Want To Be A Nurse, But

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Not looking to pick on anyone, just though one central thread under a catch all heading would help to serve perhaps as a reference point.

1 - Failed one or two classes, but only by "X", points, why are programs so strict?

2 - Don't like dealing with human bodily fluids and or waste.....

3 - Don't understand why nursing math has to be so difficult. Afterall in the real world there are computers and caculators

4 - My life hasn't been entirely blameless, will that affect my chances of entering a NP or obtaining a license, and why should it make a difference?

5 - Have allot going on in my life at the moment (work, children, husband, family, etc), but my instructors won't cut me any slack, is this fair?

6 - Why to I have to learn nursing and or medical terms that aren't used anymore?

And.......

In prerequisites for the RN program I have heard from people taking 6 credit hours and less say.....

-I hope the nursing program is easier than this.

-I took a 6 week class 5 years ago in high school- so I already know this stuff, so I don't need to study for this test. (This person failed.)

-Blood discusts me.

-I get sick to my stomach when I look at pictures of organs.

-I don't have time to study this much, I have a life!

-I hate this teacher, they make things so hard, and he/she is the reason for my F in this class.

-Can I buy your scantron from the test I missed last week... I really need to pass this test. (I said no!!!!)

-this one was said to the prof- Well, I need to be able to answer my phone during class, and text during class because my boyfriend doesn't know what to feed the baby for dinner.

-I am a CNA- I might as well be a nurse. The nurses have it so easy. (Said person failed the class and probably won't be back.)

Specializes in pulm/cardiology pcu, surgical onc.

I was fired for being too beautiful!

Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

- but which specialty in nursing pays the most money?

Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

....I plan becoming a nurse so I can work while I go to med school.

....My nursing instructor/clinical supervisor hates me.

Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.
I was fired for being too beautiful!

I noticed a rash of those "I'm sooooo pretty and the other nurses are soooo mean to me *hair flip* they are just jealous and it's not fair *pout*" :lol2:

Care plans are useless, why do I have to do a long form when the computer charts do it for me?

my biggest pet peeve of all tho, when they don't like the answers they are getting so the go to another board and duplicate post with the addendum of "the other board was just so mean to me" it's the same site, do they really think we won't notice?

Specializes in NICU.
I was fired for being too beautiful!

I know I am far too beautiful and it's why I can't get a job. They just sense my beauty through my resume and can't handle it. Bitter, mean, (female dogs). :p

Oh how I wish.....because then I could just give up working this hard to get a job and go be a lingerie model.

-- but I don't want to have to pay anything for school; there's some way I can go for free, right? (Do you think there are potential students in any other college majors that ask this???????)

Plus, of course, all the "buts" already noted. :)

....I plan becoming a nurse so I can work while I go to med school.

I so agree with that. I don't know why, but it bugs me when I see people posting who view nursing as a route to med school. They're two different careers :uhoh3:

Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.
I was fired for being too beautiful!

Oh yeah ... I forgot that one ... Thanks for reminding me. You made me smile.

Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

... but I don't want to have to work with people. (They intimidate me. I'm shy. I don't like people. etc.)

Great thread.

I want to be a nurse but.......

-I only want to go to CRNA school, do my ONE year in ICU straight out of nursing school.

-I only want to meet a cute doctor, get married, become a stay-at-home mom and never have to work a day again in my natural born life.

-I'm not a people person, I want to become a CNO straight out of nursing school.

-I'm gonna be an ER nurse, I can't see taking care of one pt for 12 hours.

-I can't work nights, evenings, weekends, or holidays. Only M-F 8:00-4:30 my first year out of nursing school.

-Why do I have to start on a med-surg floor first? I want to be an ICU nurse because they only have 2 patients.

-Are there any cute single doctors?

I can go on and on......

Excuses, excuses...

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