What was the hardest course youve taken?

[MeekaNichole]

Of all the classes you've taken, which was the hardest? and what helped you to pass it? Determination? Hard work? Encouragement? Luckily, you passed that specific class! Both Nursing and Pre-nursing can respond!

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[Streamline2010]

Any pediatric nursing topics. (I went to a weird diploma school that had an "integrated" i.e. chopped-up and specially wonky curriculum instead of the reasonable and customary block curriculum "units.") I don't have children. I never was around children. I'm never going to have any children, because I am too old now. I don't like dealing with any children under junior high age, because I don't know how to communicate with little ones. Young children and I justa do not hava no chemistry. I wanted to run, screaming. Babies are only slightly more scary. It's a total mystery to me what other women see in those little humans, LOL!

[Katie71275]

For me, it was medsurg 1&2. I made Bs in both classes, but had to work for them!

[OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN]

I think my worst grades would be peds and pharm...

[bamaguy1989]

Med/Surg 1. It was called NUR 105 where I went. It had fluid/electrolytes, cardio, respiratory, periop, etc. And the 2 instructors were awful and could not teach to save their lives! I somehow managed to get a B but it was the worst experience of my life!

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

The hardest class I ever took was Therapeutic Modalities. While I passed, it wasn't anywhere near easy. That wasn't a nursing course or a pre-requisite course. The one class I could never wrap my brain around was Trig. Doing the math itself was easy... once I figured out what was being asked. I've taken 2 statistics courses and found them fairly easy. Math, in general, is pretty easy for me, but it's just that Trig and I don't get along.

The hardest thing I've had to learn is how to "think like a nurse." This is because all my previous medical training centered around finding out what broke (sometimes quite literally), and then determining what needs to be done to fix the problem itself. That type of training does lend itself very nicely when discussing issues with physicians, residents, and med students.

[Racer15, BSN, RN]

As far as nursing classes go...med-surg 3 was my hardest class. It was a challenge for me for some reason. I had to go to my theory instructor's office more than once to rant and rave while she listened patiently, lol. But she gave me some good advice, and I started utilizing a study group, and missed an A in that stupid class by 1 point.

Funny thing about peds and OB...I am not a kid/baby person. I made four A's in nursing school, and those stupid classes were two of them, lol. And they were high A's too, what the heck.

[ErinDel, ASN, BSN, RN]

Pharm was hard for me, I just passed with a C+. It was hybrid and I felt like I had to teach myself.I didnt like micro, thought it was boring and hated the labs.I loved maternity! I did well in that clinical..

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

Pharmacology-both times...when I went to school as a LPN and RN. Got a C and C+ respectfully...the second time was REALLY a struggle, because if the questions about follow up interventions, and the use of select all that apply...glad I'm away from it and licensed !!!

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

Personally I'd say Pharm but my transcripts would more than likely say Micro...lol[/quote']

Haha, so would mines...thank goodness for challenge exams :0)

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

I'm curious for all the people that say Pharmacology was the hardest class, what was it about the class that made it so hard?[/quote']

For me, when you have to answer questions using the nursing process in an NCLEX format, you are NOT using basic knowledge, you are using steps to have the BEST answer...using the nursing process, identifying whether the question is about assessment, intervention, or evaluation, critically think and have to READ the question, not read INTO it, and look at all the options before choosing the best answer. And select all that apply questions...if you do not select all the answers, it's WRONG. So, if you have 7 CATA questions in your test, you are NOT getting an A or a B unless you can answer at least 6 out of 7 of them, at least in my class...and I had a hard time...by the time I took the boards, I had done a lot of CATA, and was very comfortable with it.

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

Oh and Research Nursing...had NO CLUE how to write a Research paper...prof kept talking about the Magnet hospital she worked in...helped me in the end. Got a C in the class. Only bright spot was learning about nursing theorists-my favorite is Patricia Bennet-did my research paper based on her theory. Still have that book!

[Ele123]

Nursing Pre-Req- Chemistry. I still ended up with a B though. It wasn't that tough, just confusing. Toughest nursing course was Health Assessment, but next semester is my first "real" nursing semester. It didn't seem tough until I sat down with a test and I had to remember exactly which sign/symptom went with which disease when several of the choices where a letter or word different or only had one different sign/symptom. The nursing students have said that Health Assessment was the toughest and Adult III is the next toughest course because the rest of the courses are more concentrated on a particular area, but professors say that Health Assessment is going to be the easiest. I'm pretty sure they are just trying to "weed" students out.