Nursing school sucks!

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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for solid advice on a simple topic. I'm in my 3rd year of nursing school, and all my teacher are total witches. The work load is unbearable as usual, but this semester its so much worse because all of them are very apathetic and downright vicious whenever they get the chance to be. I'm a male and try to be a good student, but the semester just started and i'm so stressed. The feeling seems mutual among my classmates. My teachers this semester are all 50+ years old and have not been on the front line working as a nurse in many years. I don't know what to do because their lectures are poor, they are dishing out a truck load full of extra projects without any clear directions how to get them done. I now realize why so many people drop out of nursing school. I really want to finish this semester, but none of these instructors are willing to help outside of class. Approaching them with questions is asking to get your head bit off! I honestly don't know why people like this continue to be teachers. For all the people out there trying to get into nursing school, all I can say is find any other option if at all possible. I want to be a nurse, but nursing school will test your resolve by applying the wrenches until your bones crack!

Any advice?

Im curious, how did your 3rd semester turn out? you should be just finishing your 4th semester? im currently finishing 2nd semester and had some very interesting things go on in my own school.. Ill mention them when I get my degree.. no need to nibble on the fingers that hold that diploma :)

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The absolute weak link in nursing school education is the teacher(s). I have seen burned-out teachers that just don't care anymore completely mess-up a student's GPA by way of grading on personal opinion. I had four teachers last semester for one subject and they NEVER agreed on anything it seemed, yet when the test came there would be all of their opinions on a question but only one correct answer. Sucked! Of course nursing is hard; however, the degree in which personal opinion sways test grades is appalling. Also, the way that teachers will save one single file in a different format which requires you to buy a certain program to be able to open is stupid as hell. Either these teachers do not have the brains to figure out that they are publishing files in new file extensions or they are laughing with the struggles that they give students. Either way it is sorry as hell. Flight school was easier than this... not because the material was easier, but because the instructors actually knew the current standards AND taught them as such. All nursing school teachers need a standard to go by. Personal opinions have no credence within a test that should be based upon the texts used in class.

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Yes it makes you wonder..I just started a RN program a particular instructor in an A/PII class had not a single student pass her class, now if that doesn't raise some eyebrows...I'm hoping to not get this instructor next quarter! Makes you wonder if she cared that all of her students failed HER class that she TAUGHT!

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Get through it the best you can. Say under the radar. This sounds nothing like my nursing chill experience. Hard and grueling, yes, but our teachers were amazingly supportive, challenging, nurturing, and easy to get a hold of. Please don't scare people off because you're having a crap experience. You've made it this far! You're almost there! Your community of nurses is pulling for you.

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During one of the hardest quarters in nursing school, after a long lecture, my teachers (2 ladies, one is an ICU/critical care nurse, the other an NP) made the whole class stand up and stretch. They said "Reach as high as you can to the ceiling. Okay, now reach higher. Come on.....higher. THIS is what we are doing with you in school. Just when you thought you've been stretched as much as you can you adjust and adapt to it. Then we stretch you more and again you adjust and adapt. "

I always remembered this example. They are very wise nurses. ;)

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Just don't go through your supposidly "confidential" chain of command if you have problems with your instructor. I did that yesterday and today my teacher told me straight out "don't bother complaining to anyone else about anything that happens in MY classroom I made sure they wouldn't listen and I've been here longer than you have students can always be replaced" All because I went to her to review our first quiz since I did not do well on it and wanted to understand what I clearly missed so I can actually pass this quarter.

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Just don't go through your supposidly "confidential" chain of command if you have problems with your instructor. I did that yesterday and today my teacher told me straight out "don't bother complaining to anyone else about anything that happens in MY classroom I made sure they wouldn't listen and I've been here longer than you have students can always be replaced" All because I went to her to review our first quiz since I did not do well on it and wanted to understand what I clearly missed so I can actually pass this quarter.

Yikes, sounds rough. Just buckle down and try to get through the rest of this term. Some people do not do well in positions of authority.

If Sara Johnson is your real name, change your profile name. For all you know, your instructor is on this site.

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I am curious where you are going to school. I am 2 classes away from graduating with my MSN in Nursing Education. Some of the teachers are great and some are horrible and need to be fired. Your adviser should be someone who you can confide in and trust. My adviser shares my e-mails with the nursing department. I would NEVER teach there and my advise to any upcoming nursing students is this Don't go there! When I first started at SUNY/IT many fellow students told me to drop out before I got too far and now it's too late. 2 classes left with a defensive and angry instructor and an adviser who shares my private e-mails with the entire staff!! A lot of instructors are great but they only have 5 full time faculty members. Eventually you will have to take this teachers class, she is the only one who teaches it. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!!!

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Here's my 5 cents as a veteran nurse who went back to do my BSN after 20 years and am now in an NP graduate program. The best way to get through nursing school is to lose the fear and the negativity. A wise man once said it isn't the problem that's the problem, it's your attitude to the problem. It doesn't matter if you like your instructors. It doesn't matter if they're good at teaching. It doesn't matter if the workload is high or the content difficult. What matters is that you make a pact with yourself to succeed and then do what it takes. Remove yourself emotionally from the suffering and instead focus on getting the job done. This is a sacrifice, that if you play well and pay up front, will reap enormous dividends. Don't focus on outside stimuli, only focus on your effort. Do whatever it takes to succeed. Work harder. Embrace challenge. Prove yourself to yourself every day. Yes, it's hard. It's supposed to be. But at the end you get to look back at your achievements and be proud and know you earned it.

Man up, suck it up and do what you have to make it. This is your chance and if you don't rise to it, there's a line around the block to take your place. This isn't meant to be a criticism of any sort but these are the things I tell myself every day, even now after all these years of nursing. The stakes get higher as you move on up...that's the point. I still have that pressure and I'm probably twice your age, but I chose this so I do what I need to do. The more you strive the more you achieve but the stress gets more not less. It all depends on what you want out of life. You chose this, now make it work for you.

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I was accepted to the 1+2+1 program at suny IT. Is the program awful regarding the teachers. Did you mean stay from the school? I also applied to crouse school of nursing and suny delhi. Any help would be very appreciated.

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I was accepted to the 1+2+1 program at suny IT. Is the program awful regarding the teachers. Did you mean stay from the school? I also applied to crouse school of nursing and suny delhi. Any help would be very appreciated.

I am considering SUNY for nursing as well and heard a mixed bag of comments: both negative and positive ones.

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I am considering SUNY for nursing as well and heard a mixed bag of comments: both negative and positive ones.

This is the first negative thing I have read about the program. I have been really trying to get some information on thos school and delhi. I really felt great about sunyit but then reading this. What have you heard? I am hoping others will chime in:)

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