What was/is the hardest part of your undergraduate nursing education

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Were there reems of information to remember, did it require lots of study time, etc?:)

psychology. took it twice, ditched the final the second time when i opened the booklet and saw it was the same one i flunked the first time, and walked directly to the registrar's office and withdrew so i didn't have to eat another "fail" on my transcript.

took it from a different instructor in a different college in summer session and that's when i learned that there are two kinds of intro psych courses-- neuro-based, research-oriented, look-forward-to-a-grad-school-program-in-that psych, and behavioral psych. got an a in the behavioral one:yeah:, loved it, and found it much more applicable to actual nursing.

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Specializes in Hospice / Psych / RNAC.

It was all going along just fine with my hard earned 4.GPA and then suddenly in my senior year I had to take probability and statistics ... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Got a C- and my GPA never recovered. :crying2:

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Specializes in Ambulatory Surgery, PACU,SICU.

My instructors! Awful. The class work was OK, working FT and going to school was a challenge. Now I think statistics will be hard...

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dealing with classmates :lol2:

insert the serenity prayer here:yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah:

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

Just for the fun of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5513mXmQbw4&feature=related

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.

Every single day of clinicials. (except Peds and OB/Maternity rotation. Liked that). I dreaded every care plan and nursing diagnoses I had to write because it was a waste of my time I felt. I had no interest. Granted I took it all as a learning experience and did learn during clinicals but knew I would be an ER nurse and wouldn't settle for anything but where I wanted to work. Med/surg clinicals was the hardest to get through. Not because I struggled academically, I did well course wise all through school but hated clinicals. I took an externship in the ER during school so I had the nursing experience I needed that my school did not provide. And in the end it all played out.

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