What has been the most difficult course for you while in the nursing program??

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i'm guessing pharmacology will win???

Specializes in ICU, Research, Corrections.

I would have to say assessment during the RN portion of school. Humongous reading assignments and class consisted of a student portraying someone with a medical diagnosis, (sort of like the Seinfeld episode in which Kramer portrays someone with syphylis, LOL), you have to assess in front of the whole class, give a medical diagnosis, medical tests to run to confirm dx, then write a huge paper about it every week. This was only a one credit class that should of at least of been a 3 credit class according to the time spent in class.........not to mention the homework that required a Merck Manual to do! :angryfire

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Specializes in cardiac/education.

Lu Ann.......

What was the point of that class? I mean, why a "medical diagnosis"?? I just don't get it. And in front of the whole class? Uggghh..:uhoh3:

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Specializes in ICU, Research, Corrections.
Lu Ann.......

What was the point of that class? I mean, why a "medical diagnosis"?? I just don't get it. And in front of the whole class? Uggghh..:uhoh3:

Acckkkkk, didn't mean to scare you as you will have this same class in the third block :stone The point of the whole class was to recognize mistakes the MDs make and to question their errors. Basically, you had to think and act like a doctor in the class - order the right labs, know whether they need a CT scan, or a MRI, or a spiral CT, etc, etc. Nobody flunked the class, but the tests were killers!

Lu Ann

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Research - blech! Not necessarily that HARD, I just hate it!

Community is being a big PITA to our class at the moment!

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Specializes in ED.

Although there were classes that I hated, I wouldn't say they were "hard." I actually thought pharm was easy. I think either patho or obstentrics would win for being the hardest. We had really tough teachers for those. They wanted to know every little detail, every little gene in patho that caused every disease and all the little nasties in OB that caused all the problems, what to do for them, what the major causes of bleeding were, death, what ethinicities were at the highest risk, everything. We went through every chapter and every detail of the book in the semester :uhoh3:

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Its not the nursing classes that are difficult, its the arts and sciences that you take like microbiology, anatomy and physiology that are a little more challenging. Its all a mind set though, be positive and you can conquer any class that they throw at you.:balloons: :chuckle

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Specializes in NICU Level III.

Out of the prereqs - Definitely A&P! Statistics was more easy and I'm AWFUL at math!

So far in the nursing program - Patho [it was sooo much information crammed in a short period of time] and Pharm.

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Statistics....:angryfire

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Specializes in Ortho/Neuro.

So far...It's a toss up between pharmacology and organic chemistry. I am only half done with Pharm, but it is tough! For our next exam (next Wed) we have to know 65 drugs! Crazy! Many of them are similiar, but there are still like 7 classes of drugs! It's no fun at all! Organic Chemistry wasn't much fun either, at least that's over!

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is managing your family considered a course?

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Nurses Eat Their Young - 101 and 102 and 103 and 104 and 201 and 202 and...

Absolutely detest that class and wish they would do away with it.

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Specializes in ICUs, Tele, etc..

Hardest - Peds

Easiest - Psych

Most workload - Med Surg

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