Beth2657

You're not the only one who is wondering what to do. I am finding out that nursing school might not be for me either. Nursing wasn't my first choice, but I decided to try it because of job prospects. And now that I've been into it for a semester, I do like it and want to succeed, but not sure if the school will allow that to happen. I passed chemistry, physics and calculus with A's, but nursing school seems to be a real challenge for me, and I found out the reason why. At least in my school, they expect you to teach yourselves, which is ridciulous; some of the teacher assign 500 pages and don't give you any idea what you need to know for a test. In your case, you need to figure out why you are having problems. Is it you or the school? You can fix you, but fixing the school is probably not going to happen any time soon; there are too many bad nursing schools and teachers. Good Luck.

In all nursing courses, it is basically because they try to cram too much into your head in a short time. And then sometimes it is hard because the teachers don't teach the material, and then they test over material that wasn't taught. It makes no sense. The schools try to weed out people, and in doing so, society is probably losing a lot of people who would be excellent nurses. They always act like weeding out is a good thing, because it gets rid of the people who can't handle things academically, but that is just not the case all of the time.The weeding out process gets rid of people who will not put up with the stupidity of the nursing schools, and believe me, there is plenty of it.

Nursing school is a joke! I am the end of my first semester of nursing and I haven't decided whether I am going to continue of not. I got lucky in my first semester, got a new teacher, who actually teaches;she actually reviewed before the tests. The Dean of Nursing came down on her and told her not to do reviews before tests. Why? Because the other teachers in the school were not teaching and their students were flunking, just what the school wanted. When the information learned in nursing is so important to the lives of our patients, why is it that the schools don't want to teach the material to you, it makes no sense. I can sit at home and read the nursing texts without paying tuition to a school that has teachers who don't teach; and I can do it at a pace that is comfortable for me. I think another reason is that once some of these hags get nursing teaching jobs, they want to feel superior, like they have something that nobody else can attain. I hate to break it to some of you, but nursing isn't rocket science; it's changing diapers,giving shots,giving enemas, taking vitals, etc. Critical thinking isn't something new, you've been doing it your entire life. If you can pass your prerequisite classes with flying colors, I don't see that nursing should be any more difficult if the material is taught to the students and they are given ample time to study, and then they are only tested on what they have been taught. I think there are a lot of bad nursing schools out there that need to be shut down. This weeding out process doesn't necessarily weed out the intellectually bankrupt, it weeds out the people who will not put up with the stupidity they are being dealt by the nursing schools, such as: teachers not teaching and being tested on material not covered.