather than to actually learn.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

Well, being a nurse is hard and stressful so learning to be one kind of has to be...

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

Well, being a nurse is hard and stressful so learning to be one kind of has to be...

This.

Learning to critically think-as a nurse takes time to develop; and you have to develop it in your own way, hence the "no handholding" method...think about it-do you really want to think like someone else???

[sjalv]

Your username says you are an RN, so shouldn't you already know this? Or did you mean to ask "why do people think that nursing school is stressful?"

[mikasa]

nothing worth doing is ever easy!

[A&Ox6, MSN, RN]

Your username says you are an RN, so shouldn't you already know this? Or did you mean to ask "why do people think that nursing school is stressful?"

If you look at her profile, it seems that she is an ER nurse, and may be back in school

[sjalv]

If you look at her profile, it seems that she is an ER nurse, and may be back in school

Still, that means she is already a nurse and would have already gone through school and passed boards. I'm just confused.

[applesxoranges, BSN, RN]

Maybe he is wondering why continuing on for a degree has to be so stressful? Just because he is an RN does not mean that he is a recent graduate.