Pre-Reqs compared to nursing classes

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How much harder are the nursing classes?

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine, Psychiatric Crisis.
How much harder are the nursing classes?

Much harder, The pre-requisites set the foundation for nursing school. What your learn while doing your pre-reqs is nothing compared to Nursing school. I think some aspects of pre-reqs can give you a general understanding of the body, but once you start your nursing classes they start to zero in on the nitty gritty. My advice is to be focused, attend all lectures, study, and you will do fine :):yeah:

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Specializes in Med-surg.

I think it's different strokes for different folks. I havn't taken a class YET or SINCE that was as hard as Micro. To me the nursing classes are not really hard. The material is not hard to grasp but don't get happy yet...The way the programs are constructed is HARD! They make sure that you are totally commited to the program. I live in Illinois and attend a private 4 year university. The GPA is jacked higher; so my usual A's turned into B's and I had to work twice as hard for that A that usually came so easy to me, the work load is much heavier and you have to commit ALOT of your time to studying and staying ontop of all the work they pile on you. It really boils down to one thing...How bad do you want it??? It's no cake walk I can't lie but nothing that is worth having will be easy to attain.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Medsurg.
I think it's different strokes for different folks. I havn't taken a class YET or SINCE that was as hard as Micro. To me the nursing classes are not really hard. The material is not hard to grasp but don't get happy yet...The way the programs are constructed is HARD! They make sure that you are totally commited to the program. I live in Illinois and attend a private 4 year university. The GPA is jacked higher; so my usual A's turned into B's and I had to work twice as hard for that A that usually came so easy to me, the work load is much heavier and you have to commit ALOT of your time to studying and staying ontop of all the work they pile on you. It really boils down to one thing...How bad do you want it??? It's no cake walk I can't lie but nothing that is worth having will be easy to attain.

Ditto all of the above. Before I started the program I thought things couldn't get much more difficult than the classes I had already taken. Boy was I wrong!! Its not the information, its the amount of information in a short amount of time. And in my program, there is a lot of self-teaching since we only have 4 hours of class a week. If you are commited, you can do it. Just learn as much as possible in your pre-reqs and that will help you in the long run. (you won't have to learn it again later, just review)

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Wow, only fours hours of class a week? Where is this glorious school?

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Medsurg.

LOL....its not that glorious, trust me. With only 4 hours each week there is A LOT of self-teaching. There just isn't enough time to lecture on everything so trying to figure out what 75 questions they are going to pull out of 300 pages of reading is tough. Oh and also with that 4 hours we have an additional 2 hours of lab (skills). Then clinicals on Monday and Wednesday for 8 hours a day. Its not all that glorious. I wish we had more lecture

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