Top challenges of being a nursing student!

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Hello everyone!

I'm doing a presentation about the top challenges that nursing students face. I know the problems that I face, but I would like feedback from other nursing students. So feel free to express what you think are the top challenges of being a nursing student!

Thanks!:D

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My top challenge is being in a nursing program that expect school to be your ONLY priority. At the beginning of the program, they told us we shouldn't work at all, expect to lose friendships, etc. Despite that, I work full-time, am married, and have strengthened my relationships throughout the program, but boy, does the program make things an inconvenience! They've changed class times last minute (literally the morning of orientation, without notice), they change clinical sites the night before, they schedule 'extra' days without early notification, etc. It makes it incredibly difficult to have a job and a life, and it's things that could be totally avoided on their part.

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

Juggling school (including clinical, studying, etc.) with a personal life and, for some, a job and a family.

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Thanks for the replies !

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

One if the top problems I saw in nursing school was students who had not been adequately prepared for a rigorous course of study.

Education is so watered down in order to pass ALL students that the genuinely smart kids have skated by their entire academic lives. All these intelligent "I never have to study for a test" kids never learned any skills or strategies for studying, absorbing and truly understanding complex material. And so, the first couple semesters of nursing school are rife with failure and dropping out from students who possess the mental faculties to be a nurse, but none of the tools to do so.

It's a damn shame, and I strongly believe that a transition course to introduce pre-nursing students to N-CLEX style exams and more sophisticated, developed study/retention/critical thinking methods ought to be made mandatory.

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

Time management.

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^ Time management for me, too. Also, working in groups, socializing with the other students (because of anxiety), and the competitive atmosphere. The latter is the worst.

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Specializes in public health, women's health, reproductive health.

Keeping my self esteem and peace of mind.

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Specializes in LTC.

Student drama. I was surprised by how much of it there really is.

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

My biggest challenge so far has been having to deal with randomly assigned clinical sites -- so, scheduling and trying to function as an officer of our student association has been very challenging and discouraging as far as trying to be involved and helping to promote our association. All the things I'm supposed to participate in according to the responsibilities I have in our association have been changed to my clinical date so how exactly do I get to participate? I don't. So, someone else has to fill in for me and that's not really fair right? Oh well, I don't have any say in that and it's very discouraging.

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