What is or was your easiest or hardest nursing course

everlongRN · Nov 1, 2015

I teach in what most consider to be the hardest class in out curriculum: Med Surg 1 (the first class after fundamentals). Our program does not have a separate Pharm class (it is integrated throughout, and introduced with each of the topics), and it really begins in this class. So it's like Med Surg 1 plus the first third of Pharm rolled into one.

Farawyn · Nov 1, 2015

I teach in what most consider to be the hardest class in out curriculum: Med Surg 1 (the first class after fundamentals). Our program does not have a separate Pharm class (it is integrated throughout, and introduced with each of the topics), and it really begins in this class. So it's like Med Surg 1 plus the first third of Pharm rolled into one.

Yea, that's badass. Because after fundamentals, you are just thrown in. No more warm and fuzzy.

soulshine101 · Nov 1, 2015

PHARMACOLOGY HANDS DOWN. My teacher was so dry and not great so that ruined it for me

ThePsychWhisperer, BSN, MSN, APRN, NP · Nov 1, 2015

Hardest for me was our Pediatrics rotation, not so much the class. Hated peds mostly because a.) I just don't like working with sick children; and b.) I did my clinical time in a facility with a high volume of NAS fetuses (I call every child under 10 "fetus", simply because I like the word), and I constantly wanted to smack the taste out of the mouths of the "mothers" that let this happen to their children.

Easiest for me was Nursing Pharmacology, but then I also have 11 years pharmacy experience under my belt as a pharmacy technician. Never cracked my book in that class, made a 92.7 for a B+ overall.

DoeRN · Nov 2, 2015

Hardest was my first med surg class because I thought I could read the lecture notes and get an A. Yeah no I had to crack open that huge med surg text book and study. Back then it wasn't broken up into two books. Managed to get a B but I had to work for it because I failed that first test with flying colors.

Easiest was OB and Peds. I had no desire to do either but found the material easy. Pharm wasn't too hard but I was a science major in my first go round in college so it reminded me of some of those classes. Memorization for that class and patho.

pookyp, LPN · Nov 2, 2015

Cardiac. Omg. Thinking about it makes me nauseous.

JenniferKristinRN · Nov 2, 2015

My least favorite was psych because of the professor. She was a really nice woman but A) she spoke incredibly slow and B) she talked about psych patients like they were animals.

The hardest for me was Fundamentals because everything was so new and I had no idea what nursing test questions would be like. I was used to straight forward questions and answers, not where all of the answers were right but you had to pick the most right.

The easiest for me was a tie between OB and Peds. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that I read What to Expect When You're Expecting cover to cover when I was 10 years old. Plus they were the last two classes in the program so by then I really had the whole test thing under control.

Good luck! You're going to do great as long as you can figure out what studying technique works for you! Don't be discouraged if you feel overwhelmed the first semester, it's normal but you will definitely find your flow!

logank622 · Nov 2, 2015

(Disclaimer - LPN, no RN coursework)

Pharmacology was hard for me because it involved a lot of memorization, and we started it before we even set foot in clinicals so we had no practical application for it.

Looking back though, I should have paid better attention in physiology, which I took before I even started nursing courses. I did all right in it, but I wish I had known just how much my nursing courses (especially pharm) would rely on it. If you don't have a good grasp of physiology, the rest of nursing school will be much more difficult. Anatomy - eh. Lots of memorization and not as useful. But physiology was definitely key to my understanding and succeeding in nursing school. And, the better you understand it (B/P regulation, homeostasis, renin-angiotensin, etc.) the less you'll have to memorize in pharm.