RN question?

[RNhopeful21]

Hello everyone. So I applied to a community college to get my nursing degree and become an RN. How hard is nursing school really? I know it depends on the person, but I am wondering because I am currently enrolled at a State University majoring in child and family services. I hold a 3.9 cumulative GPA and I will graduate in May with high honors. The only class that brought my GPA down was Biology 101, however, I had the highest average in the class, out of sixty people and got a B+, he was the worst teacher ever. I studied 13+ hours over two days for one of his exams! Not even half the people passed his class and everyone on campus advises others not to take his classes. I see people that were in my class with him, re-taking it with another professor and they said she is so much easier and she actually teaches you. My whole family believes in me and tells me I am very smart so they have no doubt I can pass nursing school and become a registered nurse. I am just worried because everyone says how hard it is. But I am pretty determined and I have a 3.9GPA because I study a lot. I wouldn't be where I am without utilizing time management skills and being dedicated to my school work. Sometimes I study until two or three in the morning. Thanks all for your answers!

I'm just so nervous now after reading all the posts on here. But I am also excited to learn!

[williams3929]

I am a student but I feel that nursing takes a lot of commitment...Ur GPA is great but is only important to get into the program I say this because in all honesty once u are in it might not stay that high and I would want you to enter the program and when your GPA drops u get depressed and want to leave the program...I had let go of my hold on my GPA which is why what I am saying is mostly coming from personal experience...Enter the program because you want to help and have a hand in the healing process be it mind body or spiritual...do not focus on whether the program is easy or hard...Think of it like this...it cant be easy because we are talking about peoples lives and any mistake or false movement could end up being a determining factor in their lives or death.... It is an important decision to become a nurse and your answers should come from within...you have to be secure and confident in your decision...I wish you all the best and luck

[awheat]

Intelligence. Time management. Support system. Study group. Critical thinking. The information is not handed to you on a plate. You hear the lectures, read the material, watch the videos, learn the information. But questions are not regurgitation of information, they require you to know why each "distractor" is mostly wrong, and why the right answer is the "most correct" choice. It can be done, is done every year by thousands of people. They don't clean the house, or do the laundry, or go out on dates - but they get it done. Good Luck.

[OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN]

I don't quite know how to answer that question. Nursing school is hard in a very different way then other classes I've had. I think its harder then I thought but easier then many make it out to be. Its just all the little extra annoying things that make it harder. Clinicals, labs, ATI (if ur school uses them) and other little things that just make it very time consuming.

[RNhopeful21]

It seems like that is what everyone keeps saying. That nursing school in itself is not hard on the academic side, it is just very time consuming because you have clinical and other classes to keep up with and it is so much to learn in a short amount of time.