What do you hate about your Nursing School?

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I need to vent. I hate, hate, hate my nursing school. The instructors openly admit that they try to weed people out, they're impatient with you if you're not already a tech, they're racists, and seem to hate their job. I have had an awful experience, so much so that I don't want to go to my own pinning. Anybody else feel this way?:angryfire

Specializes in Infusion, Med/Surg/Tele, Outpatient.

I can't say I hate my school; but I am very frustrated :madface: by the lack of current-ness from the faculty. From teaching us dietary recommendations that are 15-20 years out of date, to incomplete information but we are still supposed to go out and educate the patient, to not teaching enough about an allied health subject yet not instructing us to defer to said allied health personnel who are educated licensed and focused in their area, to not knowing which year of ACLS will be on the test! :angryfire And then the inconsistency between faculty members on things like potassium protocols or sterile technique or general rules of thumb of what a student can/cannot do during a clinical day (dependent on agency & level, of course).

That said, I do appreciate our faculty, who are overworked, underpaid, and put their license in our hands and our judgment every clinical day and at my school, genuinely want us to succeed. :)

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it's kind of nice to hear that i'm not the only one who is irritated with their nursing school.

i'm in my last semester of school and will graduate in may with my RN. for the last year and half my school has been preparing for re-accredidation from the NLNAC. i had no idea that this meant that the NLNAC took top priority over my education. my entire class is fed up with our school. besides the unprofessional behavior from the faculty the worse part is a majority of the instructors obviously hate their job and don't even teach us. in order for us to pass our tests we have to pretty much memorize the book. UGH!!! the only good news is that there are a few really amazing teachers there, which makes it almost tolerable.

i can't wait to be done with this...

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Specializes in Pediatric Intensive Care, Urgent Care.

Med/Surg...Med/Surg...Med/Surg

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Specializes in Pediatric Intensive Care, Urgent Care.

other than that...i love my school...

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Specializes in behavioral health.

I am not in nursing school. However, I MAY return to RN school at the age of 51. I was in RN school in my late 30s. I failed a med-surg course in my junior level, transferred to LPN program. I have been an LPN for 11 years. I can remember some instructors treating us like morons. They were so rude, and yes they weeded students out. And, it was frustrating to pay all that money to have someone be so cruel to you. Some of my instructors were great and loved what they did. If I do return to RN school, I will not go back my previous one.

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Specializes in Acute Care of the Elderly.

I feel so much better knowing that it is not just my program where you must teach yourself:mad: Last semester that worked out ok because it was our 1st semester. This is second semester now & I am struggling with teaching myself Med/Surg. I am just praying I can get through this semester:bowingpur

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Specializes in neuro/ortho med surge 4.
No encouragement from my professors either. One told a friend of mine that since he was so stressed out, maybe he should go on anti-depressants!:angryfire

I have been told that twice. My second semester and now my fourth. I think the teachersare well meaning though. I hate being talked too like a child though. Most of my class are "older" students. I feel like I will be sent to the naughty room if I look at some of the instructors in what they perceive as the wrong way,

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Specializes in neuro/ortho med surge 4.
I hate that passing clinicals are completely dependent on the opinion of one instructor.

I hate it that nursing is a self-taught course.

I hate it that we are paying them to actually kick us around.

I hate not having a voice because I'm too afraid of the after effects.

I hate it that I have to come here and be taught by Daytonite on how to do careplan and that I wasn't adequately taught in class (although I'm grateful she's here).

15 more weeks and I'm done.

Dani.

I agree with all. Especially not having a voice. Some of the professors are control freaks and are demeaning. I am still traumatized from my 3rd semester OB rotation. You become afraid to make a move for fear of making a wrong one and getting kicked out because the CI's perspective. Also, it is very discouraging to hand in clinical paperwork and have to redo it over and over. It is like no matter what you do it will never be right. I know I do not have time to be redoing care plans and things because I failed to put down the hours of operation of a community resource even though phone numbers and websites were given. The instructors know they hold your future in their hands and you have no say so in anything or they make it harder on you. It is BS and demeaning. I am 42 years old but you are treated as a child.

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I don't hate my nursing school but wish they would do some things differently...like some lab time to practice skills before we actually practice them on real patients; inconsistent behavior on the part of the staff - sometimes we can challenge test answers, sometimes not

And I don't hate my classmates but wish some of them would...not talk during films/videos that some of us find interesting and would like to hear; not be so obsessed with the grade you get instead of the learning experience that you have to go on and on and challenge every test question (isn't a B ok sometimes?); just general disrespect by some talking all the time in class so you can hardly hear the lecture

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I hate the cheating that's going on. I despise the people that are participating in it. I am grateful for my own brain and am SO glad I don't rely on that garbage to get me through nursing school.

Still, I'm hacked off people do better on tests because a section takes it a day or two earlier than they do.

I know it's a matter of time before they get caught - if I know about it, lots of other people do, too, and these cretins will be stopped, somehow.

Priceless: the biggest cheater flunked a proficiency test this week. Couldn't get the questions to that one beforehand, could she? There will be two more retakes, and she'll probably pass, but it proves that she can't get by without a large crutch.

Hurry, NCLEX........

PS....I do love my nursing school, though. I can't really think of anything negative to say.

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Specializes in Icu.

I do not hate anything about the nursing program....lets face it...people just dont wanna study hard..nothing comes easy....bitter but true

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I hate the cheating that's going on. I despise the people that are participating in it. I am grateful for my own brain and am SO glad I don't rely on that garbage to get me through nursing school.

Still, I'm hacked off people do better on tests because a section takes it a day or two earlier than they do..

We had a cheating problem too and while it probably hasn't completely gone away as some will find anyway to cheat, our school did take measures such as:

1. Everyone takes the test on same day, same time.

2. We are split up into groups and seated at least one table away.

3. Nothing allowed on desk except pencils and calculator and a sheet of blank paper given out by instructor for any calculations.

4. Every test is proctored although I've got to say most of the proctors just read something and don't really look to see what people are doing.

Maybe those would help the problem at your school.

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