Want To Be A Nurse, But

[DoGoodThenGo]

Fill in your standard answers and feel free to ammend or add your own.

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.......

[jkesler]

I almost fell out of my chair after writing it.

But my all time favorite is.....

Why do nurses eat their young?

Because they are the tender ones.

[merrywhiterose]

1. Can't understand why some instructors dump their students off on a floor, then disappear for the whole time, or only give a select few students experience while the others are just expected to do paperwork.

2. Don't know why some schools get away with some of the B.S./fraud/ etc. they do.

[psme63]

i already graduated the nursing course...

well yes, it is difficult. doing things that is against our moral, norms and wants....but it pays off when you see your client is well because of your doing...

nursing takes a lot form your life because it is a lifetime career...

I'm proud to be a NURSE!...

[joechess]

I want to be a nurse but as a male student, I don't feel that I should have to do female care or perform procedures on female areas.

When I was in school, I had go to the clinical site extra early to search the charts for a female patient who was a candidate for straght cathing because cathing a female patient was on the list of clinical objectives that had to be completed in order to pass.

I haven't seen it posted on AN, but I knew a student who wanted to be a nurse, but told me he wanted to work with the machines--not the patients. he didn't make it.

A student injured his back. He provided a doctor's note requesting light duty & prohibiting any strenuous pt care. He was shocked to learn that he would have to leave the program because not being able to do pt care meant he couldn't pass clinical.

I also am amused (and saddened) by the posts from nurses asking if there are any med schools they can get into without ever taking courses like organic chemistry or biology.